@Hyundai #QuestionEverything-commercials #Kindle some #BurningQuestions, like ... Why are they CALLED #BurningQuestions? | @GardnerKSNews @Ecosia @Microsoft @Farlex @WatchMojo @Mashable

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We'll get to that- and other Burning Questions soon ...

... after Hyundai presents a few burning questions in the video-search linked through 'that word' below; but first I want to understand that word better. And I find you understand words better if you look at 'the words at their base' (then going on to look at the words at those words' bases, then the words at those words' bases, etc.-etc. ad infinitum)
The word “Kindle” (meaning of a word at the root of "Burn") is built on ancient words that mean "to Light a Fire" (influenced by ancient words that mean "|Offspring of an Animal, Young one" (Kind)).
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A little more-specific searching found that 'burning' (in 'burning questions' (French question brûlante, German brennende Frage), maybe 'burning the candle at both ends') carries the sense of "Causing |Excitement"---ah! 'a question that needs to be answered, like a fire that needs to be extinguished!'

I'll admit; these questions don't need to be answered (unless you're obsessive-compulsive enough to NEED an answer to every question you think of, or else it'll ring in your ears like "the echo from the amplifiers"):

(😏 = the answer is so 'self-evident' as to make an
 answer seem like an over-explanation (like with jokes, when part of 'what makes them funny' is the fact that you have to "think a little" to get them; and 'an explanation' makes you feel immature)

