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domineering DVDs

I'm getting fed up with DVDs that insist on showing you ads and 10-minute trailers of other films. You can't fast forward, you can't switch them off (except by ejecting them), you can't get to the...
18:21 Mon 09th Jan 20062 answers, last by jno 23:24 Mon 09th Jan 2006
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AB Ed's part-time job

Ever wondered what AB Ed did in her spare time? Me too... until I was wandering in the bazaars of Damascus the other day and saw <A target='_blank'...
16:25 Tue 06th Dec 2005518 answers, last by Robinia 13:23 Tue 18th Apr 2006
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Norton is eating my computer

I've recently installed Norton 2006 on my computer and now it's crashing several times a day - with the message 'Symantec network proxy service has encountered a problem and needs to close'. I need to...
21:11 Sun 04th Dec 20054 answers, last by spaced 13:08 Mon 05th Dec 2005
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time

just noticed that posts are appearing with the time attached. This will please several users, who should forward chocolate cakes to AB Ed forthwith.
11:40 Wed 10th Aug 200512 answers, last by bernardo 03:08 Thu 11th Aug 2005
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termites?

got a small African carving but recently noticed little holes drilled in it and dust around. I fear I may have imported some African termites with it. How can I get rid of them - will a good spray...
12:41 Wed 27th Jul 20052 answers, last by Ujjalseo 05:41 Sun 24th Mar 2013
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longer pages?

I just made an AB Suggestion - but on CB where it might not be seen, so I'll repeat it here. Could the pages on CB be made longer, to accommodate, say, 50 threads instead of the current 20? Given the...
14:03 Tue 26th Jul 200513 answers, last by VINNY100_2 11:35 Wed 27th Jul 2005
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scoobies...

What's with these scoubidou questions? A while back someone suggested they were spam; I wasn't convinced but now I'm wondering. They come in about a week apart, always in Art & Lit, always from...
13:18 Fri 01st Jul 20055 answers, last by woofgang 17:58 Mon 04th Jul 2005
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They are menacing features of deep space, monstrous devourers of everything around them. What are they?

As well as the survey, is it time some of the other furniture on the home page was updated?
12:09 Fri 10th Jun 20051 answer, last by graemer 12:57 Fri 10th Jun 2005
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lock up your daughters

Survey out today of 1000 teenage girls (15-19) shows: half see Abi Titmuss as the best role model, against 33% for Jordan, 9% for JK Rowling and 7% for Anita Roddick. 11% want to achieve something...
00:36 Mon 06th Jun 200534 answers, last by magicdice 11:07 Fri 10th Jun 2005
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predictive text on Windows XP

A couple of years ago I logged on - once - to the New York Times website. Now whenever I start to type a URL starting with N, the predictive text function spells out nytimes.com for me and I have to...
21:55 Mon 30th May 20055 answers, last by jno 14:06 Tue 31st May 2005
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nasalcrom

I've been using an American nasal spray called Nasalcrom - but is it available in the UK? Anyone know of shops that sell it? Or online pharmacies that export/import it without charging more for the...
21:48 Thu 26th May 20057 answers, last by jno 19:05 Wed 01st Jun 2005
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Hackers?

Was this site hacked at the weekend? Some answers appeared in pink square boxes, AB Ed-style - one of them actually purporting to be from AB Editor, but in green - then vanished. Some regular...
11:14 Mon 16th May 200520 answers, last by POKEY3 23:48 Mon 16th May 2005
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soft drink can lids

You used to be able to buy plastic lids for soft drink cans, so if you didn't drink the lot at once you could keep them in the fridge and they didn't lose their fizz. Does anyone still sell them? I've...
11:34 Wed 11th May 200512 answers, last by Kinky 22:49 Mon 16th May 2005
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photoshop

Used to able to click on a photo held in My Documents; it would then appear full-screen on I think windows picture viewer or some such name (I wish I'd paid it more attention at the time), and if I...
16:18 Wed 04th May 20054 answers, last by Chillum 13:29 Thu 05th May 2005
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National Trust

What's the difference between the National Trust and English Heritage? They both seem to do the same thing. Do we need them both?
19:16 Wed 23rd Mar 20055 answers, last by jno 00:10 Fri 25th Mar 2005
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HMV specials

I want to buy the  new James Cagney DVD set (Public Enemy etc) but it's only available through HMV. Does anyone know wfrom past experience what this means - will it go on wider sale later, or...
22:00 Mon 14th Mar 20052 answers, last by jno 11:00 Tue 15th Mar 2005
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Microphone

When (and why) did the short form 'mike' become 'mic'? How's it pronounced now?
13:20 Thu 03rd Mar 20057 answers, last by Quizmonster 21:02 Fri 04th Mar 2005
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adverts

Apparently I'm not alone in not being able to see the adverts link. Looking through the various posts, it seems the likeliest suspect is Norton. (I also look at the MediaGuardian site a lot - and I...
21:59 Mon 07th Feb 20057 answers, last by aurelia 01:52 Sun 06th Nov 2005
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po-po?

Anyone - probably have to be an over-50 - know what a po-po is or was, in the Guy Mitchell song 'Feet up, pat him on the po-po'? American slang for some part of the body presumably, but which? And...
21:33 Mon 07th Feb 20055 answers, last by jno 12:09 Wed 09th Feb 2005

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