Your Letters
16:13 UK time, Wednesday, 1 August 2007
Thank you for providing me with my new favourite phrase: .
Graeme, Dundee
Once again, Paper Monitor sends me off into the web to use up more of the valuable working day. I was wondering what sharks would best be associated with the papers you didn't mention, from this random pick: Dumb Gulper, Little Sleeper, Nervous, Atlantic Weasel, Whiskery and Gummy (Telegraph, surely). If *we* had to pick one to be associated with, bags me Megamouth.
Stig, London, UK
I surely can't be alone in being unsure whether the headline "Water back in most flood homes" was reporting good or bad news?
Elaine, Newcastle
It's so lucky I've read the letters telling of the resilience of goldfish. Yesterday our cat appeared on the patio with a goldfish in its mouth. Spurred on by the Monitor's letters, I didn't give up hope, but chased the cat around the garden. It held onto the goldfish for a surprisingly long time, before eventually dropping it under a bush. It seemed to be lying motionless, but as soon as I put it back in the water it started swimming happily. Could this be the first time the Monitor has been directly responsible for saving a life?
Adam, London, UK
A prime example of stating the blooming obvious ()... where to I apply for my psychology degree?
Sam, Waddesdon, nr Aylesbury, UK
Today's mocks a sign in the Sudan for stating the obvious: "Armed conflict is health risk'". And yesterday we were told . Hrm.
David Richerby, Athens, Greece
As a non-scientist, if I go and look a structure projecting into the sea, would that qualify as a pier review?
Colin, Thatcham
Is it just me or does the guy in the third little photo () have really, REALLY long legs?
Basil Long, Newark Notts
Re a "bottom of cyclists" (Tuesday letters) - shouldn't it be a peloton? Cyclist's bottom sounds more like a medical complaint.
Andy Donovan, Sheffield, UK
My favourite collective noun: a bottle of blondes.
Anna, Northumberland
I've always liked the collective nouns for those that study the weather: a cloud of theoretical meteorologists and a shower of applied meteorologists.
Hugh, Coventry
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