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I was very disappointed to find that did not reveal that Her Majesty had sent a note to warning of the dangers of weather balloons (and hiding from his parents).
Emma, Jersey

Did anyone else notice ? Subtle.
Lee, Birmingham

My 36" waist trousers fit, my 36" jeans fit. I've measured my waist and its 36". So why are 35"-39" waist size belts too big for me? Is this some sort of global conspiracy?
Ian, Redditch

Rachel (Thursday's letters), to confuse (or maybe enlighten) you further. I always take "I could care less" and "I couldn't care less" to mean exactly the same thing. Only the first usage is heavily laced with irony, as in, I could care less but I most certainly don't.
Joe, Sheffield

Jan (Thursday's letters), do you think denial of knowledge of reality celebrities is a new version of . Lewis's identity is established right there in the report.
Phil, Guisborough

Is it right that I should feel so happy and so accomplished; that I should feel like a member of an elite group, separated from mere mortals by our consumption of all news, no matter how trivial, just because - for the first time ever - I scored 7/7 on this week's ?
Paul, Cirencester
Monitor note: Help yourself to some kudos, my man.

Did everyone else get full marks on this week? Mine came up with the answers so it was nearly as easy as a Maths GCSE...
Marie, London

There's a - did the old girl get fired for drinking on the job?
Robyn, Cheshire

Kat (Wednesday letters), so I pass the . I fear I would disappoint - exciting Magazine Monitor poster by night; conformist salary-serf by day.
Andrew, Malvern, UK
Monitor note: Ooo! A Monitor friendship. Let us know how you get on.

Sorry PB (Thursday's letters), it is actually the colon within a URL that is used to separate the protocol from the host and the host from the port number (normally omitted in http URLs). Single slashes are then used within the path component to specify the exact resource the URL identifies. The double forward slashes following the protocol are part of the host component and, as , are completely superfluous. , which are used in other aspects of computing (such as network MAC addresses or IPv6 addresses), also use colons to separate their components, without a forward slash in sight. I assume my pedant award is in the post?
Steve, Sheffield
Monitor note: It is.

With today's 6th place in the Caption Competition, that takes my total to 50 mentions since my first caption in the summer of 2005. Do I get cake? Or a spare LBQ keyring?
Simon Rooke, Nottingham, UK
Monitor note: There's a plate of kudos doing the rounds somewhere...

As previously mentioned in this week's letters, we will be including the best comments from Facebook and Twitter. Here's one from Facebook fan Ewan Mitchell:
Are Ask me yesterday.

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