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WHAT comes first: the chicken or the egg? If you know the answer, please let KFC know, as they are desperate. RONALD BALL, Farnborough, Hants. WHY did the chicken cross the road? To assist KFC with its supply chain difficulties. DOUG MATTHEWS, Nottingham. DOES DHL mean Dead Hens Lost? DAVID GRAY, London. HOW lucky I was to gain my doctorate in origami before university cutbacks. STEPHEN TONG, Pudsey, W. Yorks. WOULD allegations over Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell meeting with a foreign spy be a case of Czech mate by two useful pawns? MICHAEL TARRANT, Welling, Kent. WHAT a great laugh: Naomi Campbell in her cauliflower dress (Mail)! TREVOR JENNINGS, Bognor Regis, W. Sussex. I SCOFF at sell-by dates (Letters). We still use a jar of nutmegs from 1966. Is this a record? COLIN DAVIS, Woodchurch, Kent. TIMES tables: I remember the tune, but not all the words. A. JOHNSON, Nottingham. TRANSPLANTING Basil and Sybil to the Fawlty Mowers garden centre would have been a much better idea for a new John Cleese comedy (Mail). MARK WRAITH, Newark, Notts. HOW can Keith Vaz afford eight houses on his MP’s salary? Don’t forget his other job as a washing machine salesman named Jim. PHIL NORTH, Brigg, Lincs. For permission to copy cuttings for internal management and information purposes, please contact the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA), PO Box 101, Tunbridge Wells TN1 1WX. Tel: 01892 525273. e-mail: copy@nla.co.uk