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Does anyone know how I can get one of these off of clothes? My sister bought something and they forgot to take it off- any way to remove it without going back to the store? And is there a real name for these (do we have an article on them?) 70.162.28.222 ( talk) 00:14, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I recently installed Battlefield 1942 on my computer. The game runs fine, but my mouse is unresponsive when I try to play, like I cant move it. Im running it on windows vista, if that helps. Has anyone else had this problem or know how to fix it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.188.121.45 ( talk) 04:31, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I was reading this article and notice that the on the left, there is some sort of rifle that I can't identify. What is it? Is it some sort of prop for the show? Perhaps it's a real rifle used by the prop people? And where can I get more information about it? I oddly like the design of it. -- Blue387 ( talk) 05:09, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Can anyone give me a clue about who the author of this blog is and what he is doing ? [1]. 69.157.227.80 ( talk) —Preceding comment was added at 05:57, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
yes, directly related. pretty cool stuff if you have the time and patience to perform those spells, and they can keep you alive for millenia, but i feel i should also add that this crowley version is a bit rubbish, these things need to be followed to the letter, exaclty, so no quote unquote clean up is required, just get the originals manuscripts, which can be done online, and then all those angels and demons mentioned in your weird blog OQ can be at your beck and call to serve your every desire. but, be careful what you wish for. etenal life, or to wander the earth for all eternity can be rather tiresome. Enoch for instance wandered from biblical/atlantian times through christs first comeing, through the st gerain days and is now a regular on wiki adding spots of carnel knowlege here and there, but still i cant spell lol wandering jew 86.18.33.2 ( talk) 20:15, 14 July 2008 (UTC)wandering jew, aka Zionist aka st. germain aka enoch
How high do flies fly.-- 88.109.14.109 ( talk) 06:51, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Ah, the question should have been phrased "How high could a housefly fly if a housefly could fly high?" 152.16.16.75 ( talk) 09:41, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
If everyone flushed their toilets at the same time, would the sewers explode? What would happen? Ceeping kalm ( talk) 08:48, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
If my memory is correct, in this episode of "The West Point Story," the cadet predicted that the water main (not the sewer) would rupture from the back pressure when all the flush valves closed simultaneously, and based on the water system layout, he predicted the location of the anticipated failure. The cadet was depicted standing at the predicted location, and his salute to an officer also signaled his colleagues to flush, resulting in an eruption of water that soaked his superior.
I seem to remember that when Cleveland Browns Stadium or Progressive Field was built, they recruited volunteers to for a simultaneous flushing of all of its toilets to test the plumbing system. -- Mwalcoff ( talk) 22:47, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, my friend once told me that if you go to the job center they have to find a job for you that is within your area of experience, and that if for example I said I was an astronaut or gallows attendant, they will be unlikely to find me a job and they'll have to put me on the doll. Is this true? If it is some suggestions of obscure jobs would be excellent as I have no desire to work. Many thanks. Myther moth ( talk) 08:53, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I suggest that the best thing to do is take job interviews, but subtly undermine them. I knew someone who used to put Unionism and Left-Wing Politics in his interests on application forms to put off prospective employers. You could also fill in the form really badly, with a lot of mispellings, tea stains, etc. Some other suggestions to avoid getting a job:- Be VERY VERY interested in holidays and sick pay if you manage to get an interview. Try leering at the interviewer, and use subtle sexual innuendo in your answers. Dress like you slept in a gutter for the last 3 weeks. Keep a sweaty, stinky shirt to wear for interviews so they think that you have BO. Get horribly offended at an innocent comment made by the interviewer and justify it by claiming that they are "prejudiced" against you. However, being on the dole isn't that much fun, according to the people I know who are on it, and they'll end up trying to get you on training courses and so on eventually. Why not try to find a job that you enjoy (or at least can stand)? It beats living on benefits! 195.27.12.230 ( talk) 14:32, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
