Welcome to Weird Wednesdays, hosted by It’s OK to be WEIRD!

I keep collecting these weird questions from various places and conversations.  People have tweeted me a few, too.  Here is another round:

Since bread is square, then why is sandwich meat round?

Why does X stand for a kiss?

Why does O stand for a hug?

Why is the alphabet in that order?

Why is vanilla ice cream white when vanilla extract is brown?

How does skating on thin ice get you into hot water?

Why are they called stands when they are made for sitting?

What do you do when you see an endangered animal that is eating an endangered plant?

Doesn’t expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?

When cheese gets its picture taken what does it say?

How can something be “new” and “improved”? If it’s new, what was it improving on?

Why aren’t drapes double-sided so it looks nice on the inside and outside of your home?
Why are a wise-man and a wise-guy opposites?

If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?

How is it possible to have a “civil” war?

If the #2 pencil the most popular, why is it still #2?

Do tea makers have coffee breaks?

Can fat people go skinny-dipping?

Why do they announce power shortages/outages on TV?

Do you need a silencer when you shoot a mime?

Why do you press harder on the remote-control when you know the battery is dead?

And why do we say the battery dies when it loses its charge?

If it’s zero degrees tonight, and tomorrow it’s meant to be twice as cold, how cold will it be?

Why are buildings called buildings when there finished? Shouldn’t they be called builts?

Why is abbreviated such a long word?

Why is it that when you tell a man there are 400 billion stars he will believe you, but when you tell him there’s wet paint he has to touch it to believe it?

Whose cruel idea was it to put a ‘S’ in ‘lisp’?

Would a fly without wings be called a walk?

A fly can’t bird, so why does a bird fly?

If a turtle doesn’t have a shell is it homeless or naked?

Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?

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