H.Kishie Singh is based in Chandigarh and has been a motoring correspondent for newspapers like The Statesman, New Delhi and The Tribune.His column ‘Good Motoring’, for The Tribune ran for over 27 years. He has been also been the contributing editor for magazines like Car & Bike, Auto Motor & Sport and Auto India. His latest book Good Motoring was published recently and has co-authored a book with The Dalai Lama, Ruskin Bond, Khuswant Singh and others, called The Whispering Deodars.


Sunday, 18 October 2020

LOGIC LEADS TO CONFUSION

 

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

 

2. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

 

3. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

 

4. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

 

5. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

 

6. Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

 

7. When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?

 

8. Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?

 

9. Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?

 

10. Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?

 

11. Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one?

 

12. "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

 

13. If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, dog trainers debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?

 

14. What hair colour do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?

 

15. Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the postmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?

 

16. You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

 

17. No one ever says, "It's only a game" when their team is winning.

 

18. Ever wonder about those people who spend £2.00 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backwards: NAIVE

 

19. Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?

 

20. If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhoea, does that mean that fifth one ENJOYS it?