In my very recent experience, you can only get Job Seekers Allowance for 6 months, then they'll kick you off that benefit onto something (anything) else to make the figures look better for the Department of Work and Pensions. During the first 3 months on JSA, they let me restrict my job search to one thing I was qualified to do - you still have to come into the Job Centre once every 2 weeks to sign and they expect you to bring evidence of your job search in a log book. They then have you in for an interview where they ask you what else you might be able to do and you're expected to expand your search to at least 3 job titles. At the same time they put you on weekly signing for 6 weeks and still want to see the log of your job hunting efforts each visit. After that you go back to the fortnightly signing. I was promised some help with training - but only after I'd been signing-on for 6 months and would be classed as "long-term unemployed". I never did find out if that happens because I landed a job. TBH, it's a whole lot of hassle to go through for £57 a week (compare that to the ~£200 a week you would get for a full-time job at minimum-wage and you'll see it's not going to be easy to survive long-term), but they do keep your National Insurance payments up to date for you and it made me a little more enthusiastic in looking for a job. Astronaut ( talk) 15:59, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I wish to read about Royal Marriage however, I wish to read about the institution, inbreeding, and uspurperism, not some card game, any advice? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.115.175.247 ( talk) 11:59, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
please see Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities#Royal Marriage. 87.102.86.73 ( talk) 12:24, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I riffled through a book in a bookstall sometime back, that was written by a Japanese woman staying in USA. It was about a little girl and her extremely optimistic elder sister, and how they faced life in an alien country. The elder sister dies at the end of the book, and the title of the book was most probably something like Kiri-kiri. Can anyone give me more information about this book?? 117.194.227.50 ( talk) 13:27, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
HELLO!!! It's been two days since I posted this question. Somebody say something!! 117.194.225.200 ( talk) 10:49, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
In the US, let's say you're eligible to retire and receive some sort of pension or retirement benefit (not a 401k). If you retire and start receiving this benefit, are you allowed to take another job? This is just a hypothetical question not a request for professional advice. If it matters the specific situation I'm interested in involves a US federal government employee in the CSRS retirement plan. ike9898 ( talk) 14:01, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
When were numberplates introduced into England and when were they made compulsory? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ceeping kalm ( talk • contribs) 15:02, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Did The Beatles pull a PR stunt back in the sixties by suggesting that McCartney was dead and buried under Strawberry Fields? Moancical ( talk) 15:05, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
why... do american (and european?) airliners all have low wing designs, and russian airliners apparently all have high wing? Gzuckier ( talk) 15:52, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
When I clicked on the link for information on Winfield Alberta (52 57'52.57'N 114 25' 45.72" W) it comes up with information about Winfield, BC (50 01' 45.28N 119 24' 16.58"W) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.193.82.252 ( talk) 15:59, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello. What is the largest number of possible moves on anyone's turn at anytime for Reversi? For example, dark has four legal moves on its first turn. Thanks in advance. -- Mayfare ( talk) 18:19, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone know where I can go on the internet to learn how to speak English in different accents? I'm American and I would like to know how to speak with a British accent or an Austrialian one.... -- Anthonygiroux ( talk) 18:29, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Listen to BBC radio programmes on line.There are many different accents there. hotclaws 21:20, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
What is Magneto doing this day and age? Ericthebrainiac ( talk) 18:49, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
having taken apart two different makes of electric lawnmower over the weekend, 110 volt plugin not rechargable; both are DC with a big bridge rectifier mounted on the motor. why in the world? Gzuckier ( talk) 20:41, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi there
I know a "cover" in restaurant terminology refers to a single place setting or person.
However, I am keen to ascertain the history of this term - I have seen a reference to it in "Dubrovsky" by Alexander Pushkin (published circa 1830) so I know it dates from at least then.
Hope you can help and thanks for your time!
Cheers Anne —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.95.31.81 ( talk) 22:09, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Greetings from the center of Hurricane Bertha. Apparently my internet connection still works, so I'll pose you a question. I just picked up a wounded bluebird. Its wings flap fine, but the poor thing can't fly. He is in a little bucket right now so that nothing gets at him. What can/should I do with it? Plasticup T/ C 23:21, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
You are driving on a roadway, and you find a perfectly preserved UFO. It is HEAVILY ARMED (With powerful "assault/demolition phaser-like" weapons, same with the "disruptor" weapons, powerful assault/demolition energy and particle weapons and antimatter weapons, weapons replication tech to create more antimatter weapons), well shielded from any attack from all Earth weapons, some alien weapons, can go across the galaxy in seconds, like you see in Star Trek or Star Wars, has excellent living quarters, a highly advanced and powerful computer core, a regenerative power source, so it never runs out of power at all, is "telepathically" (bio-linked really) set to operate for you only.
