Your Letters
16:01 UK time, Monday, 15 March 2010
"Muliebrity" may seem an exciting new word. But if you're looking for something that is opposed to "virility", what's wrong with good old "femininity"?
Peter, Swindon, UK
Colin (Friday Letters), I'm afraid Lester is right in thinking the median is an average. An average is simply a statistal measure that tells us about a dataset. An average can be a mode or median as well as the mean, or a number of other measures. To put it another way, the mean is a type of average.
Kimberley Chybalski, Northants
Tom Webb (Friday Letters) can definitely transfer his caption competition kudos. I feel I must declare a conflict of interest though... I am the friend that came up with the "shock and paw" line, so would end up getting all the kudos for myself.
Nicky Stu, Highbury, London
Is it just me who finds the quote marks in somewhat disconcerting?
Adam, London, UK
I know this has been raised before, but shouldn't the winners of the WBQ actually be questions, starting with question words? Although both very funny, SkarloeyLine's effort smacks of being too lazy to put "What was..." at the start, and rogueslr's effort wasn't anywhere near a question, it was a caption. If the status quo is maintained, perhaps the item could be renamed to the more accurate "Weekly Bonus Funny Comment on a Theme"?
Iain, Bristol
Continuity announcers are a menace! They jump in before the last programme has finished and start telling you what's on next/tomorrow/next week etc. You're watching the end of a really good film, relishing the atmosphere and looking at the list of actors and someone jumps in telling you about some comedy show or other and completely spoils the end of the film. We all have TV guides on and off the television - why do we have to put up with these people jumping in at the end of programmes? Some programmes have lovely music at the end which you can't hear because someone's telling you what's on next. They also tell you what's about to happen on some programmes so that, by the time you come to watch it, you know what's going to happen anyway.
Keith Whitworth, Windsor
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