A comedian on t.v. brought up this paradox once on “Evening at the Improv” and it has bugged me ever since:
People DRIVE their cars on PARKWAYS, and PARK their cars in DRIVEWAYS.
Any linguists out there who can explain this?
I heard one the other night, it had to do with a chicken crossing a road, but I forgot the punchline. Sigh.
CKDextHavn
The chicken crossed the road for fowl reasons.
See, fat angel, you should have come here first, then you wouldn’t have been bugged for so long. Next time, heh?
While it was a few weeks ago, I did do a SD search for this topic, but couldn’t get it to come up. Hunh.
Oh well, at least now I have an answer to ONE of life’s perplexing mysteries…