Since this seems to be the font of knowledge thread, can anyone tell me why we park on driveways and drive on parkways?
(stolen from the interwebs)
The same reason that....
A duck's quack doesn't echo.
No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.
Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years. Average age of the Rolling Stones: 50.6.
Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Polar bears are left-handed.
And the same answer to these questions:
Why do you need a drivers license to buy liquor when you cant drink and drive?
Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?
If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan?
Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?
Why is it that when you transport something by car, its called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, its called cargo?
You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes, why cant they make the whole plane out of the same substance?
Why is it that when youre driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?
Why do they call it a TV set when you only get one?