Imponderables.

• If "recess" means to take a break, does that mean a "recession" is a break from economic strength?
  
• If someone who knits is a knitter and a person who manages things is a manager, why isn't someone who cooks called a cooker?
• If stranded means to be cut off or left behind, why do we call yarn carried together with other yarns "stranding"?
  
• Why does the drive-through menu at a local fast-food restaurant include Braille?
• If internet mail is "e-mail" and telephone messages are "voice mail," should class notes be called "know-mail"?
• Why does Alaska have interstate highways?
• If a salad is by definition a mix of ingredients, is a package labeled "salad mix" redundant?
• What is the synonym for "thesaurus"?
• If a man gets dog-tired, why can't a dog get man-tired?
  
• How many standardized tests does it take to prove tests don't improve achievement?
• Why is water free out of the tap, but costs as soon as it's bottled?
  
• Why do people ask, "Can I ask you a question?"
  

Just asking.

Ponder these.

I received an email last evening that has been making the rounds here in Dunwoody. And elsewhere in the internet world. These imponderables are fun, so I'm sharing them here.

1. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
2. If humans evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have moneys and apes?
3. What if there were no hypothetical questions?
4. What do you do when you seen an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?
5. If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?
6. Would a fly without wings be called a walk?
7. If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent? Or, does he gain the right to speak? Or...???
8. One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people.
9. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
10. How is it possible to have a civil war?
11. If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
12. Why is there an expiration date on sour cream?

And now a few knitting imponderables.

1. Why does the phone ring right when you're counting a 150-stitch pattern?
2. Since Australia is on the opposite side of the world, should it be called purling?
3. Why do we call it casting on when casting implies throwing away?
4. Why does a finished sweater weigh more than the total combined weight of the individual balls/skeins of yarn you use?
5. Why is baby yarn so scratchy?
6. People who ask, "do you like doing that?" as you sit there knitting.
7. Do sheep shrink when they get wet?
8. LYS who really don't like customers who need help.
   
9. Knitting designers who use exclusive, very expensive, hard to find, impossible to substitute yarns in their creations.
10. Information labels that aren't informative.

Share your imponderables!