manhole covers

Why is a manhole cover round?

Rank the top 5 answers in order of their importance.

Originally posted by camilli
Why is a manhole cover round?

Rank the top 5 answers in order of their importance.

So they can't fall in the hole.

GRANNY.

Originally posted by camilli
Why is a manhole cover round?

Never mind that. What I want to know is why elephants have four feet?

Originally posted by Fat Lady
Never mind that. What I want to know is why elephants have four feet?

It's in their genes.

(This is also my excuse for debauchery)

Originally posted by Palynka
It's in their genes.

(This is also my excuse for debauchery)

The correct answer is "Because they'd look silly with four inches". That was the first rude joke I ever heard, just a few days shy of my thirtieth birthday. I'd led a sheltered life until then. And now, ten years later, I know about a dozen rude jokes.

Originally posted by Fat Lady
The correct answer is "Because they'd look silly with four inches". That was the first rude joke I ever heard, just a few days shy of my thirtieth birthday. I'd led a sheltered life until then. And now, ten years later, I know about a dozen rude jokes.

What's the difference between Santa's Elf and Gonorrhea?

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
What's the difference between Santa's Elf and Gonorrhea?

Well, one's a Cunning Runt...

5. Just because, triangular manholes are so yesterday.

4. A man should be well rounded, even if he's a-hole.

3. Why not?

2. They are esthetically pleasing. Square covers were popular in the renaissance, but romanticism eventually required more sensuality, more style, more imagination. What could be more imaginative and romantic and exciting than a round manhole cover?

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Well, one's a Cunning Runt...

I've always heard this as "what's the difference between an acrobatics act and a chorus line..." one's a cunning array of stunts...

1. Open your mouth as big as you can and look in the mirror. What shape is it?

Originally posted by Fat Lady
Never mind that. What I want to know is why elephants have four feet?

because they aren't round

Originally posted by camilli
Why is a manhole cover round?

Rank the top 5 answers in order of their importance.

Because manholes are round...