08 July 2011

Tell me why ...

... "roses are red and violets are blue" - when roses need not be red, but violets should really be violet?

... you park in a driveway and drive on a parkway - but when you park on a parkway it's call 'rush hour' traffic, even though nobody can RUSH anywhere because everyone's parked on the parkway in so much traffic?

... football, soccer, and basketball are split evenly in quarters and/or halves, while hockey has three periods?

... the Upper Penninsula of Michigan isn't a part of Wisconsin?

... Utah has a salt lake?

... the Mississippi River neither starts nor ends in Mississippi?

... Michigan City is in Indiana - or for that matter why the largest 'Kansas City' is in Missouri?

... when you want an answer, nobody's around, but someone will always give you plenty of answers you don't need?