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Games, Game Reviews

Pawn Stars (Web) Review

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Developer: ??? | Publisher: History Channel || || Overall: Good

Ever want to own a pawn shop? What do you mean no? Why are you walking away? Come on, you know you want to! Before I delve into this Pawn Stars Facebook game review, I’m going to give a brief summary of the show that it’s based on:

Rick Harrison, his “Old Man” (I don’t think he has a name), his son Corey aka “Big Hoss,” and a friendly, simple man named Chumlee star in a History Channel show about a pawn shop that operates in Las Vegas. The show features staged presentations of people trying to sell their antiques for various reasons. Nine times out of ten, the person is completely ripped off by Rick, who pretends that the item they’re trying to sell is only attractive to a limited market, only to turn around to the camera and remark that he already has three potential buyers for it.

Now that you know the skinny about the show, let’s talk about the game.

You start out by naming your pawn shop and choosing the person who will be behind the counter. At level 1 you’re limited to just the free workers, who are good enough at this point. They each have three stat bars that show their expertise: Knowledge, Happiness, and Selling. These stats can make a big difference when it comes to making money, as they are all important when it comes to the pawn biz. They also have different categories that they are especially knowledgeable in. I personally chose “Al” who mysteriously looks like Al Roker and appears to have his same charm and wit. After all is said and done you start to actually play the game.

This is where the hardcore pawn (oops, that’s a different show) business starts, but at least you have the gang from the show to help you out! Well, they don’t really help. They just pop up occasionally and make faces at you. Anyway, you should already have a few customers waiting in line. A preview of the items they want to sell you appears over their heads, along with bars that indicate their current moods. The longer they wait, the more their moods go down. The Happiness stat on your worker also affects this. When you decide who you want to deal with, simply click on them.

The haggle screen is pretty simple. The person offers what they think the item is worth and you can either counter-offer, accept their offer, or refuse the item altogether, which makes the person leave your shop. On this screen you can also have the item appraised for $200 if you think you may be able to con the guy into giving you a lot less than it’s worth like Rick does on the show. The final choice on this screen is to pray to the pawn shop gods and automatically receive wisdom on the item in question. This costs money, though. The gods have to make a living too.

After buying something you can proudly display it on your shelf or table and wait for someone to make an offer. The time you have to wait for an offer increases the higher the item is worth. Hopefully after the time elapses, the offer made is higher than what you paid for it. If it is, sell it! If it isn’t, you can either cut your losses and get rid of it anyway or wait for the next offer, which could be higher or lower, no telling.

Occasionally someone will bring in a broken item. You can buy these “restoration” pieces and either try to restore them, or break them down for parts to use on other restorations. Restorations can be a long and expensive journey, as some items have several stages of fixing up that cost valuable time, money, and parts. There is a nice selection of ways to fix things up, however, so you can customize things to your liking, whether it makes you money or not.

Too much buying and selling, you say? You also have the option to decorate your shop with various items, some of which have benefits like increasing happiness of customers, decreasing time to wait for a customer, etc. Some of these cost money, some cost “candies.” This is where Facebook rears its ugly head and tries to get you to pay real money for fake Facebook credits so you can buy more candy. If you’re not willing to do that, then it is going to take a long time to earn enough candies to buy anything.

All in all, the Pawn Stars Facebook game is a very addictive, fun little time waster. If you want to be like Rick Harrison, put on a hundred or so pounds and wear a tacky polo shirt with no undershirt. But if you want to own a pawn shop, play this game and see if you have what it takes to make a living off of other peoples’ ignorance and gullibility!

If you have a Facebook account, you can play Pawn Stars here.

Poetry and Songs, (C) Serious Poems

Special Place Poem

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Stories, Fairy Tales

The Grasshopper and the Ant

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As told by Ms. Signs.

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Once upon a time, in the land of fairy tales, there lived an ant and a grasshopper. The ant knew how to separate work time from free time. At the beginning of each day, this ant would get up early and collect food to store for the winter. He had a lot of food saved up by the end of the summer. The grasshopper was a different story, he was very lazy. He kept saying he would do the work tomorrow. The ant warned the grasshopper that unless he sacrificed some free time to work, he might find himself dying of starvation when winter came. The grasshopper didn’t pay attention. He kept sleeping late, playing Nintendo games, and not working at all. Suddenly, winter came. The ant was successful in storing his food he went into his ant pile to rest, the grasshopper was cold and hungry. He hadn’t built a house, or stored any food. If this story were a true fairy tale, the grasshopper would have died, because he was unprepared. However, this ending reflects the true nature of ants and grasshoppers. In this story, the grasshopper decides to eat the ant, and take all his food.

Stories, Fairy Tales

Children’s Story

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One day, in a small city called Kingsburg in California there live a family of four people. There are two parents with two children. One child is a girl and the other is a girl also. The two children don’t get along very well probably because of their age difference. Their parents think of everything, trying to make them get along. When they have an idea they would write it down on a piece of paper and later that day they would try it.

