SOME people appear to be relishing the sacking of Glasgow's own David Moyes at Manchester United.

A Celtic fan phones us to explain: "He had no big club experience and was overwhelmed managing a leading side - so off to Rangers it is then."

On a more thoughtful note, a reader opines: "So he gets a pay-off said to be in excess of £5 million for failure. He really should have been a banker then."

Different class

WEST End pretentiousness continued. A local admits to us: "Having been given dinner in his room, my 14-year-old grandson was overheard saying to a friend with whom he was playing a game online, 'Really sorry, but I'll have to pause, as I've just had moules mariniere delivered'."

Powered up

GOOGLE maps can throw up the occasional oddity. Robert Ryan at the Ben Lomond Free Press blog shows us that the Google map of Kilmarnock includes a company called Margaret Thatcher Coal-mining Ltd. Now that couldn't possibly be true could it, although we wish it were.

Telly trouble

WE can never resist a mention of the old One O'Clock Gang from STV, so we end our appearing on TV stories with Bert Peattie telling us: "While working in the Kirkcaldy telephone exchange, it was our job to connect the lines for a broadcast from the local theatre of the One O'Clock Gang show. Never having seen a live broadcast, my mate and I flashed our passes, and created the impression that we were supposed to be there on official duty.

"Although there was not a seat to be had in the hall, to watch Larry Marshall, Dorothy Paul et al, there appeared to be two spare seats as, every time the camera panned around the audience, we sank to the floor in case our manager, who was at home for his lunch, was a fan."

Baby talk

A POINT about today's world from Rhys James who tells us: "People will trust you to hold their baby - but not their iPad."

Comic relief

EVEN the comics are getting younger. Adam Weir, who is only 11, will be making his debut at Glasgow's Stand Comedy Club a week on Sunday at their monthly show aimed at kids.

We liked his style when he was asked if he was the class comedian at school and he replied: "I have done stand-up in front of the school, but you have to watch out for those young six-year-olds who might take over."

And when quizzed about what he wanted to do after school, he replied: "I want to do stand-up and be a script writer as I found out that eating cake and playing X-box are not proper jobs."

Top gear

MODERN solutions for old-fashioned problems don't always work. A Scotstoun reader was on a bus into Glasgow which halted at a stop unable to go any further despite the driver revving the engine, but failing to get it in gear. He eventually turned to the passengers and said they would have to get off and wait for the next bus.

"Have you tried turning it off then back on again?" piped up a teenage lad from the back of the bus who merely got a hostile stare from said driver.

Touchy train topic

"MY mum gets very touchy whenever I mention her hair these days, and told me to shut up," remarked a young girl on the train into Glasgow last week. "You could say it's become a bit of a grey area."