1. Why do we say "something is out of whack"? What IS a whack??
2. Why do women wear evening gowns to go out at night? Shouldn't they be wearing night gowns??
3. Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
4. Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread.
5. Why is a person who plays the piano a pianist, but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?
6. Why do 'wise man' and 'wise guy' have different meanings?
7. If horrific is akin to horrible, why isn't terrific akin to terrible?
8. Why isn't 11 pronounced onety one?
9. Why do you park in a driveway and drive in a parkway??
10. Why do doctors call what they do practice? Shouldn't they be good at it by now?
11. When someone says "You know what they say...", who are 'they'?
12. If corn oil comes from corn and olive oil comes from olives, where the heck does baby oil come from?
13. Why do we call it a hamburger when it is made from beef?
14. If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn?
15. If you're in France and you order toast, do you get toast or French toast?
16. Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
17. Why is there an expiration date on sour cream?
18. Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
19. If nothing sticks to teflon, then how do they make it stick to the pan?
20. If a turtle loses its shell is it naked or homeless?
21. Why don't psychics predict the winning lottery numbers and retire?
22. Why is the word for "a fear of long words" so long? (Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia)
23. Where does your lap go when you stand up?
24. If instant oatmeal is instant, then why does it take 1 to 2 minutes to cook in the microwave?
25. Why do they use artificial lemon juice in bottled lemon juice and use real lemon juice in dish soap?
26. If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?
27. If you try to fail, and you fail, have you succeeded or failed?
28. If quizzes are quizzical then what are tests?
29. When it rains, why don't sheep shrink?
30. Why do they call it a building? It looks like they are finished, so why isn't it a built?
31. Why do banks charge you a "insufficient funds" fee on money they already know you don't have?
32. What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
33. How do "Do not walk on the grass" signs get there?
34. If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
35. If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
36. Why do tourists go to the tops of tall buildings and then put money into telescopes so they can see things on the ground close-up?
37. Why is it that you must wait until night to call it a day?
38. What happened to the first 6 "ups"?
39. How do blind people know when they are done wiping their behinds?
40. If practice makes perfect, and no one is perfect, why bother practice?
41. Why is there neither pine nor apple in pineapple?
42. Why does the arcade game "Donkey Kong" have a monkey? Why isn't it called Monkey Kong?
43. If we call people from Poland poles why don't we call people from Holand holes?
44. If a rabbit's foot was actually lucky, wouldn't it still be attached to the rabbit's leg?
45. Why does Goofy talk and wear clothes while Pluto barks naked?
46. Why do they call it baby-sitting when all you do is run after them?
47. Why is it called American football when they rarely use their feet to play?
48. Why does an alarm clock said to go "off" when it actually turns on?
49. Why are feet smelly and noses runny?
50. Why does Mickey Mouse wear pants and no shirt while Donald Duck wears a shirt and no pants?