The five-year-old girl is named Tina, and the other seven-year-old daughter is named Susan. One idea that the parents came up with is to take them both to their Aunt Helen’s house, so that they can spend some quiet time together in the playroom. The parents thought that they might just get along if they get to play pirates or Robin Hood or some other game like that together.

It worked at first when they were playing Sleeping Beauty. But after awhile they began arguing and arguing led to fighting. They were fighting about who will be the witch and who will be the princess. The parents sighed and had to go back to the drawing board. Another idea the parents came up with that might just bring their two children to become civil with each other is to assign Tina and Susan, to a project. Their project turned out to be a Birthday card for their Aunt Helen.

That idea didn’t work because Tina drew a heart on the top left corner of the card, red and Susan wanted it to be blue. So they began fighting once again. The parents sighed and tried again. The next idea for the children is to switch places for a day. If they do this, they can find out something interesting about each other.

At first, Tina and Armen thought that this idea was going to be fun but after the day went by, they hated the idea because Tina went into her room and Armen went into his room. When the parents said that they also had to switch rooms for the night, the two kids started to cry. The parents started getting very frustrated with this whole situation. After thinking for awhile, they came up with a very simple and, at the same time, genius solution.

That simple solution was to politely ask Tina and Armen to participate and really try to get along. The two parents told them what they were trying to do for so long which was to try to make Tina and Susan to get along. Their kids understood because they too were sick of fighting every day. About a week later the two parents saw much improvement with their kids, and they are now a very happy family.

Stories

Star Compactor

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Prologue

I have a three day weekend coming up after finals. I’m going to play video games the whole time. It will be so relaxing. I won’t even have to tink! I can just sit in my room and stare at the TV. I can’t wait. Actually, that will probably never happen. So…anyway, you can read this story I wrote, if you want.

Chapter 1

“Yes, I have finally done it! I have constructed a trash compactor so large, that I will be able to crush the earth with it!” thought Ted, the repair guy from Venus. Ted was a simple man. Well, he was. One day a couple very rich peoplecame and told him to repair all 50 billion of their trash compactors. Ted just snapped. He was used to maybe one or two jobs a month, but this was too much. Ted took the trash compactors, and used them to create a giant trash compactor big enough to crush the Earth.

“Why the Earth, and not Venus?” you might ask? Well, one day he decided that the Earth was much too big, and it would be more efficient as a small cube. He would do the same to Venus, after.

Chapter 2

Bill was walking down the street having a normal day on Earth. He was going to buy a newspaper, then go home and read a book by the fire. The newspaper was for kindling. Suddenly, there was an eclipse. Bob looked up and saw the outline of something very huge that was blocking the sun. It looked a bit like the trash compactor in his kitchen that he used all the “pets” his kids brought home, only much bigger, obviously. Bill could hear a voice coming from the giant thing. This is what it said:

“Hello everyone. This is Ted the repair guy and yes, I am flying a giant trash compactor. Do not be alarmed! I come in peace….well, no, actually I don’t. I’m going to crush your planet into a small cube. I’m sorry if this has caused any inconvenience.”

Bill shrugged and said, “I never thought you could do that with a trash compactor…maybe I’ll crush the moon sometime.” And with that, Ted crushed the Earth and killed everything on it.

Chapter 3

The people of Venus were talking. They were talking about launching nuclear missles at the giant trash compactor. The problem was that they talked too much and Ted crushed them all before they had a chance to stop talking.

Epilogue

This story had one point. Never use trash compactors. You just heard how dangerous they are, so why use them at all? Trash compactors are just plain bad, and that goes for garbaged disposals too. Those things slice and dice things to peices. I can only imagine how many people die each year from the use of garbage disposals. Both of these things are dangerous, and you should avoid them at all costs

Lists

Top 10 Excuses To Use If One Game Remains and Two People Want It

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10. you have to have the barcode battler to play that game

9. that game isn’t compatible with any nintendo system

8. that game is already reserved for me

7. (offer a bribe)

6. execute a psycho crusher through this person to the game

5. take a hostage

4. i lost a contact lens — dont move!

3. sneeze on the game

2. hey! is that cindy crawford?

1. i’m buying the game for an orphanage

Lists

Children’s Books that Didn’t Make the Cut

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1. You Are Different and That’s Bad

2. The Boy Who Died From Eating All His Vegetables

3. Dad’s New Wife Robert

4. Fun four-letter Words to Know and Share

5. Hammers, Screwdrivers and Scissors: An I-Can-Do-It Book

6. The Kids’ Guide to Hitchhiking

7. Curious George and the High-Voltage Fence

8. All Cats Go to Hell

9. The Little Sissy Who Snitched

10. Some Kittens Can Fly

11. The Pop-Up Book of Human Anatomy

12. Whining, Kicking and Crying to Get Your Way

13. Pop! Goes The Hamster…And Other Great Microwave Games

14. Eggs, Toilet Paper, and Your School

15. Places Where Mommy and Daddy Hide Neat Things

Lists

30 Things to Do On an Exam When You Know That You Are Going To Fail

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1. Get a copy of the exam, run out screaming “Andre, Andre, I’ve got the secret documents!!”

