Paper Monitor

12:40 UK time, Thursday, 20 November 2008

Sneeze. Sniffle. Gingerly pick stubborn bits of wrapper from gluey cough sweet. Due to sickness, Paper Monitor is temporarily indisposed today.

Any Get Well Soon sentiments should be sent using the comments button below.

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1. At 12:56pm on 20 Nov 2008, Snaggers wrote:
Aahh poor PM, 15 minutes since news of his sickness was announced and still no well wishes...

Ok, I'll start the ball rolling...

Get Well Soon...missing you already.

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2. At 1:02pm on 20 Nov 2008, Tozzle wrote:
Where I work we have to call in sick between eight and nine in the morning...

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3. At 1:04pm on 20 Nov 2008, alykat730 wrote:
You know, Paper Monitor, in 2 years of reading your feature I've never seen you take a holiday. This leads me to believe that you're either a workoholic (in which case, no wonder you're ill), or you have an understudy waiting in the wings who could really have been whipped to cover for you in your hour of need. Are you just plugging for the sympathy vote?

...ah I'm too nice. Have some sympathy anyway.

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4. At 1:16pm on 20 Nov 2008, redbyname wrote:
So - too sick to monitor the papers, but not too sick to come into work and spread your germs around? I hope this doesn't result in the Caption Competition not being judged due to ensuring epidemic of man/womanflu?

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5. At 1:23pm on 20 Nov 2008, mad_caesar wrote:
Awwww... I've been trying to procrastinate all day and was really looking forward to having a couple of minutes to read the monitor. Not only are yesterday's letters disappointingly short (and distinctly lacking mine) but PM is pulling a sickie so that he can go and dance with Kristina Rihanoff. Oops, did I just let slide who John Sergeant's replacement is?

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6. At 1:42pm on 20 Nov 2008, DisgustedOfMitcham2 wrote:
How terrible. My very best wishes for a speedy recovery. Things have got to a pretty pass when PM is so unwell that grammatical niceties like the difference between "due to" and "owing to" seem to have been forgotten.

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7. At 1:52pm on 20 Nov 2008, SimonRooke wrote:
Flu? Can we be sure you're not suffering Post Dramatic Stress following John Sergeant's withdrawal from Strictly? Get well soon.

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8. At 1:52pm on 20 Nov 2008, Kinsao wrote:
Oh my deities! I think Paper Monitor is my husband!

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9. At 1:53pm on 20 Nov 2008, Andydisestablishment wrote:
Paper monitor is clearly not a contractor ...

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10. At 2:26pm on 20 Nov 2008, skittledog wrote:
I am sneezing and coughing at my desk today. Other more sensible colleagues have elected to work from home. Therefore, I am not feeling hugely sympathetic to Paper Monitor... but as my cold is reducing my attention span I need as many things on the internet to read as possible, so for purely selfish reasons I do indeed hope for a speedy return to monitoring form.

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11. At 2:27pm on 20 Nov 2008, metherer wrote:
Hope you feel better soon PM - get a few Hot Toddies down you. Once they have taken effect you'll either feel better, or not care!!

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12. At 3:27pm on 20 Nov 2008, kikidread wrote:
Beta blockers (�-blockers) protect against social anxiety

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13. At 3:37pm on 20 Nov 2008, Fi-Glos wrote:
Aha! Man-flu!
At last we know the gender of PM! ;)

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14. At 4:42pm on 20 Nov 2008, discom8 wrote:
Get well soon PM.

Missing you already.

Things have gone to pot since you went home early with a touch of flu. There are no letters and someone has reversed the caption image.

I'd stay in bed until next week if I were you, there is some cold weather on the way.

There is an old superstition that its bad luck to come back to work the day after you have been off.

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15. At 5:03pm on 20 Nov 2008, JudgePix wrote:
Get better soon!

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16. At 5:53pm on 20 Nov 2008, Vicky S wrote:
Will chicken noodle soup help?

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17. At 7:01pm on 20 Nov 2008, Nima_toad wrote:
Oh no! PM, I TOLD you not to make out with me at the party last week, but you insisted, and now you've got my cold.

I recommend whisky, it cured me well, I'm hardly sniffling.

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18. At 7:10pm on 20 Nov 2008, PhilWal0 wrote:
Ugh. Would have replied earlier, but I'm suffering with a head cold again today. Sniffle.

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19. At 8:00pm on 20 Nov 2008, DaveySwavey wrote:
Hey PM,

Sorry to hear your poorly. You clearly forgot to get your jabs. Hope you feel better soon.

P.S.

The papers today were all about our favourite dancing pig.

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20. At 8:07pm on 20 Nov 2008, Nzie12 wrote:
Aw, PM, I do hope you feel better soon. It's been a rotten day all around, and even moreso without your witty commentary.

best wishes,
~a friend across the pond

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21. At 08:35am on 21 Nov 2008, tinhips wrote:
P.M.you are best off at home as it is sneezy,oops breezy out there today..I toast to your getting better(from your cold not your witty patter) when I am at the pub dinnertime.Fancy a pint or a babycham ?they recommend keeping your fluid levels up with a cold..my excuse anyway

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22. At 11:43am on 21 Nov 2008, teazeldad wrote:
*runs into room with hot toddy.

Apologises at finding room already occupied.

Runs out of room with hot toddy*

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23. At 12:01pm on 21 Nov 2008, virtualIkon wrote:
Poor baby.
You go wrap up warm and I'll be over in an hour with some chicken soup and a movie.

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