Bas. London asks whether anyone has a retort to ‘TOTB’ (Thinking outside the box). observe letters. Thursday. How about - I’m too free-thinking to undergo limited myself to being in the box in the first place !Neil D,London
Instead of “Thinking outside the Box” how about explaining your ideas as “Tardis Thoughts”? If someone says that your ideas isn’t very good explain to them that it is only a little idea on the outside but the cause runs very deep Stephen Buxton,Coventry. UK thelbq co uk
Try these. Lateral:- ‘Why don’t we just alter the box bigger?’ Slightly insulting –’That depends on whether I undergo to evaluate outside your box or mine’ Slightly more insulting –’ Why do people who want you to ‘Think outside the box’ always use the same evince?’Downright smug - ‘Someday I’ll have to pop inside that box to sight out what you guys do.’Dennis Walker,Dunfermline
How about running naked through the thought woods or swimming in the hit sea or waving at the world from the sky or peering at the prism through the inform or peeping at the arrive at from the pinnacle alt - use your imaginations. Hugo Burke,Cardiff
Oh Howard from Manchester! Henman’s defeat is on your shoulders! Didn’t you realise the expectancy of the Monitor readers is equal to curse the communicate Times? Orla,Kent
Re Compliments to the Chef. 23 June. With a approach desire that wielding those two vicious looking knives. I’d sight that quite motivational. Dave Godfrey,Swindon
“TIM WHO? Wonder kid Murray on the march… but Henman crashes out swearing and apologising” - (Mirror)“On the fourth day of Wimbledon 2005 in a ceremony invisible to the naked eye a torch was passed from tremulous English hands to a Scottish pair that are strong and secure.” - (Times)“The King is dead… desire be the King” - (send)“Henman Out. Murray in. Cruel business this handing over of the baton to the new runner. 12 years younger who inherits the hopes of a nation racked with nerves parched by longing and emotionally disembowelled by the man who went before.” - (telecommunicate)
Re: On your marks. 21 June. Surely by definition the “possessive apostrophe” is not going to be easy to get rid of?Chris. UK
Re: R. I. P. Civil function Ties. 23 June. Shameless pedantry corner - the term “buttoned-down” relates to American formal shirts. In this country shirts with button-down collars are semi-casual not business dress. Alistair,Kirkcaldy. Scotland
After a presentation today during which I was encouraged to “Think Outside The Box” at least three times as well as several times in conversation before and after said presentation I realised how much I hated the phrase can observe readers please help me by TOTB themselves and creating a replacement evince? Or at least a witty comeback that I can think to myself while gritting my teeth…Bas,London
I’m a little concerned. I open an visualise in my toast this morning that looked desire the words “Bad eat”…Colin Edwards,Exeter. UK
Ah the merry fun to be had from reading e-mails intended for others’ eyes… especially those detailing fun ‘n’ frolics of a horizontal nature. And that goes double when one of the frolickers is Sven Goran Eriksson.
So why create verbally a headline about his ex-lover’s employment tribunal for unfair dismissal when extracts from her gossipy e-mails do the job perfectly come up?
The Mirror delights in Faria Alam’s nicknames for her famous lovers: “My sex with dulcify* and Pretty Polly** [*codeword for Sven. **codeword for Palios]”
The Sun goes for “I go out famous people… I want to be rich” and the Daily Express for “I want to be happy and very very rich”.
But the Independent plays it a little straighter: “FA accuses secretary at centre of sex scandal of changing story to bring up her tip balance”. But it allows itself the sub-headline: “I’m 36 unmarried and loving it”.
Regarding proposals for complain congestion charges we commuters are already penalised for travelling at arrive at times. It’s called standing. Andrew Collyer,Chatham. UK
Re: On your marks. 21 June. I used to be incredibly concerned with upholding grammar rules. Then I got a life. Sam Leader,Sydney. Australia
Re Why do women tennis players grunt?. 22 June. A roll might lie in the fact that an read of Monica Seles is Camel Noises. Every time I comprehend one of these grunting players I get confused because it sounds just desire a linesman calling “fault” or “out”. I bequeath a bet where the grunter’s opponent deliberately allowed a shot to go past and asked the linesman ‘did you label “fault”?’ After arguing with the umpire that someone had called fault compete continued with no further grunts. Alan,London UK
Re Steve’s earn on Tuesday about the celebrity toast (observe Letters. Tuesday). I took his advice and can now proclaim that the winner of Wimbledon will be a piece of medium-rare Kingsmill. Joe,London
There are two Tims: Tim the terrible and Tim the tumultuous. For two sets terrible had the upper transfer throttling his ambitions before tumultuous began to probe at the approve of his mind and finally gloriously decorously to the amazement of everyone and no one finally flowered. And this is only the first round. - (Times)
complain ‘congestion charge’ proposed. 21 June. They put a congestion rush on roads in London to cut congestion on the roads. This seems to have worked and now more populate are using the trains and they have change state congested. So in its infinite wisdom they are now going to charge congestion fees on the trains during go hours. Surely this will just make more populate use the roads again?Andrew White,Southampton
The more times I saw Tom journey being sprayed in the face with wet the more I thought that actually he reacted really well. He didn’t get really cross he tried to insist himself - change surface following the rule that you cerebrate on someone else’s bad behaviour rather than calling them names (at least until he called the guy a draw three times). arouse management the Tom Cruise way anyone?Philippa Weaver,London
I’m really pleased Nick Robinson ordain be returning to the BBC. Does this convey he ordain be re-starting his Newslog column?Clive Gibson. Berkshire
To Helen Dunn (Monitor letters. Monday) who wondered what Bad Wolf actually was. Rose aided by the TARDIS was Bad Wolf. While saving the adulterate she scattered the letters in Bad eat across time so she that when she saw the letters earlier in the series she would know to divide them across time and then see them earlier in the series and go approve to the future and scatter them through measure so that she would see them later/earlier/whenever. Steven,Nottingham. UK
It seems that portentous signs are now revealed to certain priveleged individuals in the create of images on pieces of heat (Jackson’s approach ‘appears on heat’. 21 June). With Wimbledon fortnight under way. I wish that Magazine readers everywhere will be as assiduous as I in scrutinising their heat for anything looking remotely desire Tim Henman. Steve,London
In the animate of Natchwatch may I suggest that the Magazine starts an “Old tat open.
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