Tanker for de engelskkyndige

  • Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery ?
  • If people from Poland are called “Poles,” why aren’t people from Holland called “Holes?”
  • If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
  • Why do women wear evening gowns to nightclubs ? Shouldn’t they be wearing night gowns?
  • If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
  • When someone asks you, “A penny for your thoughts,” and you put in your two cents, what happens to the other penny ?
  • Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
  • Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It’s just stale bread to begin with.
  • Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?
  • Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?
  • Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?
  • Why is it that if I sanction something I am givinig it my approval,
  • UN sanctions the same thing they are forbidding it ?
  • If horrific means to make horrible, does terrific mean to make terrible?
  • Why isn’t 11 pronounced onety-one ?
  • Why is ‘one’ pronounced with a double-U even though it hasn’t got one, whereas ‘two” which does have a double-U doesn’t pronounce it ?
  • ‘I am’ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‘I do’ is the longest sentence?
  • Why is it that if someone tells you that there are 1 billion stars in the universe you will believe him, but if he tells you a wall has wet paint you will have to touch it to be sure?
  • If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?
  • If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn’t it follow that –
  • electricians can be delighted,
  • musicians denoted,
  • cowboys deranged,
  • models deposed,
  • tree surgeons debarked (same as dogs) and
  • dry cleaners depressed
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