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Some Crazy Thoughts

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 1:54 pm
by southerngale
*What are those little things on the end of your shoelaces called?

*If there was a knowledge contest, would the female winner be called Miss Informed?

*Why does breaking a mirror mean seven years of bad luck when seven is a lucky number??

*If you could walk through the walls, wouldn’t you fall through the floor?

*If your named Will and you are in the army do you get worried when people say fire at will?

*What does the T in T-Shirt really mean?

*How can someone be dirt poor, and another be filthy rich?

*When you put 'THE' and 'IRS' together, it forms 'THEIRS'. Coincidence?

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

*If your plan is having no plan, do you have a plan?

*If anything's possible, then is it possible that nothing's possible?

*Can you get cornered in a round room?

*Why do we wash behind our ears? Who really looks there?

*Why don't the hairs on your arms get split ends?

*If an atheist has to go to court, do they make him swear on the Bible?

*Why is it illegal to park in a handicapped parking space but its ok to use a handicapped toilet?

*In that song, She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain, who is she?

*Isn't it funny how the word 'politics' is made up of the words 'poli' meaning 'many' in Latin, and 'tics' as in 'bloodsucking creatures’?

*Why isn't chocolate considered a vegetable, if chocolate comes from cocoa beans, and all beans are a vegetable?

*Why is it when we talk to God we are praying, but when God talks to us we are put into the loony bin?

*Do sheep get static cling when they rub against one another?

*Do pigs pull ham strings?

*Why do people say heads up when you should duck?

*Why do they call the clock where you punch your time card called a "time" clock? Aren't all clocks "time" clocks?

*If you are born on February 29 of a leap year, when is your birthday?

*Why are things typed up but written down?

*What does OK actually mean?

*what does the K in K-mart actually stand for?

*Why do we say "bye bye" but not "hi hi"?

*Why is it we have the weight of the world on our shoulders but have to get it off our chests?

*Why is the name of the phobia for the fear of long words Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?

*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? (stopped up!) (lol)

:lol:

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 2:07 pm
by GalvestonDuck
What are those little things on the end of your shoelaces called?

Aglets

What does OK actually mean?

"Oll Korrect" is what I've heard.

Re: Some Crazy Thoughts

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 2:13 pm
by JCT777
LOL! Great questions. :lol:

southerngale wrote:*Why isn't chocolate considered a vegetable, if chocolate comes from cocoa beans, and all beans are a vegetable?


Didn't you know that chocolate belongs in EVERY food group? :wink:

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 2:21 pm
by Amanzi
*If you could walk through the walls, wouldn’t you fall through the floor?

This is something deep man... it could take a lot of time for me to ponder it ;)

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 2:29 pm
by TexasStooge
LOL!

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 2:36 pm
by pojo
Dudette, I needed that!!! :ggreen: Extremely stressful week! :roll:

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 2:54 pm
by streetsoldier
As to the "K" in K-Mart....anyone as old as I am will recall the venerable S.S. Kresge stores (an old competitor to the equally venerable F.W. Woolworth); when the management changed in the 70's, they decided to expand to the mega-store concept.

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 3:07 pm
by Lindaloo
I remember Woolworth. lol. And Kresses. I miss the smell of Woolworth. lol.


These are hilarious SG. lol.

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 3:18 pm
by southerngale
Smell of Woolworth?? LOL!