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  • 19-03-2005 5:15pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 154 ✭✭


    1 is it good if a vacuum cleaner really sucks

    2 why is the third hand on a watch called the second hand

    3 if a word was misspelled in a dictionary how would we ever know

    4 if Webster wrote the first dictionary where did he find the words

    5 why do tug boats push

    6 why is it called after dark when really its after daylight

    7 if work is so good why do they pay for you to do it

    8 if all the worlds a stage where do the audience sit

    9 if love is blind why is lingerie so popular

    10 why is a bra singular but knickers is plural

    11 why do we press harder on the buttons of a remote control when we know the batteries are failing

    12 why do we put suits in garment bags but garments in suitcases

    13 Christmas is weird what other time of year do you sit round a dead tree and eat sweets out your socks

    heres some more for you to ponder on

    Atheism is a non-prophet organization

    Is the main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live

    If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there are no women around him ....is he still wrong

    if someone with multiple personalities threaten to kill himsel, is it classed as a hostage situation

    is the another word for synonym

    what do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant

    why dont sheep shrink in the rain

    what was the best thing before sliced bread

    why do toasters allways have a setting that burns toast to a crisp that no one would ever eat

    why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but they dont point to their crotch when they ask for the toilet

    why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours they are both dogs

    if Quizzes are Quizzical what are tests

    Adult = a person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle

    Beauty Parlour = a place where women curl up and dye

    Cannibal = someone who is fed up with people

    Chickens = the only animal you eat before they are born and after they die

    Committee = a body that keeps minutes and wastes hours

    Dust = mud with the juice sqeezed out

    Egotist = someone who is usually me-deep in conversation

    Gossip = a person who will never tell a lie if the truth will do more damage

    Handkerchief = cold storage

    Inflation = cutting money in half without damaging the paper

    Myth = a female moth

    Secret = something you tell one person at a time

    Skeleton = a bunch of bones with the person scraped off

    Toothache = a pain that drives you to extraction

    Tommorrow = one of the greatest labour saving devices of today

    Wrinkles = someting other people have. you have character lines


Comments

  • Registered Users Posts: 181 ✭✭(insert name)


    1 is it good if a vacuum cleaner really sucks

    Because its meant to

    2 why is the third hand on a watch called the second hand

    Because it shows the unit of time "seconds"

    3 if a word was misspelled in a dictionary how would we ever know

    Another dictionary, also dictionarys are references for meaning not spelling

    4 if Webster wrote the first dictionary where did he find the words

    Em... Perhaps the English language

    5 why do tug boats push

    Whats a tug boat

    6 why is it called after dark when really its after daylight

    After darkness falls it is dark

    7 if work is so good why do they pay for you to do it

    who says it is?

    8 if all the worlds a stage where do the audience sit

    again, who says it is?

    9 if love is blind why is lingerie so popular

    "love is blind" is a phrase, not literal truth

    10 why is a bra singular but knickers is plural

    same as trousers

    11 why do we press harder on the buttons of a remote control when we know the batteries are failing

    to make sure it will work

    12 why do we put suits in garment bags but garments in suitcases

    suits are garments and garments can be suits

    13 Christmas is weird what other time of year do you sit round a dead tree and eat sweets out your socks

    Its called tradition

    heres some more for you to ponder on

    Atheism is a non-prophet organization

    Wow!! a pun!!

    Is the main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live

    same again

    If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there are no women around him ....is he still wrong

    that's just bad

    if someone with multiple personalities threaten to kill himself, is it classed as a hostage situation

    no, he isn't imprisoning himself

    is the another word for synonym

    maybe, check the thesauras or dictionary

    what do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant

    stop it using non-lethal measures, they do exist you know

    why dont sheep shrink in the rain

    why would they, does wool shrink on a cold wash

    what was the best thing before sliced bread

    unsliced bread maybe??

    why do toasters allways have a setting that burns toast to a crisp that no one would ever eat

    frozen bread

    why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but they dont point to their crotch when they ask for the toilet

    normally they dont unless the other person speaks another language

    why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours they are both dogs

    do most cartoons make sense?

    if Quizzes are Quizzical what are tests

    testing

    Adult = a person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle

    not necessarily

    Beauty Parlour = a place where women curl up and dye

    no women (and men) get their hair curled and dyed

    Cannibal = someone who is fed up with people

    yes but not always fed up on them sometimes they prepare their own food

    Chickens = the only animal you eat before they are born and after they die

    do you eat other animals before they die?

    Committee = a body that keeps minutes and wastes hours

    minutes of meetings, not time and not all hours are wasted maybe spent productivley

    Dust = mud with the juice sqeezed out

    no, the water dried out of it

    Egotist = someone who is usually me-deep in conversation

    or is just full of their own ...

