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Why doesn't the superglue stick to the tube? Life's little mysteries...

  • 16-11-2012 4:52pm
    #1
    2ndcoming
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭2ndcoming


    Well? Why?! Before a load of experts tell me, let's have this thread for sharing any other little mysteries you wonder about?

    I'll start us off with two more.

    If Buzz Lightyear thinks he isn't a toy, why does he stop moving when humans are around?

    Why does everyone think Humpty Dumpty is an egg?!


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  • #2
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,012 ✭✭✭uch


    .

    21/25



  • #3
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    2ndcoming wrote: »

    Why does everyone think Humpty Dumpty is an egg?!

    Because he likes to live life on the edge.


  • #4
    Sylas Tasty Flame
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Sylas Tasty Flame


    It reacts to oxygen


  • #5
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Wonder about little mysteries

    Is this after hours or a fcuking Enid Blyton novel?


  • #6
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Why is my bed more comfortable in the morning?


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  • #7
    iDave
    Registered Users Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    why do triangle sandwiches taste better


  • #8
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,506 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Why do delivery men,service men etc. always arrive when you are taking a dump?


  • #9
    iDave
    Registered Users Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    Why is rap/hip hop popular?


  • #10
    DingChavez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 647 ✭✭✭DingChavez


    Why did Frodo not ride the Eagles to Mordor?


  • #11
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Why is a blowjob called a blowjob.
    A suckjob possibly......... but a blowjob?


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  • #12
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    2ndcoming wrote: »
    If Buzz Lightyear thinks he isn't a toy, why does he stop moving when humans are around?

    Because he thinks he's on a different planet. When he sees the huge humans he's instinctively freezes and plays dead.


  • #13
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    bluewolf wrote: »
    It reacts to oxygen

    i always thought that it was the moisture in the air the reacts with the glue :confused:


  • #14
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    If Joe Duffy is a socialist, how can he pull over ten times the average industrial wage from the public purse?


  • #15
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    mikom wrote: »
    Why is a blowjob called a blowjob.
    A suckjob possibly......... but a blowjob?

    Better do some studies on this.


  • #16
    2ndcoming
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭2ndcoming


    uch wrote: »
    IBTL

    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Wonder about little mysteries

    Is this after hours or a fcuking Enid Blyton novel?

    Just because it doesn't start with a Daily Mail link or something about public service pay, why would it be locked?

    Must be very sombre lock-ins you lads partake in!


  • #17
    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    Why when a soccer player scores, he runs like a blue arse fly around the pitch with five more players tearing after him.


  • #18
    RikkFlair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,109 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    Why does this all remind me of that "head of questioning things" gimp from the e mobile ad on telly?


  • #19
    Arpa
    Registered Users Posts: 442 ✭✭Arpa


    Humpty Dumpty thing has something to do with Richard 3rd falling off his horse in battle and being trampled to pieces. Doesn't it? I don't know.

    Just watch...


  • #20
    Michael 09
    Registered Users Posts: 514 ✭✭✭Michael 09


    mikom wrote: »
    Why is a blowjob called a blowjob.
    A suckjob possibly......... but a blowjob?

    Got it's name because people used to give them in exchange for cash to buy drugs or just in exchange for drugs (blow).

    This is where it originates, nothing to do with the action itself.


  • #21
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    Michael 09 wrote: »
    Got it's name because people used to give them in exchange for cash to buy drugs or just in exchange for drugs (blow).

    This is where it originates, nothing to do with the action itself.

    hmmm.... how did you know that? :rolleyes:


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  • #22
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    The Buzz Lightyear thing - It's clearly because even if he doesn't know he's a toy, he still is a toy, so he acts like one - It's instinctive.


  • #23
    davetherave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭davetherave


    If you have some land, do you own it all the way to the core?

    Why does an alarm "go off", when it actually turns on?


  • #24
    .E_C_K_S.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,150 ✭✭✭.E_C_K_S.


    I always thought it originated from a 'below job'. I.e to get the job down below the waist lets say:p


  • #25
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    RikkFlair wrote: »
    Why does this all remind me of that "head of questioning things" gimp from the e mobile ad on telly?

    I want to kill that ad and everyone even remotely to do with that ad.
    Kill them all dead.
    Then they'll be sorry.


  • #26
    Michael 09
    Registered Users Posts: 514 ✭✭✭Michael 09


    davet82 wrote: »
    hmmm.... how did you know that? :rolleyes:

    :cool:


  • #27
    Anyone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Anyone


    The blue whale


  • #28
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    Michael 09 wrote: »
    Got it's name because people used to give them in exchange for cash to buy drugs or just in exchange for drugs (blow).

    This is where it originates, nothing to do with the action itself.
    I wish someone had told my then girlfriend that many, many moons ago.


