Stupid questions
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GilesGuthrie
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Why are there drive-in liquor stores when it's illegal to drink and drive?
Why can you buy cigarettes at a petrol station when it's illegal to smoke there?
Why do they put braille dots on the drive-up ATM?
Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
Why can you buy cigarettes at a petrol station when it's illegal to smoke there?
Why do they put braille dots on the drive-up ATM?
Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
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from a comercial:
Why do we want to get away, and yearn to come back?
Why do we want to be alone, but never lonely?
There were other ones, but I forgot them.
Why do they make the left lane bumpy, and yet if you're going 90 it's not bumpy enogh to make you stop?
Why do they make speedbumps, when car suspension is getting softer?
Why are there speed limits on exit ramps, yet you can only go as fast as your tires let you on them?
Why do they call it tailgating, if there's no gate on your car?
Why are there bicycle lanes on roads with a speed limit of 60? (near me they are, I call them suicide bike lanes).
Why do we want to get away, and yearn to come back?
Why do we want to be alone, but never lonely?
There were other ones, but I forgot them.
Why do they make the left lane bumpy, and yet if you're going 90 it's not bumpy enogh to make you stop?
Why do they make speedbumps, when car suspension is getting softer?
Why are there speed limits on exit ramps, yet you can only go as fast as your tires let you on them?
Why do they call it tailgating, if there's no gate on your car?
Why are there bicycle lanes on roads with a speed limit of 60? (near me they are, I call them suicide bike lanes).
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24/7 shops have to lock their doors in the case of a robbery.
Kamikaze pilots would never have killed themselves if their superiors didn't at least give them the illusion of a noble death. (plus if they are knocked unconscious before they get to the ship, all was for naught.)
A parkway is thusly name because it is by definition: a broad landscaped thoroughfare. In other words, it is supposed to look like parkland along the sides.
A driveway is a private road giving access from a public way to a building on abutting grounds. Probably a word coined when driveways were more than 20 or so feet long, hence you had to drive quite a ways down them.
I can't help with the drive in liquor store.
Cigarrettes at a gas station is just good business practices.
(People like one-stop shopping, so you need to offer all the little things that someone might want - Gas, Cigs, Newspapers, Rolling papers, Coca-Cola, Doritos... )
Brail is on normal ATM buttons, and it is cost effective not to have to mold two different types of buttons.
Phonetic's spelling is just pure irony
Can't help you with the bicycle lanes, perhaps they went to a drive through liquor store, got drunk, and painted the lines on the wrong road.
Tailgating? Which kind? Following too close or BBQ's at football games?
The speed limit on exit ramps are used to warn drivers that there is a change in road conditions.
Speedbumps are made to force people to slow down in speed critical areas (Schools etc etc...)
Left lane bumpy?
Kamikaze pilots would never have killed themselves if their superiors didn't at least give them the illusion of a noble death. (plus if they are knocked unconscious before they get to the ship, all was for naught.)
A parkway is thusly name because it is by definition: a broad landscaped thoroughfare. In other words, it is supposed to look like parkland along the sides.
A driveway is a private road giving access from a public way to a building on abutting grounds. Probably a word coined when driveways were more than 20 or so feet long, hence you had to drive quite a ways down them.
I can't help with the drive in liquor store.
Cigarrettes at a gas station is just good business practices.
(People like one-stop shopping, so you need to offer all the little things that someone might want - Gas, Cigs, Newspapers, Rolling papers, Coca-Cola, Doritos... )Brail is on normal ATM buttons, and it is cost effective not to have to mold two different types of buttons.
Phonetic's spelling is just pure irony
Can't help you with the bicycle lanes, perhaps they went to a drive through liquor store, got drunk, and painted the lines on the wrong road.
Tailgating? Which kind? Following too close or BBQ's at football games?
The speed limit on exit ramps are used to warn drivers that there is a change in road conditions.
Speedbumps are made to force people to slow down in speed critical areas (Schools etc etc...)
Left lane bumpy?
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Well, that's a long story...
There was a guy walking down the street in San Fransisco, and he tripped over an old looking oil lamp. He picked it up and hid it under his jacket, because he thought it was priceless. While he was running to the antique shop to cash this puppy in, it rubbed against his shirt. *POOF* A genie popped out of his pocket!!!
The very angry looking Genie bellowed, ''INFIDEL!!! Thou hast disturbed me at a most innoportune moment, Barbara Eden was about to tell Larry Hagman how she feels about him, and now I have missed it!!!. For this intrusion, I will grant you but one wish, so choose wisely mortal for I just may turn you into Sea Lice."
The suprised man said, ''OK, I want to live in Hawaii in a huge condo on the beach with thirty million dollars in cash in my master bedroom, but I am afraid of boats and planes so I want you to build a bridge from here to Hawaii.''
The genie replied with a wry smile, ''FOOL, you know not of what you speak! It would take a hundred genies working for a hundred years to build a bridge that large. And sheer size of the pillars would be unfathomable. No known substance could be used to make pillars strong enough to stretch to the bottom of the ocean's depths... Reconsider your wish my master, or you may get nothing at all."
The man said, ''Fine then, I want to understand the mind's of women.''
The genie said, '' Would you like two lanes or four?''
