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150 Very Curious Questions to Make You Go “Hmmm”

Why don’t you ever see the headline “Psychic Wins Lottery”?

Why get even, when you can get odd?

Why is “abbreviated” such a long word?

Why is a boxing ring square?

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 “brassiere” singular and “panties” plural?

Why is it called “lipstick” if you can still move your lips?

Why is it that doctors call what they do “practice”?

Why is it that night falls but day breaks?

Why is it that rain drops but snow falls?

Why is it you must wait until night to call it a day?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called “rush hour”?

Why do we say “a pair of pants” when there is only one article of clothing involved?

Why do we wash bath towels? Aren’t we clean when we use them?

Why do “wise guy” and “wise man” mean entirely different things?

Why do your feet smell and your nose runs?

Why do you need an appointment to see a psychic?

Why does a grapefruit look nothing like a grape?

Why do we call them “restrooms” when no one goes there to rest?

A stitch in time saves nine what?

After eating, do amphibians have to wait one hour before getting out of the water?

Are female moths called myths?

Are part-time band leaders semi-conductors?

Are there a lot of virgins in the Virgin Islands?

Are there any unguided missiles?

Are you breaking the law if you drive past those road signs that say “Do Not Pass”?

Are you telling the truth if you lie in bed?

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

Can a stupid person be a smart-ass?

Can fat people go skinny-dipping?

Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawnshop?

Can you get cavities in your dentures if you use too much artificial sweetener?

Could crop-circles be the work of a cereal killer?

Crime doesn’t pay... Does that mean my job is a crime?

Daylight savings time: Why are they saving it and where do they keep it?

Did Noah keep his bees in archives?

Do blind dogs have seeing-eye humans?

Do blind Eskimos have seeing-eye sled dogs?

Do boxer shorts box?

Do cemetery workers prefer the graveyard shift?

Do clowns wear really big socks?

Do crematoriums give discounts to burn victims?

Do files get embarrassed when they get unzipped?

Do fish get thirsty?

Do hummingbirds hum because they don’t know the words?

Do hungry crows have ravenous appetites?

Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

Do jellyfish get gas from eating jellybeans?

Do mass murderers kill only in church?

Do people in Australia call the rest of the world “up over”?

Do pilots take crash-courses?

Do Roman paramedics refer to IV’s as “4’s”?

Do Scottish Terriers get Scotch Tape worms?

Do stars clean themselves with meteor showers?

Do steamrollers really roll steam?

Do television evangelists do more than lay people?—Stanley Ralph Moss

Do vampires get AIDS?

Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?

Do witches run spellcheckers?

Do you need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime?

Do you realize how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?—Steven Wright

Does a man-eating shark eat women, too?

Does an analyst have to be anal? –Adam Rifkin

Does killing time damage eternity?

Does that screwdriver belong to Phillip?

Does the Little Mermaid wear an algebra?

Ever notice how irons have a setting for “permanent” press? I don’t get it.—Steven Wright

Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

Have you ever seen a toad on a toadstool?

Have you ever talked into an acoustic modem?

Have you ever wondered?

How can someone “draw a blank”?

How can there be self-help “groups”?

How can you tell when it is time to tune your bagpipes?

How come chocolate milk doesn’t come from brown cows?

How come I can pick my ears but not my nose?

How come wrong numbers are never busy?

How dead is the Dead Sea?

How did a fool and his money get together?

How did the man who invented cottage cheese know he was done?

How do I set my laser printer on stun?

How do they get a deer to cross at that yellow road sign?

How do they get the “Keep off the Grass” sign on the grass?

How do you get off a nonstop flight?

How do you know if honesty is the best policy unless you’ve tried some of the others?

How do you know when you’ve run out of invisible ink?

How do you throw away a garbage can?

How do you write zero in Roman numerals?

How does a person with a lisp pronounce that word?

How does a thermos know whether a drink should be hot or cold?

How does it work out that these people always die in alphabetical order?

How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?

How is it possible to have a “civil” war?

How is it possible to run out of space?

How long is the long arm of the law?

How many people does it take to change a searchlight bulb?

How many weeks are there in a light year?

How much can I get away with and still go to heaven?

How much milk is there in the Milky Way?

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was?—Satchel Paige

If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?

If a candle factory burns down, does everyone just stand around and sing “Happy Birthday”?

If a fly has no wings would you call him a walk?

If a food processor slices and dices food, what does a word processor do?

If a hen and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long would it take a monkey with a wooden leg to kick the seeds out of a dill pickle? –Tom Robbins

If a jogger runs at the speed of sound, can he still hear his Walkman?

If a mime commits suicide, does he use a silencer? –Steven Wright

If a mirror reverses right and left, why doesn't it reverse up and down?

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a picture of a thousand words worth?

If a pig is sold to the pawn shop, is it a ham-hock?

If a pizza place sells pizza by the slice, is there a guy in the back tossing a triangle in the air?—Steven Wright

If a pronoun is a word used in place of a noun, is a proverb a word used in place of a verb?

If a tree falls in the forest, does the earth scream out in pain?

If a turtle doesn’t have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?—Harry Shearer

If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?

If all the world is a stage, where are the audience sitting?

If an orange is orange, why isn’t a lime called a green, and a lemon called a yellow?

If athletes get athlete’s foot, do astronauts get mistletoe?

If Barbie’s so popular, why do you have to buy all her friends?

If bees live in an apiary, do apes live in a beeiary?

If blind people wear dark glasses, why don’t deaf people wear earmuffs?—Steven Wright

If cats and dog didn’t have fur would we still pet them?

If corn can’t hear, why does it have an ear?

If corn oil is made from corn, what is baby oil made from?

If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

If everything is part of a whole, what is the whole part of?—Ashleigh Brilliant
If flowers don’t talk back to you, are they mums?

If God can do anything, can he make a rock so big he can’t lift it?—George Carlin

If humans have nightmares, what do horses have?

If I save time, when do I get it back?

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

If peanut butter cookies are made from peanut butter, then what are Girl Scout cookies made out of?

If rabbits’ feet are so lucky, then what happened to the rabbit?

If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

If space is a vacuum, who changes the bags?

If Superman is so smart why does he wear his underpants over his trousers?

If swimming is good for your shape, then why do the whales look like the way they do?

If the product says “Do not use if seal is broken,” how are you supposed to open it and use it?

If time heals all wounds, how come bellybuttons don’t fill in?

If white wine goes with fish, do white grapes go with sushi?

If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?

If you ate pasta and antipasta, would you still be hungry?

If you can’t drink and drive, why do bars have parking lots?

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

If you throw a cat out a car window, does it become kitty litter?

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

If you’re born again, do you have two bellybuttons?

If you're a kleptomaniac, is there something you can take for it?

If you’re in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?

In court, why do they ask if you swear to tell the truth? If you’re planning on lying, do they really think you’ll tell them so?

—From Corsinet.com’s Brain Candy Word Play collection

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