A series of slides showing funny questions. Good to use during the "warm-up" phase of a presentation, while the audience is getting settled in. Many thanks to Michelle Bourgeois for contributions.

1. Why...

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

3. Why doesn’t glue stick
to the inside of the
bottle?

4. Why is it that doctors
call what they do
“practice”?

5. Why is the person
who invests all your
money called a
broker?

6. If a cow laughed,
would milk come out
her nose?

7. So what’s the speed of
dark?

8. How come
abbreviated is such a
long word?

9. Since light travels
faster than sound, is
that why some people
appear bright until
you hear them speak?

10. If it’s true that we are
here to help others,
then what exactly are
the OTHERS here for?

11. A bus station is where
a bus stops. A train
station is where a
train stops. On my
desk, I have a work
station...

12. If FedEx and UPS
were to merge, would
they call it FedUP?

13. Do Lipton employees
take coffee breaks?

14. What hair color do
they put on the
driver’s licenses of
bald men?

15. Should women put
pictures of missing
husbands on beer
cans?

16. How much deeper
would oceans be if
sponges didn’t live
there?

17. After eating, do
amphibians need to
wait an hour before
getting OUT of the
water?

18. If you’re sending
someone some
Styrofoam by mail,
what do you pack it
in?

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

20. Isn’t Disney World a
people trap operated
by a mouse?

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

22. Whatever happened
to Preparations A
through G?

23. Do people who spend
$2.00 on bottles of
expensive water know
that Evian spelled
backwards is naive?

24. If the police arrest a
mime, do they tell him
he has the right to
remain silent?

25. How do they get deer
to cross at that yellow
road sign?

26. What was the best
thing before sliced
bread?

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

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

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

30. Why is something
transported by car
called a shipment, but
something
transported by a ship
called cargo?

31. If flying is so safe, why
do they call the
airport the
“terminal”?

32. Why doesn’t
onomatopoeia sound
like what it is?

33. Can vegetarians eat
animal crackers?

34. Why is it so hard to
remember how to
spell mnemonic?

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

36. Why are they called
apartments when
they’re all stuck
together?

37. How did a fool and his
money get together in
the first place?

38. Why do we recite at a
play and play at a
recital?

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

40. What do you do when
you see an
endangered animal
eating an endangered
plant?

41. What happens when
you get scared half to
death twice?

42. How can there be self-
help “groups”?

43. If the folks at the
psychic hotline truly
were psychic,
wouldn’t they call you
first?

44. If “con” is the opposite
of “pro,” is Congress
the opposite of
progress?

45. If practice makes
perfect and nobody’s
perfect, why practice?

46. Will your answer to
this question be no?

47. So, what's so magic
about a Magic
Marker?

48. Does SuperGlue stick
to Teflon?

49. How was hail
measured before golf
balls were invented?

50. How do “Keep off the
grass” signs get
there?

51. If a man told you
he was a pathological
liar, would you believe
him?

52. If Jimmy cracks corn
and no one cares, why
is there a song about
it?

53. If the professor on
Gilligan’s Island can
make a radio out of
coconuts, why can’t
he fix a hole in a boat?

54. Why is minimalism
such a big word?

55. Doesn’t expecting the
unexpected make the
unexpected the
expected?

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

57. Why are there five
syllables in the word
monosyllabic?

58. Shouldn’t it be “Some
things in
moderation”?