“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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It’s Tuesday and time for a few more of those questions that we would like to know the answers to had we had the presence of mind to ask them in the first place.
The last one is my favorite.
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Is there not a better name for the third hand on the watch than calling it the second hand?
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If you are asked to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and your the main witness, what if you say “no”?
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How does a Real Estate company sell its office without causing confusion?
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Why is it that rain drops but snow falls?
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Is it rude for a deaf person to talk (sign) with their mouth full of food?
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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If milk goes bad if not refrigerated, does it go bad if the cow isn’t refrigerated?
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Why is a boxing ring square?
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When it rains, why don’t sheep shrink?
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Why do they report power outages on TV?
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Why do we put suits in a garment bag and put garments in a suitcase?
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Do Chinese people get English sayings tattooed on their bodies?
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Do glow-in-the-dark objects stop glowing when somebody turns the lights on?
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Why do they call them apartments when they are all stuck together?
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Why is it so hard to remember how to spell MNEMONIC?
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If you keep trying to prove Murphy’s Law, will something keep going wrong?
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How do you throw away a garbage can?
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Why are there five syllables in the word monosyllabic ?
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Is it possible to be totally partial?
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Who decided what order to put the alphabet in?
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The watch is before my fav … especially because I haven’t heard that one before!
Very good, although I hope you are being totally partial 😉
The last one IS a good one! The glow-in-the-dark stuff DOES stop glowing with the lights on – the stuff absorbs photons in the presence of light, and loses those photons when it goes dark (higher and lower energy levels – I won’t bore you with the physics! 😉 ).
I have always loved homonyms – my favourite has always been the threesome of “the mine in the mine is mine”. (The anti-personnel explosive in the tunnel belongs to me.) Hence the second hand, which counts seconds, coming in at 3rd place. (Unless you think digital, in which case the seconds go first, then the minutes, then the hours, so the big hand is second, the little hand is third, and the skinny hand is first! 😀 )
I think you deserve a big hand for that 😉
The watch will be my favourite.On the other hand,I have a,ways been intrigued by Murphy’s Law!
I did a post about Murphy a while back. His law seems to apply to me a little more often than I would really like 😦
Haha!
Questions for the ages! Why does A come at the beginning & Z come at the end of the alphabet?
A friend of mine used to say, if things weren’t the way they are they would be some other way which would be the way things are now. I think that might be the answer!!!
Watermelon smashing comedian,Gallagher, observed that adding ing to a word makes it a verb in action; running, walking, jumping. So why is it called a building. It’s already done, it should be called a built.
That’s the logic of English for you. The same building could be raised to the ground.