Puzzling Questions
- Who closes the door after the bus driver gets off the bus?
- Why are pizza boxes square when the pizza is round?
- Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
- Don't you find it worrying that doctors call treating you their "practice"?
- If croutons are stale bread, why do they come in airtight packages?
- Why is it called a "drive through" if you have to stop?
- Why does mineral water that has "trickled through mountains for centuries" go out of date next year?
- If Milli Vanilli fell in the woods, would someone else make a sound?
- Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp which no decent human being would eat?
- If you stole a pen from a bank then would it still be considered a bank robbery?
- Why can magicians make things disappear into thin air, but not thick air?
- Can people without hands get a grip?
- Why is it that rain drops but snow falls?
- Why is the third hand on the watch called second hand?
- Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush?
- Why is it that cargo is transported by ship while a shipment is transported by car?
- Does peanut butter really have butter in it?
- Is the fear of flying groundless?
- Why do people say "You scared the living daylights out of me" when daylight is not living?
- If somebody vanished without a trace, how do people know they are missing?
- Why are boxing rings square?
- Why is it called pineapple, when's there neither pine nor apple in it?
- Why do people never say "it's only a game" when they're winning?
- What was the best thing before sliced bread?
- If love is blind, how can we believe in love at first sight?
- If Practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, then why practice?
- How come the sun makes your skin darker but your hair lighter?
- If you dig a tunnel straight through the earth, will you come out with your feet first?
- Are zebras black with white stripes, or white with black stripes?
- If Pringles are "so good that once you pop, you can't stop" why do they come with a resealable lid?
- What is the exception to the rule that every rule has an exception? Does that make this rule right or wrong?
- Why do you click on start to exit Microsoft Windows?
- Why do most cars have speedometers that go up to at least 130 when you legally can't go that fast on any road?
- If Wile Coyote had enough money for all that Acme crap, why didn't he just buy dinner?
- What if the hockey-pokey really is what it's all about?
- Where in the nursery rhyme does it say humpty dumpty is an egg?
- How can you hear yourself think?
- Why is it that when a person tells you there's over a million stars in the universe you believe them, but if someone tells you there's wet paint somewhere, you have to touch it to make sure?
- How can something be new and improved? if it's new, what was it improving on?
- Why do grocery stores buy so many checkout line registers if they only keep 3 or 4 open?
- If Barbie is so popular, then why do you have to buy her friends?
- If you take an oriental person and spin him around a few times, does he become disoriented?
- What would you use to dilute water?
- How can military troops be deployed if they have never been ployed to begin with?
- Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?
- Aren't all generalizations false?
- Can atheists get insurance for acts of God?
- Can you be a closet claustrophobic?
- Did Adam and Eve have navels?
- Do fish get cramps after eating?
- Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
- Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?
- Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
- How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike?
- How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?
- How can there be "self help GROUPS"?
- How do you know when you're out of invisible ink?
- How is it possible to have a civil war?
- If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make a sound?
- If a synchronized swimmer drowns, does her partner also have to drown?
- If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
- If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
- How many people thought of the Post-It note before it was invented but just didn't have anything to jot it down on?
- If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?
- If 75% of all accidents happen within 5 miles of home, why not move 10 miles away?
- If all those psychics know the winning lottery numbers, why are they all still working?
- If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan?
- If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?
- If pro is the opposite of con, is progress the opposite of congress?
- If quitters never win, and winners never quit, who came up with, "Quit while you're ahead"?
- If soap is used to make you clean, why does it leave a scum?
- If someone has a mid-life crisis while playing hide and seek, does he automatically lose because he can't find himself?
- If someone invented instant water, what would they mix it with?
- If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill herself, is it considered a hostage situation?
- If superglue is so good, why doesn't it stick to the side of the tube?
- If the Energizer Bunny attacks someone, is it charged with battery?
- If the folks at the psychic hotlines were really psychic, wouldn't they call you first?
- If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?
- If you dive into a pool of dry ice, can you swim without getting wet?
- If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
- If you have an open mind why don't your brains fall out?
- If you keep trying to prove Murphy's Law, will something keep going wrong?
- If you take a shower, where do you put it?
- Instead of talking to your plants, if you yell at them would they still grow, only to be troubled and insecure?
- Is it possible to be totally partial?
- Just before someone gets nervous, do they experience cocoons in their stomach?
- Shouldn't there be a shorter word for "monosyllabic"?
- What did we do before the Law of Gravity was passed?
- What do sheep count when they can't sleep?
- What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants?
- What hair colour do they put on the driver's license of a bald man?
- What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
- What is a free gift? Aren't all gifts free?
- What is another word for "thesaurus"?
- Who tows the tow trucks when they break down?
- Why are cigarettes sold in petrol stations when smoking is prohibited there?
- Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?
- Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
- Why are we afraid of falling? Shouldn't we be afraid of the sudden stop?
- Why aren't there bullet-proof trousers?
- Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
- Why do bars advertise live bands? What does a dead band sound like?
- Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?
- Why do they report power outages on TV?
- Why do 'tug' boats push their barges?
- Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?
- Why don't sheep shrink in the rain?
- Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?
- Why is a women's prison called a penal colony?
- Why is it called a TV "set" when you only get one?
- Why is it so hard to remember how to spell MNEMONIC?
- Why is the word "abbreviate" so long?
- Why is there an expiration date on SOUR cream?
- Why is there only ONE Monopolies Commission?
- Why isn't "palindrome" spelled the same way backwards?
- Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
- Why isn't there mouse-flavoured cat food?
- Would a fly without wings be called a walk?
- You know how most packages say "Open here". What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?
- Can fat people go skinny-dipping?
- After eating, do amphibians have to wait an hour before getting out of the water?
- 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?
