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    Nope guess again.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nell67 View Post
    Nope guess again.
    A guide's clothing?
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    ...a compass?
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    Let's try a process of elimination.

    First, we know that it can't be 2dumb's skull, because that's ALWAYS empty.
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    Airplane ???

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    A glove.
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    Wednesday morning, a cowboy rode into town. He stayed for four days, and rode out of town on Friday.

    How can this be?
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    Quote Originally Posted by 2dumb2kwit View Post
    Wednesday morning, a cowboy rode into town. He stayed for four days, and rode out of town on Friday.

    How can this be?
    What was the Horse's name?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0KKGdb4qUY
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    I always hated that song. LOL
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    The horse's name was

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    right?
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    Yeppers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 2dumb2kwit View Post
    I always hated that song. LOL

    That song was by America.

    So you're even.

    America hates you, 2dumb.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 2dumb2kwit View Post
    Yeppers.
    So are ya' gonna' give us any hints to your riddle?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ken View Post
    So are ya' gonna' give us any hints to your riddle?
    The "Yeppers" was for your correct answer.
    Sorry I didn't quote your answer.....I didn't mean to confuse you.
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    2dumb? Why is "bra" singular and "panties" plural?
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    why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ken View Post
    2dumb? Why is "bra" singular and "panties" plural?
    I don't know. Maybe it has something to do with the number of stupid things we'll do, to get in them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Justin Case View Post
    why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway ?
    I don't know. Why do they call them "apartments", when they're all stuck together?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Justin Case View Post
    why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway ?
    well Dr Orville says,

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    Driveways and Parkways
    Dr. Orville Boyd Jenkins

    Question 1:
    Why is a park called a park when you can't park there?

    Answer:
    Because the term park as in "park a car" is not the root meaning of the word -- it is a special narrow meaning. The term park means an enclosure, an enclosed place. So the base meaning is a place that is closed off for some special purpose, like an animal game park or a park for people to walk, play or exercise.

    This was applied to a vehicle when they were developed in the idea of putting a car in its place, its enclosure, like the car port or garage. Thus parks in general are not places to put cars, they are places to enclose for a particular use. Buts car parks definitely are places for putting cars, because they are marked off and enclosed for that limited purpose, as any park is designated for its particular purpose.

    Question 2:
    Why do you park on a driveway, and drive on a parkway?

    Answer:
    The usages are extended from the base meanings of the words, and are consistent with these meanings.

    A "park" is a place set aside for a specific purpose.

    The English word way is the equivalent of the Latin word via, meaning "road" or "path." Thus a "parkway" is a road (way) through a park. The road is used by cars, thus you can drive on a parkway, that is you can drive on the road (way) through the park.

    The term driveway originated as the designation for the place you drive you car into at the house, like from the gate of the farm, or estate, to the house. When you got to the end of the driveway, you would park the car. ("Park," as in the meaning described above, because you are putting the car in the place designated for the car, that is the car park.)

    The term driveway was thus established and continued to be used, even when people with tract houses had only a short "way" to drive to the house, so the place where you drive the car into by any house is called a driveway.

    It is still consistent with the base meaning and broader usage of the term in that you "drive" into and onto the "way" designated for the car for that dwelling.

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    Justin, that kinda' stuff is way too cerebral for us to deal with.

    There's an easier explanation:

    A driveway is where you start when you wanna' drive away.

    A Parkway is the way you get to a parking lot.

    Problem solved.
    Last edited by Ken; 02-20-2010 at 05:20 PM. Reason: Missed the second "o" in "too."
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