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SlippyBlue
19 Sep 14 18:31   
At what age was the oldest racehorse ever to win a race under rules and what was it called?

17, I think it was Sonny Somers.

3. Where do butterflies go when it rains?

3. Roman numerals: why I,V,X,L,C,D and M (and modifiers) to the exclusion of other letters?

5. Why has Cobblaz numbered his question as 3.

6 what was the first ever post on betfair forum?

Where is my wife?

How does Lorraine Kelly retain a job on telly for 30 years?

I suppose I'm asking is is it the editor or the owner of the  station she's sleeping with?

Please don't anybody tell me its because of  her talent because that would be utterly ridiculous.

Why did you start this thread? (1)

why do rejected coins have a greater chance of acceptance, when scraped on a surface, before inserting into a vending machine.

possibly 9 i'm struggling to read let alone count

11. why is it that when I try to cross the most deserted road where there have been no cars passing for 7 hours, does one turn up at the exact moment I put my front foot onto the road? AND!when I have then waited and finally crossed, are there no further vehicles for another 7 hours?

Roman Numerals...

Thus, I descends not from the letter I but from a notch scored across the stick. Every fifth notch was double cut i.e. ⋀, ⋁, ⋋, ⋌, etc.), and every tenth was cross cut (X), IIIIΛIIIIXIIIIΛIIIIXII..., much like European tally marks today. This produced a positional system: Eight on a counting stick was eight tallies, IIIIΛIII, or the eighth of a longer series of tallies; either way, it could be abbreviated ΛIII (or VIII), as the existence of a Λ implies four prior notches. By extension, eighteen was the eighth tally after the first ten, which could be abbreviated X, and so was XΛIII. Likewise, number four on the stick was the I-notch that could be felt just before the cut of the Λ (V), so it could be written as either IIII or IΛ (IV). Thus the system was neither additive nor subtractive in its conception, but ordinal. When the tallies were transferred to writing, the marks were easily identified with the existing Roman letters I, V and X. The tenth V or X along the stick received an extra stroke. Thus 50 was written variously as N, И, K, Ψ, ⋔, etc., but perhaps most often as a chicken-track shape like a superimposed V and I: ᗐ. This had flattened to ⊥ (an inverted T) by the time of Augustus, and soon thereafter became identified with the graphically similar letter L. Likewise, 100 was variously Ж, ⋉, ⋈, H, or as any of the symbols for 50 above plus an extra stroke. The form Ж (that is, a superimposed X and I) came to predominate. It was written variously as >I< or ƆIC, was then abbreviated to Ɔ or C, with C variant finally winning out because, as a letter, it stood for centum, Latin for "hundred".

The hundredth V or X was marked with a box or circle. Thus 500 was like a Ɔ superimposed on a ⋌ or ⊢ — that is, like a 〈Þ〉 with a cross bar,— becoming D or Ð by the time of Augustus, under the graphic influence of the letter 〈D〉. It was later identified as the letter D; an alternative symbol for "thousand" was (I) (or CIƆor CꟾƆ), and half of a thousand or "five hundred" is the right half of the symbol, I) (or IƆor ꟾƆ), and this may have been converted into 〈D〉.[15] This at least was the etymology given to it later on.

Meanwhile, 1000 was a circled or boxed X: Ⓧ, ⊗, ⊕, and by Augustinian times was partially identified with the Greek letter Φ phi. Over time, the symbol changed to Ψ and ↀ. The latter symbol further evolved into ∞, then ⋈, and eventually changed to M under the influence of the Latin word mille "thousand".

That'll be L guineas please.

Answer to number 6.toothpaste.

no,first betfair post,was toothpaste.1.01

Andrew black posted it,

Cobblaz... I 'aint writing that out again ffs!

http://youtu.be/pKuEwsEiSp8

Why would Bert post toothpaste?