Your Letters
15:21 UK time, Friday, 20 February 2009
I'm almost as surprised as my postman - and a little embarrassed - to be in receipt of 27p thanks to my 1p request in last Friday's letters. I'm not sure what I'm more concerned about: publishing my address on the Magazine Monitor or that people actually sent me money. Wonderful humanity, though - one anonymous donor sent a gorgeous countryside drawing which is now on my bedroom wall.
Ben Merritt, Sheffield, England
So many questions raised by . Having recognised he was blind, why was the firm sending him a normally-typed letter? Will the letter of apology be correctly adressed, or even written in Braille?
Matt, Cambridge
Can I get in an early nomination for the phrase "" as Most Painfully and Wrongly Contrived Metaphor of 2009?
Catherine, Leicester
I know Michael O'Leary is unpopular but does he really need to for a press conference?
Hugh Annand, Brussels, Belgium
As one of Monitor's regular grammar pedants, I can't believe you gave 4th place in the caption competition to a caption with a misplaced apostrophe. That should definitely give you negative kudos points.
Adam, London, UK
Re the Atlantis-Google Earth story. Dr Orser's comment that "even if it turns out to be geographical, this definitely deserves a closer look" is pretty interesting. Does he mean to say that something which appears in a particular place on the Earth, which is described in relation to other geographical features ie 620 miles off the coast of west Africa, might not necessarily be geographical. Next week's revelation in the Sun: sex is biological.
Jon Barnes, Bridgend
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