1. Maieutic - of or relating to the Socratic method of eliciting knowledge by a series of questions and answers
2. Ouma - grandmother, often as a title with a surname
3. Heeze - Scottish word for hoist
4. Zapata - A drooping moustache
5. Eidola - Unsubstantial image
6. Oomiac - Inuit boat made of skins
7. Oubliette - Dungeon enterred only by a trap door

1. One could create a noise vacuum around yourself so all distracting noises outside would cease
2. Marketing departments could make logical decisions
3. Income tax was abolished
4. Huge men didn't sit on the train taking up 2 seats eating a HUGE Angus burger
5. Your bank balance (or lack of) could be reversed
6. You could open a teleport to anywhere at will
7. Everyone could just get along

1. RELIABILITY!!! - unlike the current 'temporary' machine we are using
2. At least 5.1 audio, currently we are running with only 2 of our speakers
3. NOT Windows Vista! I have to use it on a laptop at work, it's the spawn of Satan!
4. Quiet. The quieter the better
5. Enough HD space to fit our entire media collection and more, 100Pb should do it ;)
6. Discrete. Flashy blue neon machines are SO last week
7. NOT a Tosh-iba. Every Toshiba laptop we've owned has ended up with me reaching for an axe

1. Amy Winehouse
2. Pete Dougherty
3. Britney Spears
4. Lilly Allen
5. Sienna Miller
6. Kelly Osbourne
7. Gordon Brown

1. Jeffries Passage, Surrey
2. Minge Lane, Worcestershire
3. Winkle Street, Southampton
4. Wham Bottom Lane, Lancashire
5. Honey Knob Hill, Wiltshire
6. Grope Lane, Shropshire
7. Crotch Cresent, Oxfordshire

1. A Kingfisher
2. Swans and cygnets
3. Mr Heron
4. 3 kids playing conkers
5. An Orb spider
6. Ornamental metalwork for sale
7. Too many people on bikes