Friday, August 8, 2008

Questions to ponder

*Given the ability to project yourself into the future, but not to return, would you do so? Would you go if you could take someone along?

*If you were to be cremated, where would you want your ashes?

*Five hundred years from now, only one book which exists today will still be available. Which book should it be?

*If a movie were made about your life, what would the theme song be?

*For 10 ,000 would you go for three months without washing, brushing your teeth, or using deodorant? You could not explain your reason to anyone. (Assume that there would be no long-term effect on your career.)

*If you saw someone shoplifting in an exclusive store, what would you do?

*Have you ever been disappointed by a person you looked up to as a role model? Has a hero ever let you down?

*If you were to have a one-night stand with a current celebrity, who would you choose?

*Have you ever disliked someone for being luckier, more successful, or more attractive than you?

*Is there anything you'd willingly give your life for?

*If you could have had a child with a famous person no longer living, whom would you choose?

*Have you ever genuinely wanted to kill someone, or wished someone dead?

*If you were God for a day, what would you do?

*If you could be the parent of one famous person, who would you want it to be?

*Have you ever stayed home from work or a social event because you were having a "bad hair day"?

*How many different sexual partners have you had in your life? Would you prefer to have had more?

*Do you have a favorite sexual fantasy? Would you like to have it fulfilled?

*How many of your friendships have lasted more than 10 years?

*If you had a chance to bring one person back from the dead, who would it be and why?

*How would you react to finding out that your child was switched in the hospital with someone else's baby?

*Would your answer be different if the child you were raising was severely handicapped?

        
*If 100 people your age were chosen at random, how many do you think would be leading a life more satisfying than you do?

*If a crystal ball would tell you the truth about any one thing you wished to know concerning yourself, life, the future, or anything else, what would you want to know?

*If at birth you could select the profession your child would eventually pursue, would you do so?

*When you perform a difficult task successfully, do you tell people about it or keep it to yourself?

*How do you know when you're in love?                                                

*If you try to fail and suceed, what did you just do?

*Where did hamsters live before we put them in cages as a pet?

*Why is an electrical outlet called an outlet when you plug things into it? Shouldn't it be called an inlet?

*Why is it you get a penny for your thoughts, but have to put in your two cents worth?

*If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

*Why do people say "no offense" when they're about to offend someone?

*Why is it called pineapple, when's there neither pine nor apple in it?

*Why do they have the back pain medicine on the bottom shelf at the pharmacy?

*Why do hotdogs come in packs of 8 when hotdog rolls come in packs of 10?

*Are zebras black with white stripes, or white with black stripes?

*They have a show called "Unsolved Mysteries." What other kind of mysteries are there?

*Do they make coffins wider for dead fat people or is it a 1 size fits all kind of thing?

*Why is an elevator still called an elevator even when its going down?

*If Santa lives at the North Pole... where does the Easter bunny live?

*If you accidently ate your own tongue, what would it taste like?

*Does Jell-o EVER go bad? There usually isn't an expiration date on it?

*Why do old men have hair in their ears?

*If Practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, then why practice?

*Why are buttons on guys' shirts on a different side than girls' shirts?

*If bunnies don't lay eggs why is it on Easter that we hide eggs from the Easter Bunny?

*Why are things typed up but written down?

*How come u can kill a deer and put it on your wall but its a illegal to keep them as a pet?

*Why does caregiver and caretaker mean the same thing?

*In some books, why do they have blank pages at the very end?

*If you were on a plane going the speed of sound and walked from the back of the plane to the front, would you be walking faster than the speed of sound?

*If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?

*What does OK actually mean?

*what does the K in K-mart actually stand for?

*Why do we feel blue? and what color does a smurf feel when they are down?

*Why can't you eat pancakes for dinner?

*Why do donuts have holes?

*Why do the numbers on a phone go one way and the numbers on the calculator go the other?

*Is light still faster than sound when it's going through your TV, and if so, when you get a live broadcast from China or something shouldn't all the sounds come after the actions?

*Do the different "M&M's  colors taste different?

*If your born at exactly midnight is your birthday on both those days?

*If you're caught "between a rock and a hard place", is the rock not hard?

*If one man says, "it was an uphill battle," and another says, "it went downhill from there," how could they both be having troubles?

*Why is it you can walk down a road, even if it goes uphill?

*Why do we say "bye bye" but not "hi hi"?

*Can blind people be dyslexic when they read Braille?

*How do you handcuff a one-armed man?

*Why is the abbreviation for pound lb. when l or b isn't in the word pound?

*If you decide that you're indecisive, which one are you?

*Why does everyone speak different languages and have different accents if we all originally came from the same place?