What would you do with it? Conquer Earth? Enforce peace on a race of beings that cannot comprehend peace at all? Other? This is NOT a debate at all. Just a moral question 65.173.105.27 ( talk) 23:59, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
From my extensive experience watching The Twilight Zone, I'd say "run far away". This ship is tuned specifically for you? There's obviously a catch there somewhere. -- Trovatore ( talk) 00:09, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
From the point of view of living for awhile, you don't steal the ship, you don't touch the ship. You don't contact the government, you contact the press. Then you go into hiding for awhile. If you're fortunate, then the press reports on the thing, on you finding it, and your name gets big enough that nobody is going to get any advantage out of you "disappearing". (And getting inside any vehicle you don't know how to drive is going to get you killed, much less one that flies and is designed for a different species. It'd like letting a 10 year old try to fly a helicopter. They wouldn't "have a blast," they'd crash in five minutes, assuming they could get it off the ground at all. No thanks.) -- 98.217.8.46 ( talk) 15:18, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
This is a reference desk, not a discussion forum. Please take your question to one of the million opinion forums out there. Matt Deres ( talk) 12:40, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Except if philosophical questions (and reference desks are where to find answers of all sorts of questions including philosophy and miscellaneous hence the miscellaneous and philosophy reference desk) are inappropriate for reference desks then why is there a reference desk for philosophical questions. Still, however I can relate to this subject because, this isn't really all that miscellaneous as it is philosophical, and its answer cannot be proven, just like "cherrie's are the best fruit" can't be proven, it can only be widely agreed upon, take this from someone who plans on devoting his life to philosophy. If you are that upset about it take it up with the writer and ask him to put it in with philosophy.
Philosophia X Known(Philosophia X Known) 14:29, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
I'd be too scared to touch it incase the aliens installed a self-destructing anti-theft device... -- Candy-Panda ( talk) 13:47, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
To Antilived's comment: Power only corrupts people who use power incorectly (immorally I should say, there isn't correct or incorrect, only a different point of view). I.e. power is represented by an extremely fast car on the freeway, now imagine the driver is a man on a killing sprea, and imagine the corrupt power and how much damage it would cause, but a man behind the wheel of the car carrying medicine to a place where an epidemic that could kill all woman in a 23 mi radius has an outbreak and imagine all the lives that would be saved. And to play devil's advocate, not all people would do that, but to advocate my advocate, no not everyone would do that and they are the immorals, but there obviously are people who do because, there are over 350 million people on this planet. Philosophia X Known(Philosophia X Known) 14:17, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
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Does anyone know how I can get one of these off of clothes? My sister bought something and they forgot to take it off- any way to remove it without going back to the store? And is there a real name for these (do we have an article on them?) 70.162.28.222 ( talk) 00:14, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I recently installed Battlefield 1942 on my computer. The game runs fine, but my mouse is unresponsive when I try to play, like I cant move it. Im running it on windows vista, if that helps. Has anyone else had this problem or know how to fix it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.188.121.45 ( talk) 04:31, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I was reading this article and notice that the on the left, there is some sort of rifle that I can't identify. What is it? Is it some sort of prop for the show? Perhaps it's a real rifle used by the prop people? And where can I get more information about it? I oddly like the design of it. -- Blue387 ( talk) 05:09, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Can anyone give me a clue about who the author of this blog is and what he is doing ? [1]. 69.157.227.80 ( talk) —Preceding comment was added at 05:57, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
yes, directly related. pretty cool stuff if you have the time and patience to perform those spells, and they can keep you alive for millenia, but i feel i should also add that this crowley version is a bit rubbish, these things need to be followed to the letter, exaclty, so no quote unquote clean up is required, just get the originals manuscripts, which can be done online, and then all those angels and demons mentioned in your weird blog OQ can be at your beck and call to serve your every desire. but, be careful what you wish for. etenal life, or to wander the earth for all eternity can be rather tiresome. Enoch for instance wandered from biblical/atlantian times through christs first comeing, through the st gerain days and is now a regular on wiki adding spots of carnel knowlege here and there, but still i cant spell lol wandering jew 86.18.33.2 ( talk) 20:15, 14 July 2008 (UTC)wandering jew, aka Zionist aka st. germain aka enoch
How high do flies fly.-- 88.109.14.109 ( talk) 06:51, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Ah, the question should have been phrased "How high could a housefly fly if a housefly could fly high?" 152.16.16.75 ( talk) 09:41, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
If everyone flushed their toilets at the same time, would the sewers explode? What would happen? Ceeping kalm ( talk) 08:48, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
If my memory is correct, in this episode of "The West Point Story," the cadet predicted that the water main (not the sewer) would rupture from the back pressure when all the flush valves closed simultaneously, and based on the water system layout, he predicted the location of the anticipated failure. The cadet was depicted standing at the predicted location, and his salute to an officer also signaled his colleagues to flush, resulting in an eruption of water that soaked his superior.
