I Have Gone To School For 20 Years But I Never Learned The Answers To These 26 Questions
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I Have Gone To School For 20 Years But I Never Learned The Answers To These 26 Questions

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I Have Gone To School For 20 Years But I Never Learned The Answers To These 26 Questions
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We all would like to think we know everything and have the answers to anything that comes our way, but can you answer these answerless questions?

1. What's the right thing to say when somebody knocks on the door of the public bathroom you're in?

2. How do you spell the sound of a sniff?

3. At a movie theater, which arm rest is yours?

4. Since bread is square, why is sandwich meat round?

5. How can something be "new" and "improved"? If it's new, what was it improving on?

6. If pro and con are opposites, wouldn't the opposite of progress be congress?

7. Do we call macaroni and cheese "mac" because its short for macaroni? Or is it because "mac" is an acronym for macaroni and cheese?

8. Do you wake up or open your eyes first?

9. Whose cruel idea was it to put an 's' in the word "lisp"?

10. Why is tuna sometimes called "tuna fish"? Chicken is never called "chicken bird."

11. Do Roman paramedics refer to 'IV's as '4's?

12. Why do British people never sound British when they sing?

13. Why are women and men's shoe sizes different?

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

15. Why does grass only smell when you cut it?

16. Can you cry under water?

17. Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhoid when it's in your butt?

18. Why do they make cars go so fast if it's illegal to speed?

19. What shape is the sky?

20. How can you hear yourself think?

21. If the day before a holiday is called Christmas Eve, is the day after Christmas Adam?

22. If there is a rule that states "i" before "e" except after "c", wouldn't "science" be spelled wrong?

23. How come you pay extra to get something put on your hamburger, but they don't decrease the price if you get something taken off?

24. Why is it that when things get wet, they get darker, even though water is clear?

25. Why do wise guy and wise man mean entirely different things?

26. Why do your feet smell and your nose runs?

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