DUCKING THE ISSUE

While wondering why you chose to use a duck as your new logo (Letters, Aug. 18), I was struck by the even more puzzling question: Why do you have a logo at all?

PAUL KNEIPP

Los Angeles

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May I ask what is the point of the duck? I cannot see that it has any more relevance to Letters than the skull. The skull at least looked a bit literary, with the pencil clenched between its teeth. The duck just looks stupid. Please bring back the skull.

MAGGIE LOATES

Los Angeles

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Let’s get right down (hmmm) to the inevitable lame duck jokes and fowl puns right now. I submit that your new web-footed mascot is an androgynous cousin of the Bathroom Duck (from personal experience, I frequently read Calendar letters in that room of the house) and its name is--oh, what the hell!--Lettie!

BOB CANNING

Burbank

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Many of us loved the Pencil Guy. We shall miss him.

JEANNE A. PONTHUS

Hollywood

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With apologies to the Marx Brothers:

Why a duck?

RICHARD SHOWSTACK

Newport Beach

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Why? Why not?

Why a duck? What else?

The duck’s name? Why is one needed?

THE EDITOR