Your Letters
15:45 UK time, Monday, 27 September 2010
Re: Should parents have the power to ban school texts? Most shakespeare plays have very strong sexual content (especially ones like Measure for Measure), with very vivid and precise imagery. No book should be banned. Period. Responsibility should be kept with the school to issue books that are.
Ian Oliver
I think Mr Hope might have started something, I wonder how many more we'll see being reported? It's a shame it was only two hours on a Sunday though, how about lunchtime midweek, that should cause suitable distruption.
Jo, Aylesbury (was Reading)
Reading this article made me wonder how one might say 'vituperativeness' in txt spk. V2prtvns?
Mike Dowler, Birmingham, UK
Re: Union tell actors to avoid Hobbit films. Is the second photograph in the story actually a photo from the casting call? Everyone appears to be of regular height, except for the two men towering over them.
Lily, Halifax, NS, Canada
The fact that the boat in this video is named "Bateau Chocolat II" would seem to indicate that his first attempt wasn't quite as successful. Presumably he hoped it would be a Drifter but it ended up Lion on the bottom? Or was there a mutiny on the Bounty?
Edward Green, London, UK
Re: Chocolate boat sets sail in France. I hope he remembers that you can't have your kayak and eat it. Sorry.
MD, Portsmouth
About this quote: "Early results of a survey seem to show that British consumers offered discounts or other promotions on a range of consumer goods display a mental response which resembles that of sexual arousal." Thank you! Haven't had such a good laugh in ages. Will now go and read my IKEA porn in private. (it's not April 1st already, is it?)
Susan.Thomas, Brisbane, Australia
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