(and 'hmm ...' = I've got more 'searching' to do)
    Some of the questions on the videos listed at the 'Kindle'-link above:
  • Why are there 'interstate highways' in Hawaii?
    • hmm ...
  • If we enjoy wasting time, is it really wasted?
    • in a way 😏
  • Why do they call it 'quicksand' when it's usually so slow?
    • hmm ...
  • Shouldn't the word "ambiguous" have more than one meaning?
    • 😏
  • If there's an exception to every rule, isn't there an exception to that rule?
    • like "a rock God makes that not-even-God can lift"
  • Why is it called your funny-bone?
    • hmm ...
  • If you had amnesia and then were cured, would you remember that you forgot?
    • hmm ...
  • Why is it called a pineapple when it's not pine or apple?
    • hmm ...
  • Hey! Who are you talking to? (a costar asks Jason Bateman as he recites Hyundai's sales-message)
    • "North America & surrounding territories" ... but who are we talking to (when we talk & no one's there to listen, or (like most bloggers? or probably just me 😔) when we write what no one may ever read)? some would say 'we're writing/talking to ourselves,' or 'praying/writing to God/our-imaginary-friend' ... hmm ...
  • If you're living on borrowed time, do you have to return it?
    • hmm ...
  • Can the world be your oyster if you're allergic to shellfish?
    • hmm ...
  • Why do we say "heads up" when we really mean "you need to duck!"?
    • hmm ...
  • If love is blind, why is it "love at first sight"?
    • hmm ...
  • How can we name The Strongest Man in the Universe when we haven't even been past Saturn?
    • Probably because there is no "Man" anywhere else in the universe (i.e. the same way Roman Emperors fashioned themselves "King of the World" tho they'd never been beyond  the European ocean-shore.
  • How could they call it The Golden Age of Television when it was all in black-and-white?
    • hmm ...
    Falling into this 'rabbit-hole,' I'm led to WatchMojo's 'Misheard Song Meanings':
  • People think Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" is about how a man & a woman on a first date can't 'read each other's feelings to tell how well the relationship is going.'
    • They're welcome to 'take that interpretation,' but Lady Gaga says she was mostly thinking about how she would sometimes think of 'a past girlfriend' when she was making love with a new man. (And I'm paraphrasing there ... maybe she actually said 'with the only man she's ever made love with,' maybe she actually said 'a future girlfriend' ...)
  • People think Sarah MacLachlin's "Possession" is a love-song.
    • It's not 'a love-song' from her to another man, but rather from her to 'all of her fans' (and more like "an apology that she can only love them all if she's not romantic with any of them.")
  • People think Filter's "Hey Man, Nice Shot" is about Kurt Cobain's suicide.
    • It's actually about Pennsylvania's former State-Treasurer R. Bud Dwyer's widely-broadcast suicide.
  • People think Semisonic's "Closing Time" is about ... Closing-Time at a bar (the way most of the single patrons there will go home disappointed).
    • It's actually about childbirth.
  • People (including Rolling Stone Magazine) think John Lennon's "Imagine" is about people joining together to create a whole world of peace.
    • It's actually 'The Communist Manifesto' (no possessions, no countries, no religion).
  • People think James Taylor's "Fire and Rain" is about his girlfriend's death in a plane-crash.
    • That may be a little bit of it, but it extends all the way from a friend's death to his drug-addiction to his former band's failure & so-on.
  • There's the infamous "Ironic" by Alanis Morrisette, where she lists 'sudden disappointments' (not "Ironies")
    • 'Ironic' that a song named 'Ironic' doesn't talk about "Irony" ... clever tho
  • People think Paul McCartney's "Blackbird" is about 'a Blackbird.'
    • It's actually about the African-Americans' struggle (triumphant?) to rise & fly after 'being put down by The Man.'
  • People think Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is a worship-song.
    • It's actually a deep expression of pain at love-turned-sour.
  • People think Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends" is about the 9/11 Attacks.
    • They may feel the same grief that Billy Joe Armstrong felt when he sang it, but he actually wrote the song about his father's death.
  • People think Tom Petty's "American Girl" was about a woman who committed suicide in Petty's hometown just before the song was released.
    • Nope; it was just a love-song!
  • People think Extreme's "More than Words" is about how a relationship requires 'going all the way' (i.e. SEX).
    • People can go ahead and take the meaning to that 'extreme,' but the song simply states that "saying 'I love you'" has become less-&-less meaningful. (The reason why God doesn't want you saying His name ('God' is only His Title.) unless you need to invoke its power.)
  • People think The Beatles' "Ticket to Ride" is about a woman who's leaving her lover (and feels a sense of newly found freedom).
    • It's actually referring to a sex-worker whom authorities have verified is "clean" and have given a 'ticket to ride.
  • People think Maroon 5's "Harder to Breathe" describes the suffocating loneliness of a break-up.
    • It's actually about the band's label's demands for more music late into recording an album.
  • People think Bryan Adams' "Summer of 69" was about his teenage-memories of the last summer of the 1960s.
    • Well, a) Adams was only 10 that year; and b) he's admitted that it was about 'a summer where he & his friends & -lovers did a lot of "69-ing".'
  • People think Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" is about 'when he saw someone drowning as another person just stood there & watched (and kept him from coming to their aid).'
    • It's actually about a divorce.
  • People think Madonna's "Like a Virgin" is about sex.
    • This makes me start to think of all the 'deeper meanings' of "Virgin," because the song's writer corrects people by telling them that the song's about Love---the feeling of going into a relationship with a heart untouched by the destruction of past relationships.
  • People think The Police's "Every Step You Take" is about two lovers who bind themselves together forever (making this a good song to play at a wedding reception ... BUT WAIT!!!)
    • The song's actually about a stalker! Sure, maybe 'his heart's in the right place' (like God, like Santa Claus ... always watching, always shaping conditions for the woman's advantage); but a) the song-lyrics make it clear that he thinks 'she belongs to him,' and b) the woman is never visible in the video!
  • People think Green Day's "Good Riddance (The Time of Your Life)" is about 'moving ahead in life' (getting it played at graduations etc.)
    • Maybe that's an appropriate interpretation of the song, but the video makes clear that Billy Joe Armstrong is singing about an ex-girlfriend who has moved on to another man and is going on with her life without showing any concern for Billy's fate.
  • People think Billy Joel's "Born in the U.S.A." is a song about American Pride.
    • Maybe it is, but not the same way as "America the Beautiful"-etc. Though the chorus comes across as 'a proud announcement of our homeland,' the verses are more of a dirge of the random crap an average American man has to go through.
              • ... or maybe my summary is totally off. You should watch Ms. Mojo's video to be sure!
    This post was inspired by Hyundai's "Question Everything," but I'll list/answer-most-of The Gardner News' questions too ...
  • If there are no dumb questions, why does everybody smirk when we ask them?
    • 😏 ... beats 'wasting the grey matter I'm using to answer these questions' ???
  • Why is it called a sleepover when no one sleeps except the guests' parents?
    • 😏
  • Why do children (who must be dragged from their beds every day for school)-wake up on their own at 6 a.m. Saturday morning and -feel the need to alert their parents?
    • 😏
  • Why does our hair look its best the day we're scheduled to have it cut?
    • 😏
  • If we laugh at the styles we wore long ago, what makes us think someday we won't laugh at the styles we're wearing now?
    • Because we know why we thought we 'needed' the styles we chose.
  • Do we become more delusional when we have more money?
    • yes 😏
  • "Why isn't it okay to eat dessert for breakfast, but it is okay to eat chocolate chip muffins and waffles with whipped cream?"
    • I haven't heard 'no dessert "for" (or maybe they mean "with"?) breakfast,' but ... I've never heard of any 'dessert with-or-for breakfast!' (Although a dear friend says she prefers to eat dessert (with lunch or dinner) before the main course.) 'hmm ...' (meaning I've got more 'searching' to do)
  • Why do baseball- & football players wear white pants? (Clearly they're not doing their own laundry.)
    • I would guess 'white' retains less heat. hmm ...
  •  Does anyone ever win the cash-prize advertised on candy-wrappers?
    • hmm ...
  • Why is caffeine better at keeping us alert at night than it is at keeping us alert during the day?
    • hmm ...
  • Why do we heat out homes & wear sweaters (indoors) in the winter, then cool our homes & wear short sleeves (indoors) in the summer?
    • hmm ... probably the same reason "we complain about parking, but then walk five miles in a mall"
  • Why do we "curse the deer" and then put up plastic deer in our yards?
    • 😏
  • Who is actually buying what the spam-emailers' are selling, inspiring more hopeful salespeople to become spam-emailers?
    • hmm ...
  • Why do we speak so 'clearly and distinctly' when we record our answering-machine greetings, but then speak so indistinctly when leaving a message on someone else's machine?
    • hmm ... probably because we feel less "rushed" on our own machines'
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