Your Letters
14:36 UK time, Wednesday, 29 July 2009
- sounds like hindsight to me.
Graham, Hayle
Remember (15 July)? It rained. I put my barbecue back in the shed at once. Won't be needing it again this summer.
C Weed, London
It's easy to disprove the existence , they don't leave any footprints. That'll be £10 please, Professor Dawkins.
John Airey, Peterborough, UK
This story about is great. The best bit is the link to his Twitter feed on which he tweets that the story is .
Phil, Guisborough
Why do you deface these with an ugly caption? Do galleries put a sticker right on the canvas telling you about the subject? What an idiotic decision, to mask off the picture with a panel that is the only place where you can read the caption.
J Stewart, Edinburgh
Monitor note: There is a button, lower right, to switch captions off. Hope this helps.
Was I the only person hunting around at the bottom of for a footnote explaining the asterisk in Tokyo*?
Lee, Manchester, UK
Re : Is a labrador similar in size to a panther? The policeman mentions the cat is similar in size to both, I'm sat here thinking a panther is significantly larger than a labrador.
Then there's the fact that, for labrador-sized, that's a small cat...
Daniel Evans, Telford, UK
Are you sure that's Madonna and not Iggy Pop (Web Monitor)?
Phil, Guisborough
Re no named officials and consistent pronouns (Tuesday's Quote of the Day). That would be "it" then?
Candace, New Jersey, US
Caroline (Tuesday letters), gender has nothing to do with it. Bigamy is gender-neutral and only incorrect because of the number of marriages involved - this lady was a polygamist. As the gender-neutral term is the more widely known, it makes sense to use it in preference to polyandrist (or if this had been a male, polygynist). It has amused me to see the defendant in this case being described as a "serial bigamist" - as any engineer will confirm, bigamy and polygamy are obviously parallel processes.
Justie, London
I just got an e-mail telling me I can catch swine flu from tinned pork. I deleted it - it's obviously spam.
Lee Pike, Auckland, New Zealand
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