Why does the sun lighten our hair, but darken our skin?
Why can't women put on mascara with their mouth closed?
Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
Why don't you ever see the headline Psychic Wins Lottery?
Why is abbreviated such a long word?
Why is a boxing ring square?
Why is it considered necessary to nail down the lid of a coffin?
Why is it that doctors call what they do practice?
Why is it that rain drops but snow falls?
Why is it that to stop Windows 98, you have to click on Start?
Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?
Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?
Why is the third hand on the watch called a second hand?
Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
If you throw a cat out of the car window, does it become kitty litter?
What do you call a male ladybug?
What hair color do they put on the driver's license of a bald man?
Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
Why do they call it a pair of pants, but only 1 bra?
Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them?
Why do you need a driver's license to buy liquor when you can't drink and drive?
Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
Why are there Interstates in Hawaii?
Why are there flotation devices in the seats of planes instead of parachutes?
Why are cigarettes sold at gas stations where smoking is prohibited?
Have you ever imagined a world without hypothetical situations?
How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work?
If the 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why does it have locks on the door?
You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of it?
If a firefighter fights fire and a crime fighter fights crime, what does a freedom fighter fight?
If they squeeze olives to get olive oil, how do they get baby oil?
If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens?
Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of a drive-up ATM?
Why is it that when you transport something by car it is called shipment, but when you transport something by ship it's called cargo?
Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?
If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?
If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?
Reading your entire backlog (!), I'm tempted to answer these, since I'm boring like that. (though the USA-centred nature of some of them suggests that you nicked 'em :P)
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Skin reacts and produces melanin, hair has a fixed amount which degrades.
Humans are strange, and to me the females can be especially incomprehensible.
Glue needs air to dry, and there's too little in the bottle. Given long enough, it does.
The psychics are too good at hiding, clearly :P
English is stupid.
English is stupid, but squares are practical.
a) Zombie precaution and b) Grave-robber prevention. Oh, and c) symbolic finality.
The modern meaning is a later one. Also, English is stupid.
Rain falls too. But it falls in drops, and snow does not.
Microsoft. Enough said.
The sound is distracting? I don't know; I don't drive.
It's easier to fake the taste of lemons than the smell. Or maybe something in them helps the cleaning.
The thing it counts is the second division of the hour, the first being the minute and the third being the tierce. Second is thus acting as an adjectival noun, rather than as a numerical adjective.
Ironic naming. Also, because everyone is rushing home, and thus blocking the roads and slowing themselves down. More haste, less speed.
English is stupid.
They don't use artificial flavours for cat food, and nobody farms mice for meat.
Naturally.
A ladybird, same as I call a female one. English is stupid.
"none", probably. Or N/A. Or his original colour.
In case it doesn't work, or someone accidentally gets pricked by it. Allowing a slow death from infection is cruel and unusual punishment.
English is stupid.
We can, if we don't get caught.
In my experience, one doesn't. If one needs ID at all, a passport or another approved ID will do.
English is stupid. Also, the etymology. Blame Greek.
The naming system is stupid.
Parachutes require a base level of skill to use, and by the time one knows they're needed there's no time to evacuate a whole passenger jet.
The same reason off-licences can sell alcohol for consumption off the premises only.
Nope.
In case of exceptional circumstances.
Because a) the materials are expensive, b) it's not actually indestructible, just nearly so, c) part of the strength derives from the small size, and d) even if the plane's indestructible, the people in it are not. A crash would still kill them. Look at Newton's laws to see why.
For freedom. English is stupid.
Squeezing babies! No. English is stupid. Also, they blend it. The oil, that is, not babies. That's a different product entirely.
If you're moving at c, your time is zero. Hence you can't turn on your headlights because you have no time to do so in.
Passenger operation? Or perhaps they just use a single mass-produced keypad for all ATMs.
English is stupid, and the question conflates and confuses related words. Transporting by ship is still shipping, and the things transported by car are still cargo.
The etymology of that word is not what you thing it is. Also, one lives in the same space, but apart from, others.
The US Government as a whole seems to be from where I'm sitting, so yes.
It's the endpoint of the flight.