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I visited Beijing and ate a sea horse on a stick. I'm sad to report that it tasted just like the bit at the tail of fried fish in bread crumbs, where there isn't really any 'fish meat' - just bread crumbs tasting of fish. It did look pretty though.
Peter, Edinburgh

Dear Paper Monitor, regarding the Great White Shark's great photo, it's demonstrating the shark's hunting strategy for hunting seals, that is to lurk down below and rush up to deliver a very powerful bite. As there's no seal in the picture, it seems that this shark has missed its target and is moving too fast to stop itself leaping up into the air.
So if this was a Facebook photo equivalent, it would be like your friends posting a picture of you running into a lamp post, most embarassing.
James D, Derby, UK

"Mick Jagger's officially a pensioner" (10 things we didn't know last week). As he only became a pensioner on 26 July, there's no way we could have known this last week, because last week it wasn't true.
Dave Godfrey, Swindon, UK

GDW (Friday's Letters), you are wrong because you are assuming that only women dye their hair (as does the paper, by calling them brunettes of course). We know that Greek men have been doing it for 2000 years - according to one particular product, anyway.
Jo, Lichfield

Correct me if I'm wrong, but what is saying is that nothing has been decided about Thatcher's possible funeral, there is no reason to talk about her health, no one has actually even talked about a state funeral and that there is no difference between state and ceremonial funerals. Possibly the most informative article I've ever read.
Chris, Bristol

Regarding as I always say "Quidquid latine dictum sit altum viditur" or in English - "That which is said in Latin sounds profound"
Chris S, Kingston

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