Straight to the POINT

WHAT’S the difference between a humanist chaplain (Mail) and a social worker?

PAUL BRAZIER, Kingswood, Glos.

DEFINITION of optimism: buying a ticket for the fifth day of an England Test match.

J. WILSON, Rotherham, S. Yorks.

HAVE no fear: there will not be a second referendum on Brexit. We can’t be trusted to come up with the ‘right’ answer.

PETER CHEGWIDDEN, Sheppey, Kent.

HERE are my answers to a word association game. Disaster: Brexit. Crash: Brexit. Catastrophe: Brexit. Dangerous cliff edge: Brexit. End of life as we know it: Brexit.

MARTIN BURGESS, Beckenham, Kent.

AS PAUL HOLLYWOOD is a judge, may I suggest the next Bake Off winner will be Manon Lagreve, 26, or Ruby Bhogal, 29.

A. McGRATH, Wallingford, Oxon.

WHY are people so uncertain? Everything is ‘kind of’, ‘sort of’ or ‘like’, but rarely the definitive ‘is’.

TONY EDWARDS, Ockham, Surrey.

I THOUGHT Labour Party supporters were chanting: ‘Oh, Jeremy Corbyn.’ I now realise it was: ‘Woe Jeremy Corbyn.’

GERRY WILLIAMS, Whitley Bay, North Tyneside.

MY JOKES are much better than the top ten at the Edinburgh Fringe: I got hammered at my mate’s fancy dress party — that’s the last time I go dressed as a nail! I’ve started building yachts in my garage. It’s going well — the sails are through the roof!

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