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RECENT QUERIES Does anyone have any evidence that a Dunce's cap was ever used? (no answers) When I consider where I live (S.Cumbria, once part of Lancashire) and when I watch football, I consider my country to be 'England.' But when I watch the Olympics I cheer on 'Great Britain,' and when I sign posts such as this I sign 'UK' because there are worldwide contributions here, BUT in what contexts (if any) is it actually correct for me to refer specifically to my 'COUNTRY' as anything other than England? (i.e. is my 'COUNTRY' ever GB or the UK??) Thanks. (no answers) Is £1.60 not a bit excessive for a daily newspaper? (no answers) What would happen to the UK economy if the Government stopped all subsidies, tax breaks etc to private companies? (no answers) Is there an opposite to the placbo effect? Not 'nocebo', (where an inert substance causes harm); rather, can patient denial or scepticism diminish or block a genuinely therapeutic treatment? (2 answers) Trying to trace an old black and white movie about a family who have financial problems and the bank is threatening to take their farm. The main star is a tame wild bird possibly a jackdaw or raven who leads them eventually to an old tree full of gold rings and other valuable jewels. I think it was set in America. A really good family film. It was a B movie. Unfortunately I cannot name actors or title. I watched it no TV in the 1980s. (no answers) One of my ancestors is described as being a Fly Forger in the 1881 census. I have looked on the blessed Interwebs and can find no definition or description of what this might be. Can anyone help? (He lived in Bolton so it may have something to do with the cotton mills?) (2 answers) If hijacking & carjacking are used, what the verb used for taking a ship by force? -the action being piracy. (2 answers) Is it possible to slurp iceberg lettuce? I have tried numerous times, but it simply does not work. (one answer) What is the origin of the phrase "for toffee", as in "I can't do that for toffee? (no answers) In the BBC4 series The Bridge Saga is Swedish and Martin is Danish. When they talk together are they both speaking the same language or is each one speaking his/her own language? And can any comparison be made between the sound of the two languages and two different forms of global English? (no answers) If the parents blood groups are A+ and O-, is it possible that tht child is having blood group O+ (one answer) What is the name of the film, seen in the Lyceum cinema in Slateford Road, Edinburgh in c1959, about people who go up a mountain but none of them ever return. A man (a detective maybe or journalist) decides he'll go up and find out why. This is all we know because my mother then wanted to leave the cinema and my father never found out what happened. Please help. Thank you. (no answers) As I understand it, middle and upper class men in Victorian/Edwardian England would refer to their friends by their surname: (i.e. My dear Watson). When did this practice die out and why? (one answer) Why are catwalk models - male, female and indeterminate - so sour faced? (2 answers) I have been accused of something I didn't do, can I sue them for false allegations? (one answer) Can anybody provide a detailed etymology of the word "Ok"? (3 answers) Im trying to find the name of a film I saw on tv about ten years ago and possibly a DVD of it. It was a film about two airline pilots in America set in the eighties the is a big storm brewing in the sky. One pilot has to battle with the storm the other is routed around it and has a flight at low level pointing out landmark s to the delight of his passenges. It been driving me nuts for years trying to find the name of the film. Any ideas ? (no answers) Trying to remember the name of a B-movie from the early to mid 80's: Early to mid 80's, three guys in their early twenties go camping in the desert probably CA, maybe AZ. One becomes separated from the other two, and when they find him he's surrounded by an outlaw gang (not bikers) that hide out in the desert. They're taunting the camper and as his two buddies watch from hiding, the gang leader shoots him in the head. The rest of the movie is the lead character trying to find the gang leader and get revenge or justice. The denouement takes place in and near an abandoned factory building, also in the desert. One of my favorite scenes is when the lead and his surviving buddy enter a diner and the gang leader is there partying with one of his cronies and two women. They're arguing over who is ugliest and gang leader pulls lead character into it (not knowing who he is at this point), asking him, "Which one of us you think is ugliest?" Lead character glares at him, "You are." Gang leader senses lead character's intensity, starts to look serious himself as he asks, "How ugly?" Lead character says, "Butt ugly." I can't remember any of the actors but I seem to have the impression that the three young campers were recognizable up and comers at the time. Sound familiar to anyone? Thanks, A. Decker (no answers) In the Guardian Family section December 20th there was an article about Christmas birthdays in which one woman had two daughters with birthdays were Christmas Eve and Christmas day, and one woman shared a Christmas birthday with her mother. What are the odds of a grandmother, mother and daughter all having a birthday on Christmas day? (no answers)  |
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