Do the provisions of the various Road Traffic Acts apply when driving on private land? In particular, the wearing of seat belts when on private estate roads.
A joke I heard some time ago involved a farmer who was fed up with people entering his fields and picking his fruits. So he put up a notice saying 'PICK YOUR OWN!' This of course had the opposite...
I heard recently that one of the earlier cosmonauts re-entered the earth's atmosphere wrongly and fetched up miles away from the designated landing place. He had to make his own way out of the space...
Would the post office accept letters that have old postage stamps on them? I have many old stamps, some of them marked 1st or 2nd class but most with monetary denominations on them, from 3p up to 90p....
Can a speed camera take your picture if you're exceeding the limit but are approaching the camera, rather than the usual one where you're snapped whilst driving away from it? And, if a car is caught...
Is there any reason why brand-new 50 pence pieces have been put into circulation dated 2011 so early in the year? There do not seem to have been any other coins issued for this year. If the Queen dies...
I once heard that a newspaper report said something like the following: '...Crowds cheered as Quen Victoria pissed over Westminster Bridge.' Does anyone have chapter and verse of this quotation?
I have a fixed-interest mortgage. I was told by an employee of the mortgage loan provider that if I paid off more than 20% of the loan it would break the terms of the contract and it would therefore...
There is a riddle in the form of a poem. The answer is 'an egg'. All that I can recall is a line containing the words 'halls of marble'. Any elucidation would be welcome.
There is a cog railway system which in English is called the Alternating Biting Tooth device. Can someone translate this term (Alternating Biting Tooth) into GERMAN for me please.
Did the BBC continue to broadcast the Shipping Forecast during the war? And presuming that they did, how much did they change it, if at all, to ensure that the enemy didn't use the information?
In 1924 four Douglas World Cruisers set off from Seattle, USA, to circumnavigate the globe. Two of them made the trip, and all the pilots survived. It took them 175 days to complete the journey,...