2. Talk the entire way through the exam. Read questions aloud, debate your answers with yourself out loud. If asked to stop, yell out, “I’m SOOO sure that you can hear me thinking.” Then start talking about what a jerk the instructor is.

3. Bring a Game Boy. Play with the volume at max level.

4. On the answer sheet find a new, interesting way to refuse to answer every question. For example: I refuse to answer this question on the grounds that it conflicts with my religious beliefs. Be creative.

5. Run into the exam room looking about frantically. Breathe a sigh of relief. Go to the instructor, say “They’ve found me, I have to leave the country” and run off.

6. 15 min. into the exam, stand up, rip up all the papers into very small pieces, throw them into the air and yell out “Merry Christmas.” If you’re really daring, ask for another copy of the exam. Say you lost the first one. Repeat this process every 15 min.

7. Come into the exam wearing slippers, a bathrobe, a towel on your head, and nothing else.

8. Come down with a BAD case of Turret’s Syndrome during the exam. Be as vulgar as possible.

9. Bring things to throw at the instructor when s/he’s not looking. Blame it on the person nearest to you.

10. As soon as the instructor hands you the exam, eat it.

11. Every 5 min. stand up, collect all your things, move to another seat, continue with the exam.

12. Turn in the exam approx. 30 min. into it. As you walk out, start commenting on how easy it was.

13. Get the exam. 20 min into it, throw your papers down violently, scream out “Fuck this!” and walk out triumphantly.

14. Arrange a protest before the exam starts (i.e.. threaten the instructor that whether or not everyone’s done, they are all leaving after one hour to go drink.)

15. Show up completely drunk (completely drunk means at some point during the exam, you should start crying for mommy).

16. Comment on how sexy the instructor is looking that day.

17. Come to the exam wearing a black cloak. After about 30 min, put on a white mask and start yelling “I’m here, the phantom of the opera” until they drag you away.

18. If the exam is math / sciences related, make up the longest proofs you could possible think of. Get pi and imaginary numbers into most equations. If it is a written exam, relate everything to your own life story.

19. Try to get people in the room to do a wave.

20. Bring some large, cumbersome, ugly idol. Put it right next to you. Pray to it often. Consider a small sacrifice.

21. During the exam, take apart everything around you. Desks, chairs, anything you can reach.

22. Puke into your exam booklet. Hand it in. Leave.

23. Take 6 packages of rice cakes to the exam. Stuff at least 2 rice cakes into your mouth at once. Chew, then cough. Repeat if necessary.

24. Masturbate.

25. Walk in, get the exam, sit down. About 5 min into it, loudly say to the instructor, “I don’t understand ANY of this. I’ve been to every lecture all semester long! What’s the deal? And who the hell are you? Where’s the regular guy?”

26. Do the entire exam in another language. If you don’t know one, make one up!

27. Bring a black marker. Return the exam with all questions and answers completely blackened out.

28. Every now and then, clap twice rapidly. If the instructor asks why, tell him/her in a very derogatory tone, “The light bulb that goes on above my head when I get an idea is hooked up to a clapper. DUH!”

29. From the moment the exam begins, hum the theme to Jeopardy. Ignore the instructor’s requests for you to stop. When they finally get you to leave one way or another, begin whistling the theme to the Bridge on the River Kwai.

30. After you get the exam, call the instructor over, point to any question. Ask for the answer. Try to work it out of him or her.

Lists

100 Reasons Why It’s Great to Be a Guy

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1. Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.

