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Hoo hah

Who was the architect of the new MPs building that's causing so much hot air at the moment?
08:51 Fri 19th Apr 20021 answer, last by Andromeda 15:50 Fri 19th Apr 2002
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Agatha

How is it that such a bad writer as Agatha Christie is far and away the biggest-selling author of all time anywhere in the world? Even as a young teenager I thought her writing was terrible, so this...
14:27 Wed 27th Feb 200211 answers, last by findo 04:59 Sat 23rd Mar 2002
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zipper

Who was it who quipped back in the late 70s that punks were just 'hippies in zips' or some such? I can't find anything on the net.
14:23 Wed 27th Feb 20021 answer, last by siggy 22:09 Mon 25th Mar 2002
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Caving

I'm a bit of a Nick Cave fan, but am wary of reading his novel And the Ass Saw the Angel in case it's a load of pretentious twaddle and puts me off the music. Have any of you read it? Is it any good?...
09:19 Fri 15th Feb 20021 answer, last by lovelylad 11:46 Wed 20th Feb 2002
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Dutch

What's 'my old Dutch' all about?
21:52 Mon 04th Feb 20024 answers, last by mallorn 12:26 Thu 07th Feb 2002
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careless whispers

Why are Chinese whispers Chinese?
21:50 Mon 04th Feb 20021 answer, last by ravenhair 15:36 Tue 05th Feb 2002
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Nothing nothing nothing

OK, so I moaned about the abank being deluged with that riddle (Paul Harvey Riddle, etc.) to which the answer is 'nothing', but now I've come across it all over the place so I'm getting interested....
12:42 Thu 31st Jan 20022 answers, last by libtdb 14:48 Thu 07th Feb 2002
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Poetry

What's the earliest poem in English?
09:03 Wed 30th Jan 20024 answers, last by sgs 12:03 Mon 04th Feb 2002
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Miller

Is Arthur Miller's greatest gift to posterity the fact that he was married to Marilyn Monroe? As a test, name more than one of his plays without looking anything up.
10:48 Wed 23rd Jan 20023 answers, last by Waterwolf 23:15 Wed 23rd Jan 2002
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All round the houses

Last time I was in London I noticed that a play or something was being staged at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm. I thought it had been closed in the 70s or 80s and was going to be demolished. Any of you...
09:17 Wed 16th Jan 20021 answer, last by sgs 12:01 Wed 23rd Jan 2002
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Roland

What's in the Chanson de Roland?
13:48 Mon 14th Jan 20021 answer, last by vittoria 15:03 Tue 15th Jan 2002
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slicker

What the origin of the word slicker, as in city slicker?
12:26 Tue 06th Nov 20011 answer, last by mother 18:48 Sun 18th Nov 2001
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And that's magic

What really was 'magic realism' all about?
13:50 Fri 02nd Nov 20011 answer, last by sgs 09:37 Mon 12th Nov 2001
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Yobs

Did the word 'yob' really come a bout as an inversion of boy?
13:02 Wed 24th Oct 20011 answer, last by sgs 08:17 Fri 26th Oct 2001
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Perspective

Why does art before the Renaissance look so unrealisitic?
12:56 Wed 24th Oct 20012 answers, last by sgs 09:51 Mon 05th Nov 2001
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Toff

Further to the question 'nausea rhymes' (below), does the word toff come from toffee-nosed, or did the latter arise as a pun on the former. Reference sources seem divided on this. Any opinions?
10:24 Tue 25th Sep 20011 answer, last by bobsailer 10:42 Tue 02nd Oct 2001
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Rings

With all the hype going on about the film of Lord of the Rings, does anyone still read the book?
22:10 Sun 23rd Sep 20013 answers, last by mallorn 16:55 Sun 14th Oct 2001
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Actress and bishop

What's the origin of the phrase 'as the actress said to the bishop'?
15:28 Thu 20th Sep 20011 answer, last by Joshua_R 02:39 Fri 21st Sep 2001
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Thesaurus

What's another word for thesaurus?
09:21 Sun 26th Aug 20013 answers, last by potent 07:45 Tue 28th Aug 2001
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Julian and Sandy

There's a proper name for the kind of undergound gay language popularised by the Julian and Sandy radio characters. Does anyone know what it was called?
08:40 Fri 17th Aug 20012 answers, last by artisan 14:36 Sun 03rd Mar 2002

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