AS the travails at Rangers FC continue, Alex Bowman in Yorkhill asks: "We all know what a kangaroo is, but what's a kangeroot?
"It's one of those Newcastle players stuck at Ibrox."
MISUNDERSTANDINGS continued. Says reader Ian Glasgow: "It reminds me of being a five-year-old and standing at a bus stop with my mum. The local district nurse, carrying a large leather bag as they always seemed to do, walked past, and my mum explained to me 'that was the nurse that delivered you'. For years I thought that children were delivered like parcels, and that we were carried in the nurse's bag."
WE finished our toilet tales, but Ann Fargher in Colintraive nips in at the last minute with: "We visited a Mongolian restaurant in Belfast where the condom machines in both the ladies' and gents' toilets bore the name of the supplier - Justin Casey."
THE Scotland rugby team put up a decent show in the Six Nations against France, despite losing. Comedian Frankie Boyle was thinking about the recent referendum just before the game kicked off, as he opined: "Looking forward to the rugby so I can watch all the people who voted against independence singing about Bannockburn."
WE note that Glasgow band venue King Tut's Wah Wah Hut is celebrating its 25th anniversary. We are reminded of a reader, still keen to keep up with modern music trends despite his advancing years, who went to King Tut's and realised he was the oldest person there. Eventually he spotted someone of a similar age and went over for a chat. However the chap merely confirmed our music lover was getting on a bit by telling him: "My son's in the support band. I'm only here to give them a lift home."
Any more tales of King Tut's?
GLASGOW children can still surprise you. A reader was visiting the giant Tian Tan bronze buddha on Hong Kong when a Chinese couple smiled at a family of tourists at the site and asked if they had enjoyed seeing the buddha. The polite young boy in the family, about four-years-old, replied: "We're from Glasgow. So we like Jesus more."
THE disused Bilslands' Bakery, an Anderston landmark, is finally being demolished. We remember actor Tony Roper telling in his autobiography that his older brother Pat worked there as an apprentice baker. One afternoon, Pat came home from work and teased eight-year-old Tony who was pretending to be Hopalong Cassidy. Tony ran into the kitchen, grabbed a bread knife and plunged it into Pat's back.
Tony wrote that he remembered from cowboy films that you shouldn't pull an arrow out of a wound so he told his brother to leave the knife in his back and Tony would run and fetch the doctor. Yes, the good old days in Glasgow.
THE Herald reported that children were more likely to recognise a beer brand than leading makes of confectionary. As Alex Gordon in Glasgow tells us: "When I was three-years-old in the 1960s, I was taken to Sunday School for the first time at the Barony Kirk in Townhead by my mum. I was taken to the front of the class to tell them my name. I was then asked if I could sing a song. So I sang 'McEwan's is the best buy, the best buy, the best buy. McEwan's is the best buy, the best but in beer'.
"Still never made me like McEwan's..."
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