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Overheard on board a ship: "Are we in port yet sir?" "No, we are still up to our knees in wine". "So we really do travel 100000 times the speed of light?" "Yep! No one is kept in the dark". "How long will this journey take?" "According to Captain Slog, three and a half months, to travel 8.2 million light years".

  • Should Easter Sunday in 2019 be on 24 March?

    It is determined by the Sunday after the full moon after the spring equinox (as determined by the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD). So, the spring equinox is on Wednesday 20 March at 21:58, the full moon after that is on Thursday 21 March at 01:42, so Easter Sunday should be March 24. Has someone miscalculated?

    7 AnswersEaster2 years ago
  • If you don't clean behind your fridge, does that make you a?

    person who won't find an elephant hiding behind it?

    5 AnswersPolls & Surveys8 years ago
  • Why do some aircraft have wings above the fuselage, while others have them below?

    Although passenger jets have wings below the fuselage, presumably for safety and noise; military aircraft sometimes have wings above the fuselage.

    6 AnswersAircraft8 years ago
  • Numbers on the side of a bicycle tyre?

    As well as tyre sizes (e.g. 700 x 38c) which are printed on the side of a tyre, there are normally a set of other numbers alongside, split by a short hyphen. What do these other numbers mean?

    6 AnswersCycling8 years ago
  • Lunar eclipse 25th April?

    Did anyone see the partial lunar eclipse on Thursday 25th April? I did not know there was going to be one, but I saw the moon that night, around 21:20, and the Moon appeared to have had a small piece chipped out of the top of it. This would have been right at the end of the eclipse.

    5 AnswersAstronomy & Space8 years ago
  • Are you dreaming of a white Easter?

    What with all this cold weather, it's colder than winter. Are you looking forward to a white Easter where you could build a snow bunny?

    4 AnswersEaster8 years ago
  • How many times have you returned an item to a shop?

    What is the most times you have had to return something to a shop for an exchange or refund? Yesterday I fitted a new door latch to my front door, but had to make 4 trips to 2 different shops for exchanges and refunds due to having the wrong size of latch. This is despite measuring things up beforehand. I've finally fitted to the right one though.

    1 AnswerDo It Yourself (DIY)8 years ago
  • Can you guess what these bands have in common?

    What do Pink FLoyd, Al Kooper, and Buffalo Springfield have in common?

    2 AnswersRock and Pop8 years ago
  • Children of the Damned?

    Does anyone know where The Children of the Damned was filmed? This is the 1963 sequel to Village of the Damned from 1960. There are no shots showing street names apart from one which is very faint and in the distance, and some of the original area where the film was made looked like it was due for demolition.

    1 AnswerMovies8 years ago
  • If you had to start a night shift at 1:15am?

    Would you consider it reasonable to have to start a night shift at 1:15am? Would you take a job that starts at that time?

    4 AnswersOther - Careers & Employment9 years ago
  • Have rock drummers ever played standing up?

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    6 AnswersRock and Pop9 years ago
  • Lone Working at night?

    Can an employer make someone work alone at night, where:

    1) The night shift starts at 01:15, and ends at 07:45

    2) It is in a 54 bed hostel for young people

    3) There could be threatening or potentially violent situations

    4) Building security could be compromised

    5) On call back is available.

    The law on lone working seems unclear, and I need advice on this. Many thanks.

    3 AnswersOther - Careers & Employment9 years ago
  • Can Earth be affected by flares from other stars?

    If Alpha Centauri, which is 4 light years away, had a massive flare, could it reach Earth after a few years and affect us?

    6 AnswersAstronomy & Space9 years ago
  • Have you received a silent call where the line has then remained dead for several hours?

    This happened to me on Saturday. I had 3 silent calls within 10 minutes. After the third call I put the receiver back down again, then picked it up. The line was 'dead'. I put the receiver down again, and over the following few hours checked the line. Nothing. If the caller keeps their phone off the hook, can it cause your phone to remain silent, and prevent others from calling you?

    1 AnswerLand Phones10 years ago
  • Easter - would a fixed date be better?

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    5 AnswersEaster1 decade ago
  • Turkey for Christmas? What about something different?

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  • This is my most recent poem. It is about how natural things decay back to soil, but not man made objects?

    Whereby Upon

    Whereby upon our deaths

    Or emerging lives traversing soils

    Upon which lie discarded bony branches

    Cut from emerging trees

    To become

    That from whence they came ~

    And under sky, rain with wind,

    Forces swim while drone bees encircle

    Navigating ripples flexed by south wind;

    Petals, fallen leaves

    Shroud creatures dried on their backs,

    That find their way, or their way is found ~

    Back to ground, dissolved, abound,

    Whereby upon their deaths slices water

    In front withdrawing asides,

    Behind its curtain closing

    To dark,

    Merely where light's finger has yet to touch.

    What remains refuses departure,

    Never a stray spirit or phantom's woe;

    As monuments to plasticity stand,

    Becoming new headstones, whereby

    Upon our deaths after all else walks

    Such moulded tombs, metal, and poisoned gold ~

    Sit, wait, piled, impenetrable to all

    But stale air wisps,

    Microbials and their kin; eventually

    Whereupon moulded death such cavities appear

    Where suffocating weight collapses

    As roots pierce through from whence they came.

    Where would each apple fall

    If after yielding

    For Autumnal harvest

    They stand petrified

    On tideless shores

    Where only salt from sea breeze accompanies~

    Whereupon ground's nourishing

    To nothing,

    Voids' dark,

    And decayless,

    Where not even we could walk

    Lest fruits born fell from aged stalk.

    5 AnswersPoetry1 decade ago
  • I have just written this poem about school proms. Are proms about perfection these days?

    School Prom

    From tatty papers pinned to cork boards

    Above their antisceptic floors,

    Holiday rest time approaches with

    One more wipe before multitude foot prints

    Of polished high heel shoes scratching over.

    As tatty papers flap in corridors

    Announcing this year's school prom

    As it was in previous days, now CD Roms

    Awaken, bugle like, pupils from their doms

    Of leafy suburb or grey concrete box dream.

    Across roundabouts bubble gum pink limos stretch

    Followed by Humvees with tyres higher than

    Groups of young girls giggling within

    Surrounding a cooled black man in darkened shades,

    No lone figure, thinks the driver in front.

    Silver finger exhaust pipes feel their way

    To stretch and cool air from engine to exit.

    Crinolene dresses hover across herring bone floors,

    With flowers and other fine details got just right,

    Down to patterned fingernails in absolute perfection.

    Not 50p to pay and free bags of chips

    Or a beefburger like shoe tongue folded in bap;

    Today's perfections in their never never land

    Of last days of term, one final meet,

    Merge into long summer's laze, awaiting post school days.

    2 AnswersPoetry1 decade ago
  • What do you think of Paternoster Square, St Pauls?

    I'm interested in the history of Paternoster Square, and visited the area last week. I liked it, and compared it with an aerial view taken around 2001 which showed the older 60's office blocks. Do you remember what Paternoster Square was like in the 1960's, or before it was bombed in the war? Do you remember the TV series from the 1960s that was made there?

    5 AnswersLondon1 decade ago