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white feathers

In another section, AB-er Buddy referred to a traumatic loss and added "For the first year I got white feathers when I was upset.Now learning to live with it so the feathers have dried up." What does...
05:48 Mon 05th Sep 20059 answers, last by annierak 19:05 Mon 27th Aug 2007
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death by lightning

If someone were to leap from a great height with intent to kill himself, but on the way down was hit by lightning, would he be dead when he hit the ground?(This seems like a great premise for one of...
05:24 Mon 05th Sep 200516 answers, last by Kingaroo 20:36 Wed 07th Sep 2005
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HP - Unbreakable Vow

What happens if you try to break an unbreakable vow? Do you die, lose your powers? And if you vow to do something, and you just haven't done it yet, when does that become breaking the vow? If Snape...
23:33 Thu 18th Aug 20053 answers, last by jenstar 11:31 Sun 21st Aug 2005
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Tonks

One of my favorite aspects of the Harry Potter books is the wonderful names and incantations that Rowling creates.  I have read articles about how translators struggle to get just the right...
23:37 Tue 26th Jul 20057 answers, last by *~Shelley~* 15:09 Thu 28th Jul 2005
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bad betta

I have a blue betta (siamese fighting fish) who has been in my care about six months, and always seemed problem free.  I took him to a friend's house for a "play date" with her blue betta...
04:17 Fri 08th Jul 20052 answers, last by webby27 15:06 Sat 09th Jul 2005
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braces

You Brits call the straps that hold up your trousers braces (Yanks call them suspenders), so what do you call the orthodontic gear for straightening teeth (which Yanks call braces)?
04:03 Fri 08th Jul 200510 answers, last by mk0810 07:37 Wed 13th Jul 2022
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pin a rose on me

What does this phrase mean?  I have heard it in several songs (US) and it seems to have various meanings.  I told you so/I was right? I'm getting ready to party? Send me off with a loving...
21:59 Mon 16th May 20053 answers, last by woofgang 08:05 Tue 17th May 2005
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reference in Beatles song

In "Paperback Writer" (1966) the would-be author says he's written a story that's "based on a story by a man named Lear" about "a dirty man" whose "clinging wife doesn't understand."  I...
17:06 Fri 13th May 20057 answers, last by gazzawazza 15:12 Wed 18th May 2005
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actress's accents

What is that accent that American movie stars like Ginger Rogers, Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, and Myrna Loy used in the 1930s? They pronounced words so oddly. "Joint" comes out as "Jurnt" and so...
18:40 Wed 20th Apr 20055 answers, last by rooftrouser 20:05 Thu 21st Apr 2005
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LARRY'S PARTY by Carol Shields

If you remember this book better than I do, perhaps you can help me.  Is this the book in which a character becomes immersed in studying the lives of medieval nuns who had ecstatic religious...
19:38 Mon 18th Apr 20056 answers, last by Kingaroo 15:58 Tue 19th Apr 2005
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punctuation of re

Most of the time you see the word "re" it's at the beginning of a memo, where an e-mail would have its subject line.  Though you often hear people spell it out as if it were an abbreviation like...
05:32 Fri 01st Apr 20059 answers, last by Peter Pedant 22:39 Fri 01st Apr 2005
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book on raising a chaste teen

Can anyone recommend a book on this topic that is not written from a Christian point of view?  There are plenty non-christians who want to instill conservative values.
19:29 Mon 28th Feb 20051 answer, last by smadge 22:44 Mon 28th Feb 2005
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can't post questions

I can post questions using Explorer, but not Netscape.  I think this happened during your web page redesign. Can you please be more welcoming to Netscape users too?  Thanks
19:28 Mon 28th Feb 20051 answer, last by stevie21 18:35 Sun 06th Mar 2005
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prison

I am reading a novel set in 1960s England.  The main character assaults a rude shopkeeper and is sent to prison. In the US, simple assault gets you time in county jail.  You don't go to...
19:26 Mon 28th Feb 20056 answers, last by brachiopod 01:29 Tue 01st Mar 2005
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pan out

Does this phrase come from gold mining or from film making or some other source? I checked 3 word-lover web sites and don't see it It's a synonym for "work out" as in: That prospect didn't pan out...
21:31 Tue 18th Jan 20055 answers, last by Quizmonster 08:07 Thu 20th Jan 2005
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why a horn?

Thanks to gypsy, wraith all who offered suggestions for pagan - yule - soltice imagery. There were some great web sites you recommended! One of them mentioned symbols like fire, sun and horn.... Horn?...
03:22 Fri 17th Dec 20046 answers, last by Romeo 15:33 Sun 19th Dec 2004
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gypsy, wraith, other druid types

It's too late for this year, but next year I'd like to have a REALLY old fashioned, pagan tree for solstice. I know about holly, ivy, mistletoe, piney type trees, sun images What other icons or...
19:08 Thu 09th Dec 20044 answers, last by Wraith 14:05 Sat 11th Dec 2004
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english toast

In "Englishman in New York," Sting sings that he drinks tea, not coffee, and likes his toast done on one side. What's up with that? Do English toasters really only have coils on one side? Or is this...
01:40 Sat 27th Nov 20045 answers, last by booksworth 18:02 Mon 29th Nov 2004
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cornucopia

Why is a horn of plenty horn-shaped?
07:00 Sat 13th Nov 20041 answer, last by Kingaroo 07:05 Sat 13th Nov 2004
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need a word

I'm looking for a word that means or connotes bringing together disparate things to make a harmonious whole. I'm gathering a group of artsy cratsy folks to do collage and mosaic, both of which attempt...
01:41 Mon 08th Nov 200411 answers, last by jocook17 23:55 Tue 18th Jan 2005

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