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Mountbatten in HMS Kelly

Can anyone complete the phrase about Mountbatten in HMS Kelly somethng somehting, far too fast and usually in the wrong direction. Thanks
21:11 Tue 18th Oct 2005
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British POWs in Sachsenhausen

UKTV had a programme where there were three brit POWs who were escapers who ended up in Sachsenhausen, mined out and then were returned there. Does any one have an info on PoWs who were not in PoW...
20:56 Sat 01st Oct 20051 answer, last by zmudge 21:42 Sat 01st Oct 2005
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music for ad for Queens Cavalry

Does anyone know the music used to advertise The Queens Cavalry, which is to shown on the beeb on Thur night (UK). this particular recording was used erm in a film called Cruising about 30 years ago...
22:56 Tue 27th Sep 2005
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Gorgeous George

I know George Galloway is wowing them in the US of A. I have to say I  thought his senate address was OK. His nickname is Gorgeous George and he is definitely not the first to have this nickname...
22:57 Sat 17th Sep 20055 answers, last by Grunty 16:20 Sun 18th Sep 2005
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Bodies in New Orleans

Can anyone over there - stateside but I think it could be soupside, tell me why bodies arent being collected in the flooded city, even though all sorts of other things are going on? The answer can't...
10:45 Sun 11th Sep 20053 answers, last by Clanad 22:26 Sun 11th Sep 2005
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Which insect is attracted toward smoke ?

Hi  boys and girls ! I learnt about thirty years ago that there was one insect that bit man and was a vector of something awful, flew towards smoke and not away, unlike all other insects, because...
21:09 Mon 05th Sep 20053 answers, last by Peter Pedant 07:16 Tue 06th Sep 2005
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Abraham Lincoln

DId he ever make an early lost speech ? Someone told me that at one address, the shorthand writers got so involved with the content of Lincoln's speech that they all stopped writing and listened, and...
21:33 Mon 29th Aug 20052 answers, last by Peter Pedant 07:41 Tue 30th Aug 2005
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Gronant - near Rhyl

Does anyone know why the gronant beach is a SSSI - a site of special scientific interest?   OH, and we saw two water spouts almost tubing from the sky - low cloud, a bit windy - and the tubes...
22:39 Mon 15th Aug 20053 answers, last by Peter Pedant 22:23 Tue 16th Aug 2005
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Fatherland

what's the difference between a fatherland and a motherland - can you have both ? This is a question from Another Person. I suggested that Germans have a fatherland and everyone else a mother land,...
22:15 Wed 10th Aug 20057 answers, last by Romeo 00:42 Sun 14th Aug 2005
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which song by Elton John

had a video which was a troupe of young men clad only in bathing costumes and body paint, shimmying down the corniche at Nice - in high summer I think nikita was one of the words in the song. thanks
00:02 Fri 05th Aug 20053 answers, last by Peter Pedant 09:31 Fri 05th Aug 2005
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Confidence intervals - of one value

  If you have a data set, one can calculate the confidence interval for the set. but you can also do it for a single data point. If the datum is n say, then the CI is something like 3n Does...
22:53 Thu 28th Jul 20052 answers, last by Peter Pedant 22:26 Sun 31st Jul 2005
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l'haricot or le haricot?

The tee-vee ad has the waitress come in and say, "saucisses et haricots...." - Just before Joanna Lumley says oh dont be so lah-did-ah. But she doesnt say ..... ay tarricoh - with an elision as we...
22:28 Sun 26th Jun 200511 answers, last by Narolines 23:41 Tue 26th Jul 2005
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kinds of seagulls

Atlantic seagulls are different to pacific seagulls - someone a few years ago pointed out that the wrong kind of seagull was calling at the beginning of Desert Island Discs, and a third person chipped...
14:09 Wed 26th Jan 20051 answer, last by tamborine 21:54 Mon 06th Jan 2020
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Speed of a wave

Has anyone got a link, about water waves and speed of propagation? Having only seen the Severn Bore, I think a tsunami speed of hundreds of miles an hours is on the high size. The videos of the waves...
21:06 Fri 31st Dec 20042 answers, last by brachiopod 23:53 Mon 03rd Jan 2005
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Casualty tv cast list

How do you find the bit-players in Casualty? Who played the policeman in Saturday's Casualty, who misled Selena? A friend said he played Jez in Coronation Street and I said he was someone else.
19:37 Wed 08th Dec 20043 answers, last by Peter Pedant 20:28 Wed 08th Dec 2004
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what is a polo field called?

The field where they play polo - is it called a maidan? Or do the nobs say 'field' oh and another thing while I here, where does that Cumbrian expression kushti come from? and what does it mean for...
21:09 Tue 23rd Nov 20045 answers, last by jocook17 20:30 Tue 18th Jan 2005
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Zulu and VCs

You know the film Zulu which is kinda OK about the 1879 Battle of Isandlwana? Does Sgt Jones VC appear in the film? Who plays him? and the scene he gets his VC for,is that in the film? He is the one...
20:34 Wed 10th Nov 20044 answers, last by rojam 20:32 Tue 11th Jan 2005
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kjc 0123

Kay- jay please go on asking your questions, I rather miss them    
22:17 Mon 08th Nov 20043 answers, last by Peter Pedant 21:44 Wed 19th Jan 2005
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Ancient forest lands

Does anyone knows which sort of forest was growing after the last glaciation? Does any still exist and is it possible to go and see it? Is this the same as any Royal Forest before William I or were...
21:33 Mon 01st Nov 200413 answers, last by New Forester 23:32 Tue 02nd Nov 2004
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Conspiracy !

in 1688, at a time when James II was obviously on his way out, a group of people (in favour of William of Orange) conspired in a room with a window in each of the four walls-so they could see if...
21:09 Thu 28th Oct 20041 answer, last by Personica 22:09 Tue 02nd Nov 2004

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