ANT 100Y - Introduction to Anthropology

The following questions, mostly created by George Carling, will not be on the test or exam

1. Why are some of the questions below numbered and formatted wrong?

2. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland

called Holes?

3. Why do we say something is out of whack? What's a whack?

4. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

5. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

6. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

7. When someone asks you, "A penny for your thoughts" and you put your two

cents in . . . what happens to the other penny?

8. Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

10. When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?

12. Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?

13. Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?

14. Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one?

15. "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language.

Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

16. If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that

electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models

deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?

17. If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP?

18. Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?

19. What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?

24. You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

26. Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went

nuts.

27. Whatever happened to Preparations A through G?

28. Why do you park on a driveway and drive on a parkway? (Thank you Yushan Huang)

29. Why does this web page exist?