Here are some food for thought...
1. Why do they call it "head over heels in love" if our head is always over our heels?
2. Why is the name if the phobia for the fear of long words Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?
3. If someone can't see they're blind and if someone can't hear they're deaf, so what do you call people who can't smell?
4. Why is it called a TV set when there's only one?
5. Why do they call it an escalator if it takes you down?
6. If a person owns a piece of land do they own it all the way down to the core of the earth?
7. Since we see little birdies when we just get knocked out, what do little birdies see when they just get knocked out?
8. Why is a male ladybug called?
9. Why is an alarm clock going "off" when it actually turns on?
10. How fast do hotcakes sell?
11. If you mated a bull dog and a shitsu would it be called a bulls--t?
12. Why are they called stairs inside but steps outside?
13. Does the President have to pay taxes?
14. If Dracula has no reflection how come he always has such a straight parting in his hair?
15. If an ambulance is on its way to save someone and it runs someone over in the street does it stop to help them?
16. Why is Grape Nuts cereal called that when it contains neither grapes, nor nuts?
17. Why do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front?
18. What ever happened to an E grade? We have A,B,C,D,F but no E.
19. Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
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Some of these questions are paradoxes or ironies because of the usage of the English language. They reminded me of the following poem:
The UP poem
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP."
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?
We call UP our friends. We use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special. And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets UP the earth.
When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.
One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so...
Time to shut UP!
Oh...one more thing:
What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night?
U P!
All these questions are pretty interesting. I mean there are no real answers to most of the questions. But, some of them are pretty weird like how fast do hotcakes sell? Yeah, I also agree that these questions are paradoxes. I have never really thought about these certain situations. I guess there are things that just cannot be answered.
Most of these aren't paradoxes, they are just questions that probably have an answer just nobody cares enough to figure them out. Some of these questions have answers and are obvious; obviously the ambulance would stop, dracula isn't real, stairs/steps are the same thing, we don't actually see little birdies, and escalators go up and down. They are more ironic and wonderous than they are paradoxical.
these questions are strange and we may never know the answer. here are some more.. Why do we park on a driveway and drive on a parkway? Why are nickles larger than dimes? Why doesnt anything rhyme with orange? Why doesn't McDonald's sell hotdogs? At a movie theater which arm rest is yours? Why do doctors leave the room when you change? They're going to see you naked anyway. Where does the toetag go on a dead person if they don't have toes? and im sure there are many more!
legit answer to question number 6. The real craziness of it is that you really don't own any of your property. If the government wants they can take your land for no reason and build something else on it just cause they want to. They don't even have to take your whole land.For example, they've been working on route 18 for years now down by the part where it goes in to down town New Brunswick there's a beautiful old white house ( it has columns and everything I know you've seen it sometime) Well I'm sure when they built that house how ever many years ago it was on a beautiful lot all the way down to the earths core, but as of today the "very important route 18 construction project" has limited that houses lot up to its very front door, leaving it with barely any yard and basically a pit stop on the road. Either way it's sad that you can "own" something yet the government can take it away from you with out buying it from you, or warning you. :c(
wow these questions are hard to answer..are they even meant to be answered? some of these questions can't even be answered and have no real answers to them. these questions are pretty interesting though.
1. Because we are "falling" in love, so we trip over ourselves and our head falls over our heels.
2. Whoever created the word is mean-spirited.
7. Birdies will see mirrors.
9. Because after it goes "on" it will be going "off" almost immediately. Going "on" makes us want to turn it "off", therefore it will soon be going "off."
14. Because he is awesome.
15. Depends on the driver.
18. E flunked out of school, that's why we never see him there anymore.
19. The fridge is supposed to have a light?!?!?!?!
2. thats a very good point. maybe they are trying to get them to overcome their fear of big words by having to tell someone that they suffer from Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
3. People who can't smell is call anosmia
7. maybe they see little wormies?
9. its like when someone goes "off" they're flipping out. an alarm flips out.
15. the ambulence would throw the guy they ran over in the car too.
17. stores don't care about old people they care about making money. maybe people that buy ciggerettes are in a rush and want to grab it and leave?
Just a couple of my thought.
these questions are very thought provoking.
1. i think its head over heals in love because from your head to your heals your in love.
3. People who cant smell have issues. I mean somethings arent great to smell but some things do smell nice.
5. not all escalators go down. some go up. i feel that question is a negative one because it askes about the down =( what about the upp?? =)
8. a male ladybug is a called a ladybug. havent you ever seen a bug's life!
17. this is a great question. the sick people should have it delivered and cigarettes are harmful so healthy people should relax on their packs.
18. Really what did happen to the E? i guess the just needed 5 and F was for FAILURE.
i have another question for youu,
why do you park on a drive way and drive on a parkway?
all these questions definitetly put your brain to work!
-red.
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