Have you ever been asked a question that well... just startled you a bit because you never in your mind thought of asking that yourself? How about being asked something that would really make you thing and leave you puzzled a bit, simply because - you think you know the answer, but you're forced to think again? (Make any sense?)

As with all funny questions, the element of humor is there, but you'd appreciate them more because they all involve everyday living. And since we're all accustomed to it, these queries never or rarely crossed our mind for a bit - until now. Which is why you're here, isn't it?

Here's the first 5. Get ready to be perplexed:

* If drinking and driving is illegal, why do bars have parking lots?
* If someone leads but no one follows... are they just out for a walk?
* Do cemetery workers prefer the graveyard shift?
* Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?
* Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?

Kinda makes your head go round right? People who love this kind of humor are definitely way cool. Being able to see something in the mundane and ordinary and turn it into a "healthy laughingstock" is very much a talent.

Before you start answering the above questions, here's the next five so your brain can go into overload:

* How do the skittle company people know what a rainbow tastes like?
* How do you know if honesty is the best policy unless you've tried some of the others?
* How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink?
* If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
* If a book about failure doesn't sell, is it a success?

Enjoy busting your mind out!

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To be a funny person you have to see things differently then most people. If you are in your living room realizes that there is more going on then just you on the coach watching TV and your relatives trying to steal your chair and change the channel.

Funny is happening now as we speak there is something going on that you can point out and laugh at. Example: You and your wife are leaving to work and she only made coffee for her self, she bends over to pick up her bag and you quickly take the coffee and run to the car. Now this is not funny for your wife but someone else watching the scene would have laugh.

In any situation when things are not going your way then change the frame. When someone makes fun of you turn it on them. You have to be able to think on your feet. Example: if a girl tells you "I don't like ugly guys" then tell her "well, I don't like ugly woman but with you I thought I would make an exception."

If that guy you don't like tells you "you are such a loser, when will you learn" then simply say "when your mom is done teaching me." Now some of these might seem a bit too rough but you get the idea here. If you watch comedy central you will see that many comedians can deliver a line with style and quickly. Develop a character and out that character in different situations.

To be funny you have to be open to new ideas and while you are at it try to see it in different way. Once you start making jokes you will start getting ideas out of no where.



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Boldly Go... and Twitter It!

Well, it had to happen. As we reach for the stars, it is only natural to take our vices, addictions and foibles with us into the great unknown. Expedition 22 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer got on Twitter from the International Space Station! That's right, he was twittering from space. First, Capital Hill and now the great unknown. We have truly arrived at the edges of technological silliness.

Until now, astronauts were restricted from Twitter for obvious reasons - they were just too far away to get on the Internet. So, if they wanted to send a Twitter message, they had to relay it to someone on Earth who would then post it. It would be e-mailed to support personnel who then transferred it manually to the astronaut's Twitter account. That is no longer necessary.

Just like John Glenn's famous words: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." became a phrase recognized around the world and down through time, @Astro_TJ sent the first tweet directly back to Earth.

It went like this: "Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station - the 1st live tweet from Space!:) More soon, send your?s"

This was made possible by a new technology called Crew Support LAN which uses existing communications connections to and from the space station. It will give astronauts the access to surf the Internet and send private communications. It is all part of a program to improve the quality of the missions and help with issues associated with isolation on long missions.

Bureaucracy still holds true with this new form of communications as astronauts are government employees and as such subject to all the rules and regulations that entails. While they can send and receive email, use Internet telephone and a small amount of videoconferencing, they still need to maintain a level of professionalism.

When the Space Station is communicating at a high level, the crew can still have access remotely by logging into a ground computer and use the ground keyboard.



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Consider for a moment one of the undisputed icons of the office environment. I refer of course to that totem of colleague interaction, the bottled water cooler. Surely few items in history have taken such an ingrained place in the nation's psychology, yet there is a problem - what exactly is it for?

Ha - I hear you say: surely the clue is in the name. You can get much clearer than that can you? This must be a place were hard working workers can go to enjoy a cool thirst quenching glass of H2O. What could be simpler?

But is it? Water may be the given reason for including a bottled water cooler in an office. After all, who wants workers passing out due to dehydration? Not many to be sure. But it is so much more than that. Its most vital contribution is to provide non smokers with a much needed break from the screen. This is one of the great injustices of office life - the clear priority often given over to smokers in the office environment. All they have to do is imply that without nicotine they may somehow lose the capacity for rational thought and suddenly the world is their oyster. They get a break almost on demand. The rest of us soldier on regardless.

Now I don't smoke, but I do like a drink. But do they install a mini bar in the kitchen where we can gather mid morning? No. Instead what we have is the bottled water cooler, the one place we can get a screen break and complain bitterly about our lucky smoking co-workers.

It all leads you to wonder if this is exactly what the inventor had in mind when he came up with the idea in the first place. Who were they I hear? Well, we can trace the water cooler back to Halsey Willard Tailor and Luther Haws who came up with the first drinking fountain in 1911.

This was a far cry from the magnificent machines we know and love today. In fact back then man's only way of cooling down water was to supply it in large blocks of ice. But soon he put his ingenuity to discovering a machine which could do this automatically and once the ball was rolling there was no stopping it.

Today's water coolers offer an almost unrivaled array of possibilities. Made from the finest materials they remain an indispensable part of any office. So let's raise a glass the water cooler. Where would we be without it?



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A recent study of users of internet lifestyles replacement sites showed that over 23% of Facebook users were dead or in a state of undead ness often referred to as Zombies, or romerus morbis brainicus. The first clue was compiled by Miss Sandra Fretting from the US Census bureau, who noticed Facebook's cancellations brought on by mortality, or the extreme lack of it, were non-existent. Either Facebook had cured cancer, or something was amiss.

A probe by the Secretary of Commerce revealed that when a Facebook subscriber dies, their account is left active, thus allowing retailers to finally access the undead demographic, long sought by commercial brain harvesters and hog farmers. In addition, American Apparel has introduced a line of pre-tattered clothes for the Zombie on the go.

The number of zombies versus the entirely dead is unknown. In addition, many users have simply stopped participating, though still alive. But in the last twenty four hours, 3,789 people have died in this nation. How many were Facebook users? And will they rise from the grave to play Farmville again!

A local funeral service has extended it's services to cove their Facebook aspect of the after life, hosting and holding services for friends online and live. Special Groups are formed by the Mortuary to share memories of the departed. "This helps us take our sorrow to a place where it will exist forever. And that's what good service is all about, eternal suffering! At least, that's what Jesus said." The son of God could not be reached for comment.



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