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Pentium versus AMD

I am thinking of replacing my trusty old HP pav with something a bit faster, probably a whole new tower. Afraid I'm a bit cynical as far as salespeople go, and would appreciate advice on the type of...

xyzzy@bok

The Sh�ts.

Surfer's Diarrh'a question is less than childish and insulting to the site. Why is it allowed?

priveet

Unsolicited brochures & catalogues

I regularly get catalogues for household items posted through my letterbox which I always bin. Recently someone called to collect one and threatened me with hellfire and damnation because he had...

Uzoma

The 'All Blacks' . . .??

I was just wondering if it was actually possible with current players to put together an England football team made up of only black players? I came up with Vassall & Heskey in attack, David James in...

Janetex

Understanding women

A man....... rubs something one day, out pops a geni & grants him 1 wish. The man thinks for a while and requests a bridge to Ireland so that he can easily visit his friends and relatives any time....

Carolina

Hotel Receptionist

Is there a nicer way of saying in your CV that you were a hotel receptionist? Because the job itself (in a large hotel) actually involves quite a lot, but when you say you were a receptionist it...

darth vader

For the AB Editors #2

While we're making suggestions - how about a scroll bar on the 'post an answer' window for when someone posts an extract of 'war and peace' for their question?

chijiki

Magpies - love or hate them ?

I've just watched 2 magpies kill a blackbird that had been sitting on 3 eggs. They removed the eggs in their beaks, laid them on the lawn undamaged, and then flew off. Should I be pleased to have...

huggles

turkeys beak

what is the name of the fleshy bit above the beak of a turkey

deglanville

forbidden to play left handed

In which sport are the competitors forbidden to play left handed

sft42

Reading Questions Clearly?

I have asked this before and a recent posting has made me ask it again plus we have loads of new contributers to the site......Why don't people read questions properly before they post an answer? Or...

xyzzy@bok

Extra Questions

Just recently i notice new Questions appearing 2 or 3 places below the topline new Q's that weren't there before; e.g. the one about bonebreaking marsupials in Animals and Nature, I'm sure it's a new...

crumblynewt

Fish Lighting!

Do fish need to have a certain amount of natural daylight, or is it ok 2 put them in darkness with a incandescent or fluorescent light? Or does anyone know of any good websites wich cud help me?...

petethehoop

marsupial carnivours

what marsupial carnivour has jaws 8 times stronger than a doberman

chijiki

Opening web links

When I click on a web site link, many of which are given in Answerbank answers, it only opens in a 3' deep, full width box, on my screen. This has only recently started to happen. Previously links...

Squirrel

Fish tank distortion

I can just about understand why there might be refraction of light when your head is at an angle to the tank, but what about when you look from the front, straight at the back? It still looks like the...