FW: Confusing English !!

• Honeybunz

  30 Oct 05, 22:47

  1. If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP ?
  
  2. Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks ?
  
• mystiv

  30 Oct 05, 22:48

  2) tea-breaks lah
• Honeybunz

  30 Oct 05, 22:48

  3. If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from ?
  
  4. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes ?
  
  5. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery ?
  
• StarPuppy

  30 Oct 05, 22:49

  3. Why is a boxing ring square?
• stellazio

  30 Oct 05, 22:50

  Originally posted by StarPuppy:

  3. Why is a boxing ring square?

  cause a box can come in a shape of a square?
• the Bear

  30 Oct 05, 22:50

  if you cross a Bulldog with a Shihtzu, do you get a Bull-Shihtz?
  
  
• StarPuppy

  30 Oct 05, 22:50

  Originally posted by stellazio:

  cause a box can come in a shape of a square?

  but its a ring....
• Honeybunz

  30 Oct 05, 22:50

  6. Why the man who invests all your money called a broker ?
  
  7. If horrific means to make horrible, does terrific mean to make terrible ?
  
  8. Why is it called building when it is already built ?
  
  9. If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success ?
  
  10. If you're not supposed to drink and drive, then why do bars have parking lots ?
  
  11. If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented ?
  
  12. If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat ?? Humans ???
  
  
• stellazio

  30 Oct 05, 22:50

  Originally posted by Honeybunz:

  3. If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from ?
  
  4. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes ?
  
  5. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery ?
  

  4. better den calling them polish right?
• renorenal

  30 Oct 05, 22:50

  New breed of dogs...
  
  If Bulldog were to be bred with a shih tzu...
  
  Would it be called BULLSHIT?
• renorenal

  30 Oct 05, 22:52

  Originally posted by Honeybunz:

  11. If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented ?
  

  I like this...
• kaobeikaobu

  30 Oct 05, 23:14

  why oversee and overlook have opposite meanings?
• Pitot

  30 Oct 05, 23:37

  If the O in O lvl stands for Ordinary, And the N in N lvl stands for normal,
  Why do they take different exams when normal = ordinary?
• NuLife

  30 Oct 05, 23:47

  Thats why english is crap.
  Chinese is more meaningful.
  
• Pitot

  30 Oct 05, 23:48

  Originally posted by NuLife:

  Thats why english is crap.
  Chinese is more meaningful.
  

  
  
• monkeybusiness

  30 Oct 05, 23:49

  Originally posted by Honeybunz:

  3. If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from ?
  
  4. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes ?
  
  5. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery ?
  

  
• Pitot

  30 Oct 05, 23:55

  A pig's offspring is called a piglet..
  Why can't a bull's offspring be called a bullet?
• Honeybunz

  30 Oct 05, 23:57

  Originally posted by NuLife:

  Thats why english is crap.
  Chinese is more meaningful.
  

  
• dreamthinkdo_ers

  31 Oct 05, 00:00

  If 7-11 is open 24 Hr a day 365 days a year, 366 for leap year, why is there a lock on the door?
• NoTimeToWaitAr

  31 Oct 05, 00:53

  why kamikaze pilots wore helmets???
• Archie_boy

  31 Oct 05, 01:23

  If indecent is the opposite of decent, why is the word inflammable is also flammable?
• FireIce

  31 Oct 05, 01:24

  Originally posted by dreamthinkdo_ers:

  If 7-11 is open 24 Hr a day 365 days a year, 366 for leap year, why is there a lock on the door?

  got 7-11 no open 24hrs one u know
  
  at NUH
• sinicker

  31 Oct 05, 01:25

  citylink mall too.
• Pitot

  31 Oct 05, 01:26

  The one in Kovan Mrt oso.. becos MRT station not 24 hrs.. lol
  
  
• Altis84

  31 Oct 05, 01:29

  Originally posted by Pitot:

  If the O in O lvl stands for Ordinary, And the N in N lvl stands for normal,
  Why do they take different exams when normal = ordinary?

  this one i have been wondering for very long liao....
  
  they should name it as b level for basic .... I level for intermediate and a level for advanced... lolx