*Why do they call it a RUNNING BACK when he is running foward?

If you tell someone they are being judgmental arnt you being judgmental yourself?

*Why do they call it your "bottom", when it's really in the middle of your body?

*How come some Little Debbie snack cakes come in a twin pack and others are wrapped individually?

*Can a guy named Nick have a 'nick'name?

*What is a male ladybug called?

*Why are semi-trucks bigger than regular trucks?

*Why is an alarm clock going "off" when it actually turns on?

*If a transport truck carrying a load of cars gets into a car accident, does it increase the number of the cars in the pile-up?

*Why is the third hand on the watch called second hand?

*Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

*What do people in China call their good plates?

*If feathers tickle people, do they tickle birds?

*Does a postman deliver his own mail?

*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?  

 *Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

*Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

*Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?

*Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?

*Do you need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime?

*Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

*How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?

*If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?

*If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?

*If nothing ever sticks to Teflon, how do they make Teflon stick to the pan?

*If you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a height, what would happen?

*If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?

*You know how most packages say "Open here"? What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"? 

*Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?                          

*Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you

transport something by ship, it's called cargo?

*Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?

*Why do you need a driver's license to buy liquor when you can't drink and drive?

*Should vegetarians eat animal crackers?

*If the cops arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?

*If you're cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right?

*Why do they call it a TV set if you only get one?

*Where can you buy the key to a lock of your hair?

*Can your eyes be called an school, because there are pupils there?

*Is the crown of your head where jewels are found?

*What crosses the bridge of your nose?

*Can you beat the drum of your ear?

*Can the crook in your elbow be sent to jail?

*How can you sharpen your shoulder blades?

*If you wanted to shingle the roof of your mouth, would you use the nails on your toes?              
                                                                               
*Is it possible to be totally partial?

*If the funeral procession is at night, do people drive with their headlights off?

*If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make a sound?

*If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

*If corn oil comes from corn where does baby oil come from?

*How did a fool and his money get together to begin with?

*How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign?

*If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?

*What is another word for thesaurus?

*Why do they sterilize the needles for lethal injections?

*What do they use to ship Styrofoam?

*Why is abbreviation such a long word?

*Why do kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

*How do you know when it's time to tune your bagpipes?

*Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?

*If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn?

*Does fuzzy logic tickle?

*Do blind Eskimos have seeing-eye sled dogs?

*Do they have reserved parking for non-handicapped people at the Special Olympics?

*Do radioactive cats have 18 half-lives? 

*Where do they get the seeds to grow seedless oranges?

*If your nose runs and your feet smell, are you built upside down?

*Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?

*If cops hang out at donut shops, why don't bakers hang out at police stations?

*Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?

*If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?  
                                                                            
*How come the people who tell you to calm down are the ones who got you mad in the first place?

*If we humans are made of 97 percent water why doesn't any of it spill out when we bend over?

And why don't people hit high and low tide with the phases of the moon?

*Why aren't they called bakies instead of cookies?

*Why do we call it a 2x4 when it is really 1 1/2" x 3 1/2"?

*Why do we call something that irritates us a 'pet peeve'? And if it makes us angry, why do we call it a 'pet'? Aren't pets supposed to be loved and cared for by us?

*When we want to cover over our past mistakes how do we distinguish between our mistakes and our way of living? Is there really a difference?

*Doesn't everybody only have two faults? Everything they say and everything they do?

*Why is it that when something says permanent we always mess up?

*Is it true that when sufficient people have made the same mistake long enough it becomes a rule?

*Going by the way some people find fault with every thing in life do you think there's a reward?

*Is it a Freudian slip when you say one thing but mean your mother?

*Why are all great discoveries made by mistake?

*There are many people scared of heights so why aren't there people scared of widths?

*If you thought you were wrong once, could you be mistaken?

*What part of a person's physical appearance is considered "pretty ugly"?

*Why do men have nipples?

*Do they make silencers for staple guns?

*Why do we 'dress to kill'?

*Why do we say our alarm clock goes off when it comes on?

*Have you ever wondered what the world would be like if people had tails?

*Were belly buttons made to hold salad dressing for when you eat celery in bed?

*If beauty is only skin deep, then no one is truly a beautiful person on the inside, right? So does that mean that deep down, we're all nasty people?

*Why do we call it the 'funny bone' when it hurts really bad when you bang it?

*If you have a frog in your throat, does that mean you are going to croak?

*When you're in space which way is up?

*Does that screwdriver really belong to Phillip?

*When they first invented the clock how did they know what time it was to set it?
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A minds journey begins with a single Why? --Confucius

An unanswered question is better than an unquestioned answer.

You are encouraged to use your imagination creatively and to think.



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