Your Letters
15:29 UK time, Monday, 18 May 2009
The mystery is solved! "Reading the front page of Monday's Independent, Paper Monitor is left scratching his head." (Paper Monitor, Monday) Paper Monitor is a boy! Next task on the list - finding an answer to the meaning of life.
David Walter, Liverpool, UK
Overturned on a peel?
Candace, New Jersey, US
Darren (Letters, Friday) may be interested to know that surgeons in the UK are always styled "Mr" (or presumably, Mrs if they are female) and never "Dr". It's a historical thing that grew up because surgeons considered themselves gentlemen rather than tradesmen. So, yes, it is a class thing, but one with a lengthy pedigree.
Caroline Mersey, London, UK
I think the student in this article was more surprised by what it is like to work in a fish factory (yes you have to work 12-hour shifts, yes it smells of fish) than an Asian fish factory. She should come to Grimsby and check it out.
Rory, Grimsby
A "specialist tool designed to remove the screws" - that would be a screwdriver, then?
Rick P, Oxford, UK
With regard to the story that China's sex theme park is to be demolished before opening, is this a case of erectile disfunction or premature evacuation?
Simon Rooke, Nottingham UK
I read that Sir Victor Blank is to step down as chairman of Lloyds. What a pity! I've been using his cheques for years.
Rob Falconer, Llandough, Wales
On the same day that we discover that a political argument almost derailed Last of the Summer Wine before it had even begun, we find that 36 years later nothing has changed.
Richard Hall, Epsom, UK
Odeon is from the Greek for theatre. Methinks "Oscar Deutsch entertains our nation" (10 things, Friday) is a fib, or a "backronym" at best.
Richard, London, UK
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