Your Letters
15:35 UK time, Wednesday, 13 July 2011
So, let me see if I got this right: customer buys product, customer leaves shop, customer loses product through not taking adequate care of it, customer returns to shop, shopkeeper gives customer new product free of charge. And shopkeeper complains he's losing money? Someone needs a little chat with Sir Alan Sugar.
Rob, London, UK
We have a new unit of speed, thanks to Camelot's marketing department. We now know "hot on the heels" equates to around 10 months... at least in their world.
Robin, Herts UK
How did Tomasz miss my favourite weather saying: "Rain before 7, dry before 11"? I have invariably found this to be true but would have loved to have heard the science behind it. Or maybe there is no science.
Jaye, Rutland, England
Regarding bird imprints on windows, I have at least 5 partial imprints on my patio doors and one on another of my windows. I am not sure whether this provides information on the stupidity of the local birds or on the infrequency of my washing the windows.
Ralph, Cumbria
Re: hidden messages. I regularly set daily quizzes for our local newspaper. I managed to sneak through a message on my partner's birthday one year, with the initial letters of the answers of the questions reading "(my first name) L (her first name)". It was appreciated by her - and not spotted by the readers or subbies!
Anonymous, New Zealand
Tim McMahon (Tuesday Letters), the phenomenon is called being gullible. It'll happen every year the 1st of July falls on a Friday, so this year, 2016, 2022 etc. Not quite as uncommon as you think!
David Freeman, UK
Tim (Tuesday Letters), I think the proper term for this phenomenon is "urban legend" since five Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in July also occurred in 1994, 2005, and will occur again in 2016.
Phil, London
Doesn't Magazine Monitor have some kind of social responsibility to prevent the kind of torrent that's, no doubt, about to be unleashed on Tim McMahon (Tuesday Letters)? I believe "Dr" Neil Fox put it best with "there's no real evidence for it, but it is scientific fact".
Andy, Balham, London
The 
