When me and my sisters were kids, our father threatened to return the TV to the rental shop if we didn't stop watching it so much. This was no idle threat - sure enough, two weeks later I came home...
Which song has the longest period of silence in it? I nominate Queen's Body Language which stops for about 2 seconds half-way through before picking up the beat again. Any others?
Do you think the kids who enter the Spelling Bee competitions, as seen in the recent Spellbound documentary, are more eloquent in their everyday speech or are their efforts at learning to spell...
This is surely going to become one of the classic headlines of all times; "Turkey diagnoses human bird flu" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4582654.stm
What happens to the remains of suicide bombers? Are the body parts collected, identified, returned to the family and given a burial - or just disposed of?
In an answer to an earlier question Octavius tried to start a story but unfortunately it didn't get very far. I thought it was a good idea, anyone want to try again? Two ground rules though; 1) Max. 2...
How would I go about 'investing' money in production companies looking to finance new film or theatre productions. I'm not talking thousands of pounds at my disposal, maybe one or two hundred.
In the light of a recent report that teenagers are engaging in 'daisy-chaining', that a 13 year old Florida girl is pregnant and seeking an abortion and an earlier question here from a 32 year old...
Five years ago my work brought me to Canada. I've just returned from a 10 day visit back to London seeing family and friends. While I was there the news was just a relentless litany of crimes,...
On his deathbed the king, who has two sons, announces that his fortune will go to the son whose horse loses a race in which the two of them must compete together. The sons are keen horseman and used...