We all feel thirst

Is there anything everyone can agree on?
That disagreement is inevitable.
Charlie Bamforth, Davis, California, US

• Yes. We all need water.
Philip Stigger, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

• A glass of cold water on a hot day.
Lynne Weinerman, Fort Bragg, California, US

• That no matter how creative and ingenious a solution is, someone will find fault with it.
Margaret Wyeth, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

• Next question, please.
Harvey Mitchell, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

• Keep your eyes on the road and your hands upon the wheel.
RM Fransson, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, US

• Possibly, but you’d have to exclude my children.
Mac Bradden, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada

• Yes. And that’s that the answer is obviously no.
Jean-Marc Andreoli, Meylan, France

• We all know we will die. But there will be different opinions about where we are going.
Gillian Shenfield, Sydney, Australia

A hard multiple choice quiz

If war keeps being the answer, do we need a better question?
We have excellent questions. Being slow learners, we just keep getting the wrong answer.
Greg McCarry, Sydney, Australia

• The question isn’t the problem. The multiple choice items are.
Lawrie Bradly, Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia

• War is never an answer in itself, simply an inappropriate and precipitate response to the question that was never asked: what’s wrong, and how can we fix it?
Noel Bird, Boreen Point, Queensland, Australia

• No, we need politicians who have a better answer.
Joan Dawson, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Can I give you a peace of my mind?
Trevor Rigg, Edinburgh, UK

You can’t give them back

Can one buy an honest politician?
Any honest politician would never get far enough up the totem pole to be worth buying.
Chris Barnett, Tokyo, Japan

• Yes, but thankfully if you are not satisfied they are not returnable.
Brian Steele, Dundas, Ontario, Canada

• With enough “dark money” you can.
Jo Haste, Mission, British Columbia, Canada

• Sorry dear, we’re all sold out.
Lance Haworth, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, US

Like a king sitting on a throne

Were you in love with your first car?
Manual shift, economical, fun to drive all over southern California’s deserts, mountains and coastline: of course I was in love with my light green Ford Pinto hatchback!
Douglas Clark, San Francisco, California, US

• You bet I was. It was a 1958 Studebaker, a solid car, black with shiny chrome fenders and a beautiful inside panel. I felt like a king owning it and had a picture taken sitting on it as my throne.

I bought it used from a friend and it served me very well for four years, but then had to let it go because as a student, I did not have enough money to get it fixed.
Vipen Sawhney, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

• Just last week I gave away my 52-year-old VW bug, the only car I ever had or ever will have. It served me well, took me to places I needed to go.

The odometer registered only 155,000 miles (250,000km) at parting, but they were hard-earned miles, stop/go – many being in the first two gears on a cold engine. But I parted with it without sorrow or regret. It’s a machine. Public transit serves my purpose.

The billboard ads in the mid-1960s when I bought it just showed a picture of a bug, with simple slogans: Small Wonder or Power to the People. Truth in advertising.
Jake Sigg, San Francisco, California, US

• No ... next question?
Avril Taylor, Dundas, Ontario, Canada

• Yes. A 1931 Ford Model A cabriolet with a dicky seat. “Cripes. They are as rare as hen’s teeth,” my dad said when he saw it. I paid £75 for it in 1965, and it was love at first sight.
Peter Reynolds, Christchurch, New Zealand

Mystery worth every penny

What are we likely to find in the Museum of Natural Mystery?
A Big Bang for our entrance buck.
Anthony Walter, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

Any answers?

What happened when your childhood myths (eg Santa) imploded?
Aoife Hanley, Kiel, Germany

Is the world a better place now than it was in the 1950s?
Norman Temple, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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