Purple Realm

How old are you before it can be said you died of old age?

If nobody buys a ticket to a movie, do they screen it at the cinema anyway?

Do penguins have knees?

Is it possible to cry underwater?

Why do parents sing, 'Rock-A-Bye Baby' to their children to lull them to sleep, when the song is about putting a baby in a tree and letting the wind crash the cradle and infant to the ground?

Why do sleeping pills carry the label 'may cause drowsiness'?

How come that no matter what colour bubble bath you use, the bubbles are always white?

When asked, 'what three things would you take to a desert island?' how come nobody says, oh, I dunno, 'a BOAT'?

How does Freddy Kruger wipe his butt?

How come elderly people are referred to as, 'old people', but children aren't 'new people'?

Why 'chickpea'? Chickpeas aren't chicks or peas..

Why are blacklights purple?

Did Yankee Doodle name his hat, feather, pony or the town 'Macaroni'?

Why do people duck in the rain??

What's a hacky, and why is it in a sack?

Why do mattresses have designs on them?

Why does flammable and inflammable mean the same thing?

Why don't they make entire aeroplanes out of the same material used for the black box?

Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?

Why do people think Humpty Dumpty is an egg? It never says he is...

If Wile Coyote had enough money to buy all that stuff from ACME, why didn't he just buy his food?

What was the best thing before sliced bread?

If you try to fail and succeed, have you failed or succeeded?

And, finally, who was the first person to milk a cow - and more disturbingly, why did they try it...?