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Last updated September 21st, 2000


  • If 7-11's are open 24/7, how come they have locks on the doors?
  • If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?
  • If you choke a smurf, what color does it turn?
  • What do they pack Styrofoam in?
  • What is really in Spam?
  • When sign makers go on strike, do they put anything on there picket signs?
  • When you shoot a mime, do you need to use a silencer?
  • Where do forest rangers go to 'get away from it all'?
  • Why don't they make mouse flavored cat food?
  • Why is it called a TV set when you only get one?
  • Why isn't the word phonics spelled the way it sounds?
  • Why do TV stations report power outages?

  • Why do the words flammable and inflammable mean the same thing?
  • Why do you park on a driveway and drive on a parkway?
  • If you strap a piece of buttered bread onto a cat and drop it, what happens?
  • Why is bra singular but panties plural?
  • Do Pediatricians play miniature golf on Wednesdays?
  • Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?
  • If all the world is a stage , where is the audience sitting?
  • If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown to?
  • If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
  • If you are born again, do you have two bellybuttons?
  • If you ate pasta and antipasta, would you still be hungry?
  • If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
  • Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?
  • Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
  • How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?
  • If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan?
  • If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?
  • You know how most packages say "Open here". What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?
  • You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes, why can't they make the whole plane out of the same substance?
  • Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?
  • If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?
  • What's another word for thesaurus?
  • Why do they sterilize the needles for lethal injection?
  • Why is abbreviation such a long word?
  • Why do kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
  • How do you know when its time to tune your bagpipes?
  • Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?
  • Do blind Eskimos have seeing eye sled dogs?
  • Why is there an expiration date on my sour cream container?
  • Do radioactive cats have 18 half-lives?
  • What was the best thing before sliced bread?
  • Why is it called a hamburger if it contains no ham?
  • What is the speed of dark?
  • Why are there Braille signs on drive-up ATM's?
  • How come you never hear about gruntled employees?
  • What is a "free" gift? Aren't all gifts free by definition?
  • After eating, do amphibians have to wait one hour before getting out of the water?
  • If white wine goes with fish, do white grapes go with sushi?
  • What's another word for synonym?
  • If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
  • Why are builders afraid to have a 13th floor but book publishers aren't afraid to have a Chapter 11?
  • How can there be self-help groups?
  • Why do you need a driver's license to buy liquor when you can't drink and drive?
  • Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?
  • If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?
  • Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
  • Why is it that when you transport something by car, its called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, its called cargo?
  • Why do we play in recitals and recite in plays?
  • If knees were backwards, what would chairs look like?
  • When you open a new bag of cotton balls, are you supposed to throw the top one away?
  • When your pet bird sees you reading the newspaper, does he wonder why you're just sitting there, staring at carpeting?
  • What happened to the first 6 "ups"?
  • Why does your nose run, but your feet smell?
  • Where do they get the seeds for seedless fruit?
  • Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?
  • How much deeper would oceans be if sponges didn't live there?
  • Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it?
    li>If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?
  • Why are they called buildings, when they're already finished? Shouldn't they be called builts?
  • When an agnostic dies, does he go to the "great perhaps"?
  • If procrastinators had a club, would they ever have a meeting?
  • Why is there always one in every crowd?
  • Who decided "Hotpoint" would be a good name for a company that sells refrigerators?
  • How come duct tape fixes everything but ducts?
  • Can atheists get insurance for acts of God?
  • Can you be a closet claustrophobic?
  • How can you tell when your out of invisible ink?
  • Could someone ever get addicted to counseling? If so, how could you treat them?
  • Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?
  • Do one legged ducks swim in circles?
  • Does anybody ever vanish with a trace?
  • Does the little mermaid wear an algebra?
  • Does the Postmaster General need a stamp of approval?
  • How can someone "draw a blank"?
  • How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?
  • How come Superman could stop bullets with his chest, but always ducked when someone threw a gun at him?
  • How come you press harder on a remote control when you know the battery is dead?
  • How do they get a deer to cross at that yellow road sign?
  • How does a shelf salesman keep his store from looking empty?
  • How many people thought of the Post-It note before it was invented but just didn't have anything to jot it down on?
