It's an age old problem, I know, but when, (for the usual reasons), the perennial Trolls' accounts get deleted - why completely erase them from AB history? Deleted answers can make some of our most...
Can we have a Confessional category? And can I start it off? Forgive me AB-Ed, for I have sinned. Forsaking my duty to Science, I have just posted in Body & Soul. I shall duly recite three Periodic...
For tonight's episode (06/07/2008) the trailer featured a certain string (classical) arrangement - at first I thought it was Pictures of Matchstick Men (Once used in the Gordon's Gin advert for you...
Just been reading the AAIB report into the 'crash' landing of the TNT 737 Cargo plane at Birmingham airport in 2006. Not knowing what a "CAT III a" landing was, I looked it up. But what is meant by...
Was it me, or were the official answers to the "name the castle" round incorrect in tonight's (276/08/07) University Challenge? Surely Warwick and Arundel Castles were the wrong way round?
In the current "Have Your Say" poll somewhere on the right there, --> the question is; "If a family member was sick/elderly and needed round the clock care, what would you do?. For some reason, my...
No, not a punk band..... but I was driving up the M40 on Saturday when I spotted a bird of prey gliding close to the edge of the motorway. It was not a kestrel, or any other falcon, or a hawk. It was...
Since we are on the subject of petitions, I am sympathetic to the plight of the English and the dirge they have to sing in the name of patriotism. Thus, I wholeheartedly endorse this petition...
Shuffling through some tunes on my computer, I came across a random track; "And who did you meet my blue eyed son And who did you meet my darling young one....... ......It's a hard rain's a-gonna...
Who does the voice-over for the Beechams (?) series of adverts with the various 'traditional' remedies (sleeping with yaks / chillis tied round nose / frogs on head etc etc etc.) ?
I've just been accepted to take part in the next series of Mastermind</> !! My 'Specialist Subject'? "The complete history of AnswerBank Sub-Topics, October 2006 - December 2006" Watch this...
I would put this in 'Gaming', (but no b?gger looks in there). OK, the person who is 'it' counts to a hundred. Meanwhile, everyone else runs off and posts either a question or reply somewhere in...