Why are we saving the Queen, and from what?
From a dictatorship. Countries with constitutional monarchies haven’t suffered Hitlers, Saddam Husseins et al.
Elizabeth Keating, Orcemont, France
• From whom! Those pesky American revolutionaries who refuse to pay their taxes.
Martin Bryan, Churchdown, UK
• We are saving Her for a reigny day and from politics and knavish tricks.
Mike Kearney, La Mouche, France
• Isn’t it God who’s supposed to be saving the Queen? And if so, only God knows from what.
Alan Brissenden, Burnside, South Australia
• Her heir.
Bob Pokrant, Fremantle, Western Australia
• From a checkmate.
Jennifer Horat, Lengwil, Switzerland
• Because we, by the grace of God are subject to her will and are thus morally obligated to save her from a Marie Antoinette-like ending.
R De Braganza, Kilifi, Kenya
• To send her victorious, happy and glorious, long to reign over us, and from not prematurely becoming our former monarch.
Lawrie Bradly, Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia
• Even if we don’t know why we are saving her or from what, we are obviously doing a pretty good job as she continues through her 80s with remarkably few signs of the ravages of time.
Margaret Wilkes, Perth, Western Australia
• The plea to save the Queen has been outsourced to God. The terms and conditions are commercially sensitive.
Paul Lloyd, Swansea, UK
Show him the red card
What if push comes to shove?
If? It has already. “When push come to shove” means we’ve reached the point when we need to do something, and fast, so bravo to the Guardian for continuing to shove climate change back into the spotlight.
Richard Orlando, Westmount, Quebec, Canada
• We would be locked in a massive crowd resembling that generated at a soccer final.
Philip Stigger, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
• Shove might push back.
Joan Dawson, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• You’d get a red card.
Malcolm Feiner, Melbourne, Australia
One turn deserves another
How can housework be shared if one spouse wants to clean weekly, and the other monthly?
Easy. Your turn. Your turn. Your turn. My turn.
Victor Nerenberg, Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec, Canada
• Unevenly.
Gabor Lovei, Slagelse, Denmark
It’s not easy to quantify
What if it isn’t what it is?
What an excellent explanation of quantum theory.
Joe Harvey, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
• Then it’s probably something else.
Avril Nicholas, Crafers, South Australia
• So be it.
Jim Dewar, Gosford, NSW, Australia
Any answers?
Is there a God of the multiverse?
Noel Bird, Boreen Point, Queensland, Australia
If Hillary Clinton becomes US president, then what should Bill’s title be?
Donna Samoyloff, Toronto, Canada
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