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What does Wednesday mean by "the flowers in your hair are optional"?

answered Aug 25, 2020 at 17:27

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Explain the 28 Feb 2022 Dilbert cartoon use of the phrase "sticking the landing"

answered Feb 28, 2022 at 9:03

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Meaning/translation of title "The Light Fantastic" by Terry Pratchett

answered Sep 29, 2019 at 9:31

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Contrasting depictions of Asians in Tintin

answered Sep 17, 2023 at 16:27

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What is "the line children draw to represent a bird in flight"?

answered Dec 29, 2021 at 22:05

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What are these pink papers with book text written on them?

answered Sep 28, 2021 at 11:07

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What does "Maybe it's a Big Horse I'm Morporkian" mean?

answered Nov 4, 2017 at 17:33

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Krazy language in Krazy Kat, 25 July 1936

answered Jul 14, 2019 at 20:27

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Why does Tolkien use neither quotes nor cursive writing, and all lower-case, in this specific "quote"?

answered Apr 12, 2022 at 13:35

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What does "Catholic privilege" mean in Pym's Excellent Women?

answered Jan 24 at 11:27

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Was Philip Larkin factually correct when he implied that in 1955 the streets in Ireland were "end-on to hills" more often than those in England?

answered Dec 3, 2021 at 10:08

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Why did "they" go to sea in a sieve?

answered Apr 10, 2017 at 13:10

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Dickens invented the scary clown?

answered Oct 26, 2020 at 10:49

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What is so satanic about Manchester?

answered Jul 23, 2017 at 11:45

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Trying to remember a junior fiction story about boys who go back to medieval times

answered Dec 1, 2017 at 11:32

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Identification of a short story about a short irrefutable self-evident proof that God exists that is kept secret

answered Dec 25, 2020 at 12:58

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In Master and Commander, why is the cook told to put his pans upside down?

answered Sep 24, 2019 at 21:56

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Why might Robert Frost specify a ' long two-pointed ladder' in the poem 'After Apple Picking'?

answered Jan 11, 2022 at 12:41

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Meaning of: "the photographic views, the spyglasses you look at them" in 'Five Children and It'

answered Jun 13, 2021 at 10:32

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Is Frederic 21 or 22 in "Pirates of Penzance"?

answered Jun 28, 2022 at 13:32

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What’s the link between “The Amazing Maurice” and the Tiffany Aching books?

answered Mar 9, 2020 at 15:14

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What is Watson's "old service" in "His Last Bow"?

answered Oct 16, 2020 at 11:27

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Pre-2010 book: "Jaws" in a library

answered Apr 29, 2021 at 7:19

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Why does Mr Merdle ask for a penknife with a darker handle in "Little Dorrit"?

answered May 2, 2021 at 10:37

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What does it mean when Ralph is thinking about Piggy's death in Lord of the Flies by Golding

answered Oct 21, 2019 at 17:09

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"It might be for years, and it might be for ever," - What is the original novel this quote appeared in?

answered Dec 6, 2017 at 12:07

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Romeo and Juliet: Why is honey loathsome in its deliciousness?

answered Jul 8, 2021 at 14:15

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Shakespeare King Henry IV Part 1: What is the "money joke" in these lines?

answered Jul 27, 2021 at 10:49

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Has the text of Premchand's banned short-story collection Soz-e-Watan survived?

answered Sep 1, 2021 at 13:25

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What does "One fancied things sometimes—fancied a fellow was looking at you queerly" mean from And Then There Were None?

answered Dec 3, 2021 at 3:13

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What does Wednesday mean by "the flowers in your hair are optional"?

Explain the 28 Feb 2022 Dilbert cartoon use of the phrase "sticking the landing"

Meaning/translation of title "The Light Fantastic" by Terry Pratchett

Contrasting depictions of Asians in Tintin

What is "the line children draw to represent a bird in flight"?

What are these pink papers with book text written on them?

What does "Maybe it's a Big Horse I'm Morporkian" mean?

Krazy language in Krazy Kat, 25 July 1936

Why does Tolkien use neither quotes nor cursive writing, and all lower-case, in this specific "quote"?

What does "Catholic privilege" mean in Pym's Excellent Women?

Was Philip Larkin factually correct when he implied that in 1955 the streets in Ireland were "end-on to hills" more often than those in England?

Why did "they" go to sea in a sieve?

Dickens invented the scary clown?

What is so satanic about Manchester?

Trying to remember a junior fiction story about boys who go back to medieval times

Identification of a short story about a short irrefutable self-evident proof that God exists that is kept secret

In Master and Commander, why is the cook told to put his pans upside down?

Why might Robert Frost specify a ' long two-pointed ladder' in the poem 'After Apple Picking'?

Meaning of: "the photographic views, the spyglasses you look at them" in 'Five Children and It'

Is Frederic 21 or 22 in "Pirates of Penzance"?

What’s the link between “The Amazing Maurice” and the Tiffany Aching books?

What is Watson's "old service" in "His Last Bow"?

Pre-2010 book: "Jaws" in a library

Why does Mr Merdle ask for a penknife with a darker handle in "Little Dorrit"?

What does it mean when Ralph is thinking about Piggy's death in Lord of the Flies by Golding

"It might be for years, and it might be for ever," - What is the original novel this quote appeared in?

Romeo and Juliet: Why is honey loathsome in its deliciousness?

Shakespeare King Henry IV Part 1: What is the "money joke" in these lines?

Has the text of Premchand's banned short-story collection Soz-e-Watan survived?

What does "One fancied things sometimes—fancied a fellow was looking at you queerly" mean from And Then There Were None?