Allen Crisp
I remember when I was a schoolboy, the maths master once asked "who wants to go and see a computer". So I did. This would have been about 1968. The computer occupied a large space in a local...
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Allen Crisp
"Kind o'er the kinderbank leans my Myfanwy" What is/was a kinderbank? I know 'kinder' is German for 'children', but I can't visualise anyone leaning over a children's bank.
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Allen Crisp
I've inherited one of these from a friend and I'm trying to synchronise it with my PC. I've downloaded software 'PCSYNC' from the Motorola website and installed it but every time it searches for the...
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Allen Crisp
I'm currently running Spybot and Ad-Aware, both of which have got really slow recently. Anybody got any recommended alternatives?
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Allen Crisp
People keep complaining that using the -ize ending is an unwanted Americanism, but my Oxford dictionary seems to accept both as standard UK English. Years ago, someone explained to me that the correct...
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Allen Crisp
This now seems to be used universally, but 30 years ago everyone would call it a railway station. It doesn't particularly bother me, but does anyone know when/why "train" replaced "railway"?
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Allen Crisp
Does anyone know what height they are jumping?
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Allen Crisp
According to the puff for this, you are 27 times more likely to win a jackpot than you are on the National Lottery. You still have to pick 6 numbers from 49, so the basic chances of doing so are still...
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Allen Crisp
If I call someone who is on a landline then the position of the receiving phone is fixed, as there is a wire going into the building, so the signal knows where to go, if you see what I mean. If I call...
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Allen Crisp
Instead of the usual offers to increase the size of my manhood, or earn ?1 million by using my bank account for dodgy money transfers, I've started to receive lots of things purporting to be...
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Allen Crisp
We have a light fitting with push-in bulbs, which fit very snugly into their shades. When we purchased it we got a suction cup, very like a miniature sink plunger, to remove the bulbs if they needed...
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Allen Crisp
Does anyone know why/how typing in capital letters came to be regarded as equivalent to shouting in spoken conversation? Sure, real-life shouting is pretty rude, but capital letters are just symbols...
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Allen Crisp
In our lcal paper this week was reported the case of a man accused of drink-driving. He pleaded guilty, but he magistrates have ordered him to plead not guilty following a "complex legal issue" which...
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Allen Crisp
If you don't know, this is the new statue put up in Trafalgar Square. This question is not intended to start a discussion about the merits of this piece (but go ahead if you want) but is about the...
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Allen Crisp
At work the other day, someone described himself as having been "pushed from pillar to post", meaning he had been given the runaround a bit. It's an expression I haven't heard for some time, and I've...
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Allen Crisp
At a supermarket near us, one of the exits has a choice of around twenty steps or a long gentle ramp for wheelchairs. It surprises me how many people walk up the ramp rather than use the steps (which...
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Allen Crisp
I'll give full info at the start because it'll be useful for anyone who doesn't know about this. If you type three dashes and then hit Enter, Word inserts a horizontal line across the document....
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Allen Crisp
Can anyone put my wife out of her misery and say who "dunnit" in last night's episode? She watched it until after 9PM but went to sleep before the end. I'm not a fan of Inspector...
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Allen Crisp
How much exercise is good for a four-month-old Border Collie, do you think? Two miles a day, three, or what? There's a lot of conflicting info about.
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Allen Crisp
I have discovered to my surprise that a full system scan with the above is not as full as you might expect. We use Windows XP and have four XP user accounts. If I log on as myself the full scan does...
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