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Compassionate Leave

A colleague didn't come into work on Tuesday because his son was rushed to hospital in the middle of night with suspected meningitis. My colleague spent the day at the hospital with his son. Our boss...

sexyrussian

Want my mobile number?

I'm doing a bet with a friend of mine that I can get someone to contact me by phone from a forum so am giving my number out of my mobile.If you want you can txt me.So here it is 07799491068. That is...

THECORBYLOON

New World Cup Section

ABE what has prompted the introduction of a section devoted to one particular event? The last time I looked football was a sport so why is it not confined to that topic? There are hundreds of...

Mr Harris

Me and Bob are to fight a duel

As the Editor is in the mood to set up new temp categories, a little space needs to be set up for me and Bobtheturkey to fight a duel. The prize being my wife. He has been seeing her behind my back,...

GMH

Don't shop for it...

Are you fed up with proper nouns becoming verbs in advertising slogans? For example: "Don't shop for it - Argos it". That's all very well, but the word Argos isn't a verb is it? When I visit my local...

lostboy87

80s quiz show

does anyone remember the name of a quiz show that was on in the late 80s.think it was on bbc 1.i can remember it showing clips of films and then the contestans had to answer questions about.this is...

naomi24

Andrews and Freddies

Does anyone know why people called Andrew are sometimes nicknamed Freddie? Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff is one, and I know of another.

robbo82

Royal lineage

Leading on from djc's question about heirs to the throne, are we all in line to the throne at some point? Like if everyone in Europe died, and I happened to be in Australia at the time, would I be...

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AnswerbankPlus+

What's this then? What are you crazy people talking about? I'm so confused :-( :Ace:

THECORBYLOON

An EXCEL question

Right here goes.... I am trying to help someone at work wi a spreadsheet which involves working out the number of weeks in a certain period. AHHH easy you may think BUT, odd days of the week at the...

skybluefred

new virus life is beautiful

a potent new virus titled life is beautiful is doing the rounds. this info came direct from microsoft & norton if you receive this E do not open it will destroy your computor

rickytee

SALT talks

in which city were the first SALT talks held in 1969 thanks ricky

jimmyb01

luke warm

Where does that come from/

dot.hawkes

AB background

Hi Ed, since my background has changed from white to lemon it has caused lots of problems, the lilac walls look totally wrong, can i have the old colours back, my profile options seem to be stuck and...

Kathyan

Pensions

I will be 60 in 4 years time and I have just had a pension forecast. Because I stayed at home to bring up my children I will only get around ?30 per week. I am married again now (9 years) and my...

Skids

World Cup flag

As usual, English football supporters will be showing their allegiance to their team by displaying the White Ensign because it has the Cross of St George on it. Will the police be doing anything about...

dot.hawkes

AB music

Has anyone else had any problems downloading the AB music options? I have added loads to the playlist but only 50% are there when I click into it.

johnlambert

Prince Phillip

Prince phillip says that the olympics opening and closing ceremoies are a "bl***y waste of time" What do you think? yes or no?

lightoftruth

The age of fascism draws close

I was just perusing through the bbbc and found this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5018718.stm The goverment has crossed the line. If people werent persistant in there protests then slavery...

swindontony

Family tax credit

I was under the impression that you can only claim family tax credit if your combined salary was under ?34,000 but to my suprise i found out today that the figure is about ?58,000. I rang up for a...

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