2. Movie nudity is virtually always female.

3. You know stuff about tanks.

4. A five day vacation requires only one suitcase.

5. Monday Night Football.

6. You don’t have to monitor your friends sex lives.

7. Your bathroom lines are 80% shorter.

8. You can open all your own jars.

9. Old friends don’t give you crap if you’ve lost or gained weight.

10. Dry cleaners and haircutter’s don’t rob you blind.

11. When clicking through the channels, you don’t have to stall on every shot of someone crying.

12. Your ass is never a factor in a job interview.

13. All your orgasms are real.

14. A beer gut does not make you invisible to the opposite sex.

15. Guys in hockey masks don’t attack you.

16. You don’t have to lug a bag of useful stuff around everywhere you go.

17. You understand why Stripes is funny.

18. You can go to the bathroom with out a support group.

19. Your last name stays put.

20. You can leave a hotel bed unmade.

21. When your work is criticized, you don’t have to panic that everyone secretly hates you.

22. You can kill your own food.

23. The garage is all yours.

24. You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.

25. You see the humor in Terms of Endearment.

26. Nobody secretly wonders if you swallow.

27. You never have to clean the toilet.

28. You can be showered and ready in 10 minutes.

29. Sex means never worrying about your reputation.

30. Wedding plans take care of themselves.

31. If someone forgets to invite you to something, he or she can still be your friend.

32. Your underwear is $10 for a three pack.

33. The National College Cheerleading Championship

34. None of your co-workers have the power to make you cry.

35. You don’t have to shave below your neck.

36. You don’t have to curl up next to a hairy ass every night.

37. If you’re 34 and single nobody notices.

38. You can write your name in the snow.

39. You can get into a nontrivial pissing contest.

40. Everything on your face stays its original color.

41. Chocolate is just another snack.

42. You can be president.

43. You can quietly enjoy a car ride from the passenger seat.

44. Flowers fix everything.

45. You never have to worry about other people’s feelings.

46. You get to think about sex 90% of your waking hours.

47. You can wear a white shirt to a water park.

48. Three pair of shoes are more than enough.

49. You can eat a banana in a hardware store.

50. You can say anything and not worry about what people think.

51. Foreplay is optional.

52. Michael Bolton doesn’t live in your universe.

53. Nobody stops telling a good dirty joke when you walk into the room.

54. You can whip your shirt off on a hot day.

55. You don’t have to clean your apartment if the meter reader is coming by.

56. You never feel compelled to stop a pal from getting laid.

57. Car mechanics tell you the truth.

58. You don’t give a rat’s ass if someone notices your new haircut.

59. You can watch a game in silence with your buddy for hours without even thinking “He must be mad at me.”

60. The world is your urinal.

61. You never misconstrue innocuous statements to mean your lover is about to leave you.

62. You get to jump up and slap stuff.

63. Hot wax never comes near your pubic area.

64. One mood, all the time.

65. You can admire Clint Eastwood without starving yourself to look like him.

66. You never have to drive to another gas station because this one’s just too skeevy.

67. You know at least 20 ways to open a beer bottle.

68. You can sit with your knees apart no matter what you are wearing.

69. Same work….more pay.

70. Gray hair and wrinkles add character.

71. You don’t have to leave the room to make an emergency crotch adjustment.

72. Wedding Dress $2000; Tux rental $100.

73. You don’t care if someone is talking about you behind your back.

74. With 400 million sperm per shot, you could double the earth’s population in 15 tries, in theory.

75. You don’t mooch off others’ desserts.

76. If you retain water, it’s in a canteen.

77. The remote is yours and yours alone.

78. People never glance at your chest when you’re talking to them.

79. SportsCenter.

80. You can drop by to see a friend without bringing a little gift.

81. Bachelor parties whomp ass over bridal showers.

82. You have a normal and healthy relationship with your mother.

83. You can buy condoms without the shopkeeper imagining you naked.

84. You needn’t pretend you’re “freshening up” to go to the bathroom.

85. If you don’t call your buddy when you say you will, he won’t tell your friends you’ve changed.

86. Someday you’ll be a dirty old man.

87. You can rationalize any behavior with the handy phrase “Fuck it!”

88. If another guy shows up at the party in the same outfit, you might become lifelong buddies.

89. Princess Di’s death was almost just another obituary.

90. The occasional well-rendered belch is practically expected.

91. You never have to miss a sexual opportunity because you’re not in the mood.

92. You think the idea of punting a small dog is funny.

93. If something mechanical didn’t work, you can bash it with a hammer and throw it across the room.

94. New shoes don’t cut, blister, or mangle your feet.

95. Porn movies are designed with your mind in mind.

96. You don’t have to remember everyone’s birthdays and anniversaries.

97. Not liking a person does not preclude having great sex with them.

98. Your pals can be trusted never to trap you with: “So… notice anything different?”

99. Baywatch.

100. There is always a game on somewhere.

Lists, Language Fun

Things to Ponder

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

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

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

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

5. Why do “slow down” and “slow up” mean the same thing?

6. Why do “fat chance” and “slim chance” mean the same thing?

7. Why do “tug” boats push their barges?

8. Why do we sing “Take me out to the ball game” when we are already there?

9. Why are they called “stands” when they are made for sitting?

10. Why is it called “after dark” when it really is “after light”?

11. Doesn’t “expecting the unexpected” make the unexpected expected?

12. Why are a “wise man” and a “wise guy” opposites?

13. Why do “overlook” and “oversee” mean opposite things?

14. Why is “phonics” not spelled the way it sounds?

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

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

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

18. How come abbreviated is such a long word?

19. Why do we wash bath towels? Aren’t we clean when we use them?

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

21. Why don’t you ever see the headline “Psychic Wins Lottery?”

22. Why is it that if someone tells you that there is 1 billion stars in the universe you will believethem, but if they tell you a wall has wet paint on it you will have to touch it to be sure!

23. Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?

24. OK…so if the Jacksonville Jaguars are known as the “Jags” and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are known as the “Bucs,” what does that make the Tennessee Titans?

