Only In (North) America.....

Among other funny stuff....

Only in America......
Do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
Do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.
Do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.
Do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
Do we buy hot dogs in packages of twelve and buns in packages of eight.
Do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.
Do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

And now some random question noone really care about the answer to:
Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?
Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?
Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?
Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?
Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"?
Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called "rush hour"?
Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?
Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?!
Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?
If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?
If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

Anyone else?

 

Tee Hee ...



I have to tell you, though - it's not only in North America.

 

Just off the top of my head. I'm too tired to look them up.

> Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?
Hair is dead, and as all dead organic cells, it is slowly paled by ultra violet light. Skin toning is a natural reaction to make the skin more suited to long-term exposure of the sun.

> Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?
You don't really think it dontains real lemon, do you?

> Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
Probably because it is easier to breed cows and pigs in quantities large enough to serve the purpose.

> Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
They're sterile from the factory. It'd be far more expensive to manufacture non-sterilised needles just for that purpose.

> You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?!
It isn't indestructible.

> Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
Because their whool's fibres are arranged differently. Forthermore, rain usually isn't 60 degrees Celcius.

> Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?
They have walls, don't they?

> If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?
'Pro' is Latin for 'for', con is a shortened version of 'contra', which is Latin for 'against'. I would assume that 'congress' is derived from the same root as 'congregation', i.e. a gathering.

 

Wow...answers to humorous rhetorical questions....you can get almost anything answered in this forum....

 

Chris.....I didn't make those up I was e-mailed them......

Here's one:

If humans are reduced to living in caves in the Matrix movies, why is Zion Control a NASA/IBM cleanroom?

 

in the movie SPEED why does keenue reeves trhink he can jump a 200 foot gap in the skyway by making the bus go faster?...why does the audience think he can ..?

 

Though Christian already answered a few;
http://www.fun-online.sk/forum/viewtopi ... ght=#92970
(bottom post, questions 4 posts up by PMN1)

 

Because that would be a bad ending to the movie. The bad guy never (ok, rarely) wins, c'mon!

 

It's the matrix....
Why not ask why they shoot all the single sentinels instead of focus on the mass coming through the hole in the ceiling?
Or ask why the T-2000 doesn't transform himself into a car to give chase.
In a good movie such questions have logical answers, there are very few truly good movies out there.
(My personal answer to almost any question regarding the matrix (mostly the sequels) is that the creators were idiots)

 

Here in Norway we get hot dogs in packages of eight and the buns in packages of twelve, otherwise it's pretty much the same.

 

Indeed, the sequels can be improved a lot but the story would be almost the same.

T-2000, that is a new one. There were only the T-101(Arny), T-1000 (liquid metal freak) and T-X (blond girl) (oké T-1 if you count the big robot on tank tracks and T-2 as the big flying birdy)
Anyway, i asume you meanted T-1000. The T-1000 can indeed take on different shapes but it can't form complex machines. for this reason, it can transfrom in a bom + it can only form objects of equil size (small car)
Wel, i'm of. Hasta la Vista, babe but I'll be back

 

I just love this one:
It's walid for entire world not just N. America

 

I like the first one the best....

Man you people are serious

 

Lest you said N. America lol

 

Zion Control is a virtual environment. The operators are "jacked in".

I am ashamed to admit that I actually know this.