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Boxing day orginates from the consumer culture brought on by the tradition of gift giving on Christmas day. Due to the increasing volume of gifts given on Christmas day, many people found that they recieved gifts that they did not want or, in some cases, were even duplicates. This meant that many gifts were re-boxed to re-gift at a later date. This process was usually done the day after Christmas so they could be stored easily until needed.
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my research has led me to starlight mints.http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-kroger-starlight-mints-i245933
p.s. hello ansasaurus. long time no answering.
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24 November 1991
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why is the plural of roof not spelled the same as the plural of hoof?roofs/hoof
roofs/hooves
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England has always been a pretty open place. Throughout the centuries it had an open house policy on immigration and generally the English have absorbed language from all over the world as their own. This is why there are so many words in English (over 100,000) compared to other languages (average 50-60,000). Unfortunately, while the language and pronunciation evolved in leaps and bounds, the spelling did not. A good idea would be to standardise spelling phonetically, and hav an alfabet in wich evry letter has a standerdised sound. It wud be a bit of a leep for moast of us as we tend to regard speling as a meshure of intelejens. Its a verry gud kueschun.
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Five years at dental school. Provided you already have science A levels, otherwise you'll have to do them first and get As. Then you earn lots of money though. And let's face it, mouths are less unpleasant than some of the orifices that doctors have to rummage around in.
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Wow! What a question! I love zombie films - in fact the whole zombie genre. Ok, let's see.Dawn of the Dead (the original) was a great film but was let down on budget. As a result, it dated very quickly. But saying that, it had all the elements of what we now define as a zombie film.
Personally, I love the remake of Dawn of the Dead - and in fact, I tend to watch it about once every 2 months. It's got the humour, the violence and the horror. I tend to prefer it to the 'infected' zombies because zombie films are meant to be about the dead rising - not about people getting infected. Saying that though, I did love 28 days later, and the sequel 28 weeks later. All good stuff. But as I said, infected films explain away the horror element (supernatural), and are inherently inferior.
Anyway, numero uno in my opinion is the Dawn of the Dead remake.
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ah thats omid djalili: he's an iranian comedian.Answer:
Pull, as the force comes from the earth. If there was more gravity in space than earth than it would be pushing us down but there isn't. If there was, then maybe we would grow shortwards rather than longwards :)
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how many galaxies do we already know are in our universe and do you know some of their names?
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I only know the name of our galaxy, 'the milky way'. Which considering that at age four i wanted to be an astronaut, is pretty poor.The number of galaxies in the universe is something i've had to investigate. "There are probably more than 170 billion (1.7 × 1011) galaxies in the observable universe." - thoes which can be seen from earth. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy
I read somewhere that there could be up to 500 billion galaxies in total, including those beyond our observable universe. now that is a lot!
The wiki page has some names of some galaxies too. "M87", "I Zwicky 18", "Hoag's Object", "Whirlpool Galaxy".
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OK, so this is weird. Apparently it's a trick of the eye/mind. When the moon is nearer the horizon, we assume it's further away from us than when it's in the sky (ie. we assume that things in the sky - clouds etc - are closer to us than things on the distant horizon). So our eyes compensate for this by making the moon look larger when it's nearer the horizon. It evolved from a safety thing, they reckon. When things are attacking us, we need to know a) how far away they are? b) how big they are? If things are further away, they look smaller in our eyes, but our brain still needs to know whether they're big/small, so adjusts the info accordingly. All quite interesting or "QI", as they say.
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Both. Nurture plays a huge part in our belief system, our culture and our language. Nature is all about our physical make up, everything from how tall we grow to how good our eyesight is. But ... does nature also play a part in 'who' we are? I think not really. In my opinion, the brain is constantly re-wiring itself to what happens within our lives. This is 'nurture' or our environment reshaping our 'nature', or our physical selves. So I think there is an interdependence between both.
