Your Letters
16:28 UK time, Friday, 26 November 2010
Yesterday, I spent £12 on bird seed, and got home to find I'd left half of it in the shop. But I don't feel quite so bad now, thanks to Man leaves £80,000 on top of car then drives off.
John Bratby, Southampton
Re Gherkin, Razor, Cheese Grater - why do tall buildings have such silly names? If they designed them to look like other things, they'd have other names.
Kevin Symonds
Australians are also fond of nicknames [for buildings]. The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre is locally known as "Jeff's Shed" after the state politician (the premier) in power when it was built.
Jason King
I was horrified to read today's Paper Monitor. Marmite on toast! How could you?! The stuff is pure evil in spreadable form.
Ian, Redditch
Monitor note: Better than Vegemite...
Does anybody else do the Magazine quizzes twice? Just for the confidence boost like...
Sinead, Munich
It's a bit unfair having a go at Lucy (Thursday Letters) for not knowing the difference between a Magazine quiz and a non-Magazine quiz, when the Magazine 7 days quiz and the apparently non-Magazine weekly world quiz have six out of the seven questions in common. It really does hint that there is one central question setter that does both rendering the distinction meaningless. If there really is a different quiz setter for Magazine and non-Magazine quizzes, then perhaps their offices should be swept for bugs because one of them is stealing off the other and robbing procrastinators of a few minutes of quiz-filled joy.
Chris Clarke, Oxford
Marc in Oldham (Thursday Letters), surely if Rusty's in Montreal, it is indeed his royal wedding?
Jenna, Bath
Marc of Oldham (Thursday Letters), technically, as HM The Queen is also Queen of Canada, it also THEIR Royal Wedding as well as ours. What Rusty of Montreal needs to do is to get his democratically elected government to make the day a Bank Holiday too, rather than relying on a perceived anachronistic royal family. Either that or move Thanksgiving...
J Paul Murdock, Wall Heath, West Midlands, UK
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