So, if America is named after Amerigo vespucci

[Zuni]

why isn't it called "Ameriga"?

:shrug:

what other imponderables have you been dealing with lately?

[progmom]

1. i have been wondering

what the hell Zuni has been smoking this morning.

:hi:

[Zuni]

2. nothing but harmless tobacco

:D

:hi:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. Yeah.

Right.

[Zuni]

11. I am at work

it isn't like I could be pulling bong hits here

[WeRQ4U]

3. Why do you wear a "pair" of pants but you only wear "one" shirt?

Why are your leg coverings considered a "pair" but your arm coverings considered one article? I don't understand.

[Zuni]

7. ahhh...that is one that has challenged me for years

:thumbsup:

[hfojvt]

17. condsider the torso to limb proportions

unless you are J-Lo or have a whole lot of junk in your trunk, a pair of pants is mostly legs, whereas a shirt is mostly torso - chest and stomach, but then why do we say a pair of underpants?

[WeRQ4U]

23. Good analysis

The reference to underpants in pairs may be its derivative from "Pants". OR, it may have to do with it's attachment, not to the legs, but to the buttocks. Who knows.

Either way, it's odd to refer to a single article of clothing as a "pair".

I don't put on a sock when I put on both of them do I?

My head just exploded by the way. lol

[chknltl]

4. Why is there an Interstate Highway in

Hawaii?

[Zuni]

5. why is I-97 in Maryland called an "interstate"?

it goes about 25 miles from Route 50 outside Annapolis to the Baltimore Beltway. It doesn't even go outside Anne Arundel County, much less cross state lines!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. They plan to build a REALLY long bridge (nt)

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

8. From what I understand, it's due to illegible handwriting.

Can't confirm that though

[Zuni]

10. I think it is was deliberate

part of a plan to deny Amerigo vespucci credit for whatever he did, which I am not exactly sure was, at this moment

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

14. Everyone does try to screw over the Italians.

I don't doubt it one bit!

[Midlodemocrat]

12. I have wondered all my life...

why do I park in the driveway and drive on the parkway?

A conundrum, me thinks.

[northzax]

13. anti-Italian bias, obviously

The big question is why isn't it Vespuccia? We don't have the District of Cristobal, or a country in south american named Cristobalia, why pick Vespucci's first name, and Columbo's last name? hmm?

[Devra]

15. I suppose they thought it sounded better

Could be worse though
They could have called it Vespucci land.

this remides me of a joke.

how are Christofer Columbus and a Republican alike?
when started off he didn't know where he was going.
when he got there he didn't know where he was.
and when he came back he didn't know where he had been.
and it was all on the tax payers money.

[chknltl]

16. Those rascally German Christians did it to us!!!!

http://geography.about.com/cs/historicalgeog/a/amerigo.htm
(OK so your question made me go look).

[Snarf]

18. Amerigo (Americus) Vespucci

Also known as Americus Vespucci

[anarch]

19. you know what I'd really like to know? If the ATM is out of money,

why can't my bank program it to just say "Sorry, out of money" when you walk up to it, instead of letting you stand there like a jackass and go through the whole getting-money-from-the-ATM routine until the very end, and then tell you "Sorry, out of money"??

[Zuni]

20. good point

I hate wasting several minutes for the machine to finally tell me it is out of order

[kwassa]

22. How can I be out of money if I still have checks?????

Never understood that one.

[Ivan Sputnik]

21. It's the Latin version

of Amerigo. All of the continents have Latin or "Latinized" names.

[trackfan]

24. Correct