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- Why do professional golf players talk to their ball after they tee off? Sit, Sit. Stop. Stop. Back, Back.
- Why do all wrist watch print ads have the small hand on 10 and the big hand on 2? All of them, all the time.
- Why don’t news shows have concurrent fact checkers that report at the end of the segment, not the next day? Would take a little concern, some technology, and 30 seconds. Then instead of Breaking News they could have a segment called “Fixed News.”
- Why are missed catches in football not counted against the catcher and called an “error” as they are in baseball?
- Why is an overtime win called “Sudden Death” and not “Sudden Victory”?
- Who/what is Miss American Pie? What does this mean: “the levy was dry”?
- Why Democrats have no discipline while Republicans have blind allegiance?
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Very Funny and Thoughtful
1. How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?
2. Why do you have to ‘put your two cents in’… but it’s only a ‘penny for your thoughts’? Where’s that extra penny going to?
3. Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
4. How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?
5. Why is it that people say they ‘slept like a baby’ when babies wake up like every two hours?
6. If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME stuff, why didn’t he just buy dinner?
7. If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
8. If a kingdom is run by a king, what is a country run by?