25. If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea…does that mean that one enjoys it?

26. Who closes the door after the bus driver gets off the bus?

27. Why are pizza boxes square when the pizza is round?

28. What ever happened to an E grade? We have A,B,C,D,F but no E.

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

30. Don’t you find it worrying that doctors call treating you their “practice” ?

31. Do they have the word “dictionary” in the dictionary?

32. What do you call a female daddy long legs?

33. If croutons are stale bread, why do they come in airtight packages?

34. Why can’t women put on mascara with their mouth closed?

35. If a transport truck carrying a load of cars gets into a car accident, does it increase the number of the cars in the pile-up?

36. In France do people just ask for toast and get French toast? or do they have to ask for American toast?

37. Why is it called a “drive through” if you have to stop?

38. Why does mineral water that has “trickled through mountains for centuries” go out of date next year?

39. If Milli Vanilli fell in the woods, would someone else make a sound ?

40. Why are SOFTballs hard?

41. Do vampires get AIDS?

42. Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp which no decent human being would eat?

43. Why are they called goose bumps? Do geese get people bumps?

44. Why is it that lemon dishsoap is made with real lemons, but lemon juice is artificial flavoring?

45. If you stole a pen from a bank then would it still be considered a bank robbery?

46. Is French kissing in France just called kissing?

47. Why can magicians make things disappear into thin air, but not thick air?

48. Can people without hands get a grip?

49. Why is it that rain drops but snow falls?

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

51. Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

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

53. What do people in China call their good plates?

54. Can you sentence a homeless man to house arrest?

55. If feathers tickle people, do they tickle birds?

56. Does a postman deliver his own mail?

57. Do the minutes on the movie boxes include the previews, credits, and special features, or just the movie itself?

58. If the professor on Giligan’s Island can make a radio out of coconut, why can’t he fix a hole in a boat?

59. Why dosent a chicken egg taste like chicken?

60. Why is it that cargo is transported by ship while a shipment is transported by car?

61. Does peanut butter really have butter in it?

62. Do mimes watch silent movies?

63. Is the fear of flying groundless?

64. Why do people say “You scared the living daylights out of me” when daylight is not living?

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

66. Why does your OB-GYN leave the room when you get undressed if they are going to look up “there” anyway?

67. If somebody vanished without a trace, how do people know they are missing?

68. Why are boxing rings square?

69. Why is it called pineapple, when’s there neither pine nor apple in it?

70. Why is it called eggplant, when there’s no egg in it?

71. Why do people never say “it’s only a game” when they’re winning?

72. What was the best thing before sliced bread?

73. Why do birds have white poop?

74. Can good looking Eskimo girls be called hot?

75. Why is an elevator still called an elevator even when its going down?

76. Why is an electrical outlet called an outlet when you plug things into it? Shouldn’t it be called an inlet.

77. If love is blind, how can we believe in love at first sight?

78. If you accidently ate your own tongue, what would it taste like?

79. Do sore thumbs really stick out?

80. Why is it when your almost dead your on deaths doorstep, but when your actually dead your not in deaths house?

81. Why do we scrub Down and wash Up?

82. What’s the opposite of opposite?

83. If Practice makes perfect, and nobody’s perfect, then why practice?

84. Why are toe nail clippers bigger than finger nail clippers when your toe nails are smaller than your finger nails?

85. Is the opposite of “out of whack” “in whack”

86. If you try to fail and succeed, what did you just do?

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

88. Why is the blackboard green?

89. Why do they call it a black light when it’s really purple?

90. Why do hotdogs come in packs of 8 when hotdog rolls come in packs of 10?

91. What do you call male ballerinas?

92. How come the sun makes your skin darker but your hair lighter?

93. If you dig a tunnel straight through the earth, will you come out with your feet first?

94. Why are pennies bigger than dimes?

95. Did they have antiques in the olden days?

96. Are zebras black with white stripes, or white with black stripes?

97. If Pringles are “so good that once you pop, you can’t stop” why do they come with a resealable lid?

98. Is a sleeping bag a nap sack?

99. What came first, the fruit or the color orange?

100. Where does the white go when the snow melts?

101. Can blind people see their dreams?

102. What is the exception to the rule that every rule has an exception? Does that make this rule right or wrong?

103. Why do you click on start to exit Microsoft Windows?

104. Have you ever wondered why Trix are only for kids?

105. Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard?

106. If we all evolved from monkeys, how come there’s still monkeys around now?

107. Why do most cars have speedometers that go up to at least 130 when you legally can’t go that fast on any road?

108. Why do they call it “getting your dog fixed” if afterwards it doesn’t work anymore?

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

110. If masochists like to torture themselves, wouldn’t they do it best by not torturing themselves? and if so, aren’t we all masochist?

111. why is it called lipstick when it always comes off?

112. why is black history month (February) the shortest month of the year?

113. If when people freak out they are said to be “having a cow”, when cows freak out are they said to be “having a person?”

114. Aren’t you tired of people asking you rhetorical questions and you don’t know if they are rhetorical questions or not?

115. Why is a person that handles your money called a BROKER?

116. Why do we leave expensive cars in the drivway, when we keep worthless junk in the garage?

117. why do they have handicap parking spaces in front of they skating rings?