I seem to remember that when Cleveland Browns Stadium or Progressive Field was built, they recruited volunteers to for a simultaneous flushing of all of its toilets to test the plumbing system. -- Mwalcoff ( talk) 22:47, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, my friend once told me that if you go to the job center they have to find a job for you that is within your area of experience, and that if for example I said I was an astronaut or gallows attendant, they will be unlikely to find me a job and they'll have to put me on the doll. Is this true? If it is some suggestions of obscure jobs would be excellent as I have no desire to work. Many thanks. Myther moth ( talk) 08:53, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I suggest that the best thing to do is take job interviews, but subtly undermine them. I knew someone who used to put Unionism and Left-Wing Politics in his interests on application forms to put off prospective employers. You could also fill in the form really badly, with a lot of mispellings, tea stains, etc. Some other suggestions to avoid getting a job:- Be VERY VERY interested in holidays and sick pay if you manage to get an interview. Try leering at the interviewer, and use subtle sexual innuendo in your answers. Dress like you slept in a gutter for the last 3 weeks. Keep a sweaty, stinky shirt to wear for interviews so they think that you have BO. Get horribly offended at an innocent comment made by the interviewer and justify it by claiming that they are "prejudiced" against you. However, being on the dole isn't that much fun, according to the people I know who are on it, and they'll end up trying to get you on training courses and so on eventually. Why not try to find a job that you enjoy (or at least can stand)? It beats living on benefits! 195.27.12.230 ( talk) 14:32, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
In my very recent experience, you can only get Job Seekers Allowance for 6 months, then they'll kick you off that benefit onto something (anything) else to make the figures look better for the Department of Work and Pensions. During the first 3 months on JSA, they let me restrict my job search to one thing I was qualified to do - you still have to come into the Job Centre once every 2 weeks to sign and they expect you to bring evidence of your job search in a log book. They then have you in for an interview where they ask you what else you might be able to do and you're expected to expand your search to at least 3 job titles. At the same time they put you on weekly signing for 6 weeks and still want to see the log of your job hunting efforts each visit. After that you go back to the fortnightly signing. I was promised some help with training - but only after I'd been signing-on for 6 months and would be classed as "long-term unemployed". I never did find out if that happens because I landed a job. TBH, it's a whole lot of hassle to go through for £57 a week (compare that to the ~£200 a week you would get for a full-time job at minimum-wage and you'll see it's not going to be easy to survive long-term), but they do keep your National Insurance payments up to date for you and it made me a little more enthusiastic in looking for a job. Astronaut ( talk) 15:59, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I wish to read about Royal Marriage however, I wish to read about the institution, inbreeding, and uspurperism, not some card game, any advice? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.115.175.247 ( talk) 11:59, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
please see Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities#Royal Marriage. 87.102.86.73 ( talk) 12:24, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I riffled through a book in a bookstall sometime back, that was written by a Japanese woman staying in USA. It was about a little girl and her extremely optimistic elder sister, and how they faced life in an alien country. The elder sister dies at the end of the book, and the title of the book was most probably something like Kiri-kiri. Can anyone give me more information about this book?? 117.194.227.50 ( talk) 13:27, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
HELLO!!! It's been two days since I posted this question. Somebody say something!! 117.194.225.200 ( talk) 10:49, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
In the US, let's say you're eligible to retire and receive some sort of pension or retirement benefit (not a 401k). If you retire and start receiving this benefit, are you allowed to take another job? This is just a hypothetical question not a request for professional advice. If it matters the specific situation I'm interested in involves a US federal government employee in the CSRS retirement plan. ike9898 ( talk) 14:01, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
When were numberplates introduced into England and when were they made compulsory? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ceeping kalm ( talk • contribs) 15:02, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Did The Beatles pull a PR stunt back in the sixties by suggesting that McCartney was dead and buried under Strawberry Fields? Moancical ( talk) 15:05, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
why... do american (and european?) airliners all have low wing designs, and russian airliners apparently all have high wing? Gzuckier ( talk) 15:52, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
When I clicked on the link for information on Winfield Alberta (52 57'52.57'N 114 25' 45.72" W) it comes up with information about Winfield, BC (50 01' 45.28N 119 24' 16.58"W) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.193.82.252 ( talk) 15:59, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello. What is the largest number of possible moves on anyone's turn at anytime for Reversi? For example, dark has four legal moves on its first turn. Thanks in advance. -- Mayfare ( talk) 18:19, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone know where I can go on the internet to learn how to speak English in different accents? I'm American and I would like to know how to speak with a British accent or an Austrialian one.... -- Anthonygiroux ( talk) 18:29, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Listen to BBC radio programmes on line.There are many different accents there. hotclaws 21:20, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
What is Magneto doing this day and age? Ericthebrainiac ( talk) 18:49, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
having taken apart two different makes of electric lawnmower over the weekend, 110 volt plugin not rechargable; both are DC with a big bridge rectifier mounted on the motor. why in the world? Gzuckier ( talk) 20:41, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi there
I know a "cover" in restaurant terminology refers to a single place setting or person.
