04-04-2008, 07:08 AM
Why do we need a hot water heater? If it's hot it doesn't need to be heated.
Never actually *called* them that, so I can't account for stupidity.
How can we have jumbo shrimp?
Because the connotation of the word 'shrimp' has absolutely nothing to do with literal size, especially of peopleâ where the word is most often employed that way. If shrimp were, by default, larger than a man then we'd never use the word 'shrimp' to decribe small people.
Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
Because must folks think 'phone' means an electrical device you can talk through.
Why does quicksand work slowly?
I've bitten my nails dow to the quick trying to sort out the quick and the dead among those who have had long-term exposure to quicksilver.
Did you know that 'fast' also means 'stuck in place'?
Why, when lights are out, they are invisible, but when the stars are out, they are visible?
Confusion among the truncated, it be. Light go out of commission/service/order, but no one ever bothers with the extra words any more.
Why do we call them apartments when they are all together?
The fact that a single building has anumber of dwellings that are completely isolated from internal communication does tend to keep the inhabitants apart, no?
Never actually *called* them that, so I can't account for stupidity.
How can we have jumbo shrimp?
Because the connotation of the word 'shrimp' has absolutely nothing to do with literal size, especially of peopleâ where the word is most often employed that way. If shrimp were, by default, larger than a man then we'd never use the word 'shrimp' to decribe small people.
Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
Because must folks think 'phone' means an electrical device you can talk through.
Why does quicksand work slowly?
I've bitten my nails dow to the quick trying to sort out the quick and the dead among those who have had long-term exposure to quicksilver.
Did you know that 'fast' also means 'stuck in place'?
Why, when lights are out, they are invisible, but when the stars are out, they are visible?
Confusion among the truncated, it be. Light go out of commission/service/order, but no one ever bothers with the extra words any more.
Why do we call them apartments when they are all together?
The fact that a single building has anumber of dwellings that are completely isolated from internal communication does tend to keep the inhabitants apart, no?
Political Correctness is the idea that you can foster tolerance in a diverse world through the intolerance of anything that strays from a clinical standard.