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Followup to 'Wrong Floor'

Ok Ewood, et al. A man is dead. By his side there's a walking stick, and a pile of wood shavings. Why (NOT how) is he dead? You may ask yes or no questions :) But please, if anyone knows this one...

shybearuk

Paragraph Breaks in questions?

Hiow can I get a new line in an answer I'm posting? I sometimes want to break my answer into sections, but no matter how many times I press Enter, it all ends up stuck together. I'm assuming there's a...

answerbok

Wrong Floor.

A man lives in a flat on the 13th floor. Every day that he goes out, he takes the lift [elevator] to the ground floor but on his return he takes the lift only to the seventh floor, and walks the rest...

retarded_rob

petrol engined aeroplanes

how does does the oil sump and feed system work?

kevin board

sayings

what is the meaning of the saying, crying out loud

answerbok

Vehicle registration plates.

Apart from YX32.. can you suggest any legal combinations that would look eyecatching in a driving mirror?

smudge

Printing images from the net?

I have downloaded some images from the internet, but when I try to print them, the right side of the picture doesn't seem to fit onto the page. I know on Windows you can fit whole page to print, but...

flirty41

Red Arrows

How do the jets in the Red Arrows Display Team produce those coloured trails?

Ember

Patience on a Monument

I first came across the above phrase in P G Woodhouse's books, I recently came across it another author and got to wondering what it means, especially the monument bit, obiously it means we have to be...

anni.g

Home James, and don't spare the horses!

Does anyone know the origin of the phrase 'Home James, and don't spare the horses!'?

big yankee

hoi poloi

where does 'hoi poloi' come from?

druiaghtagh

a propos

What is the meaning of this please

saltedpeanut

Salisbury UK

Does anyone know of any ghosts, myths or legends in and around Salisbury Wiltshire UK?

suzannelimes

please find this poem?

what is the poem called that includes the words 'I am in the next room'

jorton

kippers and cuppas

Where did the phrase 'many a kipper make a cuppa' originate?

j2buttonsw

Cable TV.

I recently stayed in a hotel which had cable TV. Unlike my home where you tune the TV to the set top box then use the set top box zapper to change the channels, the signal to the TV in the hotel...

Helen Kinsey

Researching family history

I have drawn a blank with a particular member of my family and have come to the conclusion that he must have been born under a different name and adopted into my family. How can I go about finding out...

bilbo-bj

Roger Woddis

Does anyone know the parady - I do not like thee Dr K, the reason why I can not say...(by Roger Woddis) It was published in the Radio Times about 21 years ago.

Clickety66

Southern Gas/Electricity advert

Anyone remember an advert for the above which had a couple of dogs and a mouse or something talking (really!) and relaxing at a gas fire? Anyway, I'm trying to find out what breed of dog the bigger...

Tartanwizard

Snobbery

Are we becoming a snobbish society? Snobbery in Britain never really went away, but could we be returning to Victorian levels? I often hear middle-class people refer to working class people as yobs,...

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