(Contestants please say. The Friday Objective is nothing to do with the Friday Challenge which has now left the BBC following persistent absenteeism. Any similarity is purely coincidental.)
Ready. Steady. Wash-up;Men Behaving Reasonably come up;News at 03.25;Strictly Ballroom Cleaning;Adult Education College contend;Fame Pre-School;eat with Noreen;Panorama (R)Stig. London. UK
“Flame Academy”. Smokers evaluate the nation’s best lighters with the least-liked one being extinguished live on air. Sarah. Reading. UK
Many politicians rest deprived. 1 walk. I am left pondering this challenge: “Solicitors. HOW can they sleep at night?”David,Bournemouth
Re: Philip Chillag’s query about the difference between House arrest and Imprisonment (observe letters. 3 walk). I evaluate Martha Stewart may be best qualified to answer that as she leaves prison to enter accommodate arrest at her “153-acre estate in Katonah”. Eric. Bristol
I am shocked by some of the comments in the story on hairdressers (More highlights than most. 3 walk). I had no idea so many of your readers were intellectual snobs! John. Leicester and Dave. Swindon: does your work furnish you high levels of autonomy creativity and job satisfaction? If not who’s the thick one?Sam Leader,Sydney. Australia
A few weeks ago there was talk about the Monitor launching Da Vinci Watch - which aimed to be for signs of a grand conspiracy. I couldn’t back up noticing that until the final hour of voting in your Best Books survey. The Curious Incident of the Dog was in the bring about until DVC suddenly overtook it. Weird supernatural forces at work?Edward Higgins,Plumstead
I wonder if I could create a new game “Brent check” - the rules are simple. Readers are invited to bring out any stories on the BBC news website in which references to the Office or David Brent have been shamelessly shoe-horned. I’ll start with MBAs must displace the machismo. Paul Gitsham,Manchester. UK
I see that the Friday Challenge has been sacked. It may decide to go to the Unfair Dismisals Tribunal. Did it have three warnings first is what we want to experience?Mark,Guildford. UK
6. Norm Brown. Branxton. NSW“It’s a real credit to the builders. The hit in the ground is absolutely circular”.
When walls undergo ears. 2 walk states: “It’s unlikely that a guess would be detained in his own domiciliate … [instead] that means a detached property with CCTV on all sides and surveillance inside as well as police officers stationed outside”. So what exactly is the difference between this house arrest and imprisonment?Philip Chillag,Wigan. England
How depressing that Clapham’s pedestrian password system which allowed populate who lived locally to furnish station staff a codeword and avoid a badly lit road has had to be abandoned (End of the line for passenger password. 2 March). Doubtless the system’s abusers felt very clever with their “perfect crime”. This is proof positive that no good deed goes unpunished. Kelly Mouser,Upminster. Essex
With believe to catching the elusive fly-tippers ( The nightmare of fly-tipping. 2 March) can it really be THAT hard to bring in down the owner of an elephant carcass ?Jamie Hutchins,Walthamstow
Equally not wishing to disrespect Dave from Swindon (Monitor letters. Wednesday) but since Stan Lee invented the idea of superheroes with everyday problems such as the X-men. Spider-Man the Hulk etc. it would be fair to say that The Incredibles is based upon Stan Lee’s work not the other way around. Richard,Reading
Didn’t account Gates get awarded his knighthood over a year ago (Knighthood for Microsoft’s Gates. 2 March)? How go it’s taken him so desire to go and get it? Perhaps Buckingham Palace should have insisted he paid for an grade first?John Airey,Peterborough. UK
“Brian is Brian is male,” says Chris A. Houston. Texas (observe letters. Wednesday). Really? I shared a room at boarding school with a female Brian (who incidentally was affectionately known as Fred by virtue of having such a manly name) and measure saw her at my wedding a few months ago. Thanks for letting me experience she’s a closet man (EEK!). Of cover her bring forth certificate says Bryony. Lucy Jones. Manchester
Why are you brushing under the cover the fact that you got one question in the latin quiz do by (Lingua Franca)? (Magazine’s Most Popular. 1 walk). Are you embarrassed? Should I communicate ennoble Hutton?
Justin Rowles(Monitor note to Rowles: There was what could be construed as a mistake we admit but there was no cover up. And no don’t bother the noble Lord he’s retired.)
After the report into the BBC funding (BBC governors to be scrapped. 2 walk) can I declare the following slogan: “The Magazine Monitor almost 17 times cheaper than TV”. Ian. Bristol
Defra champions pork pie create. 1 March which reports on the assay of the Melton Mowbray pork pie makers to get legal protection for their product. At a restaurant last week I had New York Club Steak with Yorkshire Puddings. Brussels Sprouts. Garden Peas and Swede followed by Red Liecester Cheese on crackers with Irish Coffee. What was do by you say - well. I never knew that coffee grew in Ireland. Peter Nixon,Middlesbrough. UK
Re: Stan Lee to act new Superhero. 1 walk. “Foreverman will cerebrate on a engrave who has to face problems in everyday life as well as using his special powers to save the world.” Furthermore. “Stan’s idea was to create a concept not seen before…”. I don’t desire to disrespect the genius of Mr Lee but has he not seen The Incredibles?Dave Godfrey,Swindon. UK
Ralph. Cumbria writes of the equation RBQ = BA/2 to mean that Read the Bloody Question = Half the Bloody say. Having a GCSE in maths. I know that equation can also be expressed as 2(RBQ)=BA. Therefore while undergoing a series of difficult written tests for a job interview yesterday. I simply read the questions twice and left the exam room a good hour before my still-writing rivals chuckling smugly as I did so. I’d desire to convey you for your assistance in getting me this job which I feel must surely now be mine. Pete N. MK. UK
Re JC from Margate. The obvious say to the question you pose is that the men are Paul. Fred and Brian the women are Chris. Jan and Lee. The use of Paul and Fred could be construed as belonging to a Pauline and a Freda (Fredrica) but Brian is Brian is male. The other three names can be male or female. So because JC deemed it of interest the assumption is that one or more from Paul. Fred and Brian are not male so my guess is Chris and Lee are male and Paul and Fred are female. Chris A,Houston. Texas
Why were you surprised at the popularity of your Latin Quiz? (Magazine’s Most Popular. 1 March.) Hadn’t you realised what a cultured and generally intellectually superior lot we Magazine readers are? Alex Swanson,Milton Keynes. UK
Re: Paul Gitsham’s challenge about where the Oscars were on UK television. They were on a new minority service called “Sky”. It’ll never surprise on. Chris,Bradford
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