Two painters are decorating a church when they start running low on paint. They decide to add some water to make it stretch further. They soon find they're getting short again and add more water. They...
Two thirsty travellers in the Australian outback find a small homestead called Marcy. They are desperate for a drink. The homesteader offers them Koala Tea. When it comes, it is thick, green and...
A friend's son has sent him a couple of DVD films from America. However, because of the regional coding, he can't view them. They will play on my computer. Is there any way I can rip and copy them...
My netbook has a 16Gb SSD hard drive on which I have windows XP and Ubuntu operating systems, on dual boot, and a few programs. I keep all my documents (and a few "lesser" programs) on my D drive...
Years ago, I used to record "Top of the Pops" from my transistor radio onto my cassette tape recorder - for my own personal use. Nowadays, because I cannot get broadband where I am and am stuck with a...
I've just installed Ubuntu alongside Windows XP on my netbook as a dual boot system (using Wubi). It took about 8 hours downloading (perhaps I should have requested a CD) but when I tried to start it...
Feeling my mouth wasn't fresh, I popped into a large chemist but, not finding what I was looking for, approached a sales assistant and started to ask, "Can you show me where you keep your G-spot?"....
An elderly passenger when I was driving taxis near Portsmouth 10 years ago, told me a possible origin of this saying which seems reasonable to me but I haven't found it in any books or on-line...
Thanks for your help when we were planning our Goa holiday. Left you feedback on the original question: http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Travel/Question 648165.html Chris
My wife is trying desperately to remember the title and author of a book she read fairly recently in which the world's largest liner or cruise ship was blown up by terrorists. Can anyone help, please?
When and where did the use of left for socialism and right for capitalism originate? Is it to do with which side of the house they sit/sat? In our parliament?
My new laptop failed last week (a hard drive problem) :-( Dell collected it and returned it quickly with new hard disk. :-) (Fortunately I had everything backed up!) BUT, when clicking on my computer...
I know if radiators are cold at the top they need bleeding as there's air above the hot water. But some of my radiators are cold at the bottom while hot at the top although feed and return pipes...
We have a Pace twin digibox (similar to the Sky plus box - but we can't get satellite) that lets us get a few freeview channels. Recently there have been a few programs I have tried to record that...
Hi, We're off to Goa in a few weeks! Can anyone tell us where/how to get our visas quickly and cheaply? Also what innoculations are recommended? We had a number of jabs before travelling round...
I have an old video recording on VHS tape of a 7 minute slot on Breakfast time TV my class was involved in 12 years ago that I'd like to post on Friends Reunited (though suspect it'll have to be You...
We've recently made friends with a couple and wish to invite them for lunch or dinner. However, she has coeliac's. can anyone suggest suitable menus? One of our ideas uses a sauce which has amongst...
