After eating, do amphibians have to wait one hour before getting out of the water? How can there be self-help "groups"? If white wine goes with fish, do white grapes go with sushi? If a mute swears, does his mother make him wash his hands with soap? If someone has a mid-life crises while playing hide & seek, does he automatically lose because he can't find himself? 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, but 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"? Just "before" someone gets nervous, do they experience cocoons in their stomach? When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their picket signs? When you open a new bag of cotton balls, is the top one meant to be thrown away? When your pet bird sees you reading the newspaper, does he wonder why you're just sitting there, staring at carpeting? 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? Why are builders afraid to have a 13th floor but book publishers aren't afraid to have a Chapter 11? And why do we drive on a parkway, but park in a driveway? Why do we call them apartments when they are all together? Why do we get on the plane, when we really get in the plane? How can you have a nonstop flight? Doesn't it have to land sometime? Why do airports have terminals? We don't go there to die. Why do we have three words: flammable, nonflammable and inflammable? When two words would cover the situation just fine. Do born again Christians get two birthday parties each year? How can a slim chance and a fat chance mean the same thing? Why do we say "If this rain keeps up ..." when it is really coming down?