WHY?........................................................

[OLDEREK]

ENJOY...............

Why do supermarkets make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
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Why do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.
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Why do banks leave vault doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.
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Why do we leave cars worth thousands of pounds in our driveways and put our useless junk in the garage.
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Why do we buy hamburgers in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight..
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EVER WONDER ...

Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?
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Why can't women put on mascara with their mouth closed?
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Why don't you ever see the headline 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
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Why is 'abbreviated' such a long word?
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Why is it that doctors call what they do 'practice'?
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Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavouring, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?
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Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
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Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
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Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
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Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?
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Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
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You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?!
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Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
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Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?
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If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?
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[John Haldane]

Like it, but does any one have the answer.
John H

[shadowhunters]

Very good questions, very funny haha,

Sam

[stratmantd]

A Quiz, such fun ….


Why do supermarkets make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

They don’t. Supermarkets in the UK do not have a dispensing pharmacy, at least none do that I know of. Cigarettes are kept behind the counter or in a separate “kiosk” alongside spirits for security reasons. They can be locked up at times when they are not licensed to be sold. Many customers will go into the supermarket to only buy cigarettes whereas those looking to get a prescription dispensed will more than likely do it while doing the shopping. There is therefore no need to have the dispensary (if such a thing existed) at the front.
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Why do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.

Because they don’t have a clue how to eat healthily and because diet Coke tastes better than the full-fat version.
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Why do banks leave vault doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.

They don’t. Vault doors are kept shut. They are also out of sight of any customers. Any pens chained to the counter (few and far between these days) are chained there to prevent them from being stolen so that there will be a pen available for all customers and not just the first light-fingered one.
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Why do we leave cars worth thousands of pounds in our driveways and put our useless junk in the garage.

Because we are stupid.
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Why do we buy hamburgers in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

I don’t buy hamburgers unless they are Aberdeen Angus burgers which come in packs of four from M & S and tend to have some meat in them, not just lips and arseholes and other scrapings from the abattoir floor. Presumably some people will have two burgers instead of one on their bun.
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EVER WONDER ...

Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

Ultra Violet radiation from the sun can break apart molecular structure and change the way colour is reflected back thus the bleaching effect. The same UV light can damage your skin and cause cancerous growths, The body’s natural reaction is to create the brown coloured melanin which protects the skin from damage.
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Why can't women put on mascara with their mouth closed?

Opening the mouth steadies their eyes and helps women keep them open while making up. What a pity they can’t find a reason to shut their mouths more often.
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Why don't you ever see the headline 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

There is no such thing as a psychic. They are fraudsters who prey on the bereaved and other desperate people.
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Why is 'abbreviated' such a long word?

It’s not that big a word.
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Why is it that doctors call what they do 'practice'?

They don’t. Doctors PRACTISE medicine and the surgery is called a medical PRACTICE. Only ignorant Americans use the word PRACTICE as a verb. PRACTISE = VERB, PRACTICE = NOUN.
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Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavouring, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?

Lemon juice is a naturally occurring liquid which can be squeezed from a lemon. What the question is referring to is lemon-flavour juice. Real lemons are used in washing-up liquid because lemons deodorise, remove grease, bleach stains, and disinfect; alternatives would not have the same result.
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Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

The word broker derives from the Anglo-Normandian “Brocour” which means a small trader. It has nothing to do with making you “broke” i.e. currently, but not necessarily permanently, out of money although his action might have that result.
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Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

Rush refers to the volume of traffic/commuters and not their rate of flow.
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Why isn't there mouse-flavoured cat food?

There is. Mice.
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Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

This implies that mosquitoes are “unclean” according to jewish dogma. If they are not unclean then there would have been either seven or seven pairs. (the wording is unclear). If he had swatted them, presumably he would have been punished by god for killing the creatures that he was supposed to be saving.
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Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?

All hypodermic needles (invented in Scotland) come in packages already sterilised and are therefore not sterilised for any specific purpose. I suppose the murderers who carry out the lethal injections could save them for the next time but there is always the chance that they could jab themselves. That would be poetic justice.
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You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?!

It would make the plane far too heavy.
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Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

For the same reason that people don’t shrink in the bath or under a shower. The question presumably refers to the wool which is coated in a protective oil which repels the water so that the poor creature does not become waterlogged and have to try to carry all that additional weight around.
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Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

Because they keep the occupants apart.
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If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

The word terminal has nothing to do with death in the context of travel. It is where the journey starts and ends. If terminal meant death then when a falling body reached its terminal velocity it would die. This is obviously not so as terminal velocity is the speed at which a falling body ceases to accelerate and continues to fall at a constant rate until sudden deceleration on hitting the ground. Thus the terminal velocity of a person could be argued to be 0 mph/Mps/Kph/Light Years (in fact any unit of speed devised so far).
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[noelford]

Sorry, you failed on the first question! Many supermarkets have dispensing pharmacies, including our local Morrisons in Aberystwyth!

[stratmantd]

I did qualify my answer by saying that I didn't know of any supermarkets with a dispensary.

I have now heard of ONE. So far I will accept Some or A FEW but not MANY.... yet!

[SELEDA284]

[quote="stratmantd"]A Quiz, such fun …. a quiz?????????? a quiz???????? are you serious???????

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"Why do supermarkets make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front. "
They don’t. Supermarkets in the UK do not have a dispensing pharmacy, at least none do that I know of.

[color=#BF4080]Both the Morrison's & Asda's in my area have dispensing pharmacies........& so do both of the nearest Tesco's........

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"Why can't women put on mascara with their mouth closed?"
Opening the mouth steadies their eyes and helps women keep them open while making up.
[color=#BF0000]What a pity they can’t find a reason to shut their mouths more often.[/color].......

[b]I find that last remark offensive, & so probably do all the other women members on here.........

I hope an apology will soon be forthcoming from you...........this post was started as a bit of lighthearted fun (& taken as such by most of us that have read it) , not a Mastermind quiz.........

[noelford]

Well, a very quick and easy check reveals that a very large number of the major supermarkets have dispensing pharmacies.

I also agree with Lesley that the sexist comment was uncalled for.

[stratmantd]

Well, they shouldn't have dispensing pharmacies. It's because of these supermarkets that local shops are dying out. They should be supported, not allowed to be destroyed by multinationals.

btw, the female spelling of Lesley is Lesley and not Leslie.

[quote="stratmantd"]A Quiz, such fun …. a quiz?????????? a quiz???????? are you serious??????? ------ erm, let me think.... no?

[noelford]

Well, they shouldn't have dispensing pharmacies. It's because of these supermarkets that local shops are dying out.

Well, at least that's one thing we can agree on!