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Scallywag Send message Joined: 23 May 04 Posts: 162 Credit: 100,318 RAC: 0 |
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 ?! I Refuse to hold myself responsible for any of my actions. si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes |
THESPEEKER Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 168 Credit: 48,990 RAC: 0 |
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Jim Baize Send message Joined: 6 May 00 Posts: 758 Credit: 149,536 RAC: 0 |
If Corn oil is made from corn and Soybean oil is made from soybeans What is Baby Oil made from? |
Captain Avatar Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 15133 Credit: 529,088 RAC: 0 |
> If Corn oil is made from corn > > and > > Soybean oil is made from soybeans > > What is Baby Oil made from? Mineral Oil |
Rick Donovan Send message Joined: 6 Feb 02 Posts: 117 Credit: 1,222,590 RAC: 1 |
OH MY GOD, I will never eat anothe Girl Scout Cookie again !!!!! |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
> pensioners Unknown word. Please describe. |
Captain Avatar Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 15133 Credit: 529,088 RAC: 0 |
> > pensioners > > Unknown word. Please describe. > > EDIT: Old Gilf's |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
> Old Milf's Old? Eeewwww! |
Captain Avatar Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 15133 Credit: 529,088 RAC: 0 |
> > Old Milf's > Old? Eeewwww! > EDIT: Old Gilf's CK Mail |
N/A Send message Joined: 18 May 01 Posts: 3718 Credit: 93,649 RAC: 0 |
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? |
Scallywag Send message Joined: 23 May 04 Posts: 162 Credit: 100,318 RAC: 0 |
Why do drive up ATMs have Braille on the key pad? I Refuse to hold myself responsible for any of my actions. si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes |
Jim Baize Send message Joined: 6 May 00 Posts: 758 Credit: 149,536 RAC: 0 |
Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways? |
peristalsis Send message Joined: 23 Jul 99 Posts: 154 Credit: 28,610,163 RAC: 51 |
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 |
Captain Avatar Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 15133 Credit: 529,088 RAC: 0 |
> Why do employers ask you to give 101% to a project when it is theoretically > impossible to give over 100% of anything? > Gee only 101% I was always asked to give 110%! Timmy |
Rookie_69 Send message Joined: 29 May 03 Posts: 86 Credit: 2,512,767 RAC: 0 |
> 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? > And why does it say "Press 'Enter' to exit"? |
Captain Avatar Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 15133 Credit: 529,088 RAC: 0 |
> Why do drive up ATMs have Braille on the key pad? > Straight Answear it's required by federal law as part of the Americans with Disabilities Act. |
THESPEEKER Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 168 Credit: 48,990 RAC: 0 |
> > pensioners > > Unknown word. Please describe. > > 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. |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
> 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? > A word is 5 characters + the space. So are gifs always larger than 6KB? BOINC WIKI |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
> Why do key boards have numbers in numerical order but > don't have letters in alphabetical order? > 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. BOINC WIKI |
N/A Send message Joined: 18 May 01 Posts: 3718 Credit: 93,649 RAC: 0 |
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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