118. What happens if someone loses a lost and found box?

119. Why do they call it taking a dump? Shouldn’t it be leaving a dump?

120. What if the hokey-pokey really is what it’s all about?

121. Where in the nursery rhyme does it say humpty dumpty is an egg?

122. If quizzes are quizzical then what are tests?

123. Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?

124. Why do banks leave the door wide open but the pens chained to the counter?

125. What would happen if an Irresistable Force met an Immovable Object?

126. What’s the difference between a wise man and a wise guy?

127. If Americans throw rice at weddings, do the Chinese throw hamburgers?

128. how can you chop down a tree and then chop it up?

129. Why are both male and female ladybugs called ladybugs instead of ladybugs and manbugs?

130. How can you hear yourself think?

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

132. Is a man full of wonder a wonderful man?

133. Is a hot car cool or is a cool car hot?

134. How come thaw and unthaw mean the same thing?

135. If The Flintstones were B.C. and before America, why did they have Flintstones Thanksgiving and Flintstones Christmas?

136. If a Man is talking in the forest and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?

137. Why is it that when a person tells you there’s over a million stars in the universe you believe them, but if someone tells you there’s wet paint somewhere, you have to touch it to make sure?

138. if you fed a bee nothing but oranges, would it start making marmalade?

139. Why is it you get a penny for your thoughts, but have to put in your two cents worth?

140. If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

141. If the speed of movement is slower than the speed of light – how fast is a moving light?

142. why do you get on a bus and a train but get into a car?

143. Why is it good to be a Daddy’s girl, but bad to be a Momma’s boy?

144. How can something be new and improved? if it’s new, what was it improving on?

145. Is Disney world the only people trap operated by a mouse?

146. Why did they name that underwear company fruit of the loom?

147. Why do grocery stores buy so many checkout line registers if they only keep 3 or 4 open?

148. Why is the alphabet song and twinkle twinkle little star the same tune?

149. Do illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

150. How does santa get into a house that doesn’t have a chimney?

151. If you get cheated by the better business bereau, who do you complain to?

152. If you’re in hell, and are mad at someone, where do you tell them to go?

153. What would Geronimo say if he jumped out of an airplane?

154. What would Cheese say if they got their picture taken?

155. why are turds pinched off at the end?

156. I know you can be overwhelmed, and I know you can be underwhelmed, but can you just be whelmed?

157. If Barbie is so popular, then why do you have to buy her friends?

158. Why does Donald Duck wear a towel when he comes out of the shower, when he doesn’t usually wear any pants?

159. If you take an oriental person and spin him around a few times, does he become disoriented?

160. How come overtones and undertones are the same thing?

161. What would you use to dilute water?

162. What should one call a male ladybird?

163. How can military troops be deployed if they have never been ployed to begin with?

164. If you lived in Siberia and you wronged the Russians government, where would they send you?

165. Why do they call it an asteroid when its outside the hemisphere but call it a hemorrhoid when its in your ass?

166. If a cow laughed real hard, would milk come out her nose?

167. Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

168. Aren’t all generalizations false?

169. Can atheists get insurance for acts of God?

170. Do you need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime?

171. Can I get arrested for running into a Fire House yelling Movie! Movie!?

172. Can you be a closet claustrophobic?

173. Could someone ever get addicted to counseling?

174. If so, how could you treat them?

175. Did Adam and Eve have navels?

176. Did the early settlers ever go on a camping trip?

177. Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog’s face he gets mad at you?

178. But when you take him in a car, he sticks his head out the window!

179. Do fish get cramps after eating?

180. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

181. Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

182. Do one legged ducks swim in circles?

183. Do Roman paramedics refer to IV’s as 4’s?

184. Does the little mermaid wear an algebra?

185. Does the Postmaster General need a stamp of approval?

186. Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

187. How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike?

188. How can someone “draw a blank”?

189. How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?

190. How can there be “self help GROUPS”?

191. How come Superman could stop bullets with his chest, but always ducked when someone threw a gun at him?

192. How come you press harder on a remote control when you know the battery is dead?

193. How do they get a deer to cross at that yellow road sign? How do you know when yogurt goes bad?

194. How do you know when you’re out of invisible ink?

195. How does a shelf salesman keep his store from looking empty?

196. How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?

197. How fast do you have to go to keep up with the sun so you’re never in darkness?

198. How is it possible to have a civil war?

199. If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?

200. If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make a sound?

201. If a synchronized swimmer drowns, does her partner also have to drown?

202. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it?

203. If a tree fell on a mime in the forest, would he make a sound and would anyone care?

204. If a turtle doesn’t have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

205. If a woman can be a meter maid, can a man be a meter butler?

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

207. If an orange is orange, why isn’t a lime called a green or a lemon called a yellow?

208. If God dropped acid, would he see people?

209. How many people thought of the Post-It note before it was invented but just didn’t have anything to jot it down on?

210. How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn’t grow in it?

211. If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?

212. If 75% of all accidents happen within 5 miles of home, why not move 10 miles away?

213. If a book about failures doesn’t sell, is it a success?

214. If a bus station is where a bus stops, and a train station is where a train stops, why do I have a work station on my desk?

