dhatcher1
05-02-2006, 05:28 PM
Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
Why do we call a bunch of houses stuck together "apart-ments"?
If we want to make pro-gress, why do we elect a con-gress to run things?
ThaDonkey
05-03-2006, 03:26 AM
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 the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address,
you turn down the volume on the radio?
Why is it you must wait until night to call it a day?
Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"?
Why is it called a "building" when it is already built?
Why is it called lipstick if you can still move your lips?
Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?
Why is a boxing ring square?
Why don’t you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?
Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
Why do you need a driver's license to buy liquor when you can't
drink and drive?
Why do you need an appointment to see a psychic?
Why do you feet smell and your nose runs?
Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game,"
when we are already there?
Why do we call them restrooms when no one goes there to rest?
Why do we call something sent by car a shipment and something
sent by ship a cargo?
Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?
Why do they give you a tape with a VCR to tell you how to use it?
Why do flammable and inflammable mean the same thing?
Why do hot dogs come ten to a package and hot dog buns only eight?
Why do mattresses have springs, if they aren't made for jumping on?
Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?
dhatcher1
05-03-2006, 01:34 PM
1> Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
2>Why do hot dogs come ten to a package and hot dog buns only eight?
1> Because when he is done with you - you will be broke.
2> This was answered in the movie "Bulletproof Monk". Highly recommended educational film...