Dumb Questions
Dumb Questions
After eating, do amphibians have to wait one hour before getting out of the water?
After they make Styrofoam, what do they ship it in? --Steven Wright
Are you breaking the law if you drive past those road signs that say "Do Not Pass"?
Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?
Can you get cavities in your dentures if you use too much artificial sweetener?
Day light savings time - why are they saving it and where do they keep it?
Do you realize how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt
out of them?
Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a
quarter? --Steven Wright
Ever notice how irons have a setting for "permanent" press? I don't get it. --Steven Wright
How did the man who invented cottage cheese know he was done?
How do they get the "Keep off the Grass" sign on the grass?
How do you know if honesty is the best policy unless you've tried some of the others?
How do you know when you've run out of invisible ink?
How does it work out that these people always die in alphabetical order?
How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was? --Satchel Paige
If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?
If a candle factory burns down, does everyone just stand around and sing "Happy Birthday?"
If a food processor slices and dices food, what does a word processor do?
If a hen and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long would it take a monkey
with a wooden leg to kick the seeds out of a dill pickle? --Tom Robbins
If a jogger runs at the speed of sound, can he still hear his Walkman?
If a pizza place sells pizza by the slice, is there a guy in the back tossing a triangle in the air?
--Steven Wright
If a pronoun is a word used in place of a noun, is a proverb a word used in place of a verb?
If a tree falls in the forest, does the earth scream out in pain?
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? --Harry
Shearer
If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?
If an orange is orange, why isn't a lime called a green, and a lemon called a yellow?
If blind people wear dark glasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs? --Steven Wright
If cats and dog didn't have fur would we still pet them?
If corn oil is made from corn, what is baby oil made from?
If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?
If everything is part of a whole, what is the whole part of? --Ashleigh Brilliant
If flowers don't talk back to you, are they mums?
If Fred Flintstone knew that the large order of ribs would tip his car over, why did he order them
at the end of every show? --Steven Wright
If God can do anything, can he make a rock so big he can't lift it? --George Carlin
If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet? --Steven Wright
If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him?
If man evolved from apes why do we still have apes? --Dennis Miller
If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan?
If our knees were on the backs of our legs, what would chairs look like?
If peanut butter cookies are made from peanut butter, then what are Girl Scout cookies made out
of?
If Superman is so smart why does he wear his underpants over his trousers?
If swimming is good for your shape, then why do the whales look like the way they do?
If the funeral procession is at night, do folks drive with their lights off?
If the product says "Do not use if seal is broken", how are you supposed to open it and use it?
If time heals all wounds, how come bellybuttons don't fill in?
If tin whistles are made out of tin, what do they make fog horns out of?
If you can wave a fan, and you can wave a club, can you wave a fan club?
If you can't drink and drive, why do bars have parking lots?
If you get into a taxi cab, and ask the driver to drive backwards to your destination, will the cab
driver owe you money?
If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?
If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?
If you throw a cat out a car window, does it become kitty litter?
If you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a height, what would happen?
If your car says Dodge on the front of it, do you really need a horn?
In court, why do they ask if you swear to tell the truth? If you're planning on lying, do they really
think you'll tell them so?
Instead of wasting time hunting and cooking, why don't hunters just use flame-throwers?
Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?
Since there is a speed of light and a speed of sound, is there a speed of smell?
The Scarecrow got a brain, Tin Man got a heart, Lion got courage, Dorothy got home, what did
Toto get?
What hair color do they put on the driver's license of a bald man?
What happens if you get scared half to death, ...twice? --Steven Wright
What happens if you take No-Doze and wash it down with Nyquil?
What if hell really did freeze over? What would we be using instead?
What if you're in hell, and you're mad at someone, where do you tell them to go?
When dog food is new and improved tasting, who tests it?
When something fades in the sunlight, where did the colors go?
When they first invented the clock, how did they know what time it was to set it to?
When we say our mind wanders - where does it go?
When you put a sheet over your head for Halloween, are you a ghost or a mattress?
Where did Webster look up the definitions when he wrote the dictionary?
Who opened that first 'oyster' and said "My, my, my. Now doesn't 'this' look yummy!"
Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here
and drink whatever comes out?"
Who was the first person to see an egg come from a chicken's butt and think, "I'll bet that would
be good to eat?
Whose cruel idea was it for the word 'lisp' to have an 's' in it?
Why are all blackboards called that when some of them are green?
Why are builders afraid to have a 13th floor, but book publishers aren't afraid to have a Chapter
11?
Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?
Why are raisins called raisins if they are only dried grapes? Why not just call them dried grapes?
Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?
Why are they called "stands" when they're made for sitting?
Why can't you make another word using all the letters in "anagram"?
Why do ballet dancers dance on their toes? Why doesn't the company just hire taller dancers?
--Fred Allen
Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?
Why do hot dogs come ten to a package and hot dog buns only eight?
Why do mattresses have springs, if they aren't made for jumping on?
Why do people always remember where they were when someone famous was killed? Do they
feel perhaps they'll need an alibi?
Why do people go to the unemployment office to find a job?
Why do the signs that say "Slow Children" have a picture of a running child?
Why do they call it 'getting your dog fixed' if afterwards it doesn't work anymore?
Why do they call the piece of wood a two-by-four if it's only 1 3/4" x 3 1/2"?
Why do they call Wednesday hump day, when most people get laid on the weekends?
Why do they give you a tape with a VCR to tell you how to use it?
Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?
Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent
human being would eat?
Why do tourists go to the top of tall buildings and then put money in telescopes so they can see
things on the ground in close-up?
Why do we call something sent by car a shipment and something sent by ship a cargo?
Why do we have hot water heaters when hot water doesn't need to be heated?
Why do we kill people for killing people to show that killing is wrong?
Why do we say "a pair of pants" when there is only one article of clothing involved?
Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game," when we are already there?
Why do wise guy and wise man mean entirely different things?
Why do you need a driver's license to buy liquor when you can't drink and drive?
Why does Donald Duck wear a towel when he comes out of the shower, when he doesn't usually
wear any pants?
Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're both dogs!
Why does the sun lighten our hair, but darken our skin?
Why doesn't the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?
Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?
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 it that bullets ricochet off of Superman's chest, but he ducks when the gun is thrown at
him?
Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the
radio?
Why is it you must wait until night to call it a day?
Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real
lemonsWhy is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
Why is the third hand on the watch called a second hand? --Steven Wright
Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet? --Lily Tomlin
You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes? Why can't they make the
whole plane out of the same substance?