Your Letters

15:31 UK time, Monday, 23 November 2009

I feel sorry for the new EU president. There is only one type of scandal pun his name lends itself to...
Tom Webb, Surbiton, UK

To follow on yet again the discussion (Wednesday letters), my late father-in-law, born and reared in Ohio, used hoofs and roofs as his plurals, but didn't pronounce them as I would. In his case they rhymed with "woofs".
Peter Bradford, Maryland, USA

Re: "Games 'permit' virtual war crimes ". Games also permit me to be an Italian plumber in a red suit, riding a motorbike, bouncing over a mushroom field while shooting tortoise shells at a crocodile. Should we proclaim "cruelty to animals allowed in child's computer game"?
Dan , Derby

Did any other monitorites immediately "bruxise" after reading 10 things this week?
Fleur, London

"One of the twins said: 'It's been the greatest experience of my life. We're here every single weekend on live television having the greatest time of our life.' The other chipped in with: 'It's, like, deadly. It's, like, so cool.'"

I'm guessing the reporter couldn't tell which twin was which.
Ivan, Middlesbrough, UK

Seriously? No Finding Nemo reference with this story?
Joseph Ball, London, UK

Are they all grandparents... that would be a twist, eh?
Conradder (from the Magazine's Twitter feed)

Monitor: Our apologies for the absence of Friday's letters.