More Puzzlers
- Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?
- Why do they report power outages on TV?
- Why do they sell a pound cake that only weighs 12 ounces?
- Why do ‘tug’boats push their barges?
- Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
- Why do we have hot water heaters?
- Why do we play in recitals and recite in plays?
- Why do we put suits in a garment bag and garments in a suitcase?
- Why do we sing ‘Take me out to the ball game’, when we are already there?
- Why do we wash bath towels? Aren’t we clean when we use them?
- Why do you weep and sniffle over a TV program and the imaginary Why does “cleave” mean both split apart and stick together?
- Why does “slow down” and “slow up” mean the same thing?
- Why does an alarm clock “go off” when it begins ringing?
- Why does flammable and inflammable mean the same thing?
- Why doesn’t “onomatopoeia” sound like what it is?
- Why don’t sheep shrink in the rain?
- Why don’t you ever hear about gruntled employees?
- Why don’t you ever see baby pigeons?
- Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?
- Why is a women’s prison called a penal colony?
- Why is it called a “building” when it is already built?
- Why is it called a bust, when it stops right before the part it is named after?
- Why is it called a TV “set” when you only get one?
- Why is it called ‘after dark’, when it is really after light?
- Why is it so hard to remember how to spell MNEMONIC?
- 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 is it when a door is open it’s ajar, but when a jar is open it’s not adoor?
- Why is it when two planes almost hit each other it is called a “near miss”?
- Why is it, whether you sit up or sit down, the result is the same?
- Why is lemon juice mostly artificial ingredients but dishwashing liquid contains real lemons?
- Why is Mickey Mouse bigger than his dog Pluto?
- Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
- Why is the word “abbreviate” so long?
- Don’t you have to get up to get to the tape?
- Why is there an expiration date on SOUR cream?
- Why is there only ONE Monopolies Commission?
- Why isn’t “palindrome” spelled the same way backwards?
- Why isn’t phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
- Why isn’t there mouse-flavored cat food?
- Would a fly without wings be called a walk?
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