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I don't know what I find more worrying. The fact that he's eaten 25,000 Big Macs. Or the fact that he knows he's eaten 25,000 Big Macs.
Phil, Oxford

Adrian (Tuesday letters) like I overhear school children on the bus on the way to work who overuse the word Like like It made me wonder what they are teaching in school like I have deduced that the word Like replaces all forms of punctuation like Do this to any sentence and you will instantly be "talking street" like "innit" like
Lee Pike, Auckland, NZ

I spent the whole of last night practicing planking. I must say it is harder than it sounds - I woke up this morning feeling as stiff as a board.
Colin Main, Luton, UK

OK, Andrew of Newark (Tuesday letters), so if they don't take that advice, they don't get fined, but if they're going to disregard expert opinion, shouldn't they then be denied future medical care? What's the point wasting any more money on them? If they can't follow simple instructions to eat less and exercise more, then they're beyond help.
Mike, Edinburgh, UK

Is there a word for being so bad at the Magazine quiz that when I'm three quarters of the way through and have a score of zero that I decide to aim for 0/7, but even fail at that and guess wrongly to get a right answer?
SS, Caernarfon, Cymru/Wales

Dear Monitor, may I humbly suggest that it was my Moose Head "8 pointer" Antler fascinator, worn by Eddie with such aplomb on the day of the wedding (letters, 3 May), rather than any Philip Treacy reproduction, which has rekindled British interest in headgear.
Richard Martin, Doncaster, UK

Re: Quote of the day: "There is no possibility that it will not happen. We do not have a plan B." Please can we have a bumper crop of letters on Friday 20th?
John Thompson, Kirkby Lonsdale

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