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Space05us is offline Space05us
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Nov 2001
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Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries
are getting weak?

Why do banks charge a fee on "insufficient funds" when they know there
is not enough?

Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars,
but check when you say the paint is wet?

Why doesn't glue stick to the bottle?

Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection?

Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?

Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw
a revolver at him?

Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

Whose idea was it to put an "S" in the word "lisp"?

If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?

Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?

Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are
always white?

Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?

Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that
something new to eat will have materialized?

Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum
cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to
give the vacuum one more chance?

Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end you first try?

How do those dead bugs get into those closed light fixtures?

When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a
shopping cart then apologizes for doing so, why do we say, "It's all
right? Well, it isn't all right so why don't we say, "That hurt, you
stupid idiot?"

Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's falling
off the table you always manage to knock something else over?

In winter, why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer
when we complained about the heat?

Why do you never hear father-in-law jokes?

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four persons is
suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best
friends, if they're okay, then it's you.

BeBro is offline BeBro
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Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?



Actually they didn't. Real Helmets weren't used in WWII..../smartass

Flandrien is offline Flandrien
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May 2000
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quote:
Originally posted by Space05us
Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection?


They don't have any other needles.


quote:
Originally posted by Space05us
Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?


Because Weismuller didn't look good with a beard.


quote:
Originally posted by Space05us
If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?


They flunked their evolution classes.

Flandrien is offline Flandrien
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Belgium
May 2000
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Why do I have to press 'Start' to shut down my pc ?

Space05us is offline Space05us
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Nov 2001
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Why do I have to press 'Start' to shut down my pc ?


You dont know how to press ctrl+alt+delete?

DeathByTheSword is offline DeathByTheSword
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soon to be a major religion
Nov 2001
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  Old Post 18-04-2005 16:21
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Dracon II is offline Dracon II
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Jan 1970
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Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries
are getting weak?


I don't know, but I always wack it on something... seems to work.

quote:
Why do banks charge a fee on "insufficient funds" when they know there
is not enough?


Because they like kicking you when you're down as well as up. Maximizing their utility, y'know....

quote:
Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars,
but check when you say the paint is wet?


Because they can't check if there are four billion stars... duh!

quote:
Why doesn't glue stick to the bottle?


Because it's all concentrated and has no contact with air or something or other

quote:
Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection?


The sterilizing agent on the needle is actually the poison. What they're injecting them with is morphine... which is for the pain.

quote:
Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?


Monkey's kept tugging at it.

quote:
Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw
a revolver at him?


Because the gunshots were special effects... but the revolver was real.

quote:
Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?


Because American pilots do and you just know how Japanese love copying Americans

quote:
Whose idea was it to put an "S" in the word "lisp"?


Probably Hitler

quote:
If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?


They're welfare queens who refused to innovate like the rest of us...

quote:
Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?


No.... it indicates that five brainless queers and a TV crew have been there.

quote:
Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are
always white?


They aren't. You're just colourblind and your friends didn't tell you cause they thought it'd be funny when you pulled up at an intersection.

quote:
Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?


Yes of course... you're just reliving the same day over and over again. GROUNDHOG DAY!!!

quote:
Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that
something new to eat will have materialized?


When you're going starving the law of diminishing returns tends to reverse...

quote:
Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum
cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to
give the vacuum one more chance?


Never seen anyone do that. You must be surrounded by morons...

quote:
Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end you first try?


That's not true. You're unwittingly choosing the wrong end because you unconsciously want to waste time... in a desparate attempt to fend off death.

quote:
How do those dead bugs get into those closed light fixtures?


The companies fit their fixtures with secret dead bug dispensers in an attempt to disgust you into replacing them every now and then. Now that you know you must die... and no... opening those bags at the wrong end will not save you.

quote:
When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a
shopping cart then apologizes for doing so, why do we say, "It's all
right? Well, it isn't all right so why don't we say, "That hurt, you
stupid idiot?"


Because deep within we all know that those evil shopping carts are the real offenders...

quote:
Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's falling
off the table you always manage to knock something else over?


I dunno... don't try and universalize your own clumsiness.

quote:
In winter, why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer
when we complained about the heat?


Because humans always want what is scarce... like diamonds... love... or ebola...

quote:
Why do you never hear father-in-law jokes?


Because mother-in-law jokes are representative of the patriarchal power relations in modern capitalist discourse. Mothers-in-law inhabit a subaltern status in patriarchal familial discourse, as they are subordinate to one's real mother, who in turn is subordinate to all the men in the family.

Plus... they remind you of what your wife is going to look like in 20-30 years... it's a real bummer, so you've gotta just have a good sense of humour about it.

alva is offline alva
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Sep 2001
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quote:
When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a
shopping cart then apologizes for doing so, why do we say, "It's all
right? Well, it isn't all right so why don't we say, "That hurt, you
stupid idiot?"

eye-contact

Dracon II is offline Dracon II
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Communist Party of Apolyton
Jan 1970
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They don't have any other needles.


