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Nataleanders

history

1844 - RSO by  LS
16:54 Sun 19th Dec 20041 answer, last by jocook17 03:00 Thu 20th Jan 2005
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alice_walsh

childrens tv

what is a childrens tv programme? is it made just to keep children happy and quiet or are they made to specifically educate children?
13:55 Wed 15th Sep 20041 answer, last by jocook17 02:51 Thu 20th Jan 2005
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jimmyjojojr

Five cool font

Does anyone know the name of the font that channel five use and/or where i can get it cause it looks really cool.
23:20 Wed 22nd Sep 20041 answer, last by jocook17 02:42 Thu 20th Jan 2005
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mpuo104514

70's Saturday Morning Show

There was a cartoon in the 70's on Sat morning. It featured a big green creature with lots of hair, (Like Grimmace with more hair). It was on around the time of "Captain Bob". I can't remember the...
18:48 Wed 06th Oct 20042 answers, last by jocook17 02:36 Thu 20th Jan 2005
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McStarsky

Slang racist term origins?

Why do black people call white people honkeys? What is the origin of this?
11:47 Fri 15th Oct 20046 answers, last by jocook17 01:28 Thu 20th Jan 2005
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Jonesgrl5

US & UK slang differences

How did the UK slang term fag; meaning cigarette, and the US slang term fag, short for faggot; meaning a homosexual male, come to have such different meanings?
07:16 Sat 16th Oct 20045 answers, last by jocook17 01:06 Thu 20th Jan 2005
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jocook17

th & f - interchangable??

Has anyone noticed the strange thing illiterate people do with the sounds of 'F' and 'TH' when trying to appear intelligent in an argument? They say things like "myselth", and "Can't you hear me, are...
21:48 Wed 19th Jan 20052 answers, last by jocook17 00:35 Thu 20th Jan 2005
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mitchellmum

Word for "boy" in Welsh

What is the word in Welsh for "boy"?
16:26 Mon 18th Oct 20042 answers, last by jocook17 00:06 Thu 20th Jan 2005
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Chrisheal

Sunnyside/Norbryght

Please let me know of any information concerning a house called Sunnyside or Norbryght at Tilburstow Hill South Godstone, Surrey .  The site was known as Norbryght from Anglo Saxon times, in...
16:39 Mon 18th Oct 20044 answers, last by BEChal 19:21 Sun 04th Oct 2015
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Ronna

Is this a real saying?

"Even a Duck drowns when it floods."
14:39 Tue 19th Oct 20042 answers, last by jocook17 23:53 Wed 19th Jan 2005
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snuggles

how do you pronounce...

.....the Irish name "Aoife" please...?
12:29 Thu 21st Oct 20044 answers, last by jocook17 23:44 Wed 19th Jan 2005
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hockney

True Blue

Where does the phrase True Blue come from? 
15:15 Fri 22nd Oct 20042 answers, last by jocook17 23:39 Wed 19th Jan 2005
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farm

new pin

why do people use the phrase as clean as anew pin
11:49 Sun 24th Oct 20042 answers, last by jocook17 23:31 Wed 19th Jan 2005
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Kay

Brollies.

Why is considered unluck to open an umbrella indoors,even when buying one?
01:59 Tue 26th Oct 20045 answers, last by jocook17 21:35 Wed 19th Jan 2005
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xanadu

Who was "Cut the Bag"

My Gran and My Mum who both came from Edinburgh had some really funny sayings.  They used to say things like "Dont trust him he's a bigger liar than Cut The Bag" Does anyone know who Cut The Bag...
20:27 Thu 28th Oct 20043 answers, last by Aggietait 14:18 Sun 02nd Dec 2012
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subeesh

Fox Hunter

Whats is the name of the Red coat Worn By a Fox Hunter  
10:57 Fri 29th Oct 20045 answers, last by jocook17 21:10 Wed 19th Jan 2005
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kjc0123

go off on a tangent.

Why does the phrase of "go off on a tangent" become to mean "to suddenly start doing, discussing, or thinking about something completely different"?
06:27 Sun 31st Oct 20046 answers, last by jocook17 03:48 Wed 19th Jan 2005
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Heddsy

'Sixes and sevens'?

Why is it 'sixes and sevens'? Why not fours and fives? Where did it come from? Also on the subject of numbers, why is it 'dressed up to the nines'? (yes I have just watched Evita!)
17:08 Sun 31st Oct 20046 answers, last by jocook17 03:37 Wed 19th Jan 2005
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gustavgraves

Question mark

Who invented the question mark
17:32 Mon 01st Nov 20043 answers, last by jocook17 03:18 Wed 19th Jan 2005
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susanclare

fiddle

where does the saying as fit as a fiddle come from?
19:17 Mon 01st Nov 20042 answers, last by jocook17 03:17 Wed 19th Jan 2005

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