They're paid $5 to $10 an hour, which may explain the occasional unhelpful replies.
To which his Radio 4 frenemy and occasional co-presenter Eddie Mair replied: "But some people like Marmite".
As he strolled in a stately, slightly syncopated manner, well-wishers kept asking Smokey if he was hot in all that fur, but an occasional shrug was the only reply.
He still gets asked frequently about the war — that is in Iraq, he patiently replies — and hears the occasional taunt on the road.
She asked me what I write about and I had to reply that, apart from occasional stories about cats, it was my husband.
Cameron reads his own emails and the Nigerian replies are read by Victor Isaacs, whose deadpan, with the occasional raised eyebrow, beautifully conveys the frustration of the scammers.
Matthews missed just eight league games in 1954 55, though journalists were keen to write him off with every occasional off-performance and missed game – "it was all balderdash", he replied.
Estonia's President Toomas Hendrik Ilves is known to be one exception, as well as Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg, who makes the occasional spelling mistake because of her dyslexia, as she admitted in a tweet reply.
I send him very occasional emails just basically telling him how much I love him, and he very politely replies to them a few weeks later saying, "Er, yes, I also enjoyed working with you".
Readers had expressed support for science articles, and in March 1952, Willy Ley, who had contributed occasional essays since the first issue, began a column, "For Your Information", in which he replied to readers' scientific questions.
