鈥淭here is nothing like sticking your hand up the backside of a cow to help deliver a calf to take your mind off the troubles of the world.鈥�
Colin Pillinger, head of the Beagle 2 Mars mission and hobby farmer, explains how to unwind after a hard day at the office (The Observer, London, 30 November)
鈥淚 think health warnings are a dangerous thing and, while I understand the problem, I don鈥檛 think a Curly Wurly is dangerous.鈥�
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Andrew Cosslett, managing director of Cadbury Schweppes in Europe, explaining to British MPs why they should not put tobacco-style health warnings on chocolate bars (The Daily Telegraph, London, 28 November)
鈥淐oncorde fever is far from over. Everybody wants a piece.鈥�
Spokesman for auction house Bonhams, which sold 128 lots of Concorde memorabilia. A nose cone fetched $551,600 (Reuters, 1 December)
鈥淏ased on the cultural diversity and sensitivity of Los Angeles county, this is not an acceptable identification label.鈥�
A request to technology firms to stop describing hardware configurations in terms of 鈥渕asters鈥� and 鈥渟laves鈥� from Joe Sandoval, division manager of purchasing and contract services for LA county鈥檚 Internal Services Department (BBC news online, 27 November)
鈥淭he big problem for email now is getting it delivered.鈥�
James Nail of technology consultancy Forrester Research, commenting on how spam filters are becoming ever more powerful (The New York Times, 1 December)