Your Letters
18:07 UK time, Thursday, 30 July 2009
So it's claimed Men at Work used a about a noisy bird sat in a gum tree. What about the guitar riff in the song Turn Turn Turn, which sounds similar to the theme tune of Crossroads?
Colin Bartlett, Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Sat-nav problems aren't as rare as you'd think (). I searched for a specific hotel in Leicester by postcode, and Google Maps took me to a location about half a mile from where I wanted. No problem you'd think, but having never been there, it took me 45 minutes to find the hotel. At least I wasn't the only one, six other people in our group had identical problems. Embarrassingly, we all work for a logistics company.
Alex, Birmingham, UK
Is it just me, or does the term fail to do justice to the terror implicit in the suggestion that there's a panther (or similar) on the loose? My parents have a big cat. It's called Sylvester and it's not in the least bit scary.
Tim Barrow, London, UK
I would love to submit a caption, but the "comments box" link just takes me to a previous caption competition. Am I missing something?
Alex, Birmingham
Monitor note: Sorry, fixed now.
I know I'm too old for this, but I'm sure I'm not the only one driven to giggles by the headline .
Aimee, St. Andrews, Scotland
Monitor note: Titter. She said *dongle".
So at £10 for just over half a pint, even at 18.2% ABV is not going to be the drink of choice for a binge.
Alan, Southampton, UK
Re John Airey's proof of the non-existence of unicorns (Wednesday letters): spiders, ants, butterflies and moths don't leave footprints either.
John Whapshott, Westbury, England
Neither do fish.
Dave Godfrey, Swindon, UK
Ah, but John, how do you know unicorns don't leave hoof prints?
Aine, London
I can't see unicorn footprints all over the place, so that must prove that there are millions of them.
Put that £10 back in your wallet, Professor Dawkins.
Clive DuPort, Vale, Guernsey
Web Monitor, the usually quite brilliant Anthony Lane, the New Yorker's lead critic and a Britisher to boot, gave In The Loop a rather scathing review last week.
Oliver, Paris, France
Lee (Wednesday letters), I got caught out twice. Not only did I look for the asterisk in the article, I also searched for it at the bottom of the letters.
Lydia, Manchester
The headline got me thinking... can one really become a father more than once, without ceasing to be a father in between? Do any Monitorites have any other examples or such linguistic curiosities?
Aaron, Reading, UK
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