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Well that has to be the clinching argument, for me. There is another more trivial reason to prefer Groundspeak's designations: the mapping grid system, so beloved of geo-nerds. (The island of) Ireland and Great Britain have similar but quite separate systems.

Well, I'd be glad of a 3A fuse, I've never got enough of 'em. I was looking for one only the other night, didn't need one in the end luckily. A 13A fuse is a rubbish swap though, I've got more than enough of those to last my lifetime.

I'd love to, but can't . Ages since I've done any Brummie canal walking. According to the Met. office, you should have decent weather for it, unlike the SE.

+ 3 = 78

I've a feeling it was earlier still - 1902?

I think I only encountered Caesar when he was busy with his duties, but you could just tell he was a wonderful dog.

No, you don't have to do anything to the GPS to operate in France. I was in Paris myself last month and did a handful of caches, and the GPS was OK to within a few metres, exactly the same as I get in the UK. Can't help you on the accents, but isn't there a "Character Map" tool under the Accessories menu on Windows? That was my thought too, I don't know if it works though, I've never had occasion to try it in this context. Let's see if it works here: my €0.02 worth = ¢¢. Preview looks OK, & so it looks like it should work, in forum posts at least.

No, not at all. The only Rules (or Guidelines ) of this Pub Quiz thread are that the questions should be of "Pub Quiz standard of difficulty" and nobody should 'Google' for the answer. Whoever sets the question can award the "ding" for the correct answer and it's then that person's turn to set the next question. MrsB Gosh, I didn't realise there were Rules! What does "'Google' for the answer" mean? I can see that blind googling for the text of the question would make the whole thing pointless, but are we allowed to use other resources, in a directed way? Or is it own brains only? (I suspect this has been done to death, 66 pages ago.)

Alec Baldwin?? If I am right I apologise as I know nothing about films however my 4 year old son has forced me to watch the Thomas film too many times to count! Nope, but closer! I see. Well I await the ding for Peter Fonda in that case. Not sure why I want to answer this as I can't think of another question to ask. Do new questions have to be related to the previous one in any way? DING! I was thinking of "Easy Rider" and "Thomas and the Magic Railroad". The latter is a rather curious film Thomas & MRR. I found Fonda's performance as "Grandpa Burnett Stone" had a sort of appalled fascination for me. A salutary lesson in carrying on beyond all hope for the philosopher in us.

Alec Baldwin?? If I am right I apologise as I know nothing about films however my 4 year old son has forced me to watch the Thomas film too many times to count! Nope, but closer!

Nope! I'm not sure if either of the narrators have appeared with Dennis Hopper, if they have a) my question's a duff one and neither would be the answer I'm thinking of.

Thank you MartyBartfast, very kind. OK, staying with films: which actor has co-starred with both Dennis Hopper and Thomas the Tank Engine?

Captain Blood, Errol Flynn And the MGM film, now searching through my extensive knowledge of movie trivia my guess is China Seas

I outvote Rutson by 2 to 1

Linus Torvalds?

Linus Torvalds?

Monotreme's First Ton! I've heard, from someone who should know , that Monotreme got the coveted third digit recently, somewhere in Southest Wales.

Gosh! Truly the end of an era. Can I claim to be the first to be confused by this (5 mins before seeing your forum post!)? Maybe I should change too. But I can't remember many of the hundreds of the better names I've thought of over the years. "Desperado" has already gone, "Cycloped" is a now a TB on its way to Spain . . .

Why would you have gone camping because the Beatles split up? I know it was a momentous occasion, but still......... Hee hee! Actually at the rate my arrangements are going, I might not get to go camping until they're back together again

My boy Barney McGrew has expressed an interest in giving camping a try, and I've sort of promised that this year we'd do the camping element of the bash. I haven't been camping myself since the Beatles split up so you mustn't laugh, you lot! (Gosh, I can still remember the smell of that groundsheet.)

Yes I know! Maybe it's time I accepted my little PalmIII isn't going to work again, and get a replacement!

From itsnotaboutthenumbers.com: "However, over the past few months, your find rate has only been 0.03 finds per day. Based on that, you'll find number 200 around 11/03/15 and your 1000th around 12/31/69."

A posting in the USENET group (remember them?) sci.geo.cartography . I can't remember what that poting was about now, but I visiited geocaching.com and wondered what the nearest cache to my workplace was , thinking it would be miles and miles. Turned out to be GCJP8G Parson's Pleasure, a couple of minutes walk away. That lunch time I decided to take my GPSr (which I already owned for walking) out for a little stroll . . . in that incarnation Parson's Pleasure was a lovely hide, if you stood in exactly the right spot you could see it quite easily just lying there, while hordes of people milled around.