So that's the back story. As for the rest? Well, the Genie went to town hall, and arranged for all the necessary permits for the highway, and it's connections to the mainland US. Then when the Genie was creating the man's house, he dropped it onto a beachside Lava flow with the man inside, burning him to a crisp nearly instantaneously. having accidentally killed the man, the Genie realized that the Bridge was no longer necessary and stopped construction. (but all the roads were already changed to Interstates Highways, and nobody cared to change them back.)
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Originally posted by Tom McDonnell
Well, that's a long story...
There was a guy walking down the street in San Fransisco, and he tripped over an old looking oil lamp. He picked it up and hid it under his jacket, because he thought it was priceless. While he was running to the antique shop to cash this puppy in, it rubbed against his shirt. *POOF* A genie popped out of his pocket!!!
The very angry looking Genie bellowed, ''INFIDEL!!! Thou hast disturbed me at a most innoportune moment, Barbara Eden was about to tell Larry Hagman how she feels about him, and now I have missed it!!!. For this intrusion, I will grant you but one wish, so choose wisely mortal for I just may turn you into Sea Lice."
The suprised man said, ''OK, I want to live in Hawaii in a huge condo on the beach with thirty million dollars in cash in my master bedroom, but I am afraid of boats and planes so I want you to build a bridge from here to Hawaii.''
The genie replied with a wry smile, ''FOOL, you know not of what you speak! It would take a hundred genies working for a hundred years to build a bridge that large. And sheer size of the pillars would be unfathomable. No known substance could be used to make pillars strong enough to stretch to the bottom of the ocean's depths... Reconsider your wish my master, or you may get nothing at all."
The man said, ''Fine then, I want to understand the mind's of women.''
The genie said, '' Would you like two lanes or four?''
So that's the back story. As for the rest? Well, the Genie went to town hall, and arranged for all the necessary permits for the highway, and it's connections to the mainland US. Then when the Genie was creating the man's house, he dropped it onto a beachside Lava flow with the man inside, burning him to a crisp nearly instantaneously. having accidentally killed the man, the Genie realized that the Bridge was no longer necessary and stopped construction. (but all the roads were already changed to Interstates Highways, and nobody cared to change them back.)
Nice story, hadn't heard that one before! 
Thanks so much for taking the time to type all that out...so how's the Carpol Tunnel doin' in the wrists?
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, well the funny part is this....I have some large fish called Pacu's which are a Brazillian Pirrana that are vegitarian. Their diet consists of a can of cut green beans a day. So about the time I need TP is also when I need to stock up on green beans..
I usally get some pretty strange looks when I head to the checkout stand with 10-8pks of green beans and 24 rolls of TP..
Go figure...
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Originally posted by Pako
I have some large fish called Pacu's which are a Brazillian Pirrana that are vegitarian. Their diet consists of a can of cut green beans a day. So about the time I need TP is also when I need to stock up on green beans..
I usally get some pretty strange looks when I head to the checkout stand with 10-8pks of green beans and 24 rolls of TP..
lmao
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How do they ship packing foam.
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Why do they call it Boxing when there are no boxes involved? 
GilesGuthrie
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I said that!!!!
GilesGuthrie
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How do they get Teflon to stick to the inside of the pan?
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Why do they have a British kid in Mazda ads?
Why is there an Austrillain guy in Subaru ads?
Why in the movie Gone in 60 Second, the part with the car jump with the 350, when you look at the trailer(that he jumps) it's up and when it looks back at it it's down and ready to be jumped?
Why in old Austin (car) ads do they say "Aerodynamic" when the car is a box?
Why are there gell filled tires and run flat tires and no one ever has them in police chases?
Why do Mazda comercials say "From a family of sports cars" or Soul of a sports car", if no part of the vehicles they're talking about have any Miata parts?
Why is there an Austrillain guy in Subaru ads?
Why in the movie Gone in 60 Second, the part with the car jump with the 350, when you look at the trailer(that he jumps) it's up and when it looks back at it it's down and ready to be jumped?
Why in old Austin (car) ads do they say "Aerodynamic" when the car is a box?
Why are there gell filled tires and run flat tires and no one ever has them in police chases?
Why do Mazda comercials say "From a family of sports cars" or Soul of a sports car", if no part of the vehicles they're talking about have any Miata parts?
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Note: These are called "rhetorical/hypothetical questions," not "stupid questions"...
NEway, here's my contribution:
Whew! Lot's of typing...
NEway, here's my contribution:
- Why is it called "rush hour" when your car barely moves?
- If Superman is so clever, why is his underwear on the outside?
- You know how cartons say "Open Here." What are the chances of seeing one that says "Open Somewhere Else"?
- If it's a circular drive, how do you get out?
- Why does sour cream have a "use by" date?
- Why is it that when you deliver something by car, it's called a shipment, and when you deliver something by boat, it's called cargo?
- How do "Don't Walk on the Grass" signs get there?
- If toast always lands butter side down, and cats always land on their feet, what would happen if you strapped the buttered toast on the back of the cat and dropped them both?
- If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from?
- Has anyone ever forgotten how to ride a bicycle?
- Why do they call it a "garage sale" when the garage is not for sale?
- If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
Whew! Lot's of typing...
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