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Welcome to Ponderings and Other Things. These are all interesting questions and one-liners that I have found on the net. As you can see, the amount of one-liners far surpasses that of Ponderings, so please, if you have anything to add, e-mail me at the address listed at the bottom of the page so I can add it!

If computer error messages were written in Japanese Haiku, here's what they would look like:

Stop where you are
Illegal operation
Repent and restart.

Lay off the substance
Brain cells will come in handy
When password slips mind.

Password incorrect
Access to all files denied
Lay off the ganja.

Regret, sweet Regret
Trash can emptied hastily
No undoing that.

Words writing themselves
Screen has gone haywire, oh no
Coke on the keyboard.

Download all you like
But when all drives are full up
Invest in more RAM.

Finally online, but
Parental supervision
Means no fun today.

Blasted web page takes
An eternity to load.
Pray for DSL.

Thesis near complete.
Save now and make hard copy.
Thunderstorm warning.

Time slips far away
While important deadline looms.
Solitaire be damned.

Bored with your CD's?
RIAA not looking.
Thank God for Napster.

"Ready" reads "Rredy"
Only one "z" in "hazard"
Forgot to spellcheck
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QUESTIONS TO PONDER
 
Why is it that dudes have an Adam's apple? I'm convinced that it's all about evolution. After years of pissing girls off and receiving a swift kick in the you-know-where, one "apple" moved up a little bit for survival reasons.
 
Wouldn't it be funny if job applications, etc had more college-related options for relationship status? Like, instead of just Single, Married, and Divorced they'd have "Dating around", "Friends With Benefits", or even "Occasional Drunk Hookup." 
 
Why is it that boys refer to their friends by their last names, while girls have more affectionate names for their so-called pals, like "skanky ho" and "slut"?

Do you know the one guy who checks his email only once a week, because he says he doesn't want to be a slave to technology? And what's more important, do you have his cell phone number?

If men's lovers are called "mistresses", then why aren't women's lovers called "misters"?

How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink?

If a cluttered desk is characteristic of a cluttered mind, what does an empty desk mean?

Why are cigarettes sold at gas stations when smoking is prohibited?

Why are there interstates in Hawaii?

Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?

If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?

If nothing ever sticks to Teflon, how do they make Teflon stick to the pan?

If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn on your headlights, what happens?

Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?

You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes--why can't they make the whole plane out of the same substance?

Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

Why do they call it a "building"? It looks like they're finished. Why isn't it a "built"?

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

Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a
whack?

Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy
adultery?

When someone asks you, "A penny for your
thoughts" and you put your two cents in ... what happens to the other penny?

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

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

Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?

What hair color do they put on the driver's
licenses of bald men?

I was thinking about how people seem to read the
Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me. They're cramming for their final exam.

Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be
if it didn't zigzag?

Whatever happened to Preparations A through G?

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

If the Jacksonville Jaguars are known as the Jags" and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are known as the "Bucs," what does that make the Tennessee Titans?

Other Things

I really believe the punctuality of the entire world would be improved if the snooze button was removed from all alarm clocks.

I'm getting sick and tired of not being old enough to go to bars. I think they need to make a place where kids under 21 can go and drink also. Oh wait, that's a frat party.

Formals are great - you get to wear a new dress and pretend like you are going to the prom, except you are older and way more mature. And instead of consummating your relationship with your high school sweetheart, you are going to get it on with that random dude whose roommate knew your cousin's best friend and set the two of you up so he'd have a date.

Napping is a huge part of my life. I live for naps. In fact, I live my life thinking ahead to the next time I can nap. I am at the point where I will easily sacrifice meals and/or social events for the sole purpose of napping. If someone wakes me up in the middle of a nap, I will become very irritable. When I come to that point where I no longer have adequate time for a nap during the day, I have apparently graduated college. I definitely think college is a time when you re-learn to value the basics in life. It's during preschool and college that this realization comes into play. I knew then what I know now: the good things in life are food in disposable containers, napping, and drinking out of bottles.

My newest hobby is reading away messages. It's like stalking, but no one will know you are doing it. I even have people's names on my buddy list that I don't know, but I hear they have really good away messages.

Do you have a hider name?  You know you do. You sit and watch your buddies signing on and off from the security of a secret name. The only glitch is when you forget that you are undercover and you IM a buddy. Now you have to make a whole new hider name. Meanwhile, I have twenty-seven screen names.

Do you feel that sense of unity wash over you as finals time approaches?  Suddenly everyone in your class is your best friend, you hold doors for people, you say hi to strangers.  And everyone smiles at you knowingly, with that look that can only mean, "yeah, I'm about to get anally raped too."

Whoever invented mistletoe is a genius. But whoever limited its use to one month each year is a cruel bastard.

The American Heritage dictionary definition of procrastination is to put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness. The college definition procrastination is that you have five finals in the next two weeks, and you're actually reading this anyway.

Some people get really offended if they get blocked, even by someone they hate. Someone can hang up the phone when you call, totally ignore you on the street, and never answer your e-mails. But the second they prevent you from sending them a little yellow smiley face, it's personal.

*NEW*

Barney = Satan
The truth is finally known! Barney seems innocent and sweet but in fact he is Satan. It's all very simple:

1) Start with the given: CUTE PURPLE DINOSAUR

2) Change all U's to V's (which is proper Latin anyway): CVTE PVRPLE DINOSAVR

3) Extract all Roman Numerals: C V V L D I V

4) Convert into Arabic values: 100 5 5 50 500 1 5

5) Add all the numbers: 666

Thus, Barney is Satan.

Have a question that you ponder? A simple truth to add? E-mail it to me at cantfightmoonlight@excite.com and I will add it to this page.