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by Peggy Robin
Too many times I have used this space to propose solutions
to various problems in life, or advocate for this or that change. This time it’s
different: here's a collection of a dozen questions, and no answers. But feel free to post any answers below, if you’ve got ‘em.
If Tarzan grew up in the jungle, raised by apes, why is he
always clean-shaven?
Which came first, the Alphabet Song or Twinkle Twinkle
Little Star?
If ghosts can float through walls, why don’t they float
through the floor?
If you saw the endangered Florida panther stalking the
endangered Florida Key deer, which one would you root for?
How is it that we put a man on the moon before we invented
wheeled luggage?
Why was he called the “lone” ranger when he always had Tonto
at his side?
What was Captain Hook’s name before he lost his hand?
If you blindfolded a chameleon and moved it from a brown to
a green background, would it stay brown?
There are double A batteries, triple A batteries, and C
batteries and D-cells….but what happened to the B’s?
If Wile E. Coyote could order all those gadgets from the
Acme Company, why couldn’t he just order dinner?
If vampires can’t see themselves in the mirror, why is their
hair always so perfect?
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Still Life with Robin is published on the Cleveland Park Listserv and on All Life Is Local on Saturdays...and occasionally (like today) on Sundays.
Whoever does Jane's makeup is clearly shaving Tarzan.
ReplyDeleteThe Lone Ranger is called that (a) because Tonto is not a ranger or (b) for the same reason dictionaries not so long ago included "inhabited only by primitive natives" among the definitions of "uninhabited."
The USSR did not beat the free world to an innovation in luggage technology (Chemodannik?) that had to be publicly surpassed.
A B battery is like settling for silver in a gold medal game; if you're C, you won the bronze medal game.
Ghosts don't float through the floor because they want you to see them coming.
Vampires have neat hair because they don't keep fiddling with it in front of the mirror.
Wile E. Coyote does not live near any good takeouts, you city slicker.
Wow, you really DO have the answers! These are brilliant!
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