>...also, what's the meaning of life and what are next week's lottery numbers?<

"As Layman Pan'g and Sung-shan were walking together one day they saw a group of monks picking greens. "The yellow leaves are discarded, the green leaves are kept," said Sung-shan.
"How about not falling into green and yellow?" asked the Layman."*

Hope that helps ;-)

*<b>The Recorded Sayings of Layman P'ang</b>. Weatherhill. ISBN 08348-0057-8

>is there a good glossary of terms somewhere?

Yes. There's the NMR Monument Type Thesaurus:

http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/thesaurus.asp?thes_no=1

And for a more in-depth description of monument types, there's the Monument Class Descriptions:

http://www.eng-h.gov.uk/mpp/mcd/mcdtop1.htm

Baz

Is this like that round from "I'm sorry I haven't a clue ?"

In which case:

Pedantry - someone with a cold describing a class of low social status.

VBB :-)