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Minnesotastan - now why didn't I spot that? Perhaps my mind's too highly tuned.

That's make the wishbone a furcula - which only came to mind after I'd posted the first lot. Wish the latin name for a puffin would come to mind - but as you say, it probably ends in "a".

I could cheat and FWSE for it.
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Perifoveal probably means "around the fovea" - the fovea is the sensitive spot in the middle of your retina.

Pepi, IIRC was an Egyptian prince - might be something around the pyramids or the Nile.

Yup, the prince was Vlad, sometimes known as Dracul. Did things like nail turbans onto heads of people who wouldn't remove them in his presence.

Anne, Catherine and Jane sound like wives of Henry VIII, but I didn't think they were buried near each other. Two were - probably in Windsor so it'll be the chapel in the castle I guess.

The tarantula spider gave its name to the tarantella dance.

The abnormal passage sounds like a fistula.

Broken bone is presumably the wish-bone.

The Linnean name for the puffin is sea-parrot? but that's a guess.

No idea where or what the Hill of Fords is.
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Fun stuff - but an odd way to define "64 times bigger". To most people that'd probably mean 64 times the height -which it clearly isn't.

I presume it's 4 times the height which would make it 64 times the volume.
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The answer, surely, is for people who don't mind their access point being accessed to tag it as such - "OK for email" as an SSID, for example.

Like everything else, the world isn't entirely black and white and there's a lot to be said for "Lock it or lose it" but in the end I'd prefer to have a widely understood tag - perhaps OA in the SSID for Open Access.
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Though it doesn't detract from the work, he doesn't half spout a fine line in complete cobblers.

And he's a bit confused about the apostrophe - but that doesn't appear to be a sin these days.
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It's a lunchtime clock. Mostly it's lunchtime and just occasionally you might stumble onto a three o'clock but it's only a passing thing and lunchtime will be back again soon.
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I've always wanted a giant staple gun to pin tailgaters to the ground with until they learn to keep a safe distance. It'd come out on a big arm, reach over and harpoon them to the tarmac.
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As someone in uk.rec.sheds pointed out - if it's Spitfire kits you want and have an unspecified but very large amount of money to spare...

www.spitfireaircraftco.com/kits.html
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I used Microsoft's Image Composite Editor the other day and was pleasantly suprised by how well it did with a set of photos taken in odd lighting without a tripod.

www.skipweasel.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/clee/panorama.jpg

OK - you can see the joins but that's more to do with the variable quality of the input.
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