    Gossip = a person who will never tell a lie if the truth will do more damage

    yes, or someone who just likes scandal

    Handkerchief = cold storage

    no, snot and phlegm storage but they do get washed you know

    Inflation = cutting money in half without damaging the paper

    no, cutting money's value in half

    Myth = a female moth

    or not

    Secret = something you tell one person at a time

    or maybe just some people

    Skeleton = a bunch of bones with the person scraped off

    or maybe the body has decayed

    Toothache = a pain that drives you to extraction

    or filling

    Tommorrow = one of the greatest labour saving devices of today

    not really as you still do the work tommorrow (in theory)

    Wrinkles = someting other people have. you have character lines

    not all people are that vain (or have wrinkles)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭NotMe


    shut up.


  • Registered Users Posts: 181 ✭✭(insert name)


    NotMe wrote:
    shut up.


    he did ask
    why??

    i answered his question and punished him for reproducing corny, old chain emails.

    so i suggest that you shut up.

    [sarcasm]:)[/sarcasm]


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭NotMe


    suggestion noted.
    [?] :) [/?]


  • Registered Users Posts: 181 ✭✭(insert name)


    NotMe wrote:
    [?] :) [/?]


    i meant a sarcastic smile/laugh hence the (joke) sarcasm tags

    ie [sarcasm] and [/sarcasm]


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭NotMe


    i meant a sarcastic smile/laugh hence the (joke) sarcasm tags

    ie [sarcasm] and [/sarcasm]
    I know. Sorry I'm just messing with your head. Forget about it. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,711 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    he did ask

    i answered his question and punished him for reproducing corny, old chain emails.

    so i suggest that you shut up.

    [sarcasm]:)[/sarcasm]
    No, you tried to be witty and/or funny, but failed miserably. Get off the stage


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,962 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    3 if a word was misspelled in a dictionary how would we ever know

    4 if Webster wrote the first dictionary where did he find the words
    Any Blackadder fan would know that it wasn't Webster who wrote the first dictionary. Had he bothered to go to a library there were actually two centuries worth of them to refer to but instead he is the one to blame for the inability of most Americans to be able to spell.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,172 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    he did ask

    i answered his question and punished him for reproducing corny, old chain emails.

    so i suggest that you shut up.

    [sarcasm]:)[/sarcasm]


    Boo Urns...BOO URNS


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    8 if all the worlds a stage where do the audience sit

    again, who says it is?

    William Shakespeare, now stop trying to break the funny


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 126 ✭✭shelsfan


    1 is it good if a vacuum cleaner really sucks

    Because its meant to

    2 why is the third hand on a watch called the second hand

    Because it shows the unit of time "seconds"

    3 if a word was misspelled in a dictionary how would we ever know

    Another dictionary, also dictionarys are references for meaning not spelling

    4 if Webster wrote the first dictionary where did he find the words

    Em... Perhaps the English language

    5 why do tug boats push

    Whats a tug boat

    6 why is it called after dark when really its after daylight

    After darkness falls it is dark

    7 if work is so good why do they pay for you to do it

    who says it is?

    8 if all the worlds a stage where do the audience sit

    again, who says it is?

    9 if love is blind why is lingerie so popular

    "love is blind" is a phrase, not literal truth

    10 why is a bra singular but knickers is plural

    same as trousers

    11 why do we press harder on the buttons of a remote control when we know the batteries are failing

    to make sure it will work

    12 why do we put suits in garment bags but garments in suitcases

    suits are garments and garments can be suits

    13 Christmas is weird what other time of year do you sit round a dead tree and eat sweets out your socks

    Its called tradition

    heres some more for you to ponder on

    Atheism is a non-prophet organization

    Wow!! a pun!!

    Is the main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live

    same again

    If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there are no women around him ....is he still wrong

    that's just bad

    if someone with multiple personalities threaten to kill himself, is it classed as a hostage situation

    no, he isn't imprisoning himself

    is the another word for synonym

    maybe, check the thesauras or dictionary

    what do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant

    stop it using non-lethal measures, they do exist you know

    why dont sheep shrink in the rain

    why would they, does wool shrink on a cold wash

    what was the best thing before sliced bread

    unsliced bread maybe??

    why do toasters allways have a setting that burns toast to a crisp that no one would ever eat

    frozen bread

    why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but they dont point to their crotch when they ask for the toilet

    normally they dont unless the other person speaks another language

    why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours they are both dogs

    do most cartoons make sense?

    if Quizzes are Quizzical what are tests

    testing

    Adult = a person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle

    not necessarily

    Beauty Parlour = a place where women curl up and dye

    no women (and men) get their hair curled and dyed

    Cannibal = someone who is fed up with people

    yes but not always fed up on them sometimes they prepare their own food

    Chickens = the only animal you eat before they are born and after they die

    do you eat other animals before they die?

    Committee = a body that keeps minutes and wastes hours

    minutes of meetings, not time and not all hours are wasted maybe spent productivley

    Dust = mud with the juice sqeezed out

    no, the water dried out of it

    Egotist = someone who is usually me-deep in conversation

    or is just full of their own ...

