Your letters
16:26 UK time, Friday, 17 November 2006
I know that junk food is bad for you but couldn't you have used a to illustrate the point? I'm going to have to go and get myself one of those bad boys now.
Catherine O, Maidenhead, UK
While Milton Friedman may have popularised the phrase "there is no such thing as a free lunch", he certainly didn't invent it. The phrase dates back to the days of the Wild West, were offers of a free lunch were only valid when the eater purchased a large quantity of beer.
Harry Walton, Ipswich
Where are the pictures of readers' desks?
Ronnie, Glasgow, UK
MM note: , sir.
"Can you be gruntled?" asks PJ (Thursday letters). Yes you can, if you're a pig. 鈥淕runtle鈥 is the proper name for a pig's snout - so a pig which has been dis-gruntled has every right to be disgruntled.
Jenny Ryan, Bolton, UK
Clare asks for a Flexicon suggestion as to how to describe a pleasant surprise when a forgotten song resurfaces on your MP3 player (Thursday letters). How about podsmacked?
Helene Parry, South Wales expat to Brentford
SerendiPODous perhaps?
Bryn Roberts, Bristol
Serend-iPod-ity?
Neil Golightly, Manchester, UK
Disk-chuffed.
Candace, New Jersey, US
鈥淢mmm-kay鈥? Is that a South Park reference, Paper Monitor? If so you're way more hip than I thought.
Joe, Aberystwyth
Re "waddagal!" and "mmm-kay" in Paper Monitor. Is this some new kind of metro-speak that hasn't reached us in the provinces yet? Minglish?
Kip, Norwich, UK
Just out of curiosity, did Vicky the teacher from East London ever get in touch with her old flatmate? What does Stig do when he's not writing amusing quips and captions for the Magazine Monitor? And what's happened to all the funny python stories, haven't had one for months. So many untold stories...
Carol, Portugal
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