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2 decorators

Two painters are decorating a church when they start running low on paint. They decide to add some water to make it stretch further. They soon find they're getting short again and add more water. They...
17:42 Sun 15th Feb 20092 answers, last by carlton23 11:32 Thu 19th Feb 2009
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2 thirsty travellers

Two thirsty travellers in the Australian outback find a small homestead called Marcy. They are desperate for a drink. The homesteader offers them Koala Tea. When it comes, it is thick, green and...
17:39 Sun 15th Feb 20094 answers, last by crisgal 16:15 Tue 17th Feb 2009
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Watching American DVDs

A friend's son has sent him a couple of DVD films from America. However, because of the regional coding, he can't view them. They will play on my computer. Is there any way I can rip and copy them...
08:18 Mon 09th Feb 20094 answers, last by Hughes 66 16:44 Mon 09th Feb 2009
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Changing "My Documents" & !Shared Documents" shortcuts

My netbook has a 16Gb SSD hard drive on which I have windows XP and Ubuntu operating systems, on dual boot, and a few programs. I keep all my documents (and a few "lesser" programs) on my D drive...
18:51 Tue 03rd Feb 20091 answer, last by rojash 19:05 Tue 03rd Feb 2009
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Copyright issue

Years ago, I used to record "Top of the Pops" from my transistor radio onto my cassette tape recorder - for my own personal use. Nowadays, because I cannot get broadband where I am and am stuck with a...
11:04 Tue 20th Jan 20091 answer, last by another-view 11:57 Tue 20th Jan 2009
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Forgotten password in Ubuntu

I've just installed Ubuntu alongside Windows XP on my netbook as a dual boot system (using Wubi). It took about 8 hours downloading (perhaps I should have requested a CD) but when I tried to start it...
11:37 Sat 27th Dec 20085 answers, last by pisaaic 05:56 Mon 18th Jun 2012
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Embarrasing things you've said

Feeling my mouth wasn't fresh, I popped into a large chemist but, not finding what I was looking for, approached a sales assistant and started to ask, "Can you show me where you keep your G-spot?"....
08:40 Fri 19th Dec 200810 answers, last by Lakitu 09:45 Fri 19th Dec 2008
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Up the creek

An elderly passenger when I was driving taxis near Portsmouth 10 years ago, told me a possible origin of this saying which seems reasonable to me but I haven't found it in any books or on-line...
08:57 Wed 17th Dec 20084 answers, last by chrisrob 16:43 Wed 17th Dec 2008
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Dee Sa

Thanks for your help when we were planning our Goa holiday. Left you feedback on the original question: http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Travel/Question 648165.html Chris
14:47 Sun 14th Dec 2008
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Terrorist attack on largest liner?

My wife is trying desperately to remember the title and author of a book she read fairly recently in which the world's largest liner or cruise ship was blown up by terrorists. Can anyone help, please?
12:10 Fri 21st Nov 20083 answers, last by chrisrob 15:48 Fri 21st Nov 2008
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Politics: left and right

When and where did the use of left for socialism and right for capitalism originate? Is it to do with which side of the house they sit/sat? In our parliament?
18:13 Tue 18th Nov 20084 answers, last by chrisrob 08:00 Wed 19th Nov 2008
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Ripping music from video

Is it possible to rip music as an mp3 file from a digitised video format (eg .flv), please? Want to play music recorded on mobile phone on mp3 player.
17:04 Sat 15th Nov 20082 answers, last by chrisrob 07:05 Sun 16th Nov 2008
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Re-registering Windows XP?

My new laptop failed last week (a hard drive problem) :-( Dell collected it and returned it quickly with new hard disk. :-) (Fortunately I had everything backed up!) BUT, when clicking on my computer...
15:33 Wed 12th Nov 20082 answers, last by chrisrob 15:54 Wed 12th Nov 2008
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Central heating question

I know if radiators are cold at the top they need bleeding as there's air above the hot water. But some of my radiators are cold at the bottom while hot at the top although feed and return pipes...
13:47 Mon 10th Nov 20082 answers, last by RAYMAN 22:11 Thu 13th Nov 2008
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A topical joke

Apparently some women are shaving their pubic hair in celebration of Obama's election victory: "NO MORE BUSH!"
12:31 Sun 09th Nov 20082 answers, last by carrust 13:39 Mon 10th Nov 2008
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Pace twin digibox / recorder

We have a Pace twin digibox (similar to the Sky plus box - but we can't get satellite) that lets us get a few freeview channels. Recently there have been a few programs I have tried to record that...
09:37 Sun 09th Nov 2008
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Visas & innoculations for Goa

Hi, We're off to Goa in a few weeks! Can anyone tell us where/how to get our visas quickly and cheaply? Also what innoculations are recommended? We had a number of jabs before travelling round...
13:48 Wed 29th Oct 20087 answers, last by chrisrob 14:44 Sun 14th Dec 2008
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Converting an analogue video recording for you tube

I have an old video recording on VHS tape of a 7 minute slot on Breakfast time TV my class was involved in 12 years ago that I'd like to post on Friends Reunited (though suspect it'll have to be You...
11:32 Tue 28th Oct 20084 answers, last by chrisrob 16:44 Tue 28th Oct 2008
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Coeliacs

We've recently made friends with a couple and wish to invite them for lunch or dinner. However, she has coeliac's. can anyone suggest suitable menus? One of our ideas uses a sauce which has amongst...
11:58 Tue 14th Oct 20083 answers, last by chrisrob 13:55 Tue 14th Oct 2008

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