Thoughts that you ponder that keep you up at night

Appleseed said:

What color was jet black before Frank Whittle invented jets?

Jet is a black gemstone. It's a form of lignite. It's black as coal 'cause it is coal.

Datsun310Guy said:

dean1484 said:

Why is there air?

First comedy album that I listened to.  Bill answered it in 1965.

 

Yep. What I was alluding to. Great to see someone else that got the reference.  You then know "The Belt". 

kazoospec said:

Keeps me awake:  Way to serious for this thread?

Wakes me up in the middle of the night?  The following: What is my locker combination?  Why can't I remember it? I have to be in a class I've never taken for the final exam in 3 minutes.  Wait a minute, I'm almost 50 and haven't had a locker in 30 years . . . Boom, awake.  

Or the "I thought I dropped this class but I didn't and the final is tomorrow" dream. 

If the police find a body and don't know who it is how do they know who their dentist is? 

At the zoo today: do giraffes get struck by lightning?

And are zebras black with white stripes? Their buttcrack is black...

In reply to Dusterbd13-michael :

Now I'm going to be up wondering why you are looking at zebra butt crack.

In reply to Stampie :

Three were turned to us the entire time. I was noticing that each tail had different stripes....

In reply to Dusterbd13-michael :

So now you're admitting to looking at three zebra butt cracks.  Hey who am I to judge someone on their fetishes.

If Dino was supposed to be a dinosaur, why does he bark like a dog?

I believe Steve Martin should get credit for this:

If your knees bent the other way, what would a chair look like?

In reply to dean1484 :

Aaaaahhhhhhh.  Drawing a blank. 

Dusterbd13-michael said:

At the zoo today: do giraffes get struck by lightning?

And are zebras black with white stripes? Their buttcrack is black...

I believe science finally solved that zebra question: There are two species of zebra. You can tell them apart because one is a white horse with black stripes and the other species is a black horse with white stripes.

Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) said:

I believe Steve Martin should get credit for this:

If your knees bent the other way, what would a chair look like?

This thread might as well be titled 'The random E36 M3 my kid asks me at bedtime'... If only I had the foresight (and energy) to document them all, I'd have some real gems to share.

One of the recent ones was "How was language created?"... The explanation of which eventually led to us briefly swapping the definitions of 'water' and 'pee'.

Yourself said:

The things that go through my head at night....

Am I the only one that finds it amusing that the word "verb" is a noun?

Or that "palindrome" isn't a palindrome?

Or that an antonym of "synonym" is "antonym", but the reverse is not true?

And why, every time I think about electric vehicles, this runs through my mind:

    "It went "Zip!" when it moved.

      and "Bop" when it stopped.

      And "Whirrrr!" when it stood still."

Or why does the word hyphenated not have a hyphen, but non-hyphenated does?

Why do Adam and Eve have bellybuttons in every painting?

What the hell is the cat doing?

ShawnG said:

Why do Adam and Eve have bellybuttons in every painting?

Where did Cain and Abel get their wives?

Datsun310Guy said:

ShawnG said:

Why do Adam and Eve have bellybuttons in every painting?

Where did Cain and Abel get their wives?

West Virginia 

What went "bang" in the Big Bang and how did it get here?

Who are all these small people,  and why do they keep calling me "Dad"?

Crxpilot said:

What went "bang" in the Big Bang and how did it get here?

Everything.

AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:

Datsun310Guy said:

ShawnG said:

Why do Adam and Eve have bellybuttons in every painting?

Where did Cain and Abel get their wives?

West Virginia 

I often wondered about the rampant incest when Noah's family had to repopulate the earth.

Should I poop now or can I hold it till morning?

Will my day suck worse tomorrow if I don't get enough sleep because my wife is snoring, or if my wife doesn't get enough sleep because I nudged her to stop her snoring?