I've often wondered, but never had the nerve to try it: If you wrote the word 'quid' instead of 'pounds' on a cheque, would the bank still accept it? I know banks can tend to get a bit spiky about...
Does anybody know if these 7 flexi-discs, which were recorded as gifts to the Beatles' fans and given away with the fan club magazine each Christmas from 1963-1969, have ever been made available on...
There are many words in the dictionary which are described as 'slang' or 'colloquial'. What I'd like to know is, how is it decided whether words are slang or colloquial, and at what point does a word...
Can animals cross their eyes? If they can, this poses 2 more questions: Firstly, what benefit can it be to any animal to be able to do this? And secondly, if they can't, that leaves us humans as the...
Cast your mind back, those of you who are lucky enough to be able to do so, to the 60s and 70s (...yes, we do it all the time, don't we! How fortunate were we to be young in those decades!) This is...
Does anybody know what is the name of the lettering which is apparently 3-dimensional, but which is physically impossible? To see what I mean (if you don't), go to a record site such as Amazon, and...
I have 2 tracks on tapes of the Radio 2 programme Sounds of the Sixties which I am desperately trying to find on CD. The problem is not the tracks themselves - they are both easy to find. What I'm...
