Is it just me who's driven to distraction by people who say, for example, "3am in the morning"? When else can 3am be? I've heard it used several times in the media during the last week by people who...
I am making a spreadsheet and I have a column with dates. I want the next column to show the date exactly 17 years later. Is there a way to make the spreadsheet fill in the second column...
I know this was touched on not long ago, but ...How did it come to be that one rotation of the moon on its axis takes exactly the same amount of time as one revolution of the moon around earth,...
This is probably childishly simple, but - as a mathophobe of long standing - I have no idea what it involves. I know that "5 to the power of 5", for example, means...5x5x5x5x5...but what does "5 to...
I thought the idea for digital radios was that they weren't supposed to interfere like standard analogue models. How come then if it is in a certain position it makes a distorted noise? Its the...
I Have posted this question to solve this i am completely confused by it some say they can but others say they dont because when they want to look upward they tilt there head So i am asking for...
People who tell a long story then say 'Now to cut a long story short' Or When someone asks if they told you about a cetain person or something that happened. Then you say yes you told me but...
The first person posts a sentence with 10 words in it, then the next person continues the "story" with a sentence of 9 words, and the next does one with 8, and so on. then when you get to two you go...
In order not to hijack Aschenbach's previous question, how many of you say "two thousand and five" and how many say "twenty 0 five"? I say "two thousand and five".
With reference to writing a letter why do Americans say "write me", "write her" and "write Bob" instead of "write to me", write to her" and "write to Bob"?
I used to be a regular on this site but stopped being around in June. I was just wondering what's new, different etc on answerbank and with answerbank people between then and now - I saw below that...
When I was with my friends one day we accidentally came up with the word: flibble My friend then asked me: What does that mean I then said I dunno, I think it doesn't have a meaning My friends were...
As a resident of AB for about 3 years now, i recently stumbled across this category, having stayed with the regulars, sport, music, film etc. But back to the point, i now feel like i'm gatecrashing a...