Some silly questions.

[Wingnut 7,000]

Why, do hot dogs come 10 to a package while the buns come in of packages of 8?

 

Why do erasers wear out a lot sooner than the pencil they're on? 

 

Why are cigarettes sold in the front of a drug store while sick people have to walk to the back for prescriptions?

 

Why do overlook and oversee mean something totally different?

 

Why are a fat chance and a slim chance the same thing?

 

How come a wise guy and a wise man are opposites? 

 

How come a lost item is always in the last place you look?   

 

What causes a piece of dropped toast to always land buttered side down? 

 

Why is the elevator late only when you’re in a hurry? 

 

Finally, the biggest mystery of all: Why do my dumb comments get the most brohoofs while the intelligent ones go ignored?

 

[stainesbrony 219]

Because pootis

[Wingnut 7,000]

Because pootis

Thank God.  You saved my silly question OP from being a total failure.  This kind of topic used to get a lot of feedback in another forum I once belonged to.  But it didn't catch on here.  How odd. 

[I used to be a stranger 7,994]

Why, do hot dogs come 10 to a package while the buns come in of packages of 8?

 

Why do erasers wear out a lot sooner than the pencil they're on? 

 

Why are cigarettes sold in the front of a drug store while sick people have to walk to the back for prescriptions?

 

Why do overlook and oversee mean something totally different?

 

Why are a fat chance and a slim chance the same thing?

 

How come a wise guy and a wise man are opposites? 

 

How come a lost item is always in the last place you look?   

 

What causes a piece of dropped toast to always land buttered side down? 

 

Why is the elevator late only when you’re in a hurry? 

 

Finally, the biggest mystery of all: Why do my dumb comments get the most brohoofs while the intelligent ones go ignored?

The first four whys can all be answered with "Captialism". 'Waste and want' is the unofficial motto of the civilized corporate world.

 

Fat wise guys and slim chances of men overlook the fact that we're overseeing our language demonstrating itself to be confusing. Remember, prepositions are not for ending sentences with.

 

We always find things in the last place we look because of syntax ambiguity. See above.

 

If buttered toast always landed butter-side down, we could strap it to the back of a cat (cats always land on their feet) and the logic would operate as a commutator and we could make free energy out of a spinning cat that hovers, paradoxically trying to land on its feet and its buttered backside.

 

The "close door" button on Elevators doesn't do anything either.

 

Oftentimes comprehensive thought is not as short or succinct as making a witty, memorable silly statement. Take religious debate: no one remembers word-for-word Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, nor does everybody remember word-for-word The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. But everyone remembers this one:

 

 

Now that I have answered your questions, I have a couple of my own:

 

Why do I feel compelled to be that guy that tries to 'complete' a thread, and furthermore,

why am I asking you this question?

Edited May 9, 2013 by Blue

[Silverhoof 2,844]

Because your avatar wears a Pith Helmet. They affect the brain and force people to do weird things like forge a world empire

 

How come limericks are only about people from Nantucket?

Edited May 10, 2013 by Silverhoof

[duidamasterXD 9,627]

Why, do hot dogs come 10 to a package while the buns come in of packages of 8?

 

Because manufacturers really just don't care.

 

 

 

Why do erasers wear out a lot sooner than the pencil they're on?

 

 

Because it's a lot easier to write an eraser's worth of bad ideas/sentences than a pencil's worth of good ones.

 

 

 

Why are cigarettes sold in the front of a drug store while sick people have to walk to the back for prescriptions?

 

 

Pharmacies secretly desire the death of humanity. Trust me on this one.

 

Why do overlook and oversee mean something totally different?

 

 

English likes to make itself a deliberately nonsensical language to torment anyone who thinks about it too hard.

 

 

 

Why are a fat chance and a slim chance the same thing?

 

 

Because of overly sarcastic/snotty/grumpy people like me

 

 

 

How come a wise guy and a wise man are opposites? 

 

Because English.

 

 

 

How come a lost item is always in the last place you look?

 

Same reason why I once tore apart my room looking for something that was in my pocket. We aren't getting enough sleep. Seems to be the source of most of life's problems at the heart of it.

 

 

 

What causes a piece of dropped toast to always land buttered side down?

 

What if you don't put butter on the toast at all? Will it land on the side that you would've put butter on? Will Dr. Seuss still write a thinly-veiled picturebook about the Cold War involving this new non-buttered toast?

 

 

 

Why is the elevator late only when you’re in a hurry?

 

 

Because of me.

 

 

 

Why do my dumb comments get the most brohoofs while the intelligent ones go ignored?

 

 

The intelligent ones are probably intimidating text walls

 

It's a conspiracy man.

 

 

 

Why do I feel compelled to be that guy that tries to 'complete' a thread

 

Why do I feel the same way?

 

 

 

why am I asking you this question?

 

 

Is it ok to respond to questions with more questions? I've been doing that a lot.

 

 

 

How come limericks are only about people from Nantucket?

 

Nantucket is way too fun to say.

 

 

Why do the British pronounce the word aluminum the way they do? 

Edited May 10, 2013 by DashForever

[Wingnut 7,000]

 

 

Why do the British pronounce the word aluminum the way they do?

 

The same reason they spell words like "labour" and "habour" even though we can't hear any u in those words. 

[An Old Head 4,816]

Why do the British pronounce the word aluminum the way they do? 

 

Because that's not how you spell it you god damn--

 

The US just skips letters that they don't see necessary. Kinda like Newspeak, from the book 1984.

[Wingnut 7,000]

 

 

Because that's not how you spell it you god damn-- The US just skips letters that they don't see necessary. Kinda like Newspeak, from the book 1984.

 

Aluminum or aluminium.  You say tomato, I say tomahtoh.  Blah, blah. 

[Silverhoof 2,844]

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