Over the Christmas Holidays I read in our local newspaper(Oshawa, Ontario, Canada) that a person from Middlesex had been caught driving with a blood-alcohol content of over .08. Over here that results...
If you suddenly experience an eerie sensation of vujade, does this mean that you are in a situation that you do not have the vaguest recollection of being in previously?
Where does the nickname "donnies" refering to hands come from? Originally I thought it was a Black Country saying, because thats where I originate from, but now live in Stoke where some of the older...
I was brought thinking Bromide was given to soldier's to put in their tea to lessen their libido. I was reading an article about the war's, 1st and 2nd and it stated Bromide being given was an urban...
An Irishman, a Scotsman and a Jew were at a good friends funeral, as the coffin passed slowly by, the Irishman said that he owed his dead friend ?100, took a ?100 out of his wallet and put it on the...
I have a question similar to the one posed by jonnoman. When I compose a question, or an answer , how do I make the web address "clickable"? For example if I wanted to send the reader to www.xyz.com,...
Tony Blair was visiting a primary school and he visited one of the classes. They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher asked the Prime Minister if he...
As a kid in the late '40s early '50s I lived in Newcastle (Clayton, actually) and then we moved to Canada. I recall that once a week a market day was held on High Street, and vendors would erect...
Does anyone out there have a good word that means travel? I'm thinking of something obscure, quirky and really off-the-beaten-path, similar to shunpiking (but not shunpiking!). Thanks!