by Bimbette » Tue Mar 30, 2004 6:05 pm
Hi all,
This one's really long,
See if you can justify the following:
1. Why does the sun lighten our hair, but darken our skin?
2. Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?
3. Why is a boxing ring square?
4. Why is it considered necessary to nail down the lid of a coffin?
5. Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"?
6. Why is it that rain drops but snow falls?
7. Why is it that to stop Windows, you have to click on "Start"?
8. Why is it that when you’re driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?
9. Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavour, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?
10. Why is the third hand on the watch called a second hand?
11. 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?
12. Is it good if a vacuum really sucks?
13. If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?
14. If Webster wrote the first dictionary,where did he find the words?
15. Why do "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?
16. Why do "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?
17. Why do ’tug’ boats push their barges?
18. Why are they called "stands" when they are made for sitting?
19. Why is it called "after dark" when it really is "after light" ?
20. Doesn’t ’expecting the unexpected’ make the unexpected expected?
21. Why are a ’wise man’ and a ’wise guy’ opposites?
22. Why do ’overlook’ and ’oversee’ mean opposite things?
23. Why is phonics not spelled the way it sounds?
24. If work is so terrific, why do they have to pay you to do it?
25. If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
26. Why do you press harder on the buttons of a remote control when you know the batteries are dead?
27. Why do we put suits in garment bags and garments in a suitcase?
28. Why do we wash bath towels? Aren’t we clean when we use them?
29. Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
We were born Intelligent, but education has ruined you, me & everyone else...!!!
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Not even Bill Gates can explain this one!
Try this:
Open a blank Word document and type
= rand (200,99)
Press Enter and wait 3 seconds...
unbelievable isn’t it!!!!!