Thoughts of a person in quarantine for to long.

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September 4, 2020 at 11:18 am #187864
Legatus_Legionis
Thoughts of a person in quarantine for to long.
Excellent Questions Looking for Answers!
1. If poison passes it’s expiration date, is it more poisonous or is it no longer poisonous?
2. Which letter is silent in the word “Scent,” the S or the C?
3. Do twins ever realize that at least one of them is unplanned?
4. Why is the letter W, in English, called double U? Shouldn’t it be called double V?
5. Maybe oxygen is slowly killing you and It just takes 75-100 years to fully work.
6. Every time you clean something, you just make something else dirty.
7. The word “swims” upside-down is still “swims”
8. 100 years ago everyone owned a horse and only the rich had cars. Today everyone has cars and only the rich own horses.
Four great confusions still unresolved.
1. At a movie theater, which arm rest is yours?
2. If people evolve from monkeys, why are monkeys still around?
3. Why is there a ‘D’ in fridge, but not in refrigerator?
4. Who knew what time it was when the first clock was made?
Vagaries of English Language!
Ever wonder why the word funeral starts with FUN?
Why isn’t a Fireman called a Water-man?
How come Lipstick doesn’t do what it says?
If money doesn’t grow on trees, how come Banks have Branches?
If a Vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a Humanitarian eat?
How do you get off a non-stop Flight?
Why are goods sent by ship called CARGO and those sent by truck SHIPMENT?
Why do we put cups in the dishwasher and the dishes in the Cupboard?
Why do doctors ‘practice’ medicine? Are they having practice at the cost of the patients?
Why is it called ‘Rush Hour’ when traffic moves at its slowest then?
How come Noses run and Feet smell?
Why do they call it a TV ‘set’ when there is only one?
What are you vacating when you go on a vacation?
Did you know that if you replace “W” with “T” in “What, Where and When”, you get the answer to each of them?
September 4, 2020 at 12:25 pm #187872
DigiCat
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A few answers:
Excellent Questions Looking for Answers!
3) If twins come across your post, you might be responsible for mentally f***ing them up
4) Because it sounds like U, like Wonder Woman. In languages that it sounds like V it’s called double v
Four great confusions still unresolved.
1) Half of the right one and half of the left one. The real question is wich drink holder is yours?
2) Pikachu evolves too Raichu, but there’s still Pikachus around, and even Pichus wich evolve too Pikachu
Vagaries of English Language!
If money doesn’t grow on trees, how come Banks have Branches? Most money does grow on trees, money’s made of paper, wich is made of wood, wich comes from trees
If a Vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a Humanitarian eat? Holy shit! Humanitarians are cannibals!!
Why do they call it a TV ‘set’ when there is only one? Not all single TVs are TV sets, the set incluedes extra speakers, VHS players, ecc., or even a TV with a built in VHS player or todays smart TVs are TV sets
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September 4, 2020 at 12:36 pm #187874
Ryder_the_Great
– Humans didn’t evolve from monkeys. They evolved from a certain species of ape, but not all apes.
– You would be able to tell the time by where the Sun or Moon is in the sky I think
But here’s an interesting question: How come you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway? Or why is it called Rhode Island, when it’s neither a road nor an island?
September 4, 2020 at 12:48 pm #187879
DigiCat
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1) But that ape is still around, it’s all the apes in between that dissapeared
2) Who decided that is how to tell the time and how many hours go in a day?
September 4, 2020 at 12:58 pm #187882
Ryder_the_Great
Astronomers determined that
September 4, 2020 at 9:43 pm #187997
Sternwise
Many answers to your questions can be found in a long forgotten book called THE ENGLISH DIALECT DICTIONARY.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_English_Dialect_Dictionary
6 volumes. Thousands of pages. Only available from universities, rare book sellers and in pdf format. (The minutes are ticking away before it’s gone).
Yes. It seems as though it is merely a ‘dictionary.’ But no, it’s more than a ‘dictionary.’ When you open the book(s) you begin to realize just by perusing the pages… that words and ideas from long ago have been changed… so much so that your reality is quite different than the one during the time it was compiled. More than your technological reality, more than your pop-culture or political reality…
I suggest you get copies of this before it is ‘disappeared.’ You will learn from it more than some definitions of words you never heard of, you will learn that your humanity has been thoroughly degraded… as Orwell said… as Tolkien said…
https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Wright%2C%20Joseph%2C%201855-1930%22%20dialect%20dictionary%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts
last chance…
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