Imponderables

• Why is there only one Monopolies Commission?
  What does occasional furniture do the rest of the time?
  How can you have a jug full of evaporated milk?
  What shape did things go before we had pears?
  How is it possible to have a controlled explosion?
  Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?
  How is it possible to have a civil war?
  If all the world’s a stage, where does the audience sit?
  If the No. 2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still No. 2?
  Why is there an expiry date on sour cream?
  If most car accidents happen within five miles of home, why doesn’t everybody move ten miles away?
  If the black box flight recorders are so tough, why don’t they make the whole plane out of the same material?
  If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
  If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown as well?
  Why do the people who paint the words in the middle of the traffic lanes all have the same handwriting?
  What shape do pears go when it all starts going wrong?
  Can you think of a nicer word for ‘euphemism’?
  What’s another word for ‘thesaurus’?
  
  Oxymorons:
  Socialist worker
  Military intelligence
  Young conservative
  Microsoft Works