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what I lie awake at night thinking about - sad I
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- Since bread is square, then why is sandwich meat round, and why does a round pizza come in a square box? Also why
is a boxing ring square?
- Why is "number" abbreviated as "no", when there is no "o"
in number?
- How important does a person have to be before they are considered
assassinated instead of just murdered?
- Can
you cry under water?
- Why is there
a size 12-14, 14-16, 16-18, and so on, but no 13, 15, and 17?
- Why
is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
- Why
can't women put on mascara with their mouth closed?
- Why
does Alex Ferguson manage to upset so many people?
- 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go out of date next year?
- Why is the
third hand on the watch called a second hand?
- Why
is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
- Why
is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up every two hours?
- If your name is Will and you're in the army do you get worried when people
say "fire at will"?
- Why is Bra
singular but pants are plural i.e. a pair of pants?
- On
a hamburger bun, why is the top bun always bigger than the bottom one, wouldn't it be better the other way round?
- What does the T in T-Shirt stand for?
- Has anyone ever actually killed two birds with one stone?
- Do siamese twins pay for one ticket or two tickets when they go to see a film?
- If the universe is expanding, what and where is it expanding into?
- What does OK actually mean and is it an abbreviation of two words?
- Why do they call it your "bottom", when it's really in the middle of your
body?
- Why is it called an escalator
if it takes you down?
- Why is it
called a "building" when it's already built?
- Why
is it called a TV "set" when you only get one?
- Why
is it called "after dark", when it is really after light?
- Why
is it when two planes almost hit each other it is called a "near miss" shouldn’t it be a “near hit”?
- 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?
- Why do mattresses have designs on them when they're always covered with sheets or
duvets?
- Why is Charlie short for Charles
if they both have the same number of letters?
- If
our body temperature is normally 98.6 degrees, how come when it's 98.6 degrees outside, everyone feels too hot?
- Why is a blackboard dark green?
- Why
do hotdogs come in packs of 8 when hotdog rolls come in packs of 6 or 10?
- How come the sun makes your skin darker but your hair lighter?
- Are zebras black with white stripes, or white with black stripes?
- What came first, the fruit or the colour orange?
- Why do you click on start
to exit Microsoft Windows?
- Why do most
cars have speedometers that go up to at least 130 when legally you can only do 70?
- If Wile Coyote had enough money for all that Acme crap to try and kill roadrunner, why
didn't he just buy dinner?
- Why is it
called lipstick when it always comes off?
- Why
do they have disabled parking spaces in front of ice skating rinks?
- Why
do banks leave the door wide open but the pens chained to the counter?
- How
can you hear yourself think?
- If corn oil
is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?
- 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?
- If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?
- If you're travelling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what
happens?
- What colour is a chameleon in
a mirror?
- What is another word for "thesaurus", or "synonym"
for that matter?
- Whose cruel idea
was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it?
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