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Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
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Why do birds have white poop?
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If you try to fail and suceed, what did you just do?
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Why is the blackboard green?
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Where in the nursery rhyme does it say humpty dumpty is an egg?
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What would happen if an Irresistable Force met an Immovable Object?
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Why doesn’t superglue stick to the inside of the tube?
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Shouldn’t it be called a “near hit”?
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Why don’t sheep’s coats shrink in the rain?
OK, this is a little “Gallager”, but…how [U}do they open & close the door after the bus driver gets off the bus?
There must be a lever. Howw do they lock the doors so the bus can’t get swiped? 
uhh… isn’t that what I just asked?
The starlings, blackbirds and other little fellows outside of my work eat berries and olives when available, which give their excretions a purple tinge.
Simple—they reach in through the driver’s side window, pull the lever, then close the window. I’ve seen it done when they stop at subway stations and are taking a smoke/food break. To get back in, they open the window and pull the lever again.
In the UK, IIRC, there is a little turnable switch thing just below knee level beside the doors. These open/close the doors, I might be thinking of trains but it’s something similar.
I don’t think there’s much to stop me going up and opening a bus/train and getting in (apart from the other people generally milling around these places). However, you’d need a key (or several, or something) to start it. And who wants to steal a bus ?
Of course it may be different in the US.
I’m not sure about the other questions but I’m off to check some things out … I might be back.
SpaceDog
It’s in Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.
From here.
I’m not sure I can answer the rest of them without descending into sillyness.
SpaceDog
Bus doors do have locks. You want to close it from the outside? No problem…just give it a push shut as you would do with most doors. Want to open it again? Greyhound style busses have a plunger on the front of the bus. Unlock your door then mash the plunger and the door pops open. For school busses I think the first/last person enters and exits throught the rear door.
Even though these probably aren’t meant to be answered I’ll give them a shot anyway (I’m bored):
*1. Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer? *
Just guessing but maybe the temperature differential in a freezer is too great to handle a hot light turning on and you risk breaking the bulb. Or…you don’t want to add heat to a freezer where you want things to remain frozen as opposed to the fridge where a few degree rise isn’t too big a deal (also…the freezer is almost always smaller so added heat would have a greater impact on internal temperature).
2. Why do birds have white poop?
Dunno but I think they pee and poop at the same time. Beyond that I’m sure it has something to do with what they eat vs. what we tend to eat as well as their internal digestive systems geared to process things a bit differently.
*3. If you try to fail and suceed, what did you just do? *
You succeeded in failing but you still failed in whatever it was you were doing. In short, you did both.
*4. Why is the blackboard green? *
Most blackboards I’ve seen are black. The few green ones I’ve run across were probably some clever marketing maneuver by someone wanting to compete with blackboard manufacturers.
*5. Where in the nursery rhyme does it say humpty dumpty is an egg? *
Nowhere but it was an illustrated poem so I guess people just looked at the picture.
*6. What would happen if an Irresistable Force met an Immovable Object? *
This is an age old philosophy question and no one has figured it out yet. Along with this was, “Could God make an object so big that ‘he’ couldn’t move it?”
*7. Why doesn’t superglue stick to the inside of the tube? *
Not sure but it requires air to do its thing. Either the glue reacts with oxygen or nitrogen or evaporation of some component of the glue allows what’s left to set. There is too little air in the glue bottle to allow this to occur.
*8. Shouldn’t it be called a “near hit”? *
George Carlin did this one and it would make more sense. Carlin went on to say that two planes (or cars or whatever) that crash constitute a near miss. As in, “Awww look…they nearly missed!”
9. Why don’t sheep’s coats shrink in the rain?
Do you know that they don’t?
'Cos people don’t wanna defrost a Swanson “Hungry Man” meal for a midnight snack.
'Cos they pee and poop outta the same hole - the cloaca. 'S all mixed up.
What you set out to do. Duh.
'Cos greenboard sounds stupid.
The nursery rhyme is in fact a riddle, the answer to which is “an egg”.
The coyote gets flattened.
'Cos it hasn’t dried out yet.
No. If you hit it, you don’t miss.
Unspun wool.
2.) From this site
3.) You have succeeded. Use the movie “The Producers” as an example: the protaganists aim to fail, and if they had they would have succeeded at their goal. It’s all about what your goal is, even if it’s failure in someone else’s eyes.
4.) Blackboards were originally slate, and black. Green ones are properly called chalkboards, but habits are difficult to break.
5.) It’s called a riddle. Check out this Staff Report for an explanation.
7.) You have to know something about how glue works. From How Stuff Works :
Also, the plastic used in the bottle is not conducive to adhesion.
8.) No. You could say two objects “nearly hit,” but in the case of “near miss” the word near means “nearly not happening” (check out Merriam-Webster’s entry). Therefore, near miss means “nearly not missed” – if that clears it up for you.
Mine has a light
It’s not poop.
It’s urine.
However, if you look in the center of it, the little dark thingie is the poop.
I’ve also seen busses with just a lock in the front that opens & closes the door, similar to the lock/plunger combo described above. On some busses (like old London-style double-deckers), you’d just open the door, get out, and shut it (they have a separate cab).
As for,
- Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
Some do, some don’t. Walk-in freezers have lights. The only ones I’ve seen in consumer refrigerators were in side-by-side models, so I’m guessing that the light is there to brighten the longer compartment, but it could be anyone’s guess. BurnMeUp, is yours side-by-side or top & bottom?
I tend to pack my (top) freezer to the roof, so I’m not sure where the bulb would be or it’s effectiveness. This is in contrast to my refrigerator, which has plenty of space above the top row of food.
There’s also the whole frost on the bulb thing, which could lead to a shorting out the bulb thing.
For what it’s worth: my mom used to drive a school bus when I was in elementary school. We had enough room at our house that she could park the bus on our property at night, which was convenient, since she could leave for her route straight from home. Anyway, there wasn’t much of a trick to it; she just pulled the door closed enough such that animals and the like wouldn’t get in. It would open with a push on the hinge.
I think that, once we move outside the realm of zen foolishness, the existance of one of these things automatically makes impossible the existance of the other. IOW, if an immoveable object exists, there can be no such thing as an irresistable force, and vice versa.
It’s not actually urine, buturic acid.
Yes, stealing busses is the national pastime here. A man isn’t really a man until he steals a bus.
Oh, please. These two definitions are mutually exclusive and can’t exist simultaneously.