However, I am keen to ascertain the history of this term - I have seen a reference to it in "Dubrovsky" by Alexander Pushkin (published circa 1830) so I know it dates from at least then.
Hope you can help and thanks for your time!
Cheers Anne —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.95.31.81 ( talk) 22:09, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Greetings from the center of Hurricane Bertha. Apparently my internet connection still works, so I'll pose you a question. I just picked up a wounded bluebird. Its wings flap fine, but the poor thing can't fly. He is in a little bucket right now so that nothing gets at him. What can/should I do with it? Plasticup T/ C 23:21, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
You are driving on a roadway, and you find a perfectly preserved UFO. It is HEAVILY ARMED (With powerful "assault/demolition phaser-like" weapons, same with the "disruptor" weapons, powerful assault/demolition energy and particle weapons and antimatter weapons, weapons replication tech to create more antimatter weapons), well shielded from any attack from all Earth weapons, some alien weapons, can go across the galaxy in seconds, like you see in Star Trek or Star Wars, has excellent living quarters, a highly advanced and powerful computer core, a regenerative power source, so it never runs out of power at all, is "telepathically" (bio-linked really) set to operate for you only.
What would you do with it? Conquer Earth? Enforce peace on a race of beings that cannot comprehend peace at all? Other? This is NOT a debate at all. Just a moral question 65.173.105.27 ( talk) 23:59, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
From my extensive experience watching The Twilight Zone, I'd say "run far away". This ship is tuned specifically for you? There's obviously a catch there somewhere. -- Trovatore ( talk) 00:09, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
From the point of view of living for awhile, you don't steal the ship, you don't touch the ship. You don't contact the government, you contact the press. Then you go into hiding for awhile. If you're fortunate, then the press reports on the thing, on you finding it, and your name gets big enough that nobody is going to get any advantage out of you "disappearing". (And getting inside any vehicle you don't know how to drive is going to get you killed, much less one that flies and is designed for a different species. It'd like letting a 10 year old try to fly a helicopter. They wouldn't "have a blast," they'd crash in five minutes, assuming they could get it off the ground at all. No thanks.) -- 98.217.8.46 ( talk) 15:18, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
This is a reference desk, not a discussion forum. Please take your question to one of the million opinion forums out there. Matt Deres ( talk) 12:40, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Except if philosophical questions (and reference desks are where to find answers of all sorts of questions including philosophy and miscellaneous hence the miscellaneous and philosophy reference desk) are inappropriate for reference desks then why is there a reference desk for philosophical questions. Still, however I can relate to this subject because, this isn't really all that miscellaneous as it is philosophical, and its answer cannot be proven, just like "cherrie's are the best fruit" can't be proven, it can only be widely agreed upon, take this from someone who plans on devoting his life to philosophy. If you are that upset about it take it up with the writer and ask him to put it in with philosophy.
Philosophia X Known(Philosophia X Known) 14:29, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
I'd be too scared to touch it incase the aliens installed a self-destructing anti-theft device... -- Candy-Panda ( talk) 13:47, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
To Antilived's comment: Power only corrupts people who use power incorectly (immorally I should say, there isn't correct or incorrect, only a different point of view). I.e. power is represented by an extremely fast car on the freeway, now imagine the driver is a man on a killing sprea, and imagine the corrupt power and how much damage it would cause, but a man behind the wheel of the car carrying medicine to a place where an epidemic that could kill all woman in a 23 mi radius has an outbreak and imagine all the lives that would be saved. And to play devil's advocate, not all people would do that, but to advocate my advocate, no not everyone would do that and they are the immorals, but there obviously are people who do because, there are over 350 million people on this planet. Philosophia X Known(Philosophia X Known) 14:17, 20 July 2008 (UTC)