Your Letters
16:17 UK time, Wednesday, 23 July 2008
So, . Of course it is! Too much of ANYTHING is bad for you. That's why it's called TOO MUCH. It denotes an excessive amount.
Joel, Nottingham
Who'd have thought it? The feeling you get after 20 pints of beer is in fact just . And there was I thinking I couldn't take my drink.
Adam, London, UK
If it takes four sculptors working 14 hours a day a week to build a and they charge guests £10 per night to stay there, by my reckoning they will need 217 guests before Friday to make a profit (assuming Friday's weather forecast for Weymouth is accurate, each worker is paid the minimum wage of £5.52 per hour and all materials and tools are free)... Surely it's not nearly big enough?
Michael, Exeter
Thank you for Wednesday's Quote of the Day about Gordon Brown's sticky hand-shake. I saw the story in the Metro on the way to work and said to myself "I bet Magazine Monitor won't be able to resist." I'm so proud.
Sarah, Birmingham, UK
Re : this story would be less surprising had it occurred to the previous prime minister. However, Teflon Gordon just doesn't have the same ring to it does it?
TS, Bromley, England
An opportunity missed for a five-word alliterative headline (). Surely "Lesbos locals lose lesbian litigation" would have been a triumph.
JoeA, Bath
I hate to disappoint Paper Monitor, but with inflation the way it is, it's been a while since a chocolate-flake-imbued whipped frozen dairy dessert has been 99p. And of course, it never stood for "99p" either, being invented in the days prior to decimal coinage. Nor did it stand for 99mm, again being from the days of feet and inches (a 9'9" chocolate stick? Only for the ladies). No, it was - apparently - just a marketing puff.
Basil Long, Leicester
Monitor note: Regular readers may remember .
Poor Paper Monitor, you will surely be crushed when you finally find a Mr Whippy van and proffer up your 99 pence only to discover you're at least 21 pence short. It's been at least £1.20 everywhere I've been for years now. However I will gladly lend you the rest of the money if you pick me up a FAB lolly whilst you're there.
James D, Derby
If I found a place selling 99s for 99p, I'd get hundreds and thousands.
CS, Manchester, England
Get us a strawberry Cornetto while you're out there, Paper Monitor.
Martje Ross, Lancaster, UK
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