215. If a case of the clap spreads, is it then considered a case of the applause?

216. If a cat always lands on its feet, and buttered bread always lands butter side down, what would happen if you tied buttered bread on top of a cat?

217. If a chronic liar tells you he is a chronic liar do you believe him?

218. If a dog sweats through his tongue, why does he have armpits?

219. If a jogger runs a the speed of sound can he still hear his walkman?

220. If a mute child swears, does his mother make him wash his hands with soap?

221. If a turtle doesn’t have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

222. If all those psychics know the winning lottery numbers, why are they all still working?

223. If an orange is orange, why isn’t a lime called a green or a lemon called a yellow?

224. If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP?

225. If God sneezes…what should you say?

226. If inert is to be stationary, what is ert?

227. If it’s zero degrees outside today and it’s supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?

228. If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why does he keep doing it?

229. If knees were backwards, what would chairs look like?

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

231. If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan?

232. If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from? If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too?

233. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren’t people from Holland called Holes?

234. If pro is the opposite of con, is progress the opposite of Congress?

235. If quitters never win, and winners never quit, who came up with, “Quit while you’re ahead”?

236. If soap is used to make you clean, why does it leave a scum?

237. If someone has a mid-life crisis while playing hide and seek, does he automatically lose because he can’t find himself?

238. If someone invented instant water, what would they mix it with?

239. If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill herself, is it considered a hostage situation? If superglue is so good, why doesn’t it stick to the side of the tube?

240. If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why’s it still #2?

241. If the cops arrest a mime, do they have to tell him he has the right to remain silent?

242. If the Energizer Bunny attacks someone, is it charged with battery?

243. If the folks at the psychic hotlines were really psychic, wouldn’t they call you first?

244. If the funeral procession is at night, do folks drive with their lights off?

245. If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth?

246. If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?

247. If white wine goes with fish, do white grapes go with sushi?

248. If women ran the Pentagon, would missiles and submarines be shaped differently?

249. If women wear a pair of pants, a pair of glasses, and a pair of earrings, why don’t they wear a pair of bras?

250. If you ate pasta and anti-pasta, would you still be hungry?

251. If you bear a child, why do you have a cow?

252. If you can read the marking, isn’t that end already up?

253. If you can’t drink and drive, why do you need a driver’s license to buy liquor, and why do bars have parking lots?

254. If you dive into a pool of dry ice, can you swim without getting wet?

255. If you got into a taxi and he started driving backwards, would the driver end up owing you money?

256. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

257. If you have a friend who works for the Psychic Friends Network, should you plan a surprise birthday party for them?

258. If you have an open mind why don’t your brains fall out?

259. If you have your finger touching the rearview mirror that says — “objects in mirror are closer than they appear”, how can that be possible?

260. If you keep trying to prove Murphy’s Law, will something keep going wrong?

261. If you play a blank tape at full volume and have a mime for a neighbor, will he complain?

262. If you put freeze-dried coffee in the microwave, will you go back in time?

263. If you spend your day doing nothing, how do you know when you’re done?

264. If you steal a clean slate, does it go on your record?

265. If you take a shower, where do you put it?

266. If you throw a cat out a car window does it become kitty litter?

267. If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

268. If you’re cross-eyed and have dyslexia can you read correctly?

269. If you’re traveling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens?

270. Instead of talking to your plants, if you yell at them would they still grow, only to be troubled and insecure?

271. Is a castrated pig disgruntled?

272. Is it possible to be totally partial?

273. Is it progress if a cannibal learns to eat with a fork?

274. Is it true that cannibals don’t eat clowns because they taste funny?

275. Is there a Dr. Salt?

276. Isn’t hot water already hot?

277. Can you grow birds by planting birdseed?

278. Just before someone gets nervous, do they experience cocoons in their stomach?

279. Should crematoriums give discounts for burn victims?

280. Should vegetarians eat animal crackers?

281. Shouldn’t it be called a “near hit”?

282. Shouldn’t it be some things in moderation?

283. Shouldn’t there be a shorter word for “monosyllabic”?

284. There are 24 hours in a day, and 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?

285. What came first the chicken or the egg?

286. What color is a chameleon on a mirror?

287. What colour would a smurf turn if you choked it?

288. What did we do before the Law of Gravity was passed?

289. What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious?

290. What do sheep count when they can’t sleep?

291. What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants?

292. What does it mean if you break a mirror with a rabbits foot?

293. What hair color do they put on the driver’s license of a bald man?

294. What happened to the first 6 ups?

295. What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

296. What happens when you call a 1-800 number collect?

297. What is a free gift?

298. Aren’t all gifts free?

299. What is another word for “thesaurus”?

300. What is the speed of dark?

301. What part of the monkey do you use a monkey wrench on?

302. What should you do when you see an endangered animal that is eating an endangered plant?

303. What’s another word for synonym?

304. When blind people go to the bathroom, how do they know when they are done wiping their butt?

305. When people lose weight, where does it go?

306. When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their signs?

307. When vultures are on their deathbed, are they ever tempted to eat themselves?

308. When you choke a smurf, what color does it turn?

309. When you open a bag of cotton balls, is the top one meant to be thrown away?

310. When your pet bird sees you reading the newspaper, does he wonder why you’re just sitting there, staring at carpeting?

