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14:17 UK time, Friday, 2 January 2009

Tut, Tut, Monitor. How often have we read your supercilious references to the Telegraph or tabloids using pictures of pretty ladies ("eye candy"?) with very tenuous links to the stories? And today's quiz about dirty cars has... a bikini-clad windscreen cleaner lady.
Keith, Lismore, Ireland

I suppose we should be grateful that the train operating companies are doing their bit to fight deflation.
Michael Hall, Croydon, UK

Perhaps the Monitor could take a leaf out of Tom Algie's book, take a well-earned day off and leave the letters page open and unmoderated? A polite note would ensure that people only submitted pertinent and succinct letters, witty and impeccably spelt with just a soupcon of ambiguity or inaccuracy to generate a handful of clever-clever replies for the week ahead.
Mike, Newcastle upon Tyne
Monitor note: Go to it, using the comments form below

Yet more nominative determinism - who would have thought that Dr Carr would be hiding a rare Bugatti in his lock-up?
Tink, Reading

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1. At 6:48pm on 02 Jan 2009, Blythy_vxR wrote:
this has been open for over 4 hours and there's no reply?

And I'm fresh out of wit as well.

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2. At 7:56pm on 02 Jan 2009, deblacquiere wrote:
If this was the rest of the internet, a temporary lack of wit would be no impediment to contributions. Indeed, I just cannot resist the temptation to do this:

lulzgurl69: LOLZ wtf!
5up3rm4n: shopped, I can tell by the shadows and I've seen quite a few shops in my time, internetz troll!!1
r0ffl3z999: lmao u suck at photoshop!
5up3rm4n: long cat is obvious troll zomg har!

There. That's better.

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3. At 02:43am on 03 Jan 2009, DaveySwavey wrote:
Anyone else get disappointed when someone else gets a letter similar to your own printed when yours isn't, or is it just me?

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4. At 10:20am on 03 Jan 2009, Vicky S wrote:
We can write about anything? ANYTHING? Anything at all? No moderation? No blue pencil censorship? Just our own thoughts and feelings about whatever takes our fancy?

Gosh.

erm.

Look, I've got to pop out for a bit,you know how it is on a Saturday, but I'll be back........

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5. At 10:22am on 03 Jan 2009, Vicky S wrote:
Oh, I know what I wanted to ask.

Who's Tom Algie?

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6. At 2:06pm on 03 Jan 2009, stephen_turner wrote:
Hello, Vicky, and Happy New Year everyone. Tom Algie is ... well, you can read the story at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/01/fridays_quote_of_the_day_44.shtml.

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7. At 5:02pm on 03 Jan 2009, symingth wrote:
Ah, this is why I moved to Cambridge. If I was back in Bolton, I would've been posting a stack of profanities...

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8. At 5:35pm on 04 Jan 2009, starlinguk wrote:
Darn, deblacquiere beat me to it.

So ...

What about the weather we've been having, eh?

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9. At 6:07pm on 04 Jan 2009, littleDickie wrote:
To: Stephen_Turner

Thanks I think, for your attempt to indicate who Tom Algie might be with a bbc link.
However, I am reliably informed, from the BBC no less, that such a page does not exist.
Now where should anxious comment writers like Vicky S look for proper information, eh?

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10. At 8:19pm on 04 Jan 2009, Milton_maisy wrote:
To: littleDickie etc

The problem is that there's a fullstop at the end of the link. Just knock it off after clicking on it. As the actress said to... well, you know the rest

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11. At 8:40pm on 04 Jan 2009, starlinguk wrote:
To: Milton_maisy:

I don't know the rest, do tell!

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12. At 9:19pm on 04 Jan 2009, Vicky S wrote:
Thank you Stephen, but I wasn't anxious, just curious.

And I found the link myself by trawling back through MM once I saw it was a quote of the day.

I only came back to see how things were going.

Quiet isn't it?

Do you think MM will be a little upset by the lack of response to this open monitor. I don't think we've done the equivalent of £186.77 of business. Though I suppose that depends on the value you place on each contribution. I reckon my contributions are probably worth four small plastic buckets, a funnel, a packet of j cloths, three mousetraps and some AA batteries.

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13. At 10:14am on 05 Jan 2009, gnome1999 wrote:
DaveySwavey - you are certainly not alone - it makes me cry.

Happy New Year to all

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14. At 4:06pm on 05 Jan 2009, Mandamoo4 wrote:
Hello everyone - happy New Year to you all!

It's just not the same when we don't have to wait for comments to be moderated - all the anticipation is gone......

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15. At 4:36pm on 05 Jan 2009, JanieRob wrote:
At least I can get something published.....!

DaveySwavey - maybe it's favouritism...!

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16. At 10:13pm on 05 Jan 2009, starlinguk wrote:
Scuse me, where are the letters for today?

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