Gets You Thinking
- Is it good if a vacuum really sucks?
- Why is the third hand on the watch called the second
hand?
- If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we
ever know?
- If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find
the words?
- Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?
- Why does "slow down" and "slow up"
mean the same thing?
- Why does "fat chance" and "slim
chance" mean the same thing?
- Why do 'tug' boats push their barges?
- Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game"
when we are already there?
- Why are they called "stands" when they are made
for sitting?
- Why is it call "after dark" when it really is
"after light" ?
- Doesn't ''expecting the unexpected" make the
unexpected expected?
- Why are a 'wise man' and a 'wise guy' opposites?
- Why do 'overlook' and 'oversee' mean opposite things?
- Why is phonics not spelled the way it sounds?
- If work is so terrific, why do they have to pay you to do
it?
- If all the world is a stage, where is the audience
sitting?
- If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
- Why is bra singular and panties plural?
- Why do you press harder on the buttons of a remote
control when you know the batteries are dead?
- Why do we put suits in garment bags and garments in a
suitcase?
- How come abbreviated is such a long word?
- Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use
them?
- Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
- Why do they call it a TV set, when you only get one?