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You develop scurvy. Like a pirate. Which could be desirable in some circles. But in polite tea-drinking circles it's positively frowned upon.
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The internet gives many conflicting answers. From my memory of Biology lessons, I think all of those slimy crustacean things have tens of thousands. E.g. squid have something like 50,000, as do most snails. The answer definitely isn't shark, although they do have the coolest teeth, as they have three rows, and when the front row drops out, the second row moves forward and they grow a new row at the back. BUT if you're looking for the sharpest teeth, it's (maybe obviously) piranhas.
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One has a long neck, one has a long trunk.... so which can get goodies which sit highest in the tree? An elephant or giraffe??
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I asked someone who works in a zoo. They think a Giraffe.The tallest elephant species grow to a max of around 4M. Plus a 3M trunk (that can't point completely upwards) that gives a maximum reach of 7 -8M.
The tallest giraffe recorded was 8.8M so it appears that it wins.
BUT
Elephants can be trained to stand on their hind legs, if an exceptionally large elephant did that, I think it could give a giraffe a run for its money.
You have to think, what are the goodies. If it's peanuts, I don't think a giraffe would bother, while an elephant would move heaven and earth (or just the tree) to get to them. Which is another answer. The elephant, because they could knock the tree down and munch on all of the goodies at the very top!
Giraffes are slight and gangly, they can hardly knock down warthogs, let alone trees.
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Beef teriyaki. Marinade beef strips in chilli, garlic and teriyaki sauce for at least 30 minutes. Then boil up some rice. When rice is nearly done fry off some red onions in a pan and add beef. Fry beef. Put rice in a bowl and add beef on top. Roughly chop some corriandor and sprinkle over bowl with a squeeze of lime. Yummy.
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'Bout once a week. But then again, I think that that's rather more regular than usual.Sometimes I forget and leave it for a month or so, then it's orange-gold jackpot time!
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No, because he' s a Scientologist.
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Upon recently witnessing someone disappear in a puff of smoke, I was surprised to hear them chastise me beforehand when I enquired as to whether they might disappear in sparkles instead.So, is it true that a cloud of sparkles is inferior to smoke? If so, why are the glittery particles so much-maligned?
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Smoke, the lungs can deal with, glitter ... probably not so well. But then there is the question of whether or not the person disappearing is in a position to breath in the miliseconds before said disappearance! Personally, I'd like to see a sparkly disappearing act! Smoke is just old news (and illegal indoors in most european counties too!).
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You know, I've always thought that the Spanish are just a bit weird. I mean who in their right mind would want to risk pulling a bear anywhere (or in any way :o). Maybe it's a replacement for the outlawing of bullfighting recently. No more bullfighting = let's pull some bears.
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The numbers and the frequencies they've appeared.Freq. Number.
214 38
209 23
207 11
205 44
203 31
202 43
199 25
199 40
197 9
195 32
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Those squirrel Dreys are very thick walled and keep them very snug the squirrel is famed for squirreling awaynuts so when the weather
allows they can raid these caches if necessary settling down to a torpor like sleep if the weather worstens again.
So no, they just get quite lazy apart from foraging every now and then.
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Why did the guy next to me in the cinema have to make 4 phone calls during the movie and moreover, why did he give me a look like he was Omar (from The Wire) when I looked at him about to ask him to stop?
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Because, blud, to get on in this life you got to take care of yourself ya know? You gotta speculate to accumulate. Plus, maybe he'd seen Toy Story 3 already and was just being a pr*ck and spoiling it for everybody else. Maybe the Pixar magic wasn't working on him. Maybe his heart is made of stone.
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Imagine a fly managing to get up your nose, and straight down the back of your throat. Now multiply that feeling by the length of an elephant's nasal passage divided by the length of your nasal passage (roughly a ratio of 200:1 elephant trunk to human nasal passage). If I was an elephant I'd be scared as hell of mice!In all honesty though, I have no idea if elephants really are scared of mice. You'd think that all the cartoons to date would have some basis in reality.
