Ha ha ha ha ha! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfzICA-rZbw Is the cat just trying to get the dog out of the way for the dog's own protection, do you think? They seem friendly enough otherwise - the...
I'm trying to establish the correct wording and punctuation of an Edith Wharton haiku that goes something like this: my little dog, a heartbeat at my feet ...but there are so many, slightly differing...
Trying to recall a television series from my childhood. This would have been in the late sixties or early seventies. Can't say if it was American or British and the only clue I've got for you is that...
Back in the sixties when I started learning English as a second language we were taught to use the word 'gotten' for instance in a sentence like "Has it gotten any better?" It wasn't really...
Could somebody please help me make sense of this sentence; it's from a Wikipedia entry about hammerhead sharks. English isn't my first language and I just don't get it: "Hammerheads are one of...
I like to use online image editors such as Pixlr, Sumo and Aviary for instance and there's never been a problem. But a while back I started getting warnings when initiating the process of saving an...
I've only just found out that my Dad's mother apparently was a fan of British crime fiction and that one of Dad's given names - Cyril - was inspired by this. My Dad was born in 1923. Any ideas on who...
I'm a Swede living in Sweden but we do get to see a lot of your British drama series and shows, Parkinson being one of the popular ones over here as well. I was just wondering, how is he and has he...
Why do I have to keep telling AnswerBank NOT to remember me on this computer, when signing in? Should be the other way around by default, i.e. if I wanted to be remembered I'd ask for it. It's...
For those ABers who would like to participate in the AnswerBank Colour Scheme Design Competition which was announced by Spare Ed yesterday but who don't have any editing programme and have found, like...
Hello ChatterBankers, I'd be interested in hearing your opinions on this. I'm a Swede living in Sweden. The other day a Brit named James Savage, managing editor of The Local (a site with Sweden's news...
