- If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
- What’s another word for Thesaurus?
- Who decided what order to put the alphabet in?
- Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?
- Why are there locks on the doors to the convenience store that is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year?
- Why do they call them apartments when they are all stuck together?
- Why do you need a drivers license to buy liquor when you cannot drink and drive? And why do bars have parking lots?
- Why does TEFLON stick to the frying pan, since nothing ever sticks to TEFLON?
- Why is it so hard to remember how to spell MNEMONIC?
- Why are there Interstate Highways in Hawaii?
- Why are there flotation devices under plane seats, instead of parachutes?
- Why do hot dogs come ten to a package and hot dog buns only eight?
- Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?
- If you keep trying to prove Murphy’s Law, will something keep going wrong?
- Why do flammable and inflammable mean the same thing?
- Shouldn’t there be a shorter word for monosyllabic ?
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- Why doesn’t onomatopoeia sound like what it is?
- Does a fish get cramps after eating?
- Why is it when two planes almost hit each other it is called a near miss ? Shouldn’t it be called a near hit ?
- Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
- You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes? Why can’t they make the whole plane out of the same material?
- Why isn’t palindrome spelled the same way backwards?
- If you see a heat wave, should you wave back?
- Why does sour cream have a ‘best if used-by’ date? Does it turn sweet?
- How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?
- Why is it called TOOTHbrush when you brush all of your teeth?
- Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?
- If someone invented instant water, what would they mix it with?
- Why is brassiere singular and panties plural?
- 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?
- Why isn’t “phonetic” spelled the way it sounds?
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‘Professional’ Rhetorical Questions
Taking advantage of words with double meanings…..
- If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn’t if follow that electricians can be delighted; musicians denoted; cowboys deranged; models deposed; tree surgeons debarked and dry cleaners depressed? — Virginia Ostman
- Can a princess be disenchanted?
- Can married people be decoupled?
- Can fishermen be debated?
- Can a trash collector be well disposed?
- Can a doctor be patient?
- Can teachers be detested?
- Does a hair stylist ever get distressed?
- Can a president be denominated?
- Can a lawbreaker be defined?
- Can songwriters be decomposed?
- Have you ever heard of a symphony conductor getting disconcerted?
- Can an HVAC technician be deducted?
- Can an engineer be retrained?
- Can a writer be described?
- Have you ever seen a haberdasher who’s mad as a hatter?
- Can a guide be detoured?
- Can a magician become disillusioned?
- Could the Cowardly Lion discouraged, the Tin Man disheartened, and the Scarecrow reminded?
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