101 Stupid Questions
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With a list of 101 stupid questions, you and your friends can have fun laughing at the absurdity of wording and situations that many people never think about twice.
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101 Stupid Questions
Most of the 101 stupid questions found below don't really have answers. They're meant to take you to an amusing perspective of life and language. Why do we do the things we do and say things the way we say them? Sometimes there's no other way to describe a situation, a name, or a phrase than to just say "stupid" or in the very least, silly.
- If a fly didn't have wings, would he be called a walk?
- Can blind people experience love at first sight?
- Why isn't the word "abbreviation" shorter?
- Why do people park in driveways and drive on parkways?
- Why do stores that are open 24/7, 365 days a year, have locks?
- Why is it that there's no "w" in "one", but there is one in "two" and we don't pronounce it?
- Why isn't cat food mouse-flavored?
- Why do you "call it a day" at night?
- Why is it that the people responsible for investing your money for you are called brokers?
- What do you accomplish if you attempt to fail and succeed?
- Why does lip"stick" still allow you to move your lips?
- Is there anything kleptomaniacs can take for their condition?
- Why do psychics never win the lottery?
- Why does Superman duck when something's thrown at his head when he can bounce bullets off of his chest?
- Is clear a color?
- Why isn't the world's fattest man a hockey goalie?
- Why do bars have parking lots?
- What color does a Smurf turn when you choke it?
- Why are #2 pencils so popular? Shouldn't they be #1?
- Do people drive with their lights off if a funeral procession is at night?
- If nothing sticks to Teflon, how do they get the Teflon to stick to the pan?
- Why are things sent by ship called cargo while things sent by car are called shipments?
- Why is it a "pair of pants" when it's just one article of clothing?
- What is the point of scented toilet paper?
- Do amphibians need to wait an hour before getting out of or going into the water after eating?
- There's a speed of light, a speed of sound… is there a speed of smell?
- What do sheep count when they can't sleep?
- Are there unguided missiles?
- What is a French kiss in France?
- What is a male ladybug called?
- What are male ballerinas called?
- What do you tell God if he sneezes?
- Do pawnshops sell whole chess sets?
- Where are they saving the daylight and what are they saving it for during Daylight Savings Time?
- If you wear dentures and use too much artificial sweetener, will you get cavities?
- Do fish get thirsty?
- When you unzip a file, does it get embarrassed?
- Where did the first 6 UPs go?
- On a bald man's license, what hair color is listed?
- What does Geronimo yell when he leaps from a plane?
- Can someone die in the living room?
- Why are some gifts referred to as "free gifts"?
- Was shaved ice previously hairy?
- Do witches use spell check?
- How does the speed of dark compare to the speed of light?
- Before sliced bread, what was the best thing ever?
- Will vegetarians eat animal crackers?
- What would a world with no hypothetical situations be like?
- How is it possible to "draw a blank"?
- Where did Old Zealand go?
- How do you throw out a garbage can?
- Why does the word "lisp" have an "s" in it?
- Why are some blackboards green?
- Isn't "Civil War" an oxymoron?
- Why are highways on the ground?
- How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
- Is there milk in the Milky Way?
- Why doesn't everyone on a plane have a parachute under their seat?
- Why can't people tickle themselves?
- What's Google's web address?
- Why are violets blue? Shouldn't they be violet?
- Why don't flamingos use both legs when they stand?
- Why don't mirrors reverse up and down?
- A turtle without a shell: naked or homeless?
- Why are pigs' tails curly?
- Why are "chilies" hot?
- Why do you have to buy Barbie's friends? Isn't she "popular"?
- Why are restrooms called restrooms when no one goes in there to rest?
- Why are the needles for lethal injections sterilized?
- Do all synchronized swimmers have to drown if one of them does?
- How is it possible for rabbits' feet to be lucky when the rabbit started out with four?
- Why do feet smell and noses run?
- Is it a hostage situation when someone with Multiple Personality Disorder threatens to commit suicide?
- Do pasta and antipasti cancel each other out?
- If you jog backwards, do you gain weight?
- Why do you turn down the volume on the radio in your car when you're looking for an address?
- Why is it called rush hour when everyone's driving more slowly during that time than any other point in the day?
- Can you listen to AM radio after noon?
- Why don't they make the whole plane out of the material that black box is made from?
- Shouldn't Microsoft be Macrosoft now that they've gotten successful?
- Do you know of an 800 number I can call for free?
- Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
- Why do psychics require appointments?
- If God can do anything, can he make a rock so big He can't even lift it? –George Carlin
- Why aren't all flowers called mums? They don't talk back to you.
- Why does something called quicksand devour you so slowly?
- Is the equivalent of athlete's foot for astronauts called mistletoe?
- Why is there a picture of a running child on the Slow Children at Play signs?
- How is it that fat chances and slim chances are the same?
- Why aren't raisins just called dried grapes?
- How many weeks in a light year?
- Why do alarm clocks go "off" when what they're really doing is turning on?
- Why doesn't Grape Nuts cereal have grapes or nuts in it?
- Why are softballs hard?
- Why can cars go so fast it's not legal to drive at that speed anywhere?
- Why does Donald Duck wear a towel after his shower, but never wear pants?
- Why do you have to stop at a drive-thru?
- Why can't a woman apply mascara with her mouth closed?
- Why do dogs get mad if you blow in their faces, but they hang their heads out of windows on car rides?
- Can blind people see their dreams?
- Why do people press harder on the buttons of the remote when they know the battery is dead?
