{"id":120,"date":"1999-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-01-27T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paragonis.com\/Emails\/?p=120"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"The Wit Of  Steven Wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"The Wit Of  Steven Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 1. Last night I played a blank tape at full blast.  The mime next door went nuts.<\/p>\n<p> 2. If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?<\/p>\n<p> 3. Just think how much deeper the ocean would be if sponges didn&#8217;t live there.<\/p>\n<p> 4. If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?<\/p>\n<p> 5. Whatever happened to Preparations A through G?<\/p>\n<p> 6. If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from?<\/p>\n<p> 7. I went for a walk last night, and my kids asked me how long I&#8217;d be gone.  I said, &#8220;The whole time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> 8. So what&#8217;s the speed of dark?<\/p>\n<p> 9. How come you don&#8217;t ever hear about gruntled employees?  And who has been diss-ing them anyhow?<\/p>\n<p>10. After eating, do amphibians need to wait an hour before getting OUT of the water?<\/p>\n<p>11. Why don&#8217;t they just make mouse-flavored cat food?<\/p>\n<p>12. If you&#8217;re sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in?<\/p>\n<p>13. I just got skylights put in my place. The people who live above me are furious.<\/p>\n<p>14. Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?<\/p>\n<p>15. Do they have reserved parking for non-handicapped people at the Special Olympics?<\/p>\n<p>16. Is it true that cannibals don&#8217;t eat clowns because they taste funny?<\/p>\n<p>17. When a man talks dirty to a woman, its sexual harassment.  When a woman talks dirty to a man, it&#8217;s $3.95 per minute.<\/p>\n<p>18. If it&#8217;s tourist season, why can&#8217;t we shoot them?<\/p>\n<p>19. Isn&#8217;t Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse?<\/p>\n<p>20. Whose cruel idea was it for the word &#8220;lisp&#8221; to have an &#8220;s&#8221; in it?<\/p>\n<p>21. Since light travels faster than sound, isn&#8217;t that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?<\/p>\n<p>22. How come abbreviated is such a long word?<\/p>\n<p>23. If it&#8217;s zero degrees outside today and it&#8217;s supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?<\/p>\n<p>24. Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery is dead?<\/p>\n<p>25. Since Americans throw rice at weddings, do Asians throw hamburgers?<\/p>\n<p>26. Why are they called buildings, when they&#8217;re already finished?  Shouldn&#8217;t they be called builts?<\/p>\n<p>27. Why are they called apartments, when they&#8217;re all stuck together?<\/p>\n<p>28. Why do banks charge you a &#8220;non-sufficient funds fee&#8221; on money they already know you don&#8217;t have?<\/p>\n<p>29. If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?<\/p>\n<p>30. If you got into a taxi and the driver started driving backward, would the taxi driver end up owing you money?<\/p>\n<p>31. What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?<\/p>\n<p>32. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it?<\/p>\n<p>33. Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?<\/p>\n<p>34. When two airplanes almost collide why do they call it a near miss?  It sounds like a near hit to me!!<\/p>\n<p>35. Do fish get cramps after eating?<\/p>\n<p>36. Why are there 5 syllables in the word &#8220;monosyllabic&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>37. Why do they call it the Department of Interior when they are in charge of everything outdoors?<\/p>\n<p>38. Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?<\/p>\n<p>39. If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?<\/p>\n<p>40. When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?<\/p>\n<p>41. Why is it, when a door is open it&#8217;s ajar, but when a jar is open, it&#8217;s not a door?<\/p>\n<p>42. Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he&#8217;ll believe you.  Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.<\/p>\n<p>43. How come Superman could stop bullets with his chest, but always ducked when someone threw a gun at him?<\/p>\n<p>44. If &#8220;con&#8221; is the opposite of &#8220;pro,&#8221; then what is the opposite of progress?<\/p>\n<p>45. Why is it lemon juice contains mostly artificial ingredients, but dishwashing liquid contains real lemons?<\/p>\n<p>46. Why buy a product that it takes 2000 flushes to get rid of?<\/p>\n<p>47. Why do we wait until a pig is dead to &#8220;cure&#8221; it?<\/p>\n<p>48. Why do we wash bath towels?  Aren&#8217;t we clean when we use them?<\/p>\n<p>49. Why do we put suits in a garment bag and put garments in a suitcase?<\/p>\n<p>50. Why doesn&#8217;t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?<\/p>\n<p>51. Do Roman paramedics refer to IV&#8217;s as &#8220;4&#8217;s&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>52. What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious?<\/p>\n<p>53. Why doesn&#8217;t Tarzan have a beard?<\/p>\n<p>54. If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?<\/p>\n<p>55. Should you trust a stockbroker who&#8217;s married to a travel agent?<\/p>\n<p>56. Is boneless chicken considered to be an invertebrate?<\/p>\n<p>57. Do married people live longer than single people, or does it just SEEM longer?<\/p>\n<p>58. I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, &#8220;Where&#8217;s the self-help section?&#8221;  She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.<\/p>\n<p>59. If all those psychics know the winning lottery numbers, why are they all still working?<\/p>\n<p>60. Isn&#8217;t the best way to save face to keep the lower part shut?<\/p>\n<p>61. War doesn&#8217;t determine who&#8217;s right, just who&#8217;s left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts. 2. If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation? 3. Just think how much deeper the ocean would be if sponges didn&#8217;t live there. 4. 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