I have a question!

[Bill89]

Why do you park in a driveway and drive on a parkway?

[patrick]

Park in the sense of tended greenery and park in the sense of stowing your vehicle, though deriving from the same root, diverged in meaning long ago. In Old French, a parc was an enclosure. To this day a military park means an area where vehicles are stored and serviced. As early as 1812 there was a verb "to park," meaning to store one's howitzers in a military park. This carried over to carriages and ultimately to any sort of vehicle.

Our notion of landscaped parks, meanwhile, derives from the medieval practice of enclosing game preserves for the use of the aristocracy. The term was later applied to the grounds around a country estate, then to royal parks in London to which the proles were grudgingly admitted, and finally to any landscaped public grounds. The idea of enclosure is still evident in expressions like "ball park," for an enclosed playing field.

oh, and you CAN drive in a driveway.. otherwise you couldn't get your car/truck there in the first place.

 

(Edited by patrick at 5:23 pm on Aug. 22, 2001)

[patrick]

and no, I didn't write that  

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_080.html

[y2kz71]

What do you call a fly that has no wings?

 

What do you call a dog with only 1 leg?

 

answer: you don't because he won't come to you anyway!

[patrick]

but you can take him out for a drag

[Ridinghigh]

Why do we call things that we take by car a shipment and things we take by a boat cargo?

Another one of life's little mysteries . . .

[MountaineerTom]

What happens to the white when the snow melts?

[NewbieZ71]

Don't get me started........

 

Why do they put locks on the doors at 7-Eleven when they are open 24 hours a day?

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to?

Why is the most popular pencil called the "#2"?

Why do they call it a fast when it seems so long?

 

(Edited by NewbieZ71 at 2:09 am on Aug. 23, 2001)

[NeXuS1]

you need to get more sleep if your minds are filled with those questions.

[Jpshostr]

Why does your nose run and your feet smell?

[Ridinghigh]

Do you need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime?

You know that indestructable black box on a plane . . . why cant they make the plane outta the same stuff?

And why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

[Kania2k1]

Who's the jackass that put an "s" in lisp?

[DigUout]

Quote: from Kania2k1 on 10:14 pm on Aug. 22, 2001

Who's the jackass that put an "s" in lisp?

 

LOL!!!  Too funny!

Do you think illiterates get the full effect of alphabet soup?

Why is it I know what women like, I just don't know what they want?

If a chicken and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long would it take a centipede with a wooden leg to kick the seeds out of a dill pickle?

"Stay away from the brown!"  -Summer of '69 at Max's little farm upstate

[NewbieZ71]

Digout, I was at Max's little farm upstate last week.  Bethel New York.  The owner of all the land is one of my clients.  Puts on events at the original site of Woodstock...still looks the same as it did in 1969.  Cool place.  

Man I'm old.

[LT]

Now I'm interested. The following was stolen from a web page. It's part of a large list of sayings. I've used many of them. Have a great chuckle:Some Things to Ponder

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If corn oil comes from corn, where does baby oil come from?

Why do they put Braille on the number pads of drive-through bank machines?

If you throw a cat out a car window does it become kitty litter?

How do they get a deer to cross at that yellow road sign?

If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?

Why do they sterilize the needles for lethal injections?

When you choke a smurf, what color does it turn?

Does "virgin wool" come from sheep the shepherd hasn't caught yet?

Why do you park on a driveway and drive on a parkway?

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

Why be difficult, when with a bit of effort, you can be impossible?

How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges.

If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made with meat?

Have you ever noticed how nothing is impossible for those who don't have to do it?

Why fart and waste it, when you can burp and taste it?

Since we all move so slow, why is it called rush hour?

If a cow laughs, does milk come out of it's nose.

Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

Why do they call them "apartments" when they’re all stuck together?

Why is it called a "building" when it is already built?

Why is it called a TV "set" when you only get one?

Why is it when two planes almost hit each other it is called a "near miss"? Shouldn’t it be called a "near hit"?

How can someone "draw a blank"?

How do you know it’s an ENDLESS LOOP?

If you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a height, what would happen?

Why does your nose run and your feet smell?

Why is it that when you transport something by car, it’s called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it’s called cargo?

If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make a sound?

If the cops arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent