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Dover Harbour Wall

Many years ago I was waiting for a ferry at Dover and I wrote down a column of letters I saw on the harbour wall: A N Y T H O E K B L R V D I. If there were any more letters, they were beneath the...
14:00 Sun 16th Jan 2022
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Yorkshire Dialect

I'd rather "shave a Rottweiler's writh" . The spelling is as it was given in the subtitles. What's a 'writh' (or 'rith'). Any expert of Yorkshire dialect, please?...
21:24 Sat 08th Jan 20221 answer, last by Mamyalynne 21:27 Sat 08th Jan 2022
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What's A 'Writh'? (Emmerdale)

Sam said he'd rather "shave a Rottweiler's writh" on Emmerdale recently . The spelling is as it was given in the subtitles. What's a 'writh' (or 'rith'). Any expert of Yorkshire dialect, please?...
13:26 Sat 08th Jan 20227 answers, last by ladybirder 00:32 Sun 09th Jan 2022
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Get Boosted Now

I am curious about the images I've seen in the campaign to get us to have the booster jab. They say "GET BOOSTED NOW" where the 'O' in 'NOW' is yellow and a bit bigger than the other letters which are...
20:39 Thu 30th Dec 202145 answers, last by jno 20:33 Sat 01st Jan 2022
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Tv Zoom Trick

There is a thing they do on TV with a black and white photo (it's always b&w, I think, and the photo is usually old) where the subject of the photo in the foreground gets bigger as the camera seems to...
21:34 Thu 30th Sep 202111 answers, last by THECORBYLOON 09:57 Sat 02nd Oct 2021
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The Most Ornate Pub In England

The six words above can be found 'about 374 times' on the internet, said about the Philharmonic Dining Rooms in Liverpool. The words are almost always in inverted commas, as though they are a...
01:19 Tue 14th Sep 202112 answers, last by jno 13:28 Tue 14th Sep 2021
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The Empress Pub

Ringo's first solo album, Sentimental Journey, had a photo of the pub at the end of the street where he used to live on the cover. The pub is called "The Empress" and its sign shows an ocean liner...
01:35 Tue 07th Sep 20213 answers, last by Bert45 11:54 Tue 07th Sep 2021
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Les Dawson's Parisienne Adventure

Because of the way that TV credits are squashed up into a corner of the screen while they advertise the next programme, I was unable to read the name of the film to which credit was given courtesy of...
16:30 Thu 02nd Sep 20216 answers, last by Bert45 18:18 Thu 02nd Sep 2021
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Fuel Consumption To The Moon

There was a question on The Chase recently about the fuel consumption of Apollo 11's journey to the Moon (and back, probably). I can't remember the three possible answers exactly, but they were all 7...
23:32 Mon 16th Aug 202118 answers, last by Bert45 13:26 Thu 19th Aug 2021
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He Denies It Categorically.

I know what it means. But why? What does 'categorically' mean in this context? I know what it means (I repeat), but what does 'category' have to do with a denial? How did it come to be attached to...
00:07 Thu 12th Aug 202114 answers, last by Bert45 12:18 Thu 12th Aug 2021
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Location Of Tower In Professor T

According to websites Professor T was shot in Cambridge and Belgium. There is a scene from 17:30 to 17:43 (including adverts on ITV hub) where two policeman chase a suspect past what looks like a UK...
23:53 Wed 04th Aug 2021
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Are They Inventing Questions And Answers On "The Chase"?

There have been several questions lately on "The Chase" about words for groups of animals. Words I have never heard of in 70 years. There was a 'dazzle' of zebras. You can see why it's a good word for...
02:06 Sun 20th Jun 20218 answers, last by Mamyalynne 14:07 Sun 20th Jun 2021
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Duncan Renaldo, The Cisco Kid

I half remember a film set in what were then modern times, i.e. when the film was made, not the 19th century, in which Duncan Renaldo (or a lookalike)appeared dressed as the Cisco Kid. It was in a...
15:27 Sat 12th Jun 20216 answers, last by Bert45 18:53 Sat 12th Jun 2021
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When Did 'Actress' Become A Dirty Word?

It seems to me that, for a few years now, women in the acting profession have been referred to as 'actors'. Why? With some jobs we have one word for men and women -- nurse, doctor, lawyer, barrister,...
19:49 Thu 10th Jun 202135 answers, last by pixie374 18:59 Sun 20th Jun 2021
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And Another Thing ...

Angus's "bookshop" in "Funny Cow". When did you ever see a second-hand book shop with all the books labelled with a small white sticker at the bottom of the spine? On the other hand, when did you see...
17:09 Wed 09th Jun 20211 answer, last by Ken4155 17:18 Wed 09th Jun 2021
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Who Was That Woman?

I just watched "funny Cow".(Channel 4). i thought the woman at the bottom of the stairs at 53:33 (including adverts) blooked like Cilla Black, but it couldn't have been her, as she died in 2015 and...
17:03 Wed 09th Jun 20219 answers, last by chelle7272 20:02 Thu 10th Jun 2021
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The Human Riff

I have seen Barbara Charone credited with being the first to call Keith Richards "The Human Riff". But how can I verify this? I've googled (of course), but perhaps I didn't use the right search terms....
19:35 Thu 20th May 20212 answers, last by douglas9401 19:42 Thu 20th May 2021
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Is This A Hymn?

I found the following written in pencil by my mother over 60 years ago on a sheet from a cash book. There were no crossings out so I'm certain that she didn't compose it herself. Do you recognise it?...
20:51 Sun 16th May 20216 answers, last by Mamyalynne 00:30 Mon 17th May 2021
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Champion The Wonder Horse.

I recorded and watched the second episode of Champion the Wonder Horse (Talking Pictures TV). I sang along with the opening credits, but when I sang "The time will come when everyone will know the...
16:10 Fri 07th May 202121 answers, last by SurreyGuy 14:54 Wed 19th May 2021

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