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Ever You Wonder (Some stray thoughts ..)


  • Why are they called stairs inside but steps outside?

  • Why, any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner?

  • If love is blind, how can we believe in love at first sight?

  • Why ‘abbreviated’ is such a long word?

  • How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?

  • Why, when you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now?

  • If money doesn’t grow on trees then why do banks have branches?

  • Why is it that people say they *slept like a baby’ when babies wake up every 2 hours?

  • Why, as soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold?

  • Why does a round pizza come in a square box?

  • Why, when a deaf person has to go to court, it is still called a hearing?

  • If you’re driving at the speed of light what would happen if you turned on the headlights?

  • Why great discoveries are made by mistake?

  • Why, when you transport something by car it’s called a shipment and when you transport something by ship, it’s called cargo?

  • Why do they call a single TV a TV set?

  • Why, a good listener is usually thinking about something else?

  • If vegetarians eat only vegetables what do humanitarians eat?

  • Why are wrong numbers never busy?

  • Where does your lap go when you stand up?

Why do they call them runways at airports and not flyways?


  • Why, after your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch?

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53 Responses

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  1. Summer says

    Food for the brain. Liked it. :)

  2. ant r says

    lol

  3. nitin bhatnagar says

    nice one

  4. alter idem says

    :)

  5. gambu laar says

    some of them are never heard of by me. Nice one. ;-)

  6. gambu laar says

    some of them are never heard of by me. Nice one. ;-)

  7. ravi upadhye says

    YOU ARE SOOOOOO BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  8. Anonymous says

    Hi,
    It seems you are a friend of Nishant Paul. He has claimed that he writes poetries. Check this site and see yourself how he writes his poems. Kitna jhooth kitna sach.. sab saamne aa jayega.

    BTW, I am a great fan of Cuckoo’s writing.

  9. Dharmesh Paul says

    Good ones !!! very true actually

  10. Balu Nair says

    Wondering why I read this blog of yours when I really wanted a break! Really nice stray thoughts, friend and wishing you happy thinking!!

  11. mehek says

    :):):):)

  12. Manish Upadhyay says

    Nice thoughts persuaded to think again

  13. amishi says

    hahaha!! keep thinking ..keep writing.

  14. hemant ramteke says

    Now, this is some cool thougths

  15. Meoww Meoww says

    loved your thoughts! keep thinking!

  16. Manish Malladi says

    ummm. really nice questions…wonder if anyone has answers for them. One from my side: Why do most of the people in a theatre take the crowded exit door, when a nearby closed door which is marked EXIT can be opened by a gentle push?

  17. manisha sharma says

    nice thoughts..i luved the last one….

  18. Noanee Kapadia says

    tnx for stray thoughts

  19. nilima dahat says

    hey great post and good questions and nice used smiles all over

  20. nilima dahat says

    hey great post and good questions and nice used smiles all over

  21. me says

    Good one. Thank you.

  22. sunshine says

    great use of the smilies… good post

  23. simi m says

    hey..i read ur doubts abt the normal happenings..even i alwys wondered…why don we jus find the answers to those questions?!!!;)

  24. bublideepa g says

    Hi shailesh! wats up. u are havin so much time for such stray thoughts,right………..

  25. INDER VIG says

    hehehehe will need to scartch my head to sort out all this wonderfully posted by you,,,dont feel i will succeed in locating the answers.

  26. S V says

    Hey hey,lemme add one more to these “why”s. Why do we insist on touching the walls when it is already written ” wet paint.Do not touch”, somewhere close to the freshly painted thing ? :=))

  27. u says

    kjhj

  28. Balaji S says

    good one.
    Divij if the headlights are turned on, it will glow.

  29. Divij says

    Hi shailesh! Nice post . Tell me the answer of- When we are driving at the speed of light …… turned on headlights? Bye!

  30. Anitha kaveri says

    lol.. nice collections

  31. Miharika says

    Some of them are very nice. To some, the answers are obviously Murphys Law !!

  32. antara ghosh says

    hey nice 1.

  33. brown badger says

    these are things I cannot badger myself about… brown badger

  34. Rahul Daraad says

    MURPHY’’s law rules…..wow !!!

  35. komal asrani says

    Even I am looking and exploring for answers

  36. london uk says

    ah ha ha! very very nice!

  37. MileSur MeraTumhara says

    Agree with Ramesh R, nice collections of thought provoking questions about things that we always take for granted without any question.

  38. Kishor Morey says

    nice observation shailesh, i liked it. take care.

  39. maksud alam says

    first thank u 2 recieve me as friend

  40. nalam sudhakar says

    Trivial but quite thought provoking questions you have posted to keep ne’’s mind ticking. Thank U.

  41. balaji jayaseelan says

    you are wanted in the rediff Q and a

  42. Ramesh R says

    Nice set of questions…. set me thinking. Some made me smile too. Nice Post ….excellent thoughts (although Random ones). I suppose you shold add one more question perhaps… WHY ARE QUESTIONS FROM RANDOM THOUGHTS MORE INTERESTING THAN ORDINARY REGULAR ONES ?

  43. Muralidharan S says

    Hi,
    Sorry to say this. These stray thoughts have been under circulation for a quite long time..

  44. roja K says

    A NICE ONE. MADE ME SMILE
    THNX

  45. Robin Jack says

    The second one..things rolling to the inaccessible corner”.. always use to happen to me and I used to think about that…

  46. Sweet Sweetie says

    May be stray thots but really creative n original….. :)

  47. budhoose kanjoose says

    I will have to spend the rest of my life trying to find answers to these questions. but there is no guarantee that I will find them

  48. sonali sengupta says

    gud questions n let us know the answers if u cud figure them out

  49. Mari Vin says

    stray thots?no!! such a fantastic thots that stand firm in your mind ..:-)

  50. Mahen Mishra says

    Great stray thoughts…? But why do such innovative thoughts are called stray Thoughts…….!!!

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