O x y m o r o n s

1. Is it good if a vacuum really sucks?

2. Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?

3. If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?

4. If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?

5. Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?

6. Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?

7. Why does "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?

8. Why do "tug" boats push their barges?

9. Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game"

when we are already there?

10. Why are they called " stands" when they are made for sitting?

11. Why is it called "after dark" when it really is "after light"?

12.. Doesn't "expecting the unexpected" make the unexpected expected?

13... Why are a "wise man" and a "wise guy" opposites?

14. Why do "overlook" and "oversee" mean opposite things?

15. Why is "phonics" not spelled the way it sounds?

16. If work is so terrific, why do they have to pay you to do it?

17... If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

18. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

19. If you are cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right?

20. Why is bra singular and panties plural?

21... Why do you press harder on the buttons of a remote control

when you know the batteries are dead?

22. Why do we put suits in garment bags and garments in a suitcase?

23. How come abbreviated is such a long word?

24. Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?

25... Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

26. Why do they call it a TV set when you only have one?

27.Christmas - What other time of the year do you sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of your socks?

28. Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway ?

I dunno, why do we?

 

why do they call it a hot water heater ?, why heat hot water?
military intelligence
how big is a jumbo shrimp?
How does teflon stick to the pan?

 

Why does cargo go by ship and shipment go by car???
Why are there 3 ways to spell 2, 2 ways to spell 1 and 1 way to spell 3???

 

When 2 planes pass very close, it's called a near miss, shouldn't it be a near hit?
Why do we have to hit "start" to shut off the computer?

 

Those are great!

 

When your at the air port and they tell you to get on the plane....f%$^ that all get in the plane.

Why is it that they say children are our future, and when the future comes they are no longer children. how does that work?

Reverberate- sound waves that bounce off of bouncing sound waves?

 

postal worker,,, bad b--w job, happily married, military intelligence, park on a driveway- drive on a parkway,, long weekend,, jumbo shrimp

 

why is it an orange is called a orange . But an apple is not called a red??