Why?

With Google returning over a billion results when asking the question WHY?

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and Wikipedia returning somewhat less results but still a substantial number:

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…one might be forgiven for thinking of the question “Why?” as a widely researched topic!

(Which basically means that this post will score an extremely low SEO ranking! And guess what? I don’t give a sizzling shit!)

(Uncle Alex doing a cheers to the great question!)

My dear Uncle Alex (83yo) once said to me that there is one question in all of the history of mankind that has never been answered…

Why?

What follows are some of the great unanswered questions:

• Why is it that people say they “slept like a baby” when babies wake up every two hours?

• If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?

• Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are flat?

• Why do banks charge a fee on “insufficient funds” when they know there is not enough?

• Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?

• Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard?

• Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?

• Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

• Whose idea was it to put an “S” in the word “lisp”?

• What is the speed of darkness?

• Are there specially reserved parking spaces for “normal” people at the Special Olympics?

• If the temperature is zero outside today and it’s going to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold will it be?

• If it’s true that we are here to help others, what are the others doing here?

• Do married people live longer than single ones or does it only seem longer?

• Do you cry under water?

• How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?

• Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?

• Did you ever stop and wonder……

• Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, “I think I’ll squeeze these pink dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?”

• Who was the first person to say, “See that chicken there… I’m gonna eat the next thing that comes outta it’s bum.”

• Why do toasters always have a setting so high that could burn the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?

• Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?

• Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don’t point to their bum when they ask where the bathroom is?

• Why does your Obstetrician, Gynaecologist leave the room when you get undressed if they are going to look up there anyway?

• Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours?

• They’re both dogs!

• If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?

• If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

• Why do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have

  the same tune?

• Stop singing and read on . . . . . .. . . . .

• Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?

• Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog’s face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him on a car

  ride, he sticks his head out the window?

• Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?