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Dr-Legend

how big is infinity ?

Watching programme on bc2 about a mathemetician called cantor who siad hed discovered how big infinity was. So howbig is it?
23:42 Wed 11th Jun 200843 answers, last by joggerjayne 15:49 Mon 16th Jun 2008
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Mr_Cheesy

Are flamingos edible ?

Wasn't sure whether this belongs here or food and drink...
17:21 Thu 29th May 200835 answers, last by alfieblue 21:27 Thu 29th May 2008
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AndiFlatland

Soap's Bert Campbell's US Comedy Series

I've been trying to remember the title of a US comedy series that went out on UK TV about 10 or 15 years ago, which featured Bert Campbell, from the 'Soap' series, as the central character. I seem to...
13:54 Thu 13th Dec 20077 answers, last by Octavius 14:34 Thu 13th Dec 2007
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AndiFlatland

Beatles Xmas fan-club flexi-discs

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...
14:47 Sat 03rd Nov 20072 answers, last by AndiFlatland 13:08 Mon 10th Dec 2007
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AndiFlatland

The primary colours

We've all been told from an early age that mixing blue and yellow gives you green, and have proved this correct by doing it. The primary colours red, blue and yellow, are the 3 colours from which all...
16:00 Wed 21st Nov 200714 answers, last by AndiFlatland 15:58 Wed 28th Nov 2007
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AndiFlatland

The 'The' Countries

Why do we precede some countries' names with the word 'the? eg, The Gambia, The Sudan, The Lebanon, etc. You never hear 'The Switzerland', or 'The Brazil', do you?
13:35 Thu 15th Nov 200721 answers, last by Paul22118 17:14 Fri 30th Nov 2007
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AndiFlatland

Potty sounds

A few years ago, some archaeologists had a crazy theory that sounds from man's distant past may have been unwittingly recorded in the grooves made in clay pots as they spun upon the potter's wheel,...
16:54 Wed 21st Nov 20075 answers, last by kempie 21:52 Mon 26th Nov 2007
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AndiFlatland

People carrier, MPV... or Maxi Cab?

When mini cabs were started up, all that was available was the 4-door saloon. They were generically known as mini cabs. In more recent years, with the law restricting the number of passengers to 4,...
13:47 Thu 15th Nov 20074 answers, last by AndiFlatland 16:49 Wed 21st Nov 2007
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AndiFlatland

Rechargeable batteries

Can those tiny button batteries, or lithium or NiCad batteries, etc. be recharged? If not, why not? And if they can, where does one get a recharging unit? I use quite a lot of them in various devices,...
13:54 Thu 15th Nov 20073 answers, last by AndiFlatland 15:32 Wed 21st Nov 2007
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The ground floor

When you enter a building, unless you're Spiderman, you're on the ground floor. But this is the first floor you walk on, so why don't we call it the first floor? By that logic, the first floor is...
13:42 Thu 15th Nov 20075 answers, last by mrsbob 19:37 Wed 12th Dec 2007
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Video remote via fibre-optic cable

I recently bought 2 new VCRs off E-Bay, to replace the ones I'd had for many years, and had ceased working efficiently. Both machines are variants of the same make and model, but unfortunately only...
13:32 Tue 06th Nov 20075 answers, last by AndiFlatland 14:14 Tue 13th Nov 2007
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Slang, colloquial or normal?

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...
13:37 Thu 01st Nov 20072 answers, last by AndiFlatland 14:43 Sat 03rd Nov 2007
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fa-dooomph-a!! fa-dooomph-a!!

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...
15:25 Mon 24th Sep 200714 answers, last by AndiFlatland 13:44 Mon 29th Oct 2007
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Can animals cross their eyes?

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...
17:19 Tue 02nd Oct 20073 answers, last by AndiFlatland 13:50 Wed 03rd Oct 2007
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Impossible 3-dimensional lettering

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...
17:35 Mon 10th Sep 20072 answers, last by AndiFlatland 20:09 Mon 10th Sep 2007
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daffyduxxx

Christmas in space

Hi, I am trying to find a synthesiser instrumental from the late seventies.You, know when magic fly and oxygene were popular. The track is called Christmas in space, I think it was a B side.I cannot...
22:50 Wed 07th Mar 20072 answers, last by AndiFlatland 18:57 Thu 09th Aug 2007

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