Your Letters
17:00 UK time, Wednesday, 7 January 2009
Which household gadget celebrates its 40th anniversary this month ()? Well, if he got married in January 1969, it's the husband.
Diane, Sutton
Today's Quote of the Day reminds me of a Gina Yashere gag. After complaining to her mother about her lack of a boyfriend, Gina's mother replies, "Don't worry, men are like buses: none come along for ages and then they're rubbish."
Luke L, London, UK
Rick P (Tuesday's letters), I'd imagine that a breeding pair of Morris dancers would be quite difficult to find. My understanding is that only men are allowed to be Morris dancers??
Catherine L, Glasgow
Re : Sometimes you need to go a long way to beat juvenile humour.
Steve Norris, Eastleigh, Jonkoping, Pennsylvania
The caption writer of obviously got a little bored by the time he got to caption nine. Good work!
The Bob, Glasgow
It's my birthday today and so for the first time ever I decided to do that bringing cake to the office thing to find out why people do it. I still don't understand. I have to pay for my own birthday cake and I don't even like cake. What *should* I have got out of doing this?
Chris Clarke, Oxford
Why Paper Monitor, what a beautiful singing voice you have.
Bala Bear, Queensland, Australia
Tut tut, Paper Monitor - "une certain age"? Well, "age" (even though you omit the circumflex) is masculine, so "certain" at least was correct, "une" however was not. I distinctly remember the voice of my French teacher 50 years ago listing the "-age" nouns which are masculine: rage, nage, age, cage, plage, image...
Geoffrey, Rome, Italy
Monitor note: Disciplinary proceedings have been launched.
Who is this Dennis Junior who often appears to open the comments on many Magazine Monitor sections? Is this to test the system, to give instruction or merely an insomniac or shift worker eager to give his, always pertinent, two-pennies-worth?
Adam, Manchester
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