Ask Annette Anything

[Annette Curtain]

I now have it

The New Book of Knowledge.

( admittedly it's only from A to erm...A )

However, feel free to ask me anything "A" wise that's burning you up.

From Awis, Attucks-Crispus, to Azov, the Abnaki Conference & Abhorrers.

Really, honestly, fascinating.

*looks up Aachen & Able-bodied seamen*

ANNETTE:-S

[Jah Lush]

Alcohol. Is it time for a pint yet? Actually, there is no need to answer that. I've answered it myself and decided I need to go to the pub NOW!

[Annette Curtain]

Ah-Ha

Abstinence Jah.

Tis' not yet the hour.

ANETTE:)-D

[Loz]

Aardvarks. Did they call themselves that so they'd be first in the phone book?

[computedshorty]

Agriculture.

Who Farmed in Dulwich

[Salsaboy]

Arse. Who is the biggest pain in it?

[????]

Amyl Nitrate - how long before this became more than just a habit?

[Alan Medic]

Arse. Where did the word originate from?

[Loz]

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> Arse. Where did the word originate from?

Behind you!

[ibilly99]

Smoking in pub gardens - good or bad ?

[Annette Curtain]

Amazing

Ask away.

I'm absent but attending to all on my return.

>Amyl Nitrate - how long before this became more than just a habit?Smoking in pub gardens - good or bad ?<

See "Arse"

ANNETTE:-S

[PeckhamRose]

Why did that large bit of land east of California / Nevada get called

Arizona?

Why did that other bit of land near Texas get called Arkansas and why is it pronounced Ark An Saw.

Why is that bit of land east of Russia get called Alaska.

A?

[Annette Curtain]

PeckhamRose Wrote:

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> Why did that large bit of land east of California

> / Nevada get called

> Arizona?

>

> Why did that other bit of land near Texas get

> called Arkansas and why is it pronounced Ark An

> Saw.

>

> Why is that bit of land east of Russia get called

> Alaska.

>

> A?

Yes indeed.

And people from Ark-An-Saw call them selves Arkansawyers or Arkansans

That's Americans all-round 4 U

Amazing ah ?

ANNETTE:)

( has the euro-zone crashed yet ? )

[aquarius moon]

I have loads of sensible questions,

but don't think I will get a sensible answer.......?!!

[nashoi]

Awkward grammar appals a craftsman. A Dada bard

as daft as Tzara damns stagnant art and scrawls an

alpha (a slapdash arc and a backward zag) that mars

all stanzas and jams all ballads (what a scandal). A

madcap vandal crafts a small black ankh - a hand-

stamp that can stamp a wax pad and at last plant a

mark that sparks an ars magna (an abstract art that

charts a phrasal diagram). A pagan skald chants a dark

saga (a Mahabharata), as a papal cabal blackballs all

annals and tracts, all dramas and psalms: Kant and

Kafka, Marx and Marat. A law as harsh as a fatwa bans

all paragraphs that lack an A as a standard hallmark.

Christian B?k

[Huguenot]

Arse has been around for a very long time. Probably the Hittites.

Americans were the first to change the pronunication to ass, because they are.

Arizona was derived from some obscure foreign language, but nobody knows which one. Could be Basque, could be native American, but best off not bothering.

Arkansas was a French name, and should be treated with the disrespect that deserves. It derives from the same Sioux stem as Kansas even though it's pronounced differently.

Alaska is from Aleutian Russian, meaning that it was battered by the sea.

Aardvark is Dutch for earth pig, named after Mockney Piers.

Annette is a French word for undescended testicles.

Aquarius Moon is very unlikely to have a sensible question.

[HAL9000]

Huguenot Wrote:

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> Arse has been around for a very long time. Probably the Hittites.

Not quite so ancient and a little to the south, you may be thinking of Arses of Persia?

I once seriously considered coming back as Arses of Southwark - it has a certain je ne sais quoi about it, no?

[Annette Curtain]

aquarius moon Wrote:

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> I have loads of sensible questions,

>

> but don't think I will get a sensible

> answer.......?!!

You just never know aquarius :)

Mind you H, Arses of Southwark does have a certain "clang" to it.

As does Angmering & Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) foremost Astronomer who prepared then Henry Dapper catalogue, a system used to classify stars.

Ad valorem tariff anybody ?

NETTE:)

[HAL9000]

Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> Arses of Southwark does have a certain "clang" to it.

An alliteration in sibilants - works every time.

[Salsaboy]

Arses of Southwark sounds like a club for gay vicars.

[Frankito]

How to kill half an hour productively..?

Read this thread...

[TheArtfulDogger]

I want to know where I have got

a rash

from ?

[northlondoner]

Where is Woof Marks The Dog?

[MatthewFridayFox]

Annette,

Do you think Dulwich hounds should wear country coats ? Please see www.fridayfox.co.uk so see a great range of dog coats suitable for the stylish yet practical City hound (and one that keeps the house cleaner).

Matthew

[computedshorty]

Alleyn's Collage.

Dulwich College c1870

In 1538 Henry VIII seized control of Bermondsey Abbey, and hence Dulwich. He sold the rights to Dulwich on to a London goldsmith, Thomas Carlton, for ?609 18s.2d. In October 1605 his grandson sold up to Edward Alleyn, a famous Elizabethan actor, for ?4,900.

Alleyn had a major impact on the way Dulwich was run for many years. Alleyn built a college to help educate 12 poor children, and made provision for 12 elderly people. This college is now world famous as Dulwich College. Two other schools also benefit from his gift, James Allen's Girls' School, founded in 1741 by the Warden of Dulwich College, and Alleyn's School, a boys school founded in 1842. Significantly Alleyn gave the manorial rights and freehold of his land to the College who were then able to block the over development of Dulwich.

I wonder if I qualify to be a resident as an Elderly Person?