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Strange notices

I really have no idea of the best AB category for this question. As you travel by train towards London Bridge station you pass a modern building near the Millwall football ground. Judging by a sign on...
18:13 Thu 29th Apr 20042 answers, last by Pinotage 11:48 Mon 10th May 2004
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Dandel and darnel and dock grew there

Is the opening line to a poem I learnt many, many years ago at primary school. It was something about a donkey, I think. Anyone know the author?
18:25 Sun 18th Apr 20041 answer, last by kags 22:03 Sun 18th Apr 2004
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Mobile phones

Something about which I know very little. My daughter has recently bought a new Siemens phone - one of those which takes pictures. The SIM card from her old Nokia phone (Virgin Mobile) seems to work...
18:11 Sun 18th Apr 20043 answers, last by lisaj 20:11 Mon 19th Apr 2004
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PDC

Our extremely old VCR has given up the ghost and we've had to buy a new one. We've managed to set the timer and record programmes as per the instruction book, but don't understand part of the...
20:11 Wed 19th Nov 20036 answers, last by jenstar 15:23 Thu 20th Nov 2003
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Weird message

Occasionally, when closing my Internet browser (IE6) or Outlook Express, I get a screen message saying 'msimn.exe-application error. The instruction at '0x77f83aed' referenced memory at '0x00964818'....
17:13 Fri 31st Oct 20034 answers, last by powerless 06:12 Sun 02nd Nov 2003
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Kenneth Clarke's hat

According to my paper today, KC is going to 'throw his hat into the ring' in a bid to become Tory leader. It might be unwise to dispense with a hat with the cold weather approaching, but what's the...
20:09 Fri 24th Oct 20031 answer, last by Quizmonster 08:09 Sat 25th Oct 2003
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American politics

Now there's a dull question title for you! I've just finished a novel whose events are based around a fictional Presidential election and it's reminded me of something I've never understood. If I've...
20:04 Fri 24th Oct 20031 answer, last by bernardo 23:15 Fri 24th Oct 2003
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Internet connection

Since getting online I have been using IE6 as my browser and Freeserve as my ISP. Everything went fine for a long time and when I pressed the 'internet' button on my keyboard IE6 opened and a window...
18:15 Sat 13th Sep 20031 answer, last by scatman 23:51 Thu 25th Sep 2003
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Absolute zero

According to a report in today's newspapers, scientists have succeeded in cooling some sodium gas to half a billionth of a degree above absolute zero. The report also says that cooling an object to...
18:04 Fri 12th Sep 20039 answers, last by Hamish 09:46 Wed 10th Aug 2005
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'Sleepers' by Lorenzo Carcaterra

Has this book been discredited? Any readers of the Daily Mail will possibly remember seeing this question in the paper's Q&A section recently. I saw it in someone's copy and, having read the book, was...
10:24 Sat 30th Aug 20032 answers, last by rja211077 22:15 Sun 31st Aug 2003
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Mexican food

What are the specific differences between burritos and enchiladas? Is it just that the second comes out of the oven and the first doesn't? Or is there something else?
12:23 Sun 03rd Aug 20032 answers, last by Hellion 21:38 Tue 05th Aug 2003
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The afterlife

Assuming such a thing exists, how do you recognise people you knew when you were living? I could only recognise my grandmother as a seventy-year old woman. Her great-grandmother could only recognise...
12:19 Sun 03rd Aug 200311 answers, last by PrincessAli 23:47 Tue 30th Mar 2004
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Spam

Amongst the many items of rubbish I receive I've just been informed that I've won $1.6 million in an online lottery. All I need to do is send them my bank details and I'll get the money. Ha,ha - I...
14:20 Thu 26th Jun 20037 answers, last by gilf 16:56 Fri 27th Jun 2003
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Marching orders

Drill officers in the forces give an instruction of 'by the right, quick march', or sometimes 'by the left ...'. I always assumed this referred to the foot you used first when starting the march, but...
09:13 Sun 15th Jun 200310 answers, last by darth vader 13:00 Tue 17th Jun 2003
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Sheep

Q from one of my children. Why is it that you see sheep with a) white wool and white faces, b) white wool and black faces and c) black wool and black faces but not d) black wool and white faces? I've...
18:21 Mon 02nd Jun 20036 answers, last by chef 08:35 Sat 14th Jun 2003
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The biggest web site in the world.

Does anyone know if there is a web site which is accepted as being the largest one? If so, how is it measured? Is the BBC site a contender for the title?
11:24 Sun 18th May 20035 answers, last by xyzzy@bok 22:19 Sun 18th May 2003
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Sneezing

I can't keep my eyes open when I sneeze and nor can anyone else I've asked. Why? Someone told me that if you don't close your eyes your eyeballs will fly out under the pressure caused by the sneeze,...
11:17 Sun 18th May 20038 answers, last by treaclefight 20:01 Mon 26th May 2003
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A very old telly programme

I have a dim memory of watching a chess programme as a boy in the 1960's. It involved showing famous past games with a commentary and the pieces moved 'on their own' (probably magnets underneath or...
17:59 Tue 06th May 20031 answer, last by astroboy 02:55 Tue 13th May 2003
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This thoroughbred question

It's all very well to say they're all descended from Eclipse, Matchem and Herod, but these three were direct descendants of The Byerly, The Darley and The Godolphin. Surely these last are the correct...
18:54 Mon 05th May 20032 answers, last by xyzzy@bok 01:06 Tue 06th May 2003
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Google

There are four of us in the house who use the computer and we each have our own user account set up on Windows XP. For internet searches we each prefer to use Google. For some reason Google has ceased...
21:26 Tue 04th Mar 20031 answer, last by j2buttonsw 00:07 Wed 05th Mar 2003

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