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Only in America...
- Can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance
- Are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink
- Do drugstores 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
- Do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a DIET coke
- Do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters
- Do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage
- Do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place
- Do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight
- Do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creature'
- Do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering
Ever Wonder...
- Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?
- Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?
- Why you don't ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery?"
- Why "abbreviated" is such a long word?
- Why the doctors call what they do "practice?"
- Why it is that to stop Windows 98, you have to click on "Start?"
- Why lemon juice is made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?
- Why the man who invests all your money is called a broker?
- Why the time of day with the slowest traffic is called rush hour?
- Why there isn't a mouse-flavored cat food?
- Who tests the dog food that is "new and improved?"
- Why Noah didn't swat those two mosquitoes?
- Why they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
- Why they don't make the whole plane with that indestructible stuff black box is made out of?
- Why sheeps don't shrink when it rains?
- Why they're called apartments when they are all stuck together?
- If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?
- If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?
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