鈥淚鈥檇 rather be fishing with my 15 grandchildren.鈥�
Farmer and 鈥渁ccidental activist鈥� Percy Schmeiser, who is about to go to Canada鈥檚 supreme court to challenge a claim by the biotech giant Monsanto that he illegally grew its genetically modified soya (Associated Press, 19 January)
鈥淚 just thought it was a good name for my small part-time business.鈥�
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Mike Rowe of Vancouver, who has been corresponding with Microsoft鈥檚 lawyers after registering the domain name MikeRoweSoft.com (ZDNet UK, 19 January)
鈥淭hat鈥檚 a lot by western standards, but it鈥檚 normal for Russia.鈥�
Vladimir Nuzhny of Russia鈥檚 National Narcology Research Centre on experiments in which volunteers were asked to drink a third of a bottle of vodka in an hour (The Times, London, 19 January)
鈥淪adly we had to put a pet rat to sleep after it became so obese from being fed curries that it could barely move.鈥�
Veterinary surgeon Caroline Reay of the Blue Cross animal charity, which last week warned that junk food was causing an epidemic among Britain鈥檚 pets (press release, 14 January)
鈥淧ets will not notice that they have a reduced fat content.鈥�
A Tesco spokesperson on the supermarket chain鈥檚 new range of low-fat pet food (The Independent, London, 19 January)
鈥淔or the third consecutive day, it has been colder here than it has been on Mars鈥︹��
The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 17 January