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Name Of Book?

Does anyone know the name of this book I remember reading as a boy. It's a fairly standard story set in a boarding school. One of the characters was nicknamed Bat or The Bat and I think he was a spin...
17:42 Fri 13th Sep 2013
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Jeremy Forrest

You know, the bloke that's been in court and now convicted of abducting a 15-year old girl who, according to reports, "cannot be named for legal reasons". What's the point of that? Everyone knows who...
15:47 Thu 20th Jun 20133 answers, last by jim360 20:19 Thu 20th Jun 2013
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Paralympic cycling

There's a pursuit event which involves a partially-sighted rider at the back of a tandem with a sighted person at the front to do the steering. They both do the pedalling. Does anyone know how the...
09:00 Tue 04th Sep 20125 answers, last by ABerrant 01:57 Thu 06th Sep 2012
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French Open tennis

The umpire gives the in-game score in French, asks for new balls in French and tells you X leads Y by whatever number of games it is in French. Fair enough - it is the French Open. But at the start of...
13:15 Mon 28th May 2012
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Computing power

I remember when I was a schoolboy, the maths master once asked "who wants to go and see a computer". So I did. This would have been about 1968. The computer occupied a large space in a local...
12:14 Fri 15th Jan 201010 answers, last by neildownx 22:12 Sun 17th Jan 2010
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Myfanwy by John Betjeman

"Kind o'er the kinderbank leans my Myfanwy" What is/was a kinderbank? I know 'kinder' is German for 'children', but I can't visualise anyone leaning over a children's bank.
17:20 Sat 02nd Aug 20085 answers, last by William49 02:55 Sat 05th Jan 2019
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Motorola Razr V3x

I've inherited one of these from a friend and I'm trying to synchronise it with my PC. I've downloaded software 'PCSYNC' from the Motorola website and installed it but every time it searches for the...
14:22 Fri 06th Jun 20081 answer, last by neildownx 21:33 Fri 13th Jun 2008
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Spyware

I'm currently running Spybot and Ad-Aware, both of which have got really slow recently. Anybody got any recommended alternatives?
18:01 Sun 27th Apr 20083 answers, last by Mac70 11:40 Mon 28th Apr 2008
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Ending in -ize or -ise (as in eg civilise or civilize)

People keep complaining that using the -ize ending is an unwanted Americanism, but my Oxford dictionary seems to accept both as standard UK English. Years ago, someone explained to me that the correct...
19:46 Sun 27th Aug 20062 answers, last by Quizmonster 09:51 Mon 28th Aug 2006
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Train station

This now seems to be used universally, but 30 years ago everyone would call it a railway station. It doesn't particularly bother me, but does anyone know when/why "train" replaced "railway"?
19:40 Sun 27th Aug 20064 answers, last by JillP 05:12 Mon 18th Sep 2006
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Only fools on horses

Does anyone know what height they are jumping?
15:37 Sat 08th Jul 20061 answer, last by mightyWBA 16:07 Sat 08th Jul 2006
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Monday Lottery

According to the puff for this, you are 27 times more likely to win a jackpot than you are on the National Lottery. You still have to pick 6 numbers from 49, so the basic chances of doing so are still...
14:03 Wed 10th May 20065 answers, last by heathfield 09:31 Thu 11th May 2006
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Mobile phones

If I call someone who is on a landline then the position of the receiving phone is fixed, as there is a wire going into the building, so the signal knows where to go, if you see what I mean. If I call...
14:28 Wed 26th Apr 20063 answers, last by theprof 22:51 Wed 26th Apr 2006
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E-mail spam

Instead of the usual offers to increase the size of my manhood, or earn ?1 million by using my bank account for dodgy money transfers, I've started to receive lots of things purporting to be...
15:20 Tue 18th Apr 20062 answers, last by CT 00:49 Wed 19th Apr 2006
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Light bulbs

We have a light fitting with push-in bulbs, which fit very snugly into their shades. When we purchased it we got a suction cup, very like a miniature sink plunger, to remove the bulbs if they needed...
15:03 Wed 05th Apr 20062 answers, last by raysparx 22:09 Wed 05th Apr 2006
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shouting!

Does anyone know why/how typing in capital letters came to be regarded as equivalent to shouting in spoken conversation? Sure, real-life shouting is pretty rude, but capital letters are just symbols...
14:41 Wed 05th Apr 20067 answers, last by Space 10:34 Thu 06th Apr 2006
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The law

In our lcal paper this week was reported the case of a man accused of drink-driving. He pleaded guilty, but he magistrates have ordered him to plead not guilty following a "complex legal issue" which...
13:41 Sat 08th Oct 20056 answers, last by LordyGeordie 16:59 Thu 13th Oct 2005
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Alison Lapper Pregnant

If you don't know, this is the new statue put up in Trafalgar Square. This question is not intended to start a discussion about the merits of this piece (but go ahead if you want) but is about the...
14:48 Wed 28th Sep 20055 answers, last by Allen Crisp 13:14 Thu 29th Sep 2005
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Pillar to post.

At work the other day, someone described himself as having been "pushed from pillar to post", meaning he had been given the runaround a bit. It's an expression I haven't heard for some time, and I've...
16:57 Thu 22nd Sep 20054 answers, last by seal! 18:22 Fri 23rd Sep 2005
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Walking uphill

At a supermarket near us, one of the exits has a choice of around twenty steps or a long gentle ramp for wheelchairs. It surprises me how many people walk up the ramp rather than use the steps (which...
11:02 Tue 02nd Aug 20056 answers, last by SurferChick1 15:07 Wed 03rd Aug 2005

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