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Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6531 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-06 18:57:58
November 06 2010 18:55 GMT
#1
A hobby of mine is compiling "Why ask why?" questions. These are basically silly questions that use clever wordplay to make fun of something we take for granted. I've got about 500 or so of these questions that I'm finally getting around to typing up (it's all messily handwritten and unorganized right now), so while I take a break from that, I thought I'd share some of the better ones with you guys.

Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't have?

How do "Keep Off the Grass" signs get to where they are?

Can fat people go skinny-dipping?

Can you be a closet claustrophobic?

If you're cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read normally?

If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?

If a cemetery worker works during the day, is he still on the graveyard shift?

What should an environmentalist do if he discovers an endangered animal that only eats endangered plants?

If a mute swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?

When sign makers go on strike, is there anything written on their signs?

If necessity is the mother of invention, why does so much unnecessary stuff get invented?

Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

What would the world be like if there were no hypothetical situations?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called "rush hour"?

Why do supermarkets make sick people walk to the back of the store for their prescriptions, but healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front?

Why are hemorrhoids called "hemorrhoids" and not "asteroids"?

If you keep trying to prove Murphy's Law, will something keep going wrong?

If 75% of accidents happen within 5 miles of home, where do homeless people go to have 75% of their accidents?

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the others have to drown, too?

How is it possible to have a "civil" war? Does everyone apologize after shooting each other?

If you throw a cat out of a car, does it become kitty litter?


When I'm finished typing them all up and organizing them, I'll probably put the whole packet online to download. Just felt like sharing. =) In the meantime, feel free to share your own "Why ask why?" questions! Maybe you know one that I don't have.

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tissue
Profile Joined April 2009
Malaysia441 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-06 21:03:20
November 06 2010 20:42 GMT
#2
SC themed ones:

Why are Vultures ground units, but Vikings can fly?

If Protoss are so high-tech, why can't they repair their buildings?

If you now make an SC2 account named BoxeR, are you a fake fake Boxer?

Why is it called a recall when the units have never been there in the first place?

Why is it called a Planetary Fortress when it can barely defend an expansion? What's a normal fortress like, then?

If you wrote an uninspired book about commentating on esports in Korea, would it have a tasteless plot?

If you wait until +3/+3 to leapfrog your entire army of pure siege tanks over to an enemy base, is it a timing all-in push?

Why are dark swarms orange, dark archons red, and dark templar transparent?


NapKiN16
Profile Joined June 2009
Canada95 Posts
November 06 2010 21:09 GMT
#3
Why is it that your feet smell but your nose runs?
ForGotteNNapKiN NapKiN[AoV]
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24753 Posts
November 06 2010 21:25 GMT
#4
About 25% of those are very good and I enjoyed them. The other 75% were pretty bad and could probably get pruned XD

Also the title of this blog is kinda redundant isn't it?
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EsX_Raptor
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2802 Posts
November 06 2010 21:37 GMT
#5
Haha, interesting read. But:

If Protoss are so high tech, why do Zealot still fight with swords?
blahman3344
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States2015 Posts
November 06 2010 21:50 GMT
#6
If terran was supposed to become more advanced between SC:BW and and SC2, how come SCVs hitpoints dropped from 60 to 45?
I like haikus and / I can not lie. You other / brothers can't deny
Archas
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6531 Posts
November 06 2010 21:58 GMT
#7
On November 07 2010 06:25 micronesia wrote:
About 25% of those are very good and I enjoyed them. The other 75% were pretty bad and could probably get pruned XD

Also the title of this blog is kinda redundant isn't it?

Meh, the sample size that I took these from was about 25% of the entire list. I used what I had already typed.

And yes, the name is redundant. I did that on purpose.
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hellokitty[hk]
Profile Joined June 2009
United States1309 Posts
November 06 2010 22:09 GMT
#8
If Protoss are so high-tech, why can't they repair their buildings?

And why can't they lift their nexii?
People are imbeciles, lucky thing god made cats.
SiegeMode
Profile Joined August 2010
United States206 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-06 22:59:15
November 06 2010 22:58 GMT
#9
On November 07 2010 03:55 Aeres wrote:
Can fat people go skinny-dipping?



I learned the answer to that this summer. It's yes. :\
Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
November 06 2010 23:19 GMT
#10
Why do roaches die from nukes?
Glaven
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada554 Posts
November 06 2010 23:20 GMT
#11
What should an environmentalist do if he discovers an endangered animal that only eats endangered plants?


Haha. That's actually a good question.
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3FFA
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States3931 Posts
November 06 2010 23:50 GMT
#12
The rush hour question is one I asked back when I was 3 -.-

Answer: Because everyone is "rushing" to get home from work!
"As long as it comes from a pure place and from a honest place, you know, you can write whatever you want."
JeeJee
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Canada5652 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-07 04:28:08
November 07 2010 04:10 GMT
#13
why do we park on the driveway and drive on the parkway?
why is the person who invests all your money called the broker?

etc etc
fun read

edit: lol i decided to google some
i liked these:
Why are they called apartments, when they're all stuck together?
Why do you recite at a play but you play at a recital?
Why do you wait until a pig is dead to cure it?
(\o/)  If you want it, you find a way. Otherwise you find excuses. No exceptions.
 /_\   aka Shinbi (requesting a name change since 27/05/09 ☺)
Lemonwalrus
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States5465 Posts
November 07 2010 04:19 GMT
#14
If a mute swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?
What would the world be like if there were no hypothetical situations?


Those 2 were actually really good and original afaik, pretty good job imo.
Trang
Profile Joined October 2009
Australia324 Posts
November 07 2010 04:41 GMT
#15
I like this one the most:

What would the world be like if there were no hypothetical situations?


The best ones were ones like this, that played on the logic. The ones that were mere wordplays got a little dry, though. I reckon put the best ones at the top when you update it!
Mindcrime
Profile Joined July 2004
United States6899 Posts
November 07 2010 06:14 GMT
#16
On November 07 2010 05:42 tissue wrote:
If Protoss are so high-tech, why can't they repair their buildings?


presumably for the same reason that "tv repairman" is a dieing profession
That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
Meapak_Ziphh
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States6786 Posts
November 07 2010 08:45 GMT
#17
Lol these are actually a lot better than I though they would be.
Why do casters say a buildng is "going down" when it is being built, shouldn't it be going up?
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keV.
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States3214 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-07 12:11:34
November 07 2010 12:11 GMT
#18
On November 07 2010 05:42 tissue wrote:
SC themed ones:

If you wrote an uninspired book about commentating on esports in Korea, would it have a tasteless plot?


Amazing.
"brevity is the soul of wit" - William Shakesman
Mortician
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Bulgaria2332 Posts
November 07 2010 19:02 GMT
#19
On November 07 2010 17:45 Meapak_Ziphh wrote:
Lol these are actually a lot better than I though they would be.
Why do casters say a buildng is "going down" when it is being built, shouldn't it be going up?


I guess it is because you put it down like you put a chess piece down on the board
"If anything, the skill cap in sc2 is higher [than sc1] because there are a lot more things you can do at one given time. " darmousseh
Blisse
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada3710 Posts
November 08 2010 01:38 GMT
#20
On November 07 2010 17:45 Meapak_Ziphh wrote:
Lol these are actually a lot better than I though they would be.
Why do casters say a buildng is "going down" when it is being built, shouldn't it be going up?


I thought it's similar to planting down something, but people got too lazy to say planting, and changed it to going.
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