    Gossip = a person who will never tell a lie if the truth will do more damage

    yes, or someone who just likes scandal

    Handkerchief = cold storage

    no, snot and phlegm storage but they do get washed you know

    Inflation = cutting money in half without damaging the paper

    no, cutting money's value in half

    Myth = a female moth

    or not

    Secret = something you tell one person at a time

    or maybe just some people

    Skeleton = a bunch of bones with the person scraped off

    or maybe the body has decayed

    Toothache = a pain that drives you to extraction

    or filling

    Tommorrow = one of the greatest labour saving devices of today

    not really as you still do the work tommorrow (in theory)

    Wrinkles = someting other people have. you have character lines

    not all people are that vain (or have wrinkles)

    I think it was a joke...


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭joe.


    1 is it good if a vacuum cleaner really sucks

    Because its meant to

    2 why is the third hand on a watch called the second hand

    Because it shows the unit of time "seconds"

    3 if a word was misspelled in a dictionary how would we ever know

    Another dictionary, also dictionarys are references for meaning not spelling

    4 if Webster wrote the first dictionary where did he find the words

    Em... Perhaps the English language

    5 why do tug boats push

    Whats a tug boat

    6 why is it called after dark when really its after daylight

    After darkness falls it is dark

    7 if work is so good why do they pay for you to do it

    who says it is?

    8 if all the worlds a stage where do the audience sit

    again, who says it is?

    9 if love is blind why is lingerie so popular

    "love is blind" is a phrase, not literal truth

    10 why is a bra singular but knickers is plural

    same as trousers

    11 why do we press harder on the buttons of a remote control when we know the batteries are failing

    to make sure it will work

    12 why do we put suits in garment bags but garments in suitcases

    suits are garments and garments can be suits

    13 Christmas is weird what other time of year do you sit round a dead tree and eat sweets out your socks

    Its called tradition

    heres some more for you to ponder on

    Atheism is a non-prophet organization

    Wow!! a pun!!

    Is the main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live

    same again

    If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there are no women around him ....is he still wrong

    that's just bad

    if someone with multiple personalities threaten to kill himself, is it classed as a hostage situation

    no, he isn't imprisoning himself

    is the another word for synonym

    maybe, check the thesauras or dictionary

    what do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant

    stop it using non-lethal measures, they do exist you know

    why dont sheep shrink in the rain

    why would they, does wool shrink on a cold wash

    what was the best thing before sliced bread

    unsliced bread maybe??

    why do toasters allways have a setting that burns toast to a crisp that no one would ever eat

    frozen bread

    why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but they dont point to their crotch when they ask for the toilet

    normally they dont unless the other person speaks another language

    why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours they are both dogs

    do most cartoons make sense?

    if Quizzes are Quizzical what are tests

    testing

    Adult = a person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle

    not necessarily

    Beauty Parlour = a place where women curl up and dye

    no women (and men) get their hair curled and dyed

    Cannibal = someone who is fed up with people

    yes but not always fed up on them sometimes they prepare their own food

    Chickens = the only animal you eat before they are born and after they die

    do you eat other animals before they die?

    Committee = a body that keeps minutes and wastes hours

    minutes of meetings, not time and not all hours are wasted maybe spent productivley

    Dust = mud with the juice sqeezed out

    no, the water dried out of it

    Egotist = someone who is usually me-deep in conversation

    or is just full of their own ...

    Gossip = a person who will never tell a lie if the truth will do more damage

    yes, or someone who just likes scandal

    Handkerchief = cold storage

    no, snot and phlegm storage but they do get washed you know

    Inflation = cutting money in half without damaging the paper

    no, cutting money's value in half

    Myth = a female moth

    or not

    Secret = something you tell one person at a time

    or maybe just some people

    Skeleton = a bunch of bones with the person scraped off

    or maybe the body has decayed

    Toothache = a pain that drives you to extraction

    or filling

    Tommorrow = one of the greatest labour saving devices of today

    not really as you still do the work tommorrow (in theory)

    Wrinkles = someting other people have. you have character lines

    not all people are that vain (or have wrinkles)


    Too much time


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 126 ✭✭shelsfan


    Who first found a cow, and thought, 'I think I'll pull on those dangy things and drink whatever comes out' ???!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 953 ✭✭✭superconor


    WHO was the first person to say "i think i will eat what has just dropped out of this chickens ass!"


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,770 ✭✭✭Bottle_of_Smoke


    insert name I really hate you


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭Megatron


    ColHol wrote:
    No, you tried to be witty and/or funny, but failed miserably. Get off the stage

    i'd have to agree, i could see what he was trying for but he just came off as some unfunny loser trying his best to be funny and get all the attention ...


    I hope you get hit bya frozen bananna


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,136 ✭✭✭Pugsley


    Who first opened an oyster and said 'hmm that looks tasty' :|


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,659 ✭✭✭Shabadu


    Someone who picks their nose? :p!


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