# British Dopers - Question Time

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-question-time/186860>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 7, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-question-time/186860 "2003-07-07T21:51:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-question-time/186860/21 "2003-07-08T19:32:32Z")

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You will see a type of Ha-Ha in most zoos mainly in front of animals such as elephants. This deep ditch allows you to look at the animals without having all those thick bars in the way.

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**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-question-time/186860/22 "2003-07-09T01:26:34Z")

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All well and fine with the definition of a ha-ha then.

We Yanks happen to call them tank traps.

Now please be so kind as to indicate where Nelson Muntz enters into the equation?

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**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-question-time/186860/23 "2003-07-09T01:34:47Z")

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Re. tank-traps, so what were they called prior to the invention of the tank?

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**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-question-time/186860/24 "2003-07-09T04:34:05Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Celyn \*  
> Re. tank-traps, so what were they called prior to the invention of the tank?

Moats.

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**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-question-time/186860/25 "2003-07-09T12:38:58Z")

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> \*Originally posted by jr8 \*  
> ha-ha _n._ a ditch with a wall on its inner side below ground level, forming a boundary to a park or garden without interrupting the view.

Thank you for spoiling my fun. I had until now a lifelong project to go to Woolwich and take a photograph of a street sign in Ha-ha road.

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-question-time/186860/26 "2003-07-09T12:58:25Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Floater \*  
> \*\*Thank you for spoiling my fun. I had until now a lifelong project to go to Woolwich and take a photograph of a street sign in Ha-ha road. \*\*

If I’ve saved you from a trip to Woolwich, I have not lived in vain.

[sub](Although the fruit and veg market’s not bad, to be honest.)[/sub]

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