You've never been to Bondi Beach...
Seriously though.... there's a use for all those syringe disposal units in public toilets. Are we so afraid of Dead Man Walking becoming Dead Man Walking the "Streets of Philadelphia"?? They're going to die anyway... unless of course they don't really die but are reprogrammed as secret Government assassins or tax auditors or something...

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Feb 2000
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on you guys for warming your houses in the winter for as hot as it is in the summer. I keep my house 62 F (16.7 C) in the winter.

It's called energy conservation. This is why the western world uses most of the world's resources.

Tuberski is offline Tuberski
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Feb 2002
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quote:
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on you guys for warming your houses in the winter for as hot as it is in the summer. I keep my house 62 F (16.7 C) in the winter.

It's called energy conservation. This is why the western world uses most of the world's resources.


Do you keep your house 98 in the summer? Or do you waste elctricity keeping yourself cool.

I'll bet you have central air.

ACK!

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I keep my house 82 F (27.7 C) in the summer. I can't keep it any warmer or I won't be able to sleep as I'll be in a pool of my own sweat.

and I don't have central air. One reason I do it is to save money. I don't want a $200 power bill.

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Jun 2001
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And if I don't warm the house in winter I'll freeze to death

Odin is offline Odin
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Sep 2000
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If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?


Because humans did not evolve from living african apes, we all decended from a common ancestor that resembled a Bonobo (pygmy chimp) in size and body proportions, but had a Gorilla-like harem-based social structure and a large amount of sexual dimorphism (size difference between males and females). the reduction in sexual dimorphism in chimps and humans most likely evolved independently, because the earliest australopithicines has a huge amount of dimorphism. Humans became adapted for open habitats. Gorillas became large, specialized plant eaters. Chimps retained the primitive lifestyle, but lost the harem-type troop structure and sexual dimorphism

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Jun 2002
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Boris Godunov is offline Boris Godunov
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Aug 2001
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If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?


If Protestantism evolved from Catholicism, why is there still Catholicism?

Why do people post decade-old bits of dubious humorous merit as if nobody had ever seen them before?

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Aug 2000
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Seriously though.... there's a use for all those syringe disposal units in public toilets. Are we so afraid of Dead Man Walking becoming Dead Man Walking the "Streets of Philadelphia"??


Great job you just created. "Keeper and Utiliser of AIDS-infected sharp objects".

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Great job you just created. "Keeper and Utiliser of AIDS-infected sharp objects".


Last Conformist is offline Last Conformist
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Jul 2003
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And if I don't warm the house in winter I'll freeze to death
Liar. You live the the tropical hellhole known as "Denmark".

Adagio is offline Adagio

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Jun 2001
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Tropical?

The only thing about hell we don't have here is the heat

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I keep my house 82 F (27.7 C) in the summer. I can't keep it any warmer or I won't be able to sleep as I'll be in a pool of my own sweat.

and I don't have central air. One reason I do it is to save money. I don't want a $200 power bill.


That be annual??!!

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why

Do homeless people always have a shopping cart, it's not like they have any money to buy stuff?

Dracon II is offline Dracon II
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Great job you just created. "Keeper and Utiliser of AIDS-infected sharp objects".


....can picture Boromir now.... "we can use these for good!"

Frodo rolls eyes "You're a moron boromir... can't you just let me take these needles to the incinerator?"

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Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries
are getting weak?


It could be a problem with the button and not the batteries.

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Why do marathon runners feel it necessary and proper to pee and poo on the streets they run?

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Why do marathon runners feel it necessary and proper to pee and poo on the streets they run?


If the Persians were set to rout your army and you needed to get reinforcements from Sparta ASAP would YOU care about public hygeine?

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Yes, because the Persians could follow the trail of "breadcrumbs" to my center of military operations or give away the position of my secret bunker.

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Actually, many Kamikaze missions did not end in the plane's destruction since a decent target could not be found, or the conditions were too iffy for a good hit. The pilots were urged not to throw away their lives even if they didn't manage on that flight - there was always the next one. Therefore it would have made sense to have the pilots wear helmets. Of course, helmets weren't really used back then as BeBro alreay said.

On the other hand, I seem to recall that kamikaze planes didn't even have enough fuel for a return trip.

Dracon II is offline Dracon II
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On the other hand, I seem to recall that kamikaze planes didn't even have enough fuel for a return trip.


You'd think they'd load it with as much fuel as they could. One of the reasons why the 911 attacks were so effective was that the planes were loaded with fuel as they had only just left the ground...

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Fuel scarcity.

The terrorists didn't have to worry about their overall fuel supply.

 
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