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What's your favourite song ever? if the top one is too hard to pick, give a couple that would be fighting it out for the top position.
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A couple? I'll have to give you three that are all equally up there, battling to win the number one spot in my musical heart. And these beauties are ... Never Going Back Again - Fleetwood Mac
Sorrow - David Bowie
Dancing In The Dark - Bruce Springsteen
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Why do I sometimes not get hangovers when I really should, and other times I get completely undeserved hangovers from only a single pint?
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Karma man ... it's all down to karma. When you only had a single pint you were secretly hating the fact that you had to stop, therefore karma paid you a visit and gave you a hangover. Either that or you were dehydrated when you had the single pint and never topped up with water. ;)
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After hours of research, I've discovered:"The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the world's oceans, and the lowest elevation of the surface of the Earth's crust. It is located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands."
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Once. When I was a scurvy seadog with the name Salty Jim. Me and my crew sailed the high seas to the dangerous pirate infested town of Clap Ham. And thence we found treasures, oh the brilliance of them. Twas in a place called Infernos. A den of iniquity. With fish. Arrrrr. Rum for everyone.
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a guy in my office has a voice that just kills my soul. how can i combat this? his vocal chords are my kryptonite. SAVE ME!
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You can simply use a similar method to Pavlov and his dog when experimenting with Classical Conditioning. In the original study a bell was rung when food was presented to the dog. The dog slowly associated the bell with food, so eventually when just the bell was rung (with no food) the dog would start to salivate.In your case, every time your colleague talks, simply scream "oh for f*cks sake your voice is killing me" and punch him repeatedly in the face. Slowly over time the Classical Conditioning will set in and he'll associate the stimulus and response together and should shut the f*ck up quite nicely.
Dr.X
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I assume it's the same as alphabetti spaghetti. Which are a collection of pasta shapes in the form of all of the letters of the alphabet.http://to55er.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/alphabet20on20toast20photo.jpg
Normally served in tomato sauce, they're great for writing profanities on your plate at dinner.
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Well that all depends on what time you woke up and when your last meal was? See, I don't start work until 10, so I can't do lunch before 1, otherwise I'll need to eat again at 4 or 5. If you had breakfast at 7am then go for it. If you had breakfast at 8am, then wait 30 mins. If you had breakfast an hour ago then you must have worms.
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Backup your phone using iTunesAfter it's done, use iTunes to go back to 'factory settings'
Then restore from the backup you made.
More here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1414
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Chicago - More Than a Feeling
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they reason they are lovely, is they are filled with crumbley goodness.crumbley goodness => crubs => mess.
just lick the plate when no-one is looking.
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A happy finish down on a farm.Or a parting in someone's hair that naturally goes towards the back of the head - so it looks like a cow has licked your head.
Personally I think it's the first one.
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Yes! If you like pasta? Grab a jar of Sainsburys red pepper pesto, king prawns and pasta.Boil the pasta
Fry the prawns in olive oli with salt and pepper for a couple minutes.
Combine all with the pesto.
It's the best!
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Best: The Death of Chatterton by Henry Wallis, at Tate Britain ... http://tinyurl.com/32eoodz ... I know it doesn't look much on screen but in person it's incredible.Worst: some poncy text based art at the ICA, but that date heralded the start of something quite wonderful, so even the bad stuff has it's good outcomes.
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Why is "pig's ear" used as a term for making a mess of something? eg "I made a right pig's ear of that paint job". Pig's ear is rhyming slang for beer but I can't see the connection.
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Most probably from 16th Century proverb 'you cannot make a silk purse from a sow's ear'. You cannot make something good from inferior parts. A sow's ear was something useless.
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Have you seen what it does to a dirty twopence piece? Now imagine what it does to the grease in your oesophagus and stomach. Your body generally knows what it needs to make things better.
