Your Letters
17:40 UK time, Thursday, 16 July 2009
For the American who found his card was charged , and thought someone might have bought Europe with it - does anyone know if that would indeed be enough to buy Europe?
Philip Hore, Kingston upon Thames
It's ironic of the Â鶹Éç to publish (as if there was only one). There were thousands of engineers involved with the design and the operation of the dozen or so Apollo missions, not to mention the astronauts that flew Apollo 8, 9 and 10, and James Webb, the Nasa boss who held it all together. They are all largely unsung.
Rob, Derby, UK
Did John Airey (Wednesday letters) try the and, if so, how did he do? "Stat" may or may not be an Americanism, but it is certainly a Latin one. Stat. (statim), as any prescriber or pharmacist knows, means "immediately" and a "stat" dose of a drug (or even a cup of tea) is a one-off dose given immediately, usually prior to a procedure.
Aqua Suliser, Aqua Sulis
Well, the Met Office were right for once (). They forecast a "barbeque summer" and that's exactly what we've got. It's poured and poured - just like every time I have a barbeque.
Peter, Cropthorne, Worcs
would have been so much better had it included the word "Funky".
Nicolas, London
Monitor note: One concurs.
Glad to see another all-noun headline today - - and even more cheered to see it doubles as a headline that virtually forces you to read on. Good stuff.
James Ball, London, UK
I think Paper Monitor has dated itself. Can't be that many people under the age of 40 who remember obscure Icehouse lyrics from the early 1980s.
GW, also 40-plus, London, UK
I'm now going to have to spend the rest of the afternoon looking for pop lyrics in previous blogs. Incidentally, I saw Icehouse support David Bowie on his Serious Moonlight tour.
*Sigh* just realised that was 26 years ago.
Andrea, Cheltenham, UK
Ahhh thanks, Paper Monitor - I've now got a medley of Icehouse songs going round my head.
Sarah, London, UK
Monitor note: All together now... "Great Southern Land, in the sleeping sun/you walk alone with the ghost of time..."
I recently received one of those "hilarious" forwarded joke e-mails from a colleague. It was the one imagining if a car was like a computer in 10 different ways. I'm sure I remember first receiving this years ago. What is the oldest recorded receipt of this e-mail that anyone knows about? Maybe Web Monitor could find a website that monitors the history of forwarded e-mails.
JoeA, London
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