  • If a bus station is where a bus stops, and a train station is where a train stops, why do I have a work station on my desk?
  • If a chronic liar tells you he is a chronic liar do you believe him?
  • If a mute swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?
  • If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?
  • If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
  • If a woman can be a meter maid, can a man be a meter butler?
  • If all those psychics know the winning lottery numbers, why are they all still working?
  • If an orange is orange, why isn't a lime called a green or a lemon called a yellow?
  • If God sneezes...what should you say?
  • If inert is to be stationary, what is ert?
  • If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why does he keep doing it?
  • If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
  • If someone has a mid-life crisis while playing hide and seek, does he automatically lose because he can't find himself?
  • If someone invented instant water, what would they mix it with?
  • If the cops arrest a mime, do they have to tell him he has the right to remain silent?
  • If the Energizer Bunny attacks someone, is it charged with battery?
  • If the folks at the psychic hotlines were really psychic, wouldn't they call you first?
  • If the funeral procession is at night, do folks drive with their lights off?
  • If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?
  • If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?
  • If women ran the Pentagon, would missiles and submarines be shaped differently?
  • If you can read the marking, isn't that end already up?
  • If you got into a taxi and he started driving backwards, would the driver end up owing you money?
  • If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
  • If you have a friend who works for the Psychic Friends Network, should you plan a surprise birthday party for them?
  • If you have an open mind why don't your brains fall out?
  • If you have your finger touching the rearview mirror that says -- "objects in mirror are closer than they appear", how can that be possible?
  • If you keep trying to prove Murphy's Law, will something keep going wrong?
  • If you play a blank tape at full volume and have a mime for a neighbor, will he complain?
  • If you put freeze-dried coffee in the microwave, will you go back in time?
  • If you spend your day doing nothing, how do you know when you're done?
  • If you steal a clean slate, does it go on your record?
  • If you take a shower, where do you put it?
  • If you're cross-eyed and have dyslexia can you read correctly?
  • Is it possible to be totally partial?
  • Is it progress if a cannibal learns to eat with a fork?
  • Isn't it a little scary that a doctors work is called practice?
  • Can you grow birds by planting birdseed?
  • Just before someone gets nervous, do they experience cocoons in their stomach?
  • Should crematoriums give discounts for burn victims?
  • Should vegetarians eat animal crackers?
  • Shouldn't it be called a "near hit"?
  • Shouldn't it be some things in moderation?
  • Shouldn't there be a shorter word for "monosyllabic"?
  • What color is a chameleon on a mirror?
  • What do sheep count when they can't sleep?
  • What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants?
  • What does Geronimo say when he jumps out of a plane?
  • What does it mean if you break a mirror with a rabbits foot?
  • What hair color do they put on the driver's license of a bald person?
  • What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
  • Who tows the tow trucks when they break down?
  • Why are there never any artist's materials in a drawing room?
  • Why are they called 'stands' when they're made for sitting?
  • Why do airlines call flights nonstop? Won't they all stop eventually?
  • Why do bars advertise live bands? What does a dead band sound like?
  • Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?
  • Why do they call them "apartments" when they are all stuck together?
  • Why do they sell a pound cake that only weighs 12 ounces?
  • Why do 'tug'boats push their barges?
  • Why do we put suits in a garment bag and garments in a suitcase?
  • Why does "cleave" mean both split apart and stick together?
  • Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?
  • Why does an alarm clock "go off" when it begins ringing?
  • Why does bottled water have an expiration date?
  • Why doesn't "onomatopoeia" sound like what it is?
  • Why don't sheep shrink in the rain?
  • Why is a women's prison called a penal colony?
  • Why is it called a bust, when it stops right before the part it is named after?
  • Why is it called 'after dark', when it is really after light?
  • Why is it so hard to remember how to spell MNEMONIC?
  • Why is lemon juice mostly artificial ingredients BUT dishwashing liquid contains real lemons?
  • Why is Mickey Mouse bigger than his dog Pluto?
  • Would a fly without wings be called a walk?
  • Are there seeing eye humans for blind dogs?
  • Have ex-bankers become disinterested?
  • Have ex-civil lawyers been distorted?
  • Have ex-locomotive engineers been derailed?
  • Have ex-mathematicians become dysfunctional?