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message[0] = 'How do people who breed homing pigeons move house?';
message[1] = 'Did Adam and Eve have any daughters?';
message[2] = 'Why isn\'t there a single word to encapsulate the concept of <em>le mot juste</em>?';
message[3] = 'Could an omnipotent god construct a prison from which he/she/it was incapable of escaping?';
message[4] = 'Why is <em>dyslexia</em> such an awkward word to spell?';
message[5] = 'Why isn\'t <em>phonetic</em> spelt with an <em>F</em>?';
message[6] = 'If a tree falls on the only person in a forest, instantly killing them, at what point does the noise stop?';
message[7] = 'How do guide dogs know where their owners want to go?';
message[8] = 'Why do Christians, Moslems, Jews and Buddhists get capital letters, while atheists, heathens and agnostics do not?';
message[9] = 'Why did kamikazi pilots wear helmets?';
message[10] = 'Is there an easy way to remember the word <em>mnemonic</em>?';
message[11] = 'What did moths eat before they invented pullovers?';
message[12] = 'Where do snails go when it isn\'t raining?';
message[13] = 'Why is it a <em>tea</em> tray, but a <em>coffee</em> table?';
message[14] = 'Why is <em>abbreviation</em> such a long word?';
message[15] = 'Is there another word for <em>synonym</em>?';
message[16] = 'What was Fermat\'s penultimate theorem?<br><A HREF="/julian-date/datelines/writings/2000/fermat/index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="More information on this subject">Tell me more&nbsp;&raquo;</A>';
message[17] = 'Why do we say <em>beheaded</em> and not <em>de-headed</em> (or <em>unheaded</em>)?';
message[18] = 'If I run out of stationery requisition forms, how do I order some new ones?';
message[19] = 'How do snow plough drivers get to work?';
message[20] = 'What on earth did they do wrong in Gomorrah?';
message[21] = 'How do you plant a seedless grape?';
message[22] = 'Why do they call it your bottom, when it\'s actually in your middle?';
message[23] = 'How come you can get the lid off a tube of superglue?';
message[24] = 'How do they manage to stick Teflon&trade; to saucepans?';
message[25] = 'Why don\'t they make aircraft out of the same material as \'black box\' flight recorders?';
message[26] = 'Whatever happened to the Bermuda Triangle?';
message[27] = 'Why do green <em>Penguin</em> biscuits taste the best?';
message[28] = 'If English is considered to be the universal language, how come the posh term for a universal language is a <em>lingua franca</em>?';
message[29] = 'What was the best thing <em>before</em> sliced bread?';
message[30] = 'Whatever happened to good, old-fashioned nostalgia?';
message[31] = 'Why does sour cream have a sell by date?';
message[32] = 'Why do we say \'the alarm clock went off\', when it clearly came on?';
message[33] = 'Why do we say \'wound up\', when we actually \'wind round\'?';
message[34] = 'What do Germans call German measles?  And the Dutch call Dutch courage?';
message[35] = 'Why can\'t you get canned bananas?';
message[36] = 'Why is it that a woman who stands up for her gender is called a <em>feminist</em>, but a man who stands up for his is a <em>male chauvinist</em>?';
message[37] = 'Who decided that dusters should be yellow?';
message[38] = 'Why don\'t they make ironing boards in the shape of shirts?';
message[39] = 'Why do they put stickers on fruit?';
message[40] = 'Do crabs think that people walk sideways?';
message[41] = 'How come Tarzan doesn\'t have a <A HREF="/archive/2001/06/beards/index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Heavenly Hirsutes">beard</A>?';
message[42] = 'How come it\'s all right for rabbis and priests to work on the Sabbath?';
message[43] = 'Why don\'t you put a comma to separate the thousands from the hundreds in year numbers?';
message[44] = 'Why do they call it a \'near miss\', when it is actually a <em>complete</em> miss (or a <em>near hit</em>)?';
message[45] = 'If you strangled a smurf, what colour would its face go?';
message[46] = 'What were the <em>Middle Ages</em> in the middle of, and did the people who lived in them have a <em>Middle Ages</em> of their own?';
message[47] = 'Why do noses run and feet smell?  Shouldn\'t it be the other way round?';
message[48] = 'Why can\'t you buy pineapple jelly (or <em>Jello</em>, as it\'s called in American)?';
message[49] = 'Over 5% of people in Borneo have more than the average number of legs.';
message[50] = 'Human males who have grown <br><A HREF="/archive/2001/06/beards/index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Heavenly Hirsutes">beards</A> at some point during their lives live longer than average for their sex.';
message[51] = '"The stars are matter,<br>And we are matter,<br>But it doesn\'t matter."<br><strong>Captain Beefheart</strong>';
message[52] = '"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."<br><strong>Groucho Marx</strong>';
message[53] = 'How come the Dalai Lama keeps getting reincarnated in Tibet? Why not Turkey or Tuva?';
message[54] = 'If killing a king is called regicide, what\'s it called when you kill someone named Reggie?';
message[55] = 'How do you solve a problem like Maria?';
message[56] = 'Who delivers storks\' babies?';
