Questions You Hope Students Don't Ask

  • Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of its bottle?
  • Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?
  • Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?
  • Why do you need a driver's license to buy liquor when you can't drink and drive?
  • Why is lemon juice mostly artificial ingredients but dishwashing liquid contains real lemons?
  • If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?
  • If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?
  • If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan?
  • If you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a height, what would happen?
  • If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?
  • If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?
  • Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
    How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?
  • You know how most packages say "Open here"? What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?
  • You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes?
  • Why can't they make the whole plane out of the same substance?
  • What do you plant to grow a seedless watermelon?
  • When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their signs?