Your Letters
14:37 UK time, Friday, 28 December 2007
Now you're talking. Japanese prisoners not liking their pyjamas? That really is a random stat!
K, Edinburgh
Re . Before the year draws to a close can I be the first to nominate the following sentence as news sentence of the year: "prompting pitched battles with brooms". It can't be often that you get to slot that into a news story.
Sam, Waddesdon, Nr Aylesbury
As news broke of the , the "most read" box was dominated by this story and its sidebars, save one brave interloper that refused to be buried - . I'm sure Damon Albarn could use this to highlight his dismay at today's celebrity obsessed culture.
Dylan, Reading, UK
I surely wasn't the only one to double-take at the headline ? I think the Weeping Willow is most likely.
Danny Cunningham, Amersham
Re American Michael's comment about having only one day off at Christmas (Thursday's letters) - remember that you had a day off last month for Thanksgiving, probably one for Memorial Day and several others through the year that the British don't get.
Liz, Poole
Joanne, the difference is that the money to pay for the shirt is going to workers and to the economy of another country (Thursday's letters). Instead of your own. That this very basic idea has escaped you is, with all due respect, perhaps the cause of the dollar's current doldrums?
Chandra, London
So who, or what, was, or is, the theatrical Viagra referred to in Thursday's Paper Monitor, if Pat Kirkwood was the "1940's answer to" her, him, or it?
Rob, London, UK
Bit puzzled by Thursday's daily mini-quiz which asked which area has the least welcoming people. First of all, Yorkshire (the friendliest) is a county while London, Birmingham and Sheffield (possible unfriendliest) are cities, so they hardly qualify as regions. Secondly, and more importantly, Sheffield is actually in Yorkshire, so hardly counts as a choice except to the severely geographically challenged. Do I really care? Well, it's late December and I should be working...
John Knight, Beverley, UK
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