  • #29
    The One Who Knocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭The One Who Knocks


    How do they get the fig in the fig roll?


  • #30
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Michael 09 wrote: »
    Got it's name because people used to give them in exchange for cash to buy drugs or just in exchange for drugs (blow).

    This is where it originates, nothing to do with the action itself.

    Very good.

    Now for ten points.......... What has a bed but never sleeps and a mouth but never speaks?


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  • #31
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    mikom wrote: »
    Very good.

    Now for ten points.......... What has a bed but never sleeps and a mouth but never speaks?

    A nail bed with a mouth?
    Where do I go to collect my 10 points?


  • #32
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    flutterflye wrote: »
    A nail bed with a mouth?
    Where do I go to collect my 10 points?

    Oh oh oh - A river!


  • #33
    Michael 09
    Registered Users Posts: 514 ✭✭✭Michael 09


    mikom wrote: »
    Very good.

    Now for ten points.......... What has a bed but never sleeps and a mouth but never speaks?

    A river

    Edit: Damn it Flutterflye!!!


  • #34
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    flutterflye wrote: »
    A nail bed with a mouth?
    Where do I go to collect my 10 points?
    flutterflye wrote: »
    Oh oh oh - A river!

    Wrong on both tries.
    Michael 09 wrote: »
    A river

    Edit: Damn it Flutterflye!!!

    No.

    What has a bed but never sleeps and a mouth but never speaks?

    According to my friend Sid the sexist the actual answer is......... The perfect wife.


  • #35
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    flutterflye wrote: »
    I want to kill that ad and everyone even remotely to do with that ad.
    Kill them all dead.
    Then they'll be sorry.

    I'd ride yer wan at the end, Aoife?


  • #36
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    mikom wrote: »
    Wrong on both tries.

    :(

    A mute insomniac?


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  • #37
    davetherave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭davetherave


    An mute insomniac?


  • #38
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Arpa wrote: »
    Humpty Dumpty thing has something to do with Richard 3rd falling off his horse in battle and being trampled to pieces. Doesn't it? I don't know.

    Just watch...
    Ah, well done! One of life's biggest mysteries.

    Why do people find Ricky Gervais funny?


  • #39
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Rasheed wrote: »
    Why when a soccer player scores, he runs like a blue arse fly around the pitch with five more players tearing after him.

    it's justifiable when you scrore a really good goal though..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nPrSjrUnpg


    Good man Robber Robbie


  • #40
    Neewbie_noob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 543 ✭✭✭Neewbie_noob


    2ndcoming wrote: »
    Well? Why?! Before a load of experts tell me, let's have this thread for sharing any other little mysteries you wonder about?

    I'll start us off with two more.

    If Buzz Lightyear thinks he isn't a toy, why does he stop moving when humans are around?

    Why does everyone think Humpty Dumpty is an egg?!

    As far as I know it needs air to cure (ie, what the lay man calls dry) as some components need to evaporate away. This is obviously absent in the tube.


  • #41
    audman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 817 ✭✭✭audman


    mikom wrote: »

    Very good.

    Now for ten points.......... What has a bed but never sleeps and a mouth but never speaks?
    A river


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  • #42
    FairytaleGirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 663 ✭✭✭FairytaleGirl


    What do you call a male ballerina?


  • #43
    jessiejam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 778 ✭✭✭jessiejam


    Why do the nursery rhymes, baa baa black sheep, twinkle twinkle little star, and 'abcdefg' all have the same tune?

    *let the humming begin!
    All together now....


  • #44
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    FairytaleGirl wrote: »
    What do you call a male ballerina?

    Easy enough to work out once you put tu and tu together.


  • #45
    Hilly Bill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,045 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    Shryke wrote: »
    Better do some studies on this.

    Go to FAS and tell hem that you want to apply for the Blow Job. :).


    If you choke a Smurf, what colour does it go?


  • #46
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    davetherave wrote: »
    If you have some land, do you own it all the way to the core?
    No. In this country, you own the land down to ten feet or something like that. The land below that belongs to the state.
    Why does an alarm "go off", when it actually turns on?
    Most alarms work on the basis of maintaining an active loop of some kind. When that loop is disturbed it is set to "off" and the siren activates.
    So the alarm has been "set off".


  • #47
    Omackeral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Why is something called cargo if you move it by ship but a shipment if you move it by car?


  • #48
    13spanner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭13spanner


    If Pinnochio said 'My nose will now grow...' what would happen?


  • #49
    hardCopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    If Joe Duffy is a socialist, how can he pull over ten times the average industrial wage from the public purse?

    And he sells BMWs ffs


  • #50
    hardCopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    FairytaleGirl wrote: »
    What do you call a male ballerina?

    A balladeer?


  • #51
    oldyouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    Why is your wife's sister always way hotter than any woman you've ever met after a few drinks at a family party?


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