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Vowel divide

If two lines were drawn across the UK where, north of the top one, people say bath, path, glass (short "a") and south of the bottom one, they say "bahth", "pahth", "glahss" (long "a"), where would...
08:49 Wed 02nd Aug 200616 answers, last by stephyker 22:32 Sun 13th Aug 2006
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CD label-making software

Can anyone recommend a free, downloadable CD/DVD label maker? I don't need lots of bells and whistles, just something to create a photo label with some text on which I can then print onto a...
12:45 Thu 27th Jul 200614 answers, last by wideboy 00:34 Fri 04th Aug 2006
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Best bait for rat trap

We've got a smart rat! I have been baiting a trap (a large version of the classic mouse-trap) with parmesan cheese rind but the little devil keeps taking the cheese without setting off the trap. The...
11:56 Thu 20th Jul 200610 answers, last by thingumybob 22:05 Fri 21st Jul 2006
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Video to DVD

How can I copy video tape recordings to DVD?
08:45 Fri 14th Jul 20067 answers, last by stevie21 13:36 Fri 14th Jul 2006
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Wikipedia

Is there ANY subject not covered by Wikipedia? If only the English language version of Wikipedia was printed out, how many pages would there be?
08:53 Tue 04th Jul 20061 answer, last by fo3nix 11:10 Tue 04th Jul 2006
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New format

When I click on a question I have answered in order to read the answers, the text of the question is not there. All I see is the new preview facility.
07:56 Tue 20th Jun 20063 answers, last by ugly_bob 12:38 Tue 20th Jun 2006
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White triangles

I live outside the UK and have just returned from a week's holiday there (driving around the south west of England). I noticed in several places that series of white triangles were painted along the...
09:17 Mon 12th Jun 20063 answers, last by SteveD 12:16 Mon 12th Jun 2006
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Republic of ...??

If the UK became a republic, what would it be called? "The Republic of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" is a bit long-winded. Any other ideas?
08:02 Sat 03rd Jun 200612 answers, last by Big Al1st 19:27 Sat 03rd Jun 2006
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Mobile phones: Safety issues - Myth or reality?

1. AircraftThe use of mobile phones is not permitted on commercial flights as they can interfere with the aircraft's navigation systems. Has this been proved?Every day, there must be tens of thousands...
08:26 Tue 23rd May 200612 answers, last by NapoleonSolo 15:23 Thu 25th May 2006
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Landing at the wrong airport

Now that the dust has (presumably) settled concerning this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4857962.stm and Ryanair put a tongue-in-cheek cover-up on their website:...
17:42 Wed 12th Apr 20065 answers, last by Gef 21:28 Thu 13th Apr 2006
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The Apprentice (again)

Does anybody know how far ahead of transmission the Apprentice episodes are recorded?
18:11 Thu 06th Apr 20061 answer, last by Mei_Li 11:18 Thu 13th Jul 2006
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AB Ed's Blog

This is from http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/ Rare Time Alignment TomorrowStatus: Partially true, partially falseAn email is circulating around that makes the following claim:On Wednesday of this week...
08:21 Wed 05th Apr 20064 answers, last by aka pixi 09:26 Thu 06th Apr 2006
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Changing to summer time

How many clocks, watches, timers etc have you had to change? (Reply tomorrow (Sunday) when you've done them all).
18:42 Sat 25th Mar 200615 answers, last by Gef 20:42 Sun 26th Mar 2006
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Bouncing questions to the top of the page

This has probably been requested before, but would it be possible for questions to be bounced to the top of the page whenever they receive an answer? I recently received an answer to a "whatever...
08:54 Sun 12th Mar 200617 answers, last by jon1968 12:36 Mon 13th Mar 2006
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The most useless words

Are bi-weekly and bi-monthly the most useless words in English? In the same context they can mean completely different things: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=bi-weekly In other words, if you...
08:05 Fri 10th Mar 20061 answer, last by jno 09:43 Fri 10th Mar 2006
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Re-post: Dating a photo

I am re-posting this thread because I have added what may be another clue (the letters E G A D N and H R L I on the canopy of the cart). Any more thoughts?...
08:02 Thu 09th Mar 20061 answer, last by SteveD 08:35 Thu 09th Mar 2006
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Dating a photo

Please take a look at this photo: http://tinypic.com/view/?pic=qxrt5x It was taken in Brough, Westmorland (? 1923). What is being celebrated? The flags must give a clue.
08:27 Tue 07th Mar 20065 answers, last by SteveD 13:17 Wed 08th Mar 2006
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Links do not open in Outlook Express 6

Have a look here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;257464 This describes my problem (when I receive an e-mail which contains a link to a web site, clicking on the link does not...
08:28 Sat 04th Mar 20064 answers, last by SteveD 10:40 Sun 05th Mar 2006
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Isle of Wight

Why the Isle of Wight? What is "Wight"?
17:59 Wed 01st Mar 20066 answers, last by snook 01:58 Thu 02nd Mar 2006

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