311. When you’re sending someone styrofoam, what do you pack it in?

312. Where are Preparations A through G?

313. Where do forest rangers go to “get away from it all”?

314. Who invented accents?

315. Who tows the tow trucks when they break down?

316. Whose cruel idea was it for the word “lisp” to have an “s” in it?

317. Why are builders afraid to have a 13th floor but book publishers aren’t afraid to have a Chapter 11?

318. Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?

319. Why are the cabs from the Yellow Cab Company painted orange?

320. Why are there never any artist’s materials in a drawing room?

321. Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?

322. Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

323. Why are they called ‘stands’ when they’re made for sitting?

324. Why are we afraid of falling?

325. Shouldn’t we be afraid of the sudden stop?

326. Why aren’t there bullet-proof pants?

327. Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

328. Why didn’t Luke Skywalker tell Darth Vader to turn to the light side of the Force?

329. Why do airlines call flights nonstop?

330. Won’t they all stop eventually?

331. Why do bars advertise live bands?

332. What does a dead band sound like?

333. Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?

334. If your feet smell and your nose runs, are you built upside down?

335. Why do guys wear underpants?

336. Why do people who only eat natural foods drink decaffeinated coffee?

337. Why do they call it disposable douche?

338. Is there a kind of douche you keep after using?

339. Why do they call them “apartments” when they are all stuck together?

340. Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?

341. Why do they report power outages on TV?

342. Why do they sell a pound cake that only weighs 12 ounces?

343. Why do ‘tug’boats push their barges?

344. Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

345. Why do we have hot water heaters?

346. Why do we play in recitals and recite in plays?

347. Why do we put suits in a garment bag and garments in a suitcase?

348. Why do we sing ‘Take me out to the ball game’, when we are already there?

349. Why do we wash bath towels? Aren’t we clean when we use them?

350. Why do you weep and sniffle over a TV program and the imaginary Why does “cleave” mean both split apart and stick together?

351. Why does “slow down” and “slow up” mean the same thing?

352. Why does an alarm clock “go off” when it begins ringing?

353. Why does flammable and inflammable mean the same thing?

354. Why doesn’t “onomatopoeia” sound like what it is?

355. Why don’t sheep shrink in the rain?

356. Why don’t you ever hear about gruntled employees?

357. Why don’t you ever see baby pigions?

358. Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?

359. Why is a women’s prison called a penal colony?

360. Why is it called a “building” when it is already built?

361. Why is it called a bust, when it stops right before the part it is named after?

362. Why is it called a TV “set” when you only get one?

363. Why is it called ‘after dark’, when it is really after light?

364. Why is it so hard to remember how to spell MNEMONIC?

365. Why is it that when you transport something by car, it’s called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it’s called cargo?

366. Why is it that when you’re driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio? Why is it when a door is open it’s ajar, but when a jar is open it’s not adoor?

367. Why is it when two planes almost hit each other it is called a “near miss”?

368. Why is it, whether you sit up or sit down, the result is the same?

369. Why is lemon juice mostly artificial ingredients but dishwashing liquid contains real lemons?

370. Why is Mickey Mouse bigger than his dog Pluto?

371. Why is the alphabet in that order?

372. Is it because of that song?

373. Why is the word “abbreviate” so long?

374. Don’t you have to get up to get to the tape?

375. Why is there an expiration date on SOUR cream?

376. Why is there only ONE Monopolies Commission?

377. Why isn’t “palindrome” spelled the same way backwards?

378. Why isn’t phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

379. Why isn’t there mouse-flavored cat food?

380. Would a fly without wings be called a walk?

381. You know how most packages say “Open here”. What is the protocol if the package says, “Open somewhere else”?

382. Can fat people go skinny-dipping?

383. After eating, do amphibians have to wait an hour before getting out of the water?

384. You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes, why can’t they make the whole plane out of the same substance?

385. Are there seeing eye humans for blind dogs?

386. Have ex-bankers become disinterested?

387. Have ex-civil lawyers been distorted?

388. Have ex-locomotive engineers been derailed?

389. Have ex-mathematicians become dysfunctional?

390. Have ex-punsters been expunged?

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

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

393. If quizzes are quizzical then what are tests?

394. Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?

395. Why didn’t Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

396. If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

397. If we call Pacfic Sun “PacSun” and Pacifc Bell “PacBell,” why don’t we call the Pacific Ocean “PacOcean?”

398. If you eat lady fingers with your hands what do you eat with your feet?  Tofu?