I've been trying to remember the title of a US comedy series that went out on UK TV about 10 or 15 years ago, which featured Bert Campbell, from the 'Soap' series, as the central character. I seem to...
Does anybody know if these 7 flexi-discs, which were recorded as gifts to the Beatles' fans and given away with the fan club magazine each Christmas from 1963-1969, have ever been made available on...
We've all been told from an early age that mixing blue and yellow gives you green, and have proved this correct by doing it. The primary colours red, blue and yellow, are the 3 colours from which all...
Why do we precede some countries' names with the word 'the? eg, The Gambia, The Sudan, The Lebanon, etc.
You never hear 'The Switzerland', or 'The Brazil', do you?
A few years ago, some archaeologists had a crazy theory that sounds from man's distant past may have been unwittingly recorded in the grooves made in clay pots as they spun upon the potter's wheel,...
When mini cabs were started up, all that was available was the 4-door saloon. They were generically known as mini cabs. In more recent years, with the law restricting the number of passengers to 4,...
Can those tiny button batteries, or lithium or NiCad batteries, etc. be recharged? If not, why not? And if they can, where does one get a recharging unit? I use quite a lot of them in various devices,...
When you enter a building, unless you're Spiderman, you're on the ground floor. But this is the first floor you walk on, so why don't we call it the first floor? By that logic, the first floor is...
I recently bought 2 new VCRs off E-Bay, to replace the ones I'd had for many years, and had ceased working efficiently. Both machines are variants of the same make and model, but unfortunately only...
There are many words in the dictionary which are described as 'slang' or 'colloquial'. What I'd like to know is, how is it decided whether words are slang or colloquial, and at what point does a word...
Cast your mind back, those of you who are lucky enough to be able to do so, to the 60s and 70s (...yes, we do it all the time, don't we! How fortunate were we to be young in those decades!) This is...
Can animals cross their eyes? If they can, this poses 2 more questions: Firstly, what benefit can it be to any animal to be able to do this? And secondly, if they can't, that leaves us humans as the...
Does anybody know what is the name of the lettering which is apparently 3-dimensional, but which is physically impossible? To see what I mean (if you don't), go to a record site such as Amazon, and...
Hi, I am trying to find a synthesiser instrumental from the late seventies.You, know when magic fly and oxygene were popular. The track is called Christmas in space, I think it was a B side.I cannot...
