A chess competition was being held in a hotel and various contestants were in the open-air lobby discussing their victories of the day. After about an hour of this, manager of the hotel came into the...
Dr. Watson arrives at 221-B Baker Street and is stunned to find his friend Sherlock Holmes out front in an overall, applying a pale yellow gloss to the front door. "Holmes what is it?" cried...
The television game show was being recorded. The contestant was in the hot seat for the last big question. The host turned to him, and read the question slowly and carefully. But the contestant didn't...
Several years ago, Andy was sentenced to prison. During his stay, he got along well with the guards and all his fellow inmates. The warden knew that, deep down, Andy was a good person. So, the warden...
In deepest Africa an explorer discovered a lake in which there lived a race of intelligent porpoise. He learned to communicate with these porpoises and they quickly learned to speak and to read and...
One day God calls down to Noah and says "Noah, I want you to make me a new Ark". Noah replies, "No probs God, anything you want after all you're the boss". But God interrupts,...
The world expert on European wasps and the sounds that they make is taking a stroll down his local town. As he passes by the record shop, a sign catches his eye: "Just Released - New LP - Wasps...
Good Morning! I spent a few quid on ZenoClash over the weekend and finished it last night. And it was cracking good fun. A first person brawler a little akin to Ready2Rumble in the melee fighting...
Dear All, A question for a friend of mine which I have been unable to answer. I need a good place for some pub grub over the coming weekends, it seems all the old places I used to frequent as a lad...
In the news section we often hear opposing sides as to the purpose and usefulness of prisons. Often there are calls of "life should mean life" and "outsourcing" of prisons (and prisoners). This is the weathervane question of what the AB News team(s) think prison is for:
Good Day everyone, hope we're well. I wonder if we can discuss and agree the best way to deal with spammers? The Editors do their best to get to reports as soon as they come in. Those which have come...
Hello everyone, With the international fixtures done and dusted our focus can once again return to the Premier League. Although Wednesdays match was painful to watch, there were one or two postives...
///On Tuesday, Prime Minister Brian Cowen told parliament that he had not asked for bail-out money and that the Irish economy was well funded until next year./// Source:...
Dear All, Due to requests from many Bird-loving ABer's I am offering you a sticky thread for the next month. If it goes really well we may start up a separate category for you all. I'll start: My...
Dear All, I am thinking of running a Food poll later this week, so I need your nominations for the best jacket potato please! My vote goes to King Edwards I think. Semi-Related: List of Potato...
Sadly they don't have one of these for the UK kicking around (unless anyone else know of one? If so, please share.) Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget http://www.nytimes.co...icits-graphic.html?hp...
Dear All, I have been looking at some of the site stats and I've found a list of the most common reoccouring words on the site. After obvious stuff (clearly picked out of the recent post box) like...
Any idea where this phrase comes from. It just occurred to me as a very strange thing to be drunk as. A little light googling leads mere here: http://uk.answers.yah...20090720201630AAUhMZz and here:...