Grammatical Oddities

• If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?


• If people from Poland are called "Poles," why aren't people from Holland called "Holes?


• "When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?


• Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?


• Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?


• If horrific means to make horrible, does terrific mean to make terrible?


• Why isn't 11 pronounced onety one?


• Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?


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


• 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 your two cents in, 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.


• If you mixed vodka with orange juice and milk of magnesia, would you get a Phillips Screwdriver?


• Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a "whack"?


• "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?


• 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 and dry cleaners depressed?


• Do Roman paramedics refer to IV's as "4's"?


• Why is it that if someone tells you that there are 1 billion stars in the universe you will believe them, but if they tell you that a wall has wet paint you will have to touch it to be sure?