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How can the world end in 2012 if I have yogurt that expires in 2013? Where does the itch go after you scratch it? I have two coins and their total is 15 cents and one of them is not a dime, what are the two coins? Your car is traveling at the speed of light, what happens when you turn the headlights on? After you died, you find yourself in a room with two closed doors. One door leads to heaven, while the other is to hell. There are two spirits in the room, one that can never lie and one that can never tell the truth. You want to find the door that goes t I know I can write grammatically correct sentences but how is this possible, when I cannot explain the rules of grammar? Why are they called 'stands' when they're made for sitting? Why do people repeat questions that they perfectly heard? I need a date for a friends wedding in December. Any of you Gals interested? Who invented fishnet stockings? and why? What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats? Can anyone think of a good example of a paradox? Which word in the english language becomes shorter when its lengthened? Why do some people shake their head "no" but answer yes? (Or do the inverse). Example=Are you hungry? Response=Shaking head no but saying "Yes, sure I could eat" If Pinocchio told you "my nose will grow now" what do you think would happen? If his nose grew, then he would have been telling the truth and therefore it wouldn't have grown. If he had been lying it would grow and then prove that he was telling the truth If you sacrifice your happiness for someone else, does it make you happy? 'Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.' Would you agree? True love doesn't have a happy ending because true love never ends. Is this true? Does this rag smell like chloroform to you? How many days was rome built in? If guns kill people, do spoons make them fat? Is it true that those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't? What are some good paradoxes? What's the best paradox you've ever come across? If matter can not be created or destroyed...where do the missing socks go when you're doing your wash? Why are all great discoveries made by mistake? Is it true that when you're right no one remembers but when you're wrong no one forgets? If honesty is the best policy, then why does the truth hurt? Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things? Money cannot buy you true love or true friendship. Yet the 'lack' of money can be a source of great distress. Poverty usually does not win friends or love, either. What are your thoughts on this paradox? How can Earth be so beautiful but the World so ugly? Potatos have eyes, yet cannot see. Corn grows on ears, yet cannot hear. What other oxymoronic foods can you think of? "Everybody is going to hurt you at some point of time in life;its up to you to decide who is worth the pain"-What do you think of this.Comments please? In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Is it that today the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal? Where does the Sky end? Why is it when a door is open it's ajar, but when a jar is open it's not adoor? Did you ever have to walk to school five miles, barefoot, in the snow, uphill, both ways? What's the barber paradox? If you spend all day doing nothing, how do you know when you're done? Why is prostitution illegal but being a porn actress is not? If Helen of Troy had the face that launched a thousand ships, and a picture is worth ten thousand words, doesn't that mean one picture of Helen's face should be worth ten million ships? If you put two quarters next to your ears, then does it mean that you're listening to 50 cent? "The time you enjoy wasting is time not wasted." What do you think? Why is it that when i count sheep jumping over a fence, the sheep always run into the fence instead of jumping it? What is... the beginning of eternity? the end of time and space? It is the start of every end, and the end of every place. If humans walked around nude everywhere they went, would wearing clothes be considered indecent? If your nose runs and your feet smell are you made upside-down? Who killed the Dead Sea? Why do they call it quicksand when it sucks you down slowly? Can you decide not to decide? So the early bird catches the worm... What if the worm is late? Can the late bird catch it then? What is open when it's closed and closed when it's open? What is something good and bad at the same time? If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes? Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhoid when it's in your butt? "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker? Why do 'slim chance' and 'fat chance' mean the same thing? Doesn't expecting the unexpected, make the unexpected expected?
