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What is the significance of Raigmore?

The dunny man was on the FBI's Most Wanted List because he was Bin Laden,

Please advise what's funny

Not o Not only do I not get the supposed joke, but the described scenario in the store where the cashier advises the woman that her husband has blocked her card is impossible because if the tendered credit card is not accepted, the display of the rejection would not state any details other than...

Don't get it; what's the joke?

My name is Doug and I am often addressed as Dough

Cathy Clemmenson of Spotswood NJ, who collects curious names wherever she goes, knows of a woman named June Wedding; not to be confused with the ceremony that united August First and his wife, Mae. Cathy also swears to the existence of Threepersons Appleyard, Charlemagne Bilgefilter, Fabriola...

Just thought of another US oddity; curious forenames, such as Hunter. I once worked in an office where there were two US guys; one named Earl, the other named Marshall. Why would you assign a name such as Earl which may result in some people thinking the man was a nobleman; and Marshall which...

A well researched and most informative overview of the word differences between the US and other English speaking countries. What's your opinion on the pronunciation differences; eg: Moscow and Adolf?

In modern times, an agency or committee must have been set up in the US to assign US-centric names to new words entering the English lexicon. So for example when mobile phones were introduced which quite appropriately were called mobile because they are carried by their users, inexplicably the...

The text of the alleged "joke" (which I don't get) should have been edited prior to publication by replacing s'mores by an acceptable Aussie equivalent.