Your Letters

17:14 UK time, Friday, 20 June 2008

I am torn. If I choose the international version of the BBC news, I can avoid all Big Brother coverage. But then I lose the convenient link to the Magazine in the left-hand column of the front page. Decisions decisions.
Chris Clarke, Oxford

I think I could help the Massachusetts officials trying to work out how 17 girls got pregnant. When a man loves a woman very much, they hug each other in a special way...
Laura, Cumbria

Gotta hand it to the Sun and their story on page 21 regarding the phrase "brain-storm" being replaced by "idea showers" due to political correctness. I was amazed... at least I would have been if the same thing hadn't appeared in 50 office-speak phrases you love to hate on this very site two days beforehand.
Mark Ivey, Hartlepool, UK

Re Sheep shortage hits Giant's look: During WWII did they draw a pair of pants on him? Or merely let the grass grow?
Stuart, Croydon

Or maybe the judicious placement of a hat worn at a jaunty angle?
Libby, Coleford, Somerset

So Spears' sister 'has a baby girl'. Why do we need to know that? A woman a couple of streets away from me had a baby recently. Could you pass that on to your newsdesk?
Simon, Burnham-on-Crouch

Re Campbell pleads guilty to assault. This could have been so much more interesting. Imagine, it could have been Alastair, Menzies, Sol, Nicky or Donald - you just have to look now don't you?
Phil B-C, London

Have a guess what Sir Igor Judge does for a living...
Jo, London

"It sounds crazy, but somebody in psy-ops will have determined that Barney the Dinosaur is an effective instrument of torture" (The secret world of 'psy-ops'). Nothing more to say really.
Edd, Cardiff

I have had a £10 bet with a work colleague that you receive several - if not considerably more - letters concerning today's mini-quiz and the wondrous possibilities surrounding a "gas barbie". Don't let me down Monitorites, I can ill afford the expense!
Dylan, Reading, UK

Ninety quid for a gas barbie (daily mini-quiz)? Thank God I don't have kids, you wouldn't catch me shelling out £90 for a toy that can't outlast a light breeze.
Andrew Rodgers, Peterborough, UK

Basil (Thursday letters), is "tittering" the appropriate phrase to use on the subject of boobs, or is this some new form of activity?
Barry, Southend, Essex

Tee hee, Basil said "tittering"!
Emma Cox, Essex