How the heck ya gonna marry somebody when yer dead?
Is flowing northward such an unusual characteristic for a river? I’d have thought there were hundreds of northward-flowing rivers around the world.
A man might be able to marry his deceased wife’s sister. But not his widow. If he has a widow, he’s dead himself.
My typo. That should, of course, read:
A man might be able to marry his deceased wife’s sister. But not his widow**'s**. If he has a widow, he’s dead himself.
Indeed, quite pathetic. The answer is “…she wasn’t 65” (sounds better than 60, which is probably technically the correct answer, at least, in the UK)
One more in an attempt to recover my cred:
You need to travel from Gairsay, an island roughly in the centre of the group of islands known as Orkney, to the Mainland. Approximately how long will it take my motor boat? [Just your common or garden boat with a small engine; not a speedboat or a powerboat.]
Not according to this source (sorry, PDF file), which says that many major waterways, including the Rhine, Elbe and Garonne rivers, flow northward. I suppose the Nile’s prominence (and length) has just made it the most obvious northward-flowing river.
Thanks Nightwatch. I asked because I could think of at least 5 Australian rivers off the top of my head that flowed north. Your reference, together with this site confirm what I thought. There are many northward flowing rivers around the world. It may be a quality that the Nile and Willamette rivers have in common, but it’s not unusual.
i just thought rivers flowed downhill…
It’s only about a mile so about 15 minutes (assuming a small boat speed of ~4 knots).
Excellent. Are you an Orcadian, or do you have maps of the area?
The trick is that Mainland is the name given locally to the main island of Orkney, NOT the Scottish mainland. They call that “doon sooth”.
What was the original name of the baseball franchise that became the New York Yankees?
The Baltimore Orioles 
Lower Egypt (the bit near the Med). The Egyptians called the southern part Upper Egypt whereas our Mercator bias makes us think of south as down.
Why do (ordinary flat) mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down?
You betcha.
Because your eyes are side by side, left and right.
So if you tilt your head to the left or right while looking in a mirror, you find up and down are reversed, do you?
Yeah, some makers have you measure under the arms abover the breasts, but the question was about the band size. The band is the part of the bra that goes under the breasts, which is roughly 5 inches less than the given number regardless of how that number was determined.
This needs photographic proof. And we’re still out on the Drifters one…BritDopeFesters may remember it…
Which has been the shortest year in England since the birth of Christ?
I’m gonna go for the obvious and say they have all been the same?
Excluding leap years. 