Q1. Why do the majority of traditional English tea shops close at tea time?
[It's true. Most seem to close at around 3pm or 3.30pm, which is before what most people would regard as 'tea time']
Q2. Why are communication companies always the hardest to communicate with?
[Anyone who's ever tried to get some information out of BT, without going round and round in circles with "Press 1 for this and 2 for that" will understand that question!]
Q3. How is it that we can land a man on the moon but we can't design a tea pot that doesn't dribble?
Q4. Why are badges with 'Customer Service' on them only ever worn by people who've got absolutely no understanding of what those words mean?
Q5. Why is going on strike, and doing nothing all day, referred to as 'industrial action'? Shouldn't it be 'industrial inaction?'
Q6. With over two billon children in the world, all of whom seem to have totally limitless energy, why have we got an energy crisis?
Q7. How is that, irrespective of the colour of clothing worn by a person, navel fluff is always grey?
Q8. Why is it that, however hard you shake it, the last drop always goes down your leg?