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joko

over heated milk? a caramel flavour

an old friend of mine dad used to work in a dairy and every so often he would bring home a bottle of milk the colour of baileys. apparently, by accident it had been over processed and goes brown - but...

jaysplace2

doubles in length

There is only one word in the english language that doubles in length when it is in the plural. What is it?

WendyS

Waitose to sell "Ugly" fruit & veg.

Was interested to see that Waitrose are planning a "back to basics" philosophy - i.e. they are going to sell blemished or "not quite perfect looking" fruit & veg in the belief that the public want...

lamb balti

How does ronaldo fit into his brasil shirt ,just wondered.

How does ronaldo fit into his brasil shirt ,just wondered

Munchkin71

Theoretical question

Pure fantasy here, but please bear with me! Assuming it were possible to levitate (I know, big 'if'!), and you started levitating from a standing position on a train moving at a constant speed, would...

caz21

Hail Stones

Has anyone else just seen the hail stones as big as ice cubes? i thought they were going to smash the windows!

David H

Kaka, but why?

We all know most Brazilian footballers use nicknames, but kaka means exactly the same in Brazil, my friend from Sao Paolo tells me, as it does everywhere else in the world. So why has he got such a...

Bohne

Pub names

What is the weirdest/most unusual pub name you've ever seen?

coronaman

liverpool nightclubs

I am researching nightclubs of liverpool from the 60's 70's and 80,s any names or memories please ????

ali_alic

News Headlines - weird, funny or just memorable

Yesterday's thread by Funkymoped reminded me of the headline (from the Sunday Sport of course) "Greenfly ate my Lover" I just had to buy it for that story, turns out his lover was a cabbage, he wasn't...

tabathazig

news questions

This is without doubt the most answered page on this web site. But 99% of them are not answers, they are "reactions "to a variety of "atrocious"criminal activities/ political decisions and news items...

potterfan3

Famous Chemist

My chemistry teacher has had a heart attack (he's fine), and my physics teacher is also been away for a while (she's in hospital). Anyway, our new physics teacher is a spitting image of einstein, so...

St Elmos

What do you call someone who.........?

Does anybody know if there is a word for somebody who can't tell the time? Thanks in advance

Shannontrae

travel

I am very unfamiliar with both LOndon and Manchester. But want to know the fastest way to get to Manchester from LOndon. I believe we are staying in the Kensington area of London and would like to go...

meyer

Use it or lose it

who and in what context was the phrase "use it or lose it" coined?

Richie1976

Help with Alphabet Challenge, please.

A group of friend and me are doing what we call the Alphabet challenge. Each month we go out for a meal together and pick a cuisine beginning with whatever letter we're up to. For example for A we did...

Chunkeymonk

French

What is sweet, dry medium, in french please

Kingaroo

Arabs?

Is it incorrect to refer to the people of Iraq, Iran, and all those other middle eastern countries (other than Israel) as Arabs? I know there's a country called United Arab Emirates and there's Saudi...

katkins1812

Turkish translation

Firstly I know that this is probably not the right part of AB to be asking this but I don't know where else to ask. I was just wondering in Turkish how would you say Mobility Scooter It would really...

jk482296a

bacon and sausage

i want to know if i would get into trouble by taking bacon and sausage in my case from the uk to greece

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