thought these were thought provoking for the weekend
love to all
tami
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From: Wade Brinkman <wbrink@kuntrynet.com>
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Date: Thursday, March 11, 1999 4:59 AM
Subject: Good Ones
>1. If people from Poland are called "Poles," why aren't people from
>> > Holland called "Holes?"
>> >
>> > 2. Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
>> >
>> > 3. Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale
>bread
>to
>> > begin with.
>> >
>> > 4. When cheese gets it's picture taken, what does it say?
>> >
>> > 5. If you mixed vodka with orange juice and milk of magnesia, would
>
>> > you get a Philip's Screwdriver?
>> >
>> > 6. Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a
>person
>> > who drives a race car not called a racist?
>> >
>> > 7. Why is it that no word in the English language rhymes with
>month,
>> > orange, silver, or purple?
>> >
>> > 8. Why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up a
>> > project, I end it?
>> >
>> > 9. Why is it that we recite at a play and play at a recital?
>> >
>> > 10. Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?
>> >
>> > 11. Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?
>> >
>> > 12. Why don't tomb, comb, and bomb sound alike?
>> >
>> > 13. Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?
>> >
>> > 14. If horrific means to make horrible, does terrific mean to make
>> > terrible?
>> >
>> > 15. If 21 is twenty-one and 31 is thirty-one, Why isn't 11
>pronounced
>> > onety-one?
>> >
>> > 16. "I am." is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English
>> > language. Could it be that "I Do." is the longest sentence?
>> >
>> > 17. If the singular of GEESE is GOOSE, shouldn't a Portuguese
>person
>> > be called a Portugoose?
>> >
>> > 18. Why is a procrastinator's work never done?
>> >
>> > 19. If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it
>> > follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted,
>> > cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked and dry
>> > cleaners depressed?
>> >
>> > 20. Do Roman paramedics refer to IV's as "4's"?
>> >
>> > 21. Why is it that if someone tells you that there are 1 billion
>stars
>> > in the universe you will believe them, but if they tell you a
>> > wall has wet paint you will have to touch it to be sure?
>> >
>> > 22. Are people more violently opposed to fur rather than leather
>> > because it's much easier to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs?
>
>> >
>> > 23. If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several
>times,
>> > does he become disoriented?
>
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