Your Letters
16:14 UK time, Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Am I the only person to do and think "Oh! are they dead?" more that once?
Ralph, Cumbria
Re , I cannot be the only person to wonder how a person who develops a shorthand system which uses a / instead of a . defines "shorthand".
Sharon, Belfast
Oh so close! Am I the only one who read Mrs Gubbay as Mrs "Grubbay" in I wish it were true...
Alexandra, Reading, UK
I obviously have a dirty mind. That's not where I thought the two tennis balls would go to emulate Posh (Paper Monitor).
Peter Bradford, Maryland, US
I ran Tuesday's quote of the day from Lagerfeld through babelfish: "There thick mummies with the chip bag sit vorm televisions and say, thin Models are ugly."
So did he mean thick or fat? Maybe the double entendre works in German. If so he gave us one.
Jeremy, Aylesbury
Is it just me, or is there something about the headline that makes my head hurt trying to work out what's going up and down?
Mark, Portsmouth
My office is so well insulated that we have to have the air-conditioning on for around nine months of the year. Would it not be more efficient to have a less well insulated office that needs - say - three months of air-con and three months of heating in a year? (We only found this out today because the air-con broke down and we had to have the emergency doors opened.)
Basil Long, Nottingham
Hi Andrew (Wednesday letters). I'll be visiting my parents in Malvern over Christmas. Fancy meeting up for a drink?
Kat Gregg, Coventry
As previously mentioned in this week's letters, we will be including the best comments from Facebook and Twitter. Here's one from niphette:
I'm wondering if there is less cyber-kudos involved in getting a tweet published as opposed to a real letter...
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