Your Letters
14:55 UK time, Monday, 15 December 2008
A number of the headlines today sound like rubbish sci-fi plots:
- Tory leader calls for Armageddon in desperate strategy to bring former Conservative voters back from the dead for the Final Battle with the forces of the Left.
- Trains are affected by a problem with the Matrix...
- Army to stand firm against giant insect that paralyses its victims by being sick on them.
The Bob, Glasgow
Did the writer of not read ?
Mark Williams, Oxford
Scrabble enthusiasts, like Ed (Friday letters), will no doubt be delighted to learn that my name is also worth 26 points.
David Sheppard, Romford
Re It's a shame the reporter hadn't read the gospel before heading off - there is no donkey in the Christmas story. Read it and see.
Sarah, Colchester
If read Magazine Monitor, they'd've picked up Bernard Madoff (pronounced 'Made-off') on nominative determinism alone, many years ago, thus avoiding an alleged $50bn fraud.
Nick Jones, Dorking, UK
Are not councils asking for trouble for new housing developments? Presumably there are some people out there who will be very annoyed at all the bad luck now afflicting them as quite innocent residents of houses numbered as 15, which have been sold to them under a false description. Or are developments in Wyre Forest and the like now legally obliged to leave a vacant plot between houses numbered 11 and 15?
Andrew, Oxford
Given the predilections of popular music performers of , this can probably be added to the "failed to deliver" list.
Pete, Sheffield, UK
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