Your Letters
16:09 UK time, Wednesday, 14 May 2008
Re . Should I continue with my crocheted set of Magazine Monitor action figures? I've already finished 10 Things and am halfway through How to Say.
Dylan, Reading, UK
I notice from the photo in that one of Caroline Flint's bullet points notes that "We are playing our part to get the market moving with the bank of England's £50 billion liquidity scheme". Is this what the Northern Rock bail-out is being called now?
Phil, London
Re . And you thought it was only an advertising slogan that Australians couldn't give a XXXX...
Andrew, Milton Keynes
might not apply to other beverages. I was on my way to buy some cider the other day when The Wurzels came on the radio and I changed my mind.
Ed, Clacton, UK
Now I know the Hull accent can be rather perplexing to the non-native, but it's my guess (and it IS just a guess) that the Sargesons did not wonder whether they were to be graced by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (as per the Quote of the Day) but by that other celebrated songstress, Kerry Katona. Having spent many years living in the poorer areas of Hull, I feel qualified to say that antipodean opera singers feature somewhat less highly in the cultural vernacular here than they do amongst the polenta chopping classes of Islington. Nice to see the north/south divide in such rude health. Still, whilst uncertainty about the Monitor's gender may remain, at least we've sewn up the issue of their class on this one.
Ashley Pearson, Hull (but originally from Truro)
I see Dexter's his . When are they going to realise he just doesn't like tea and cakes...
Stig, London, UK
Re embarrassing contraceptive equipment (Paper Monitor). Chastity belts can be a tad difficult to pack properly.
Candace, New Jersey, US
Amy-Jo (Tuesday letters), it's not as unsettling as realising the Demon Headmaster is actually Jack Straw.
Katie P, London
Can we have a round of applause for Ralph from Cumbria? Two letters from him within two days, and both made me laugh.
Jimmy Young, Berkhamsted, UK
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