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Football Anthem on Pink Floyd Song

Hello, I can vaguely remeber having heard a football anthem sung by the crowd in a stadium at the beginning of a Pink Floyd song. Does anyone know the title of the song and album and the name of the...
18:40 Sun 20th Feb 20116 answers, last by DTcrosswordfan 19:41 Sun 20th Feb 2011
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batteries

Hello! Is it really dangerous to reload disposable batteries and what can happen? My father, who is 78 years old, finds it very fast and clever and does it on his car battery. I'm really concerned...
11:13 Tue 17th Jul 20078 answers, last by thermalCat 10:31 Fri 20th Jul 2007
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Sa�

Hi! I'm reading "the winter king" by Bernard Cornwell, and if he explains the meaning of the word "wealhas" that later became "Welsh", he does not translante the word "Sa?s" which was originally the...
10:01 Tue 06th Feb 20073 answers, last by Quizmonster 15:54 Tue 06th Feb 2007
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Black Lion

Hi! I've just finished Bernard Cornwell's "Sharpe's Sword" in which one of the characters (Lord Spears) confesses having "the worst kind of pox" (syphilllis). Cornwell explains later that it was...
21:59 Thu 01st Sep 20053 answers, last by Quizmonster 12:04 Fri 02nd Sep 2005
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mugshots

Hi! Can someone tell me what the origin of the word "mugshot" is ? I know what they are, but I really don't understand the word. Has it got something to do with mugs (meaning these tall cups English...
19:50 Sat 20th Aug 20055 answers, last by xmanfe1999 20:20 Sun 21st Aug 2005
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xanadu

Hi! Can someone give me info about Xanadu, Gengis Khan's or Kubila? Khan's palace or court? I remember reading something about it somewhere but I can't place it. I sort of remember it was also Citizen...
15:15 Tue 28th Jun 20056 answers, last by woofgang 07:27 Wed 29th Jun 2005
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Nip/Tuck

Hi! Nip/Tuck Season 1 has just finished in France. Is there or will there be a Season 2. If so what happens to Christian? Is he disfigured? Has the "carver" (?) (in French it's "le d?coupeur") killed...
21:36 Tue 14th Jun 20053 answers, last by Peri 23:39 Tue 14th Jun 2005
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Gothic

Back in the 80s, I remember having seen a trailer for a Ken Russell movie whose title was "Gothic", if I remember well. I did not see it when it was in the theatres (it didn't last long anyway)...
21:12 Tue 14th Jun 20055 answers, last by smee.tracey 22:11 Wed 22nd Jun 2005
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sharpe in french

Hello! Does anyone know whether Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series has been translated into French? I've started reading the fifth episode and I 'd love shring my discovery with my husband...
21:18 Mon 13th Jun 20057 answers, last by xmanfe1999 21:23 Wed 22nd Jun 2005
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burn it blue

Hello! Can someone tell me on which album by Caetano Veloso I can find the song "Burn it blue". I heard it in a film but the rest of the soundtrack is not as interesting anyway I'd like to listen to...
21:10 Mon 13th Jun 20051 answer, last by *mystical* 18:21 Sat 18th Jun 2005
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Someone left the cake out...

Hello! Can anyone tell me who sang the song "Someone's left the cake out in the rain...". I remember it was a song I used to hear back in the seventies (I was about 7), when I didn't understand or...
12:46 Fri 20th May 20058 answers, last by JohnLord 13:23 Sat 21st May 2005
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Bobbies, cops...

I heard a few years ago that police constables in London were no longer called "bobbies". Is it true and if so, when did this name disappear? I'm a fervent reader of Ian Rankin novels and I've read he...
20:36 Sat 07th May 200514 answers, last by Rumford 11:25 Wed 11th May 2005
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Sandra : s is for... acronyms

Hi ! One of my twelve years old pupils asked me to write in her poetry book (I don't know if this kind of thing exists "on the other side of the Channel" it's a kind of album in which girls collect...
20:58 Tue 03rd May 200511 answers, last by brifos 18:40 Sun 07th May 2006
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after sex... shire !

I've just read the questions and answers (is it what you call a thread ?) about the meaning and origin of the suffix sex in Essex, Middlesex etc. What about 'shire' as in Lancashire, Yorkshire ? And...
20:46 Tue 03rd May 200513 answers, last by THECORBYLOON 23:50 Sun 08th May 2005
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Scythes ans Scythians

Hello, I'm French andI teach English in a secondary school, so I know a bit about English but I often wonder what the origins of some words are, or if similarities between words are just coincidences...
17:12 Sat 30th Apr 20055 answers, last by Peter Pedant 22:56 Wed 04th May 2005

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