h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Does Alaska get hot enough in the summer to be baked?

Old chestnuts but all the same ...

How do snowplough drivers get to work?
Why do flamable and inflamable mean the same thing?

Why do antibiotics save lives - and are probiotic yogurts bad for you?
If a man speaks and no-one hears him is he wrong?

If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, does anybody really care?

Depends if your tree house was in it....

Or maybe you had a little cottage next to the tree in question.

Hooloovoo

Before someone offers that old favourite about which came first the chicken or the egg I offer this experiment:
Put out an egg and a piece of chicken. After a day or so you will notice they are going off. The chicken will start to smell like rot.
But the egg will start to smell like chicken.
TRUE.
(Yes, of course, 'eventually', the egg will smell sulphurous - like 'rotten eggs', so discontinue the experiment once you've smelled the proof to this old story)

If a tree falls down in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it?

Red

Why are fixed penalties (as in if you don't buy a tube ticket) not subject to VAT?

It's been asked umpteen times before but still ...

If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?

If right handed people use the left half of their brian and left handed people use the right half, does that mean that only left handed people are in their right mind?

Continuing from above............

What part(s) of the brain do ambidextrous people use???????

'G'

Why i something is always available is it 7x24x365 and not 7x24x52 and do you get one day off in every 4 years or not?

If you can acheive 80% of your results with 20% of the effort then why don people just stop and enjoy the other 80% of their time?

Is a fixed penalty something that Bruce Grobelaar (sp?) would be involved in?

Why are wrong numbers never engaged?

Why is it that in the USA the US Postal service delivers the mail but in the UK the Royal Mail delivers the post ?

Red Dog

Why do the triangle of letters in the lower right hand corner of a keyboard say 'KLM' - is it a Dutch thing? Do they pay for the rights?

Does Fred pay for the rights to the top left of the keyyboard - or does he perhaps work for KLM

How were homing pigeons first domesticated?

Why are they called apartments when they're all stuck together ?

Red

wrong numbers are sometimes engaged-- it's happened to me once.

Why are there braille dots on drive-in ATMs? (I've never seen one, but I've heard they've got them)

Why is it that when something is transported by ship it's called cargo, but when it's transported by car it's a shipment?

Why is abbreviated so long?

Don't you hate it when they verbify nouns?

If a cow laughs really hard, does milk come out its nose?

Ever just seem to not be able to get around to procrastinating?

Did you ever imagine a world with no hypothetical situations?

38-J

JOTD: It's bad luck to be superstitious.