A friend forwarded these thoughts to me the other day, and I really started to ponder the silliness of our lives. I don’t know who the original author is, but I think he or she has a brilliant mind, or at the least, a very observant mind.

So, without further ado, here is your dose of “Friday Silliness”…

ONLY IN AMERICA…

• do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get prescriptions while healthy people buy cigarettes at the front.
• do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries..and a DIET Coke.
• do banks leave both doors open and 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 ten 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 we have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

EVER WONDER…

• Why women can’t put on mascara with their mouth closed?
• Why you don’t ever see the headline “Psychic Wins Lottery”?
• Why “abbreviated” is such a long word?
• Why is it that doctors call what they do “practice”?
• 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 mosquitos?
• Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
• Why are they called “a part ments” when they are all stuck together?
• If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

There you have it…your Friday Silliness. Remember to give someone a smile today!Eclectic Dawn

2 Comments to “Friday Silliness”

1. C Nile — June 3, 2008 @ 2:34 pm
   

   I just read your Friday Silliness and thought you might like to add some. Enjoy.

   For those with a curious intelligence:

   • Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, “I think I’ll squeeze these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?”

   • Who was the first person to say, “See that chicken there? I’m gonna eat the next thing that comes outta it’s butt.”

   • Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?

   • If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him?

   • Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane?

   • Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don’t point to their crotch when they ask where the bathroom is?

   • Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They’re both dogs!

   • If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that Acme crap, why didn’t he just buy dinner?

   • If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?

   • If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?

   • If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

   • Why do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune? Stop singing and read on…

   • Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?

   • Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog’s face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?

   • Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?

   • Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

2. dawn — June 3, 2008 @ 2:51 pm
   

   Barry, thanks for stopping by and leaving some funshine! :)EclecticDawn

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