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Message 46988 - Posted: 16 Nov 2004, 7:03:55 UTC
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Why don't you see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?

Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

You know that indestructible stuff that is used to make the black box on airplanes?Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

And who are "they" any way ?!


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Message 46990 - Posted: 16 Nov 2004, 7:35:19 UTC - in response to Message 46988.  

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> Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?


Mice/Rat/Bird-flavoured cat food used to be sold in the UK but the pensioners kept buying it, cose it was 35p($0.10c) a tin.


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Message 47202 - Posted: 17 Nov 2004, 0:07:43 UTC

If Corn oil is made from corn

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Soybean oil is made from soybeans

What is Baby Oil made from?
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Message 47204 - Posted: 17 Nov 2004, 0:10:26 UTC - in response to Message 47202.  

> If Corn oil is made from corn
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> Soybean oil is made from soybeans
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> What is Baby Oil made from?

Mineral Oil

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Message 47236 - Posted: 17 Nov 2004, 2:07:55 UTC

OH MY GOD, I will never eat anothe Girl Scout Cookie again !!!!!
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Message 47237 - Posted: 17 Nov 2004, 2:11:47 UTC - in response to Message 46990.  

> pensioners

Unknown word. Please describe.
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Message 47239 - Posted: 17 Nov 2004, 2:20:05 UTC - in response to Message 47237.  
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> > pensioners
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> Unknown word. Please describe.
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EDIT: Old Gilf's
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Message 47247 - Posted: 17 Nov 2004, 2:42:57 UTC - in response to Message 47239.  

> Old Milf's
Old? Eeewwww!
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Message 47260 - Posted: 17 Nov 2004, 3:46:48 UTC - in response to Message 47247.  

> > Old Milf's
> Old? Eeewwww!
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EDIT: Old Gilf's

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Message 47301 - Posted: 17 Nov 2004, 8:30:15 UTC - in response to Message 47202.  

Why do cleansers have real lemons while lemonade isn't?
Why do I stop my computer from a start menu?
If a picture is worth a thousand words, why are JPEGs always larger than 1KB?
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Message 47504 - Posted: 18 Nov 2004, 5:54:33 UTC

Why do drive up ATMs have Braille on the key pad?
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Message 47536 - Posted: 18 Nov 2004, 11:36:23 UTC

Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
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Message 47559 - Posted: 18 Nov 2004, 14:10:17 UTC

Here is a thought. If a man names his son after himself, then the son is a "Junior". If a woman names her daughter after herself, why isn't she a 'Junioress" or something? I'm not aware of any word in the English language for this....p
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Message 47651 - Posted: 18 Nov 2004, 22:11:58 UTC - in response to Message 47649.  

> Why do employers ask you to give 101% to a project when it is theoretically
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Gee only 101% I was always asked to give 110%!

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Message 47655 - Posted: 18 Nov 2004, 22:29:51 UTC - in response to Message 47301.  
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> Why do cleansers have real lemons while lemonade isn't?
> Why do I stop my computer from a start menu?
> If a picture is worth a thousand words, why are JPEGs always larger than 1KB?
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And why does it say "Press 'Enter' to exit"?
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Message 47658 - Posted: 18 Nov 2004, 22:38:19 UTC - in response to Message 47504.  

> Why do drive up ATMs have Braille on the key pad?
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Straight Answear

it's required by federal law as part of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Message 47666 - Posted: 18 Nov 2004, 23:04:10 UTC - in response to Message 47237.  

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> Unknown word. Please describe.
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In the UK when a Man /Woman reach retirement age(60/65)
the goverment pay them a state pension(or they live on their own pension from what they put into their works scheme)Hence the term Pensioners...

If they are given Goverment pension the payment is S**T.
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Message 47705 - Posted: 19 Nov 2004, 3:08:50 UTC - in response to Message 47301.  

> Why do cleansers have real lemons while lemonade isn't?
> Why do I stop my computer from a start menu?
> If a picture is worth a thousand words, why are JPEGs always larger than 1KB?
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A word is 5 characters + the space. So are gifs always larger than 6KB?


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Message 47707 - Posted: 19 Nov 2004, 3:13:06 UTC - in response to Message 47645.  

> Why do key boards have numbers in numerical order but
> don't have letters in alphabetical order?
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The standard keyboard layout was specifically designed to slow down typists at the time of early mechanical typewriters that would jam if the typist was too fast. There is a newer design (also not in alphabetical order) that is designed to speed up english typing. Having the letters in alphabetical order would slow down a touch typist even more than the current querty layout. There is no reason to have the numbers in any particular order so they are in numerical order.


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Message 47783 - Posted: 19 Nov 2004, 8:12:08 UTC - in response to Message 47707.  

Damn - You beat me to the answer! I'd also add that the Dvoark keyboards are designed so that a touch-typist will find the most often used keys on the home row, and takes into account left-/right-/ambi-handedness.
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