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To Jon in Bristol and the million monkeys with their typewriters. I always prefered Jo Brand's version, which was that eventually one of them would type "hey hey we're the monkeys".
Steve, London
The trend for brings comedian Milton Jones' joke irresistibly to mind:
"My grandparents were called Pearl and Dean. Of course, we didn't call them that. We called them Grandma and Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-papapa..."
Helene Parry, South Wales expat to Brentford
Another appropriate name for an appropriate job, we have Holly Farmer, in charge of at Paignton zoo.
Nick Rikker, Barcelona, Spain
Re: the query about the use of "random". It's the latest fashion commodity of students. "Ohmygod that's totally random!" can be yelled at anything from traffic cones to buses to waking up in the park after a heavy night out. Most of the time it's not random, it's just irritating.
Jealous, Southampton