| Steve Beer kindly sent in
all the following - |
| Why does no-one in soap operas talk about soap operas? |
| The Italians have had some of the greatest painters in history, so why did it take a Frenchman (Napoleon) to invent their national flag? |
| What was the best-selling book before the Bible? |
| If a sundial was used to tell the time using the sun, how did they use to tell the time at night? |
| Why do shops have signs saying “guide dogs only”? Dogs can’t read! |
| If all roads lead to Rome, how do Romans get anywhere? |
| What do the Chinese have when they fancy a take-away? |
| As so many products are an amount and 99p
(i.e £2.99, £99.99), why don’t we have a ninety-nine pence coin? |
| When Doctor Who is being chased by the
Daleks, why doesn’t he just run up some stairs? |
| What came first, the orange fruit or the colour? |
| Why is it you can get a pizza delivered much faster than you can get an ambulance to attend? |
| Where the parents of the seven dwarves normal-sized people? And did they get to seven and THEN stop trying for a girl? |
| Why do dictionaries have page numbers – there is no index! And why do they contain words like ‘tree’ - we all know what a tree is. |
| Why do mirrors reflect left to right, but not upside-down? |
| Why is “abbreviated” such a long word? |
| If mynah birds can talk, why do you never hear two of them having a conversation? |
| What’s at the other end of a rainbow? |
| If God created man in his own image, why do we all look so
different? |
| Why is it one match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to light a barbecue? |
| Why does the Commission for Racial Equality not have more white people working for it? |
| Why is a drunk unintelligible to anyone sober, but two drunks can have an in-depth discussion? |
| If there are two sides to every argument, what happens when the people in a ménage-a-trois fall out? |
| How do environmentalists get to all the rallies and conventions they attend – they can’t possibly walk or cycle everywhere? |
| Why is
"brassiere" singular but "panties" is plural?
Dave Poole |
| What’s the opposite of “flammable”? “Inflammable” means the same thing!
Not really an
imponderable as the answer is "non-flammable" - perhaps this
should have read "why does flammable and inflammable mean the same
thing?" however, there is also an answer to this -
The word Inflammable
was used for a long time, but emergency organisation and insurers,
concerned that the in- prefix would be misunderstood to mean
“un-” or “non-” (which in another in prefix it does) decided to
remove all doubt by labelling things that can burn flammable. Both
words are still in use, and both are Standard. Nonflammable,
incombustible, and noncombustible are antonyms of flammable
and inflammable: they mean “fireproof.”
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| Why do you need to make an appointment with a clairvoyant – don’t they know you are coming? |
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Why do suicide bombers where helmets?
Keegen
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