SO what else has been happening?
As a Bearsden reader who works from home told us yesterday: "I spent 45 minutes cursing neighbours for a barking dog. It was driving me bonkers. Then I realised it was my dog. I have no idea how she got out the house - but I must now apologise to all my neighbours for the appalling noise and annoyance."
The fact she called her dog Wispa makes us smile all the more.
Friendly message
WE mentioned Freshers Week and Adam Hess recalls his first week as a student. He tells us: "During Freshers Week I wore a T-shirt that said 'Here to Help' on the back so the other freshers would talk to me."
Aww.
George's jailhouse talk
SAD to hear that American country singer George Hamilton IV has died. We remember years ago that the London Evening Standard came up with the curious claim that people felt George had a remarkable resemblance to then Tory Scottish Office Minister Lord James Douglas Hamilton and added they were in fact distant cousins.
Respect for George Hamilton, though, as when he was appearing in Glasgow he took time off to go and sing to prisoners in Barlinnie and came out with the moving explanation: "For one reason or another, many of the men have gotten off the track. Maybe when they leave they will be better men for it."
Souper story
ALWAYS amazed by how strange people can be. Matthew Daneman says he was in a restaurant in New York where a member of staff revealed: "A lady calls every day, asks what the soup of the day is, and says, 'Thank you' when you tell her. She then makes it herself at home. Never comes in."
Killer comment
SOME terrible news from around the world these days. Iona McDonald says it reminds her of when she was sharing a flat at uni. Says Iona: "I was busy reading the newspaper, which had the headline 'FLU kills four' - an article about an outbreak of winter influenza killing four people. Reading over my shoulder, my flatmate asked, 'Who are the F-L-U?'"
Gift of the gab
A READER tells us he heard a young chap on his train into Glasgow announce to his pals: "It's my birthday tomorrow. In lieu of charitable donations, please send me gifts."
Losing game
DAFT gag of the day? The guy who saw a mouse in his garage and thought he would buy a mousetrap to deal with it. But as he told his pals later: "It was useless. The mouse was long gone by the time the diver got flipped into the plastic cup."
Baby love
A COLLEAGUE wanders over to interrupt us with: "There is nothing like the laughter of a baby. Unless you're home alone at midnight - and you don't have children."
Not better together
AS a chap was heard declaring in a Milngavie pub last night: "If the canvassing is now over, why does my wife still have a large No poster on her side of the bed?"
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