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July 7, 2007 at 9:30 am #27294ShrekMember
“Why you don’t ever see the headline: “”Psychic Wins Lottery””?
“Why “”abbreviated”” is such a long word?
“Why Doctors call what they do “”practice””?
“Why you have to click on “”Start”” to stop Windows XP?”
Why lemon juice is made with artificial flavor, while dishwashing liquid is made with real lemons?
“Why the man who invests all your money is called a “”Broker””?”
Why there isn’t mouse flavored cat food?
“Who tastes dog food when it has a “”new & improved”” flavor?”
Why Noah didn’t swat those two mosquitoes?
Why they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
Why they don’t make the whole plane out of the material used for the indestructible black box?
Why sheep don’t shrink when it rains?
Why they are called apartments when they are all stuck together?
If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?
“Why they call the airport “”the terminal”” if flying is so safe?”
Why buy a product that it takes 2000 flushes to get rid of?
Why do we wait until a pig is dead to “cure” it?
Why do we wash bath towels? Aren’t we clean when we use them?
Why do we put suits in a garment bag and put garments in a suitcase?
Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
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From: GigglePedia.comJuly 11, 2007 at 1:23 am #162678Jeff HesterKeymasterGood questions. Let me know when you find the answers. 😉
July 11, 2007 at 3:00 am #162680TigerbladeParticipantQuote:Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?Because there’s little or no air inside the bottle. Once the glue is exposed to air, the water in it evaporates/dries and leaves the glue itself.
Quote:Why they don’t make the whole plane out of the material used for the indestructible black box?First, the boxes are rarely black. They’re usually blaze orange, since finding them is second in priority only to recovering bodies. Second, the FDRs are usually encased in high-grade titanium, which… might get a little cost-prohibitive to build fleets of aircraft out of, given the current flights-to-crashes ratio – roughly 2300 fatal commercial airline crashes in the last 7 years (data from faa.gov), out of the millions of flights per day.
Quote:If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?Right now it is.
Quote:Why you have to click on “”Start”” to stop Windows XP?You don’t — sometimes it stops itself. Otherwise there’s always the power button.
Quote:Why is the man who invests all your money is called a “Broker”?1377, from Anglo-Norm. brocour “small trader,” from Anglo-French abrokur “retailer of wine, tapster,” perhaps Portuguese alborcar “barter,” but more likely Old French brocheor, from brochier “to broach, tap, pierce (a keg),” from broche “pointed tool” (see broach (n.)), giving original sense of “wine dealer,” hence “retailer, middleman, agent.” In Middle English, used contemptuously of peddlers and pimps.
Quote:Why do we wash bath towels? Aren’t we clean when we use them?Dear god no. We’re never really truly clean. Even after a shower you’re still losing skin cells and such. I swap out towels every other day.
July 11, 2007 at 7:15 am #162686sarahtownyMemberTigerblade;220940 wrote:Dear god no. We’re never really truly clean. Even after a shower you’re still losing skin cells and such. I swap out towels every other day.Ewww me to Tigerblade, but I change ours every day as there are 4 living in my house. I love crisp towels but my son loves the soft ones so I even have to put different types out as well. Just to keep the troops happy 😉
July 11, 2007 at 11:53 am #162682TigerbladeParticipantHeh, well, yes. If you’re dealing with multiple people using the same towels, more often may be needed. I use only my own towels, so I tend to swap them out every other day or every few days.
July 11, 2007 at 3:17 pm #162687Leapy LeoMemberSome fascinating facts illuminated by Tigerblade, thankyou. I was ticly interested that the “black” boxes on planes are coated in high grade titatium and I intend to show my new knowledge off at work tomorrow. Always wondered how they could be sure the box would survive such high impact devastation when I would hear that “they are looking for the black box to find out what caused the crash” on a newsflash.
This site gets more educational by the day. Cheers Tiger.
July 11, 2007 at 4:44 pm #162681TigerbladeParticipantWell, the data recorders themselves aren’t made of titanium… they’re encased in a highly shock-resistant housing; that housing is then put into the titanium box as a shell of sorts. see wikipedia for all the information you could ever want on FDRs.
July 11, 2007 at 5:07 pm #162679Jeff HesterKeymasterApparently, I need to buy more towels.
July 12, 2007 at 12:04 am #162684RabidKittenParticipantTom, you read my mind.
Shrek;220863 wrote:“Why “”abbreviated”” is such a long word?Online Etymology Dictionary
abbreviation
1460, from M.Fr. abréviation, from L.L. abbreviationem (nom. abbreviatio), from pp. of abbreviare “make brief,” from L. ad “to” + breviare “shorten,” from brevis “short, low, little, shallow” (see brief (adj.)).Quote:Why Noah didn’t swat those two mosquitoes?Because its a cute story.
Quote:Why they are called apartments when they are all stuck together?Apartment Etymology:
[French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from appartare, to separate, from a parte, apart : a, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + parte, side (from Latin pars, part-; see part).]Quote:Why sheep don’t shrink when it rains?Two theories:
When the wool’s on a sheep, it’s full of oil, and this oil is replaced by the skin of the sheep if it washes off. Once it’s cut off and washed, the oil is gone and no longer repels water.Getting cotton wet doesn’t shrink it, it’s the heat involved with drying it in a dryer.
Quote:Why there isn’t mouse flavored cat food?Cats mostly just play with mice and end up killing them without the intention to eat, at least when they’re well fed house cats. Thats why you find the corpses. And other meats are better for their digestion and easier to keep for the slaughter. Besides…how would you get the taste right? Ick. Who’d taste test that…
Quote:Why do we put suits in a garment bag and put garments in a suitcase?Same reason we park in the drive way and drive on the parkway. *shrug*
Quote:Why they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?I would imagine because of human rights laws. It’s concidered to be ‘cruel and unusual’ not to. Just like a few years back an inmate avoided being hanged because he gained too much weight. Had he been hanged, his head would’ve popped off. It’s concidered cruel and unusual. Even those worthy of a death penalty have basic human rights, even if their crimes were violating those same rights, apparently.
July 12, 2007 at 1:34 am #162683TigerbladeParticipantA few additions to Sami’s insights:
We do make bird flavored cat food. You see it all the time: chicken.
The needle is also sterilized so that the inmate doesn’t die of anything except what’s supposed to be in that needle. Getting an infection from the needle would be considered cruel and unusual.
Also, if there’s a thirty-second-too-late pardon, the poison might be easy enough to counteract. A random rogue entrant might not be so easy.
Also, what if the attending doctor accidentally sticks his finger with the needle? Even if he doesn’t get any of the poison injected, the infection from an unsterilized needle wouldn’t be pretty.July 12, 2007 at 4:55 pm #162685RabidKittenParticipantVery good points *wink* The infection was kind of what I was getting at, unsaid, which was my bad, o’course.
I didn’t even think of the doc getting poked, though. Ickness. *shudderness* Reminds me of Outbreak. *completely blown out of proportion, I know* I’m shifty around needles to begin with.
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