Your Letters
16:57 UK time, Friday, 3 October 2008
In "Officer resigns over BNP badge" we learn that 'Mr Janaway was "required to resign"'. What is the difference between that and being dismissed?
SA, Salford, England
Re Today's Quote of the Day. Whoever had the job of reading that announcement would have surely being a shoe-in for employee of the month. Although whether anyone else would be around to present it to them is another matter altogether.
ZS, Birmingham, England
Re Sorry to be pedantic but a double helix typically consists of two congruent helices with the same axis, differing by a translation along the axis, which may or may not be half-way.
Stuart, Croydon
Daniel, London (Your Letters, Thursday) rest assured. The closest phyton to Lancashire was Michael Palin, born South Yorkshire.
Nuno Aragao, Aveiro, Portugal
So iTunes are taking 79p for 4 seconds (Steve W's letter, Thursday), effectively taking just under 20p a second? Impressive, but it pails in comprassion to JK Rowling's £5 per second ("").
TS, Bromley, England
iTunes has a track which is even shorter than the one he mentions. The album Six Demon Bag by Man Man has a track called "Fishstick Gumbo" which clocks in at an impressively short three seconds long.
DS, Croydon, England
Four seconds is an absolute age. "All" by The Descendents is apparently three seconds long (according to iTunes), though two of those are just silence; "You Suffer" by Napalm Death is pretty similar - nominally clocking in at four seconds, but actually just someone going "Gwarrr"... Neither of them really count as a musical masterpiece.
Dan, Cambridge
Actually Anne, () I believe a person that measures eyesight is an optometrist. The optician only dispenses the lenses.
Claire, London
To Anne, Chester, it's actually an Op(h)thalmologist, common misspelling, even within hospitals!
Tom, Truro
Your Letters is normally of such a high standard that one feels a special thrill to have a letter published, having thought of something sufficiently witty or urbane to merit inclusion. But then there's the odd stinker that makes you wonder how it got through... I'm not naming any names, but there are any number of quite obvious scenarios whereby Euan Blair would know his flat was flooded, yet be in Japan. Maybe it flooded before he left?
Craig, Edinburgh
I note in your 7 days 7 questions competition that you asked what space smells like. This is especially impossible unless you own a working smell-o-scope.
Cuvert Farnsworth, New New York
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