Why ask Why Collection

Last Updated On: December 5, 2005

Some of the following items have been called Seinfeldisms too, from the comedian Jerry Seinfeld's stand-up comedy and TV serial.

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Why do they clean a felon's arm with alcohol when preparing for a lethal injection? They don’t want him to get an infection?!?

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Why are they called apartments, when they're all stuck together?
Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't have?
Why do people go to Burger King and Order a Double Whopper with a Large French Fry and insist on getting a Diet Coke?
If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?
How do "Keep off the grass" signs get where they are?
Why is there only one Monopolies commission?
Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?
Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
Can fat people go skinny-dipping?
Can you be a closet claustrophobic?
Why is the word abbreviation so long?
Is it possible to be totally partial?
What's another word for thesaurus?
If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?
If the funeral procession is at night, do folks drive with their lights off?
When companies ship styrofoam, what do they pack it in?
If you're cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right?
If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make a sound?
If the cops arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?
If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?
When it rains, why don't sheep shrink?
Should vegetarians eat animal crackers?
Do cemetery workers prefer the graveyard shift?
What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants?
Do hungry crows have ravenous appetites?
Why is bra singular and panties plural?
If a mute swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?
If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow? Only to be troubled and insecure?
Is there another word for synonym?
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?
When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their signs?
When you open a bag of cotton balls, is the top one meant to be thrown away?
Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all"?
Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
Why do they report power outages on TV?
How come price and worth mean the same thing, but priceless and worthless are opposites.
Why does an inspiring sight like a sunrise always have to take place at such an inconvenient time?
If the world is smaller why do postal rates keep going up?
If people don't like tailgaters, why do they buy bumper stickers?
If necessity is the mother of invention, why does so much unnecessary stuff get invented?
Why do we call a bad thing aweful while a good thing is awesome?
Why do you need a driver's license to buy liquor when you can't drink and drive?
Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?
Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?
Do you need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime?
Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?
If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?
If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?
If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan?
If you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a height, what would happen?
If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?
You know how most packages say "Open here." What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else?"
Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?
Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
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?
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?
Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?
If you feed a cold & starve a fever, what do you do when you have both?
How come a nose runs, but feet smell?
How come Quicksand works slowly?
Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?
Why is the third hand on the watch called a second hand?
Why is the time of the day with the slowest traffic called the rush hour?
Why is lipstick so called, when you can still move your lips?
If humans evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?
If all those psychics know the winning lottery numbers, why are they all still working?
Why is it necessary to nail down the lid of a coffin?
Why do supermarkets make sick people walk to the back of the store to collect their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front?
Isn't it strange that a physician has nothing to do with physics?
Isn't it strange that a radiologist has nothing to do with radios?