Points to Ponder

Started by W. Gray, February 02, 2008, 07:37:30 PM

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W. Gray

Did you ever wonder about people who spend $2.00 each on little bottles of Evian water? Spell Evian backwards [naïve].

Is making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?

If the Jacksonville Jaguars are known as the "Jags" and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are known as the "Bucs," what does that make the Tennessee Titans?

If four out of five people suffer from diarrhea, does that mean that one enjoys it?

There are three religious truths:
      a. Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.
      b. Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith.
      c. Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store or Hooters.

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

Why do croûtons come in airtight packages? Is this not stale bread to begin with?

Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?

Why would we not pronounce the number eleven as onety one?

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen are defrocked, would it follow that electricians would be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?

If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP?

Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?

What hair color do they put on the driver's license of a bald man?

If people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older, are they cramming for a final exam?

If mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Why are pictures of criminals posted in the Post Office? Are we supposed to write to them? Should the Post Office just put those pictures on postage stamps so the mail carriers can look for them while they deliver mail?

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if the bolt did not zigzag?

If a cow laughed, would she spew milk out of her nose?

Whatever happened to Preparations A through G?

At income tax time, did you ever notice: When you put the two words   "The" and "IRS" together it spells "Theirs"?


"If one of the many corrupt...county-seat contests must be taken by way of illustration, the choice of Howard County, Kansas, is ideal." Dr. Everett Dick, The Sod-House Frontier, 1854-1890.
"One of the most expensive county-seat wars in terms of time and money lost..." Dr. Homer E Socolofsky, KSU

Bonnie M.

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
Bonnie

Diane Amberg

Waldo, I absolutely love those! :D :D :D

Rudy Taylor

Too good to leave alone.  I gotta reprint 'em.
It truly is "a wonderful life."


W. Gray

I first heard these two during the 1950s:

Maxwell House coffee is good to the last drop—so what is wrong with the last drop?

Wonder Bread. If it is good bread, it's a wonder.

"If one of the many corrupt...county-seat contests must be taken by way of illustration, the choice of Howard County, Kansas, is ideal." Dr. Everett Dick, The Sod-House Frontier, 1854-1890.
"One of the most expensive county-seat wars in terms of time and money lost..." Dr. Homer E Socolofsky, KSU

Knut

 :D OK, I quit chuckling, or is it Carlesing? :-\  Guess I'll see you in the
future if not in the pasture!  :P

Roma Jean Turner

  Here's my bit of trivia.  My stepdad grew up with the girl who entered the contest for Maxwell House Coffee all those years ago and won a bicycle for her now famous entry:

It was originally:  Maxwell House Coffee, good to the last drop and that's good too.

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