Joyful Questioner Pillows

'Where are all these people who lived happily ever after?'

I've been teaching art history for decades. Students today ask new kinds of questions. No, I doubt a gluten-free menu option was available that evening. Nope, the artist was not making a statement about climate change. No, despite the umbrellas, this is not about sun exposure safety. Well, yes, I suppose you can say it's a selfie.

'Hey! Contemplate your own navel!'

'Thanks to the internet it is now possible to be extremely well-informed and completely wrong at the same time!'

Garden.

"First, I sent a rocket of a drive down the fairway, then I took the 7-iron, put that ball on the green...a hundred and eighty yards if it was an inch..."

Science Museum. Why are you skeptical about the things scientists say? Because they claim the universe is expanding but when I visited my childhood hometown, everything was smaller.

'If I order pasta and she orders antipasta, did we really order anything?'

Do Guns Kill?

"Daddy, why do people pull round pizza from square boxes and cut them into triangles before they eat them?"

'If it 'tells' the time, why do I have to look at it?'

"When will I be old enough to have an inner child?"

Ostrich Curoisities

'But why do you want to transmute asparagus into cotton?'

Why can't you use the brains God gave you? Oh, shoot, I think this is Bob's.

"Good. I can hardly see your Catholic parents now."

'Mummy, what's a daddy one of those called?'

What's the antidote for wheat germ?

'Does My Bum Look Big In This Dimension?'

'Dad, tell me again what life's about.'

Upside down question mark hanging from fishing line.

'I was happier when I was unhappy.'

'You may choose either everlasting life or whatever is behind the curtain.'

"What's it all about?"

God hounded by the media.

'What's all this 'naughty or nice' jazz? ? Haven't you ever heard of situational ethics?'

"Hang on - I've forgotten the question!"

"Do you think it's an accident of history that Freemasons live in houses and we live in trees?"

'Am I covered if a car falls on my tree?'

On a mountain top a sign says - Out to lunch back a week from Tuesday.

Ask Sadie. Actual questions from actual readers! Celestial Sadie, In the Western sky after sunset, Jupitor can be seen nearly aligned with Venus. What do you make of this? R. Yates. Excellent question. That reminds me of a long lost civilization, in which there was no such thing as a typo. Where no one ever hit the wrong key because they wrote letters by hand. Eventually, it became so obsessed with speed that it began typing everything, and so inconsiderate that it soon stopped bothering to proo

Some owls aren't content just knowing who.

Nice Old Ladies Tend to Look at the Bright Side of Things: 'As kids my brother and I took turns beating each other up!' 'Well, I think it's wonderful when kids take turns!'

'The meaning of life? -- You CAN take a joke, can't you?'

"Does this bird make me look fat?"