Your Letters
17:34 UK time, Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Having performed a very scientific investigation in to Ellie's Bounty bar theory (that is, a Facebook status reading "Who likes bounty bars?"), I can conclude that Bounty bars are liked by marginally more women than men. So there you go.
Luisa, Frome
On the Topic (I thank you) of Bounty bars, has anyone else noticed WH Smith's strange pricing strategy vis-Ã -vis red and blue. The milk chocolate bars are about 20p cheaper - because they are a popular confectionery item. I blame the credit crunch(ie).
Gail Roebuck, Bromsgrove
Lisa (Monday letters). The reason it is "roughly 50/50" is because two of the German wins were on penalties. So it depends if you want to count the penalty wins as wins or not.
Amy, Norwich
I hate to tell you this, Tanya (Monday letters) (and do all replies to pedants start out this way?), but as a former primatologist I'm afraid that yes, indeed those are monkeys (macaques) and they appear to be very cleverly hiding their tails.
Scott L, Atlanta GA, US
"We did give the world penicillin" (Stuart Maconie, Paper Monitor, Monday). Did you? I always believed it to be Scottish scientist and Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming in 1928.
Or is this a "British" thing?
PJM, Beckenham, Kent
Re I wonder what Dr Andrew Murray will give as an excuse when his namesake fails to win at Wimbledon.
Paul, Marlow, UK
So the . What about plumbers and electricians?
Graeme Wilson, Dunfermline
I know a lot of people dislike football supporters, but I was still surprised to find that "harbouring a fan" .
Edward Green, London, UK
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