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A streamlined fairing on a fixed landing gear. Commonly called wheel pants or wheel fairings.

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CORPORAL Jones used to bore the pants off the rest of the platoon in Dad's Army with tales of mock heroism in the Sudan, before degenerating into the worst flap imaginable amid cries of "Don't panic

Stupid boy... who are you to say we've not got any backbone!

And one of his pieces, entitled 'Waste', looks set to bore the pants off visitors.

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Known as one of football's great romantics, he said: "If someone said you can pick a team that is going to bore the pants off everyone but is going to finish in the top six, I would say thanks very much but find someone else.

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Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that bore the pants off us, like particle physics, and make them interesting to ordinary thickos, er, people (that's us).

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Frankly, I am not a pushover for this playwright's brand of comedy which consists, to my mind, of an unrelenting barrage of commonplace one-liners that are meant to reflect life's little ironies and frequently bore the pants off you.

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With all the engineering, mechanics and anality involved when it comes to parts, it sounds like it would bore the pants off someone as ignorant about engineering as me.

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You gamble so you can gamble the next day" - Bert Ambrose FAMOUS FIVE Five facts to bore the pants off people in the pub cannot breathe through their mouths 1Horses 2 A horse's age can usually be accurately determined by its teeth until the horse is about nine years old Horses produce around 10 gallons of saliva a day 34 The average horse's heart weighs approximately 9lb-10lb 5 It is estimated there are about 750million horses in the world THE shock news this week was Michael O'Leary's Gigginstown Stud removing all 60 of its horses from Willie Mullins yard following a dispute over training fees.

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He adds: "I know all kinds of weird and wonderful things, I read New Scientist, I'm interested in quantum physics, I'm a real history buff - Elizabethan and Roman history - I could bore the pants off you about dinosaurs or anything you want to know.

Variety's the spice of life

It doesn't have the vindictive nature of Home Alone and it never threatens to bore the pants off you like 1999's Bicentennial Man.

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Do teachers set out to bore the pants off their pupils?

More chances to grind joy out of life

Loves to bore the pants off the lads with tales of that overhead kick he scored all those years ago.

No FA Cup final would be complete without the captain's team introductions. Here, gives his personal low-down on the Bluebirds

But, if any team can bore the pants off the Sunderland hordes, it could be Stoke.