Questions That Haunt Me

[Arwen]

Can you cry under water?

How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?

Why do you have to "put your two cents in".. but it's only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where's that extra penny going to?

Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?

Why does a round pizza come in a square box?

What disease did cured ham actually have?

How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?

Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?

If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?

Why are you IN a movie, but you're ON TV?

Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?

Why do doctors leave the room while you change? They're going to see you naked anyway.

Why is "bra" singular and "panties" plural?

Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?

If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a stupid song about him?

Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane ?

If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?

Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're both dogs!

If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME crap, why didn't he just buy dinner?

If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?

If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

Do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?

Why did you just try singing the two songs above?

Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhoid when it's in your butt?

Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?

[Mynwy]

all very deep!

Do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?

Why did you just try singing the two songs above?

yup, did just that...

Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you,
but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?

if only my dog could tell me - that's exactly what he does!

[Hazel]

If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?

It would never sell on television. That's why it's called the idiot box.

[siopybont]

Who is Gilligan?

[Mynwy]

Yes, who was Gilligan? I hear lots of references to 'Gilligan's Island' on US TV programmes shown over here, but that particular show has never been shown on our British TV, so most of those references go straight over my head. (mind you, at 5'2", lots of things tend to... )

[Hazel]

I've never seen an episode. So, shan't comment. See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilligan's_Island

And here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057751/

There is something wrong with that first one. Arwen knows how to fix it. I do not.

[Arwen]

I tried to fix it but couldn't Hazel. I think it has to do with the way they've coded it. Sori

Anyway, Gilligan's Island was a sitcom eons ago. A group of people took a cruise and shipwrecked on an allegedly deserted island. I think there were six of them. (Nope, I've just read the Wiki entry - there were seven) Gilligan (a twit), the Captain (tolerated Gilligan on account of he really liked him), the Professor (the brainy one - could do anything but get them off the island, apparently), Marianne (cute), Ginger (gorgeous), and Mrs. and Mrs. Iforgettheirname who were very rich.

They were stuck on this island for a multitude of years and had to cope with everything from hostile natives to building radios. What was truly amazing was how healthy they were! Nobody ever got sick. Hummmmm. come to think of it I want to go live there!!!

Needless to say, we all learned valuable life lessons from the programme including never to borrow money (they did a take off on Shakespeare set to some famous composer's music).

Actually, it has something of a cult following I think. At the time I liked the show, but I was pretty young so it's not surprising something that stupid would be pleasing. Now I look back at it and wonder why in the world I ever did!

[siopybont]

Thanks one and all - but like Mynwy I had never heard of him!

[Mick]

Mr and Mrs Howel were the rich couple whose name eluded you Arwen. I too was a fan of the show as a kid, but then I've lived in a country where quality television was watching something like Eastenders and Neighbours...Needless to say Gilligans Island still takes my vote above most of the programmes being aired then as well as now.


Mick

[BluePeter]

If you don't get the Gilligans Island references you probably wouldn't get the Maynard G. Krebs ones either. But Bob Denver who played Gilligan got started playing a beatnik named Maynard G. Krebs on the Dobie Gillis show (1959-1963ish). A great show from my childhood, it also featured Warren Beatty and Tuesday Weld. Look up Maynard G. Krebs on YouTube and see an American TV icon Any others agree?

peter

[sianco]

I'm almost sure Gilligan's Island was shown in the UK in the mid late 60s.
I think we used to play 'Gilligan's Island' as children and I have a vague memory of someone in a white hat turning round and round.

The one about Jimmy cracking corn is lost on me.

[halen]

Why is it that if I leave my car on the driveway with thew lights on within a few minutes I will have some one at my door telling me about it, yet if my car is stolen, subject to an arson attack or otherwise vandalised nobody sees a thing?

Why is it when I buy something new, e.g. a new TV set, within twenty four hours I will be told half a dozen times that I could have bought it much cheaper elsewhere?

Salty Halen

[BluePeter]

sianco, Jimmy Crack Corn is an old (1840's) minstrel song about a slave and his master who dies. Also called The Blue Tail Fly. Nowadays it's lost its earlier connotations and become mostly a children's song and occasional folk song. See this wikipedia page for a very interesting look at the songs history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Tail_Fly

peter