Your Letters
16:12 UK time, Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Simon in Colchester (letters, Mon), your comment about the Old Bailey's website crashing soon after being linked to from the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ website is a fairly common occurrence. It is generally called the Slashdot Effect, or being Slashdotted. Slashdot is a popular geek website and many website owners have found their websites crashing due to being linked from Slashdot, with lots of Slashdot readers clicking the link and instead finding an error page reading 'sorry, this user has exceeded their bandwidth quota, try again later'.
Kerry, Brixton, UK
If a was abandoned, will they be demonstrating outside Parliament today?
Nigel Macarthur, London, England
Re "It also decided the fact that it was only cleared for broadcast after 1930 ensured that it would not be seen by children unsupervised." I'm sorry. I tried to make a pun on how "1930" could be interpreted as a year, not a time. I spent a good half an hour rejigging my "amusing" comment, including reading up on the history of British TV advertising, before figuring it wasn't ever going to be that funny. Anyone else have this problem? On the plus side, however, if I ever get asked in a pub quiz when the first advert was shown on British TV, I can even tell you the time it aired. It was 2012, since you ask. So, a good few years to go, then.
Alex Knibb, Bristol, UK
Maybe sex addiction doesn't exist, but it seems like today's Magazine has a pretty severe case of sex obsession. Not only do we have the story on sex addiction on the front page, but also links to one on kinky sex, another on sexual innuendo, and a quote of the day about transvestite prostitutes. Is something up?
Nicky Stu, Highgate, London
I enjoyed and was pleased to see it (ahem) spill over into in the phrase "What some may describe as sex addiction does not stand up when applied ..."
Pix6, Vienna, Austria
MM, do we have a glimpse in to your somewhat limited sexual knowledge if your idea of kinky sex is best demonstrated by - I bet you always turn the lights off too!
Chick, Gatwick
Monitor note: The following letters contain innuendo:
Some people don't have a problem with innuendo: personally, I've got a big one.
Chilly, Slough, UK
Reading all these innuendoes makes me so cross, I just want to whip them out!
Kat, London
I caused much tittering in the office when asked what I'd be doing with my wife on our Alaskan cruise in June. Why, we'd be going through the Inside Passage.
Hugh Jars
The best I have ever seen is entirely accidental, it was a hospital sign that read "Family Planning, Use Rear Entrance". Brilliant, do you think the sign writer knew what he was up to with that one?
Tim Hayes, Wirral
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