Your Letters
17:08 UK time, Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Re Quote of the Day: I'd offer EX20:13 or MATT5:21 as more (how shall I put it?) interesting Biblical references for a Christian company to engrave on gunsights.
Paul, Wellington, NZ
Or ROM13:9
Ed, Clacton, UK
The upholding of complaints about to illustrate a tyrannical boss raises two interesting questions. First will this mean no more Dad's Army or Allo, Allo? And what accent would be deemed acceptable? Everyone has an accent. Perhaps we need officially approved comedy accents for common stereotypes. I would be happy to license my common Brighton accent for comedic purposes should anyone require it.
Jan Podsiadly, Croydon
As an American, I can only hope that this will result in year-round availability of chocolate robins eggs, not just for Easter. If not, this buy-out will be of no benefit to us.
Matt King, Dallas, TX
Regarding the Sun's headline (Paper Monitor), surely if we're Americanised, it should be Bornville Ultimatum?
Maggie Woodward, London
Surely, Paper Monitor, it should be in full "the choccy horror Wispa show".
Frederick Heath-Renn, London, UK
I suppressed the childish smirk whilst reading about . I almost made it to the end too - see if you can guess when the dam finally burst and I almost fell off my chair laughing.
Jonny, Leicester
I nearly cried when I saw . Seriously.
R.I.P. Casper - enjoy "exploring heaven".
Luisa, Bristol, UK
Glad to see a familiar face in question 7 of the .
K Patel, London
, "As well as listening to classical music for an hour, pupils also have to watch an educational television show". That sounds like my idea of the perfect evening - do they get a glass of red wine too?
John Bratby, Southampton
? Sounds a bit eerie to me...
Jim, Crowborough
OK, back to the old gender debate. I suggest that Paper Monitor must be female, as Tuesday's effort includes pictures of female celebrities and refers to them AS IF EVERYONE KNOWS WHO THEY ARE without labelling them. Clearly a reader of Heat magazine or OK! or some other such magazine that I can only assume are read exclusively by females (I've certainly never seen a man buy one). Question settled?
(BTW I'm still a little confused as to which female is which in the pictures...)
Jimmy, Dorking, UK
Monitor note: Asking the wrong person, Jimmy.
Colin (Tuesday letters), would you prefer the question to be phrased "Why did God design plate techtonics in such a way to allow natural disasters to happen?"
Mark Williams, Oxford, UK
I'd always just write "RE:" and include whatever story I was referencing. The links then magically appeared (Tuesday letters). I never knew I was making Monitor work so hard. My apologies. If I could find Tunnock's tea cakes over here, I'd send you some.
Steve Hill, Milwaukee, WI, US
Monitor note: Bless you.
I feel drawn to test the extents of MM's semi-automatic html link formatting service by throwing in just a little bit more work to do, in response to Andy (/blogs/magazi - PLEASE EDIT THIS PART OUT - nemonitor/2010/01/your_letters_836.shtml)
Joel Horne, Tokyo, Japan
Monitor note: You, however...
So Andy's clicky link solution was to get someone else to do it for him, eh? Ellie and Fee, you need to write this, BUT change the round brackets () for pointy ones :
(a href="url here")link text here(/a)
On a side note, surely insisting you need to know HTML to appreciate the internet is like claiming you need to be able to write a good novel before you can fully enjoy reading one.
Joseph Ball, London, UK
"16-bit colour spectrum" (Tuesday letters)?! That's still 65,536 colours - most men have more like a 16 colour palette, total. If that.
Alexander Lewis Jones, Nottingham, UK
Basil (Tuesday letters) - I bet that took a while if you spelt it how it sounds. My missus said it once, I googled "fewsha" and didn't get far at all.
Ash, Barnet
Basil, I'm sure your wearing pink had nothing to do with the fact your post-date activities involved Google. I find myself in the same boat, and I even accessorised said pink shirt with a lovely lime green tie. Chin up; one day they'll see we were right.
Charles, Sao Paulo
Let's get American cooking terms straight (Tuesday's letters).
1) Americans don't tend to use ounces. Just teaspoons, tablespoons and cups or fractions thereof.
2) A cup is a defined measurement: 8 fluid ounces. It is therefore irrelevant that one can have cups of different sizes. I have seen many stones in my life. Only a very small proportion weigh exactly 14 pounds.
3) In US recipes, a teaspoon or tablespoon is not the volume of liquid in any old spoon. They are also defined: 1 tablespoon = 1/2 ounce, 3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon.
Beth, London
I always use grams to cook and I am teaching my children to cook in grams. Many new cookbooks do not even have ounces as a measurement. Time to move on.
Catherine, Colchester, UK
Monitor note: Thanks all who commented on this, but did anyone actually make the Swedish apple cake in question - and how was it?
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