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So Sir Richard Branson is going to ? Why doesn't he just make Virgin a non-profit organisation, cut the price of tickets accordingly, thus encouraging people to make more use of climate-friendly (so we're told) public transport?
Chris R, Cambridge, UK

Re: . The use of the single initials, 'I' & 'J', to refer to the plaintiffs in this article was mischievious and led to some ambiguity. Several times, it appeared we were being treated to the writer's own experience or viewpoint. Very subversive, full marks. I wonder if I would have found quite so funny?
Nick Jones, Dorking, UK

- surely a contender for Ironic Headline of the Week?
DS, Bromley, England

Perhaps we'll find out who "the woman answering the door in Out in the Cold" is in next week's 10 things...
Tom, Bristol

Re Caption Competition: Perhaps the winning caption should have been: "Magazine introduces new format for Caption Competition entries"?
Jim, Aldershot, England

. No, really?
HTFB

There was no way I could resist calculating how many telephone boxes are required to fill an Olympic size swimming pool: "Figures from Mintel reveal that we eat a tonne of crisps every three minutes in the UK. This would be enough to fill a telephone box every 43 seconds and an Olympic size swimming pool every 14 hours" (from ). The answer, in case you're interested, to one decimal place is 1172.1.
Ian, Cosenza, Italy

To add to the bar code dimensions debate, it could be argued that standard bar codes are actually three dimensional because they have a depth in the layer of ink used to print them. Therefore, they could be 1D, 2D or 3D depending on your point of view. In fact, given that they exist more than momentarily you could also say they were 4 dimensional.
Rich, Whiteley, UK

In Thursday's letters (!) Iain from Macclesfield wrote: "The thing about pendantry is that it helps to be right." I think he'll find that's "pedantry".
Ed, Clacton-on-Sea, UK

Re: Iain and Peter - I was pedantic on Wednesday and ate some nice humble pie on Thursday. I know I'm on a hiding to nothing here, but... does anyone have a good entry for this situation?
Phil, Angus, Scotland

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