“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
When the new Congress gets itself organized (don’t hold your breath) here are a few important questions I think they should address. The people deserve to know the answers. We have been ignored for far too long!
What do you call male ballerinas?
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How does Freddy Krueger wipe his butt? (Ouch!)
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Why are the numbers on a calculator and a phone reversed?
(This one in particular has annoyed me for years!)
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Do butterflies remember life as a caterpillar?
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Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?
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Does the postman deliver his own mail?
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Why is toilet bowl cleaner almost always blue in color?
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Where do people in Hell tell other people to go?
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Is ‘vice-versa’ to a dyslexic just plain redundant?
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How come you can kill a deer and put it up on your wall, but it’s illegal to keep one as a pet?
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Why do we say we’re head over heels when we’re happy? Isn’t that the way we normally are?
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If prunes are dehydrated plums, where does prune juice come from?
Is it appropriate to say ‘good mourning’ at a funeral?
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If there is an exception to every rule, is there an exception to that rule and therefore a rule that there is no exception to and does that mean there is not an exception to every rule, or that there is?
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When you’re caught ‘between a rock and a hard place’, is the rock not hard?
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Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
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Doesn’t a lightning rod on top of church show a lack of faith?
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Who coined the phrase, ‘coined the phrase’?
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Why do they continue to call steamrollers, ‘steam’ rollers? They no longer produce, get rid of, or have anything to do with steam.
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If Congress got involved the the keypad, they may come change both the phone and calculator keypads to a common format …. a totally different one! Then the can have gridlock on coming up with one.
Oh … the blue toilet bowl stuff … which changing green!
You’re probably right about Congress. Sensible is never an option.
They would argue about the placement of the 1, and then the direction for the other numbers.
🙂 And do we have white numbers on a black button, or black numbers on a white button, etc.
Mounds of legislation!
Let’s see, there are a few I could answer. “Steamroller?” Tradition – the same reason we have this wacky “QWERTY” keyboard. That’s left over from the days of totally manual typewriters.
I believe “head over heels” either got transposed from “heels over head” or was shortened from “heels over head, head over heels” suggesting the prototypical somersault.
The “hard place” was actually a whirlpool big enough to eat ships, the rock moved to crush them. Look up “Scylla and Charibdis” – it’s one of those wacky Greek tales of gods and demigods and other results from a bad acid trip.
Oh, and where do people in Hell tell people to go? For a short trip, they can go to Climax, just up the road from Hell. For a long trip, they can go to Intercourse, PA. Both suggest they can have carnal knowledge of themselves! 😀
A scholar of the Classics too. Very impressive.
All very good questions – maybe ballerinos? As in ninjas & ninjos.
Why not? Good thinking.
toilet bowl cleaner can be green also, butterflies only life for a day i think and i had no idea about the phone and calculator…who knew? i don’t know why?
Nobody does. I think it’s one of those things that’s done wrong because it’s always been done wrong. Of course, I may be wrong!
ha you may be!
WHAT??? I was only joking 😉
how dare i suggest you could be wrong… 😉