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Why do we say something is
out of whack? What's a whack?
If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled? When someone asks you, "A penny for your thoughts", and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny? Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker? Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with? When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say? Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites? Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things? Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one? "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed? If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP? Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks? What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men? I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older, then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam. If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are others here for? No one ever says, "It's only a game", when their team is winning. Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag? Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts. If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose? |
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Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo pi
Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier: Mach turtle 2,000 pounds of Chinese Soup: won ton 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Serling 2.4 miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital: 1 I.V. League Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer: 1 lite year 1 million microphones: 1 megaphone 1 million aches: 1 megahurtz 1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche Half of a large intestine: 1 semi colon Time between slipping on a banana peel and striking pavement: 1 bananosecond 1 billion piccolos: 1 gigolo 1 millionth mouthwash: 1 microscope 1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 fig Newton 1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour: 1 knot-furlong Shortest distance between two jokes: a straight line First step of the first mile of a thousand mile journey: 1 Milwaukee 10 millipedes: 1 centipede 8 nickels: 2 paradigms 2 wharves: 1 paradox |
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