Chuck has (still more) questions!

More ques­tions.

If the dic­tio­nary has a word mis­spelled, how would we know?

What good is it to find green­er pas­tures if you’re too old to climb the fence?

I’m less than five time old­er than I was at age 17, so how come it costs twen­ty-one times more for a hair­cut? And I have less hair now!

“Woman” is sin­gu­lar. Why is “women” plur­al when it’s pro­nounced “wim­men?”

I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.

Lots of words in the English lan­guage have silent let­ters, like sword, pfen­nig, phar­ma­cy and zephyr.  If the darn let­ters are going to be silent, why put them in there? And the let­ter “P” is silent in so many words one has to won­der if it’s need­ed in the alpha­bet at all.  Of course, with­out it we wouldn’t have “peo­ple” or the “Philippines.”

Why does Oscar (the Academy Award fig­ure, not the Grouch) car­ry a sword (or sord; see above)?  And if you look close­ly at him (it) he looks a lot like Klatu.

Why are TVs mea­sured on the diag­o­nal?  I can’t think of any­thing else in the entire uni­verse that’s mea­sured on the diagonal.

Say, here’s an idea (I say that a lot and am con­stant­ly amazed that none of these blasts of bril­liance ever seem to take root).  The Second Amendment cod­i­fies the right to bear arms but it doesn’t stip­u­late what “arms” is (are) so why can’t states or munic­i­pal­i­ties Constitutionally decide what con­sti­tutes “arms?”  In fact, since the founders were so bril­liant and pre­scient why can’t “arms” be deter­mined to be flint­locks since that was the “arm” in vogue at the time?  And there’s anoth­er gigan­tic loop­hole in the Second Amendment since it doesn’t say a word about ammunition.

I saw a com­mer­cial the oth­er day for a “big” fur­ni­ture sale. “The more you spend the more you save.  Spend $2,000, save $200.” Here’s an idea (anoth­er one of those).  If I don’t spend $2,000, aren’t I still ahead at least $1,800? Fuzzy math.

Why do gas prices always have to end with a .9?

Money.  Since it costs about two cents to man­u­fac­ture a pen­ny, why don’t we just quit mak­ing them? All future pur­chas­es could be round­ed up or down to the near­est nick­el.  And since dol­lar bills wear out quick­ly and have to be re-processed, wouldn’t it be bet­ter to mint a dol­lar coin (like we tried once), one that would last a very long time and would be hard­er to coun­ter­feit than a paper bill (although it’s unlike­ly that any­one has ever coun­ter­feit­ed a dol­lar bill.  Hard to make a prof­it on those).

Know what’s real­ly scary?  Mike Johnson is only two steps away from being President.

I don’t use the term “Democratic Party.” I’ve had numer­ous con­ver­sa­tions with friends about this.  To me, “demo­c­ra­t­ic” is an adjec­tive, not a noun, and the Democrat Party is not demo­c­ra­t­ic any­way.  After all, we don’t say “Republican-ic Party.” So I’ll con­tin­ue to uti­lize the term “Democrat Party” and if Democrats don’t like it, tough cookies.

Now that Texas can enforce bor­der immi­gra­tion pol­i­cy on its bor­der with Mexico I won­der if the state will start for­ti­fy­ing its bor­ders with New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and Louisiana?  Although I expect that in those cas­es Texas will be hav­ing a prob­lem with peo­ple leav­ing the state rather than com­ing in.

If a com­pa­ny wants to sell you some­thing and then sweet­ens the deal by offer­ing “free instal­la­tion” wouldn’t the first opin­ion be that they had already dras­ti­cal­ly over­priced the item to begin with? After all, isn’t it expect­ed that they will make a prof­it even with “free instal­la­tion.”  A major win­dow com­pa­ny recent­ly adver­tised “Buy one win­dow, get one free.”  You know where I’m going with this one, right?

Somehow it seems coun­ter­in­tu­itive for state leg­is­la­tors to be con­cerned about the poor read­ing lev­els of pub­lic school stu­dents at the same time that they’re work­ing to lim­it the vari­ety of read­ing mate­r­i­al avail­able to those students.

Hey, here’s anoth­er idea.  You break my bridge, you pay to fix it.