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Are all cats French (i.e. arsey, pretentious, a bit cool and aloof, always on strike, eat weird animals, lots of body hair, never say thanks or sorry)? If so, what nationality are dogs?
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Ha! I used to have cat that would dribble. Do the French dribble? Dogs are dopey, forever excited, smell funny and eat tennish balls. I'd say they're Mexican.
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Basic animal communication. To let others in the tribe know that we're in trouble or distress and need help. Then again, some people scream when they're happy (e.g. middle-aged women at Take That concerts) so perhaps the theory isn't watertight.
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"if you get drunk and vomit on me, i'll make sure you get home safely" is especially true of my chums.
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Being yourself.. however being also nice when you can, it always pays back to be nice.
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the uncle shuffle. classic wedding move.
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That cake made of congealed corn flakes and chocolate. Always looks nicer than it actually is.Question:
Is it true that if I take a garden gnome with me to Alton Towers, they will let me in for free?
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A few years ago, apparently, they would have done. But then it caused a 'gnome mountain', with so many people bringing gnomes, that they didn't know what to do with them. A gnome cull was, alas, required. Read more here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/4613307.stm
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Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
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One. Fill the kitten with Cyanide and feed it to the bear and you have one dead bear.
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the newest and probably coolest way of calling someone your "homeboy".
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It's Friday, what should I have for lunch? Fun stuff or healthy stuff? (Please don't tell me that healthy food is fun. Ever.)
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fun stuff.. burger with cheese and a slice of bacon, chips and salad - a can of coke to go with that.
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I sometimes wear a badge that says I heart trees. I suppose I could wear it more often.
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Which is better: Norfolk or Suffolk? I.e. if one was to float off into the sea forever, which should it be?
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Suffolk. Definitely SuffolkAnswer:
triassic, which i think is a wonderful name.unless he's some odd periodical hybrid thing. then he'd been like, i don't know, mixed race or something.
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The communist: GreedThe capitalist: Sloth
The weight-watcher: Gluttony
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Yes. Yes they are. But not as clever as guys with moustaches. Just look at Einstein.
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Cats require taurine, arachidonic acid, vitamin A, and vitamin B12. There aren't sufficient amounts of these in plant foods. Dogs will eat shit to ingest the amino acids of other animals in order to digest plant foods (cow shit is preferable obviously).
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When will we actually reach the future we have been waiting for.? I want a goddamm hover board!
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The future is now! Build your own hoverboard...http://www.gearlive.com/index.php/news/article/build_your_own_hoverboard_03310152
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It is widely regarded that the greatest superhero is in fact Batman. He has no real super or special power but still completes with all the other super heroes which makes him really, really super. Fact.
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whatever happens, don't go there alone.. here's the latest coordinates 25.347998,-91.157228
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Study the art of delivery. It's all about delivery. Jerry Seinfeld isn't naturally funny, but he studied funny people, worked on his delivery and now he has the biggest Ferrari collection in the world.
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i'm ashamed to admit this but...i've never had alphabetti spaghetti.
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Ha! What a funny question. A baby eel is called an Elver.
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If you are referring to The Nile Song by Pink Floyd then it is 3:26, however I think you could possibly be referring to the river, in which case it is 6670 km (4160 miles) long!Peace
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Fez, oven glove and nipple tassles.
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for the same reason 21 isnt pronounced twoty two?
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"A tract of land cultivated for the purpose of agricultural production" but I like to think of a farm as an animal hotel where you can eat unlimited cheese.
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In 1989, how many beers did the Australian cricketer David Boon drink on a Qantas flight to London?
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14 and two thirds. although he was forcibly removed at london from the plane after trying to urinate into a sick bag
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if i have a small bag, and can fit 3 stolen geese in it, how many geese will it take to fill the boot of my stolen car?
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Give me back my geese!
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How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?
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politicians, Royalty, world leaders and those that have had a number one hits single
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yes, because sausages remember being minced meat
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George Harrison
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