Your Letters
15:22 UK time, Friday, 15 April 2011
Re the , then you might have to invite friends' children too. Slippery slope...
Ian Oliver
Weddings are supposed to be a celebration of a union - at mine all my friends, their partners & children where welcome - don't believe in this segregation rubbish. What I hate more is being given a highly expensive gift list to buy from.
Georgena Bowdidge
Roz (Thursday letters), the point at which you realise your action will have an unstoppably bad outcome is called an ohno-second.
Anne, Fareham, UK
This Sunday is Palm Sunday, but how many people are aware of the Sunday before being Carling Sunday? Not the lager but small boiled peas eaten on the fifth Sunday of Lent. I remember up in North-East England them being put in bowls on the bars on this Sunday - a dentist's dream as they were rock-hard tooth-breakers. Children gathered them as the perfect ammunition for pea shooters.
Tim McMahon, Pennar/Wales
Susan (Thursday letters) says "Fwoor!" - but SURELY it's "phwoarrr"? Or am I just adding to the north/south divide?
Daniel, London
Shouldn't it be "phwoar"?
Basil Long, Nottingham
At last, Mat Dow (Wednesday letters), a fellow "stops at red lights whilst cycling" rider. I was beginning to think I was the only one.
Paul, Croydon
Graeme (Thursday letters), you've got the policy wrong. You're only allowed to fetch an item of clothing after you've delivered an imperceptible witticism, not a point of pedantry.
Rich, Titchfield Comon, Hants
What's the point in reading the news if I consistently score news quiz?
Chas Brickland
Like other Monitorites I always look forward to the Quiz of the week's news every Friday. However, I've recently been working over a US internet connection, and have noticed that another quiz (the Weekly world news quiz) is published at the same time. Excitingly, this doubles your chances to get 7 out of 7 each week. Unfortunately, and more realistically, it also doubles your chances to get 0 out of 7 as well.
Tom H, North London
Apparently comfy bunny slippers and laughing at nothing in particular (oh, alright - Paper Monitor) is no longer considered appropriate.
Rachel, Wayzata, US
Paper Monitor note: Why thank you (one thinks).
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