Just wondered what other Aber's thoughts are on the latest family holiday advert by booking .com.I thought that the use of the word booking was at times inappropriate at breakfast time.I nearly spilt...
In Carry on Spying, Kenneth Williams' character is told the funhouse is on the Street of A Thousand Artisans and says something like "I don't suppose it could be anything else" - why? I assume it's a...
Good evening all I was looking on Amazon for copy of A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan; one seller has a hardback second hand copy in good condition for £4.11 but further on has a copy in very good...
I have just been watching a short documentary on the Fall of the Berlin Wall which was 25 years ago today ,Have any ABer's been to Berlin before or after the Fall. As part of our European tour we were...
I've got an engineer's 12 inch steel rule that has each inch divided up into 1/20th of an inch graduated divisions. Who would need to use such a scale? I do remember using wood rulers at school many...
Im off to the dentist tomorrow I have to have a total of 4 fillings over 2 appointments. 2 Left 2 Right however since I went 4 months ago things have got worse they are due to do the left side...
When Thick as a Brick came out in 1972 it was packaged in a elaborate sleeve that unfolded into a spoof local newspaper, the St Cleve Chronicle, which contained a crossword that seems to be unsolvable...
I've watched one of my favourite WW2 movies today 'The Enemy Below'. I know it's over-romanticised but I have a question - when German survivors were picked up in the Atlantic by either US or British...
or did you used to be able to fill your tank with petrol without having to squeeze the trigger all the time? I swear you used to be able to clip the trigger somehow, so hands were free. am i right?...
Hi The air bag light is on in my car and my mechanic tells me it is to do with a detonator problem, i need to get my car through the mot and need the light out a friend mentioned that car electric...
Just been done for my wettest ever speeding ticket, 36 in a 30, will I get a speed awareness course? Moment of weakness must have missed the camera. OK motoring evangelists I'm ready for a lick o the...
If I were to go to a whiskey distillery and drink the spirit straight from the still would it taste like vodka? My mate is a bit of a whiskey connoisseur and he maintains that the distilled spirit...
