"BEEN thinking of buying a sat nav for a while now," said the chap in the Glasgow pub whom Andy Cumming overheard.
\"BEEN thinking of buying a sat nav for a while now,\" said the chap in the Glasgow pub whom Andy Cumming overheard.
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"But if I want to go to any Rangers away games next season I guess I'd better."
In it for the long haul
"MY parents went to Florida in January to avoid the Scottish winter," said the young woman in a Glasgow cocktail bar this week.
"It's July, and they're still not back."
Deathly quiet
WE mentioned the Edinburgh Fringe programme descriptions of the shows, and a reader points us towards the appearance of veteran left-wing campaigner Tony Benn, pictured, to answer questions from the public on a documentary about himself. Tony, aged 86, writes in the programme: "I got a death threat last week. I haven't had one for ages, so I was chuffed."
Funny, that
TALKING of the Fringe, subversive German comic Christian Schulte-Loh is appearing at the Base Nightclub in Cowgate. His website is germancomedian.com. As he told us: "When I made inquiries, the website with that name was still available. Who would have thought?"
Mega-scary?
IN the news was the story of the cheap carrier Megabus having one of its buses stopped by armed police on the M6 after a passenger using an electronic cigarette substitute being mistaken for a terrorist. A student tells us: "The scare was caused by an electronic fag? Someone lit an actual fag on my last Megabus journey and no-one batted an eyelid."
And as one observer of the news commented: "Conduct experiments to find the Higgs Boson at Cern and you're a hero. Do it on a Megabus on the M6 and you're a terrorist. Double standards."
Cash conscious
"WENT to the cash machine in Aberdeen," Andrew Horne tells us, "and was warned to look over my shoulder for thieves.
"Instead I decided to look at the screen for the real ones."
Betting racket
WE get a phone call from a Londoner who asks: "Fancy losing a few pounds? Try tennis."
He then adds: " A fiver on Andy Murray to win Wimbledon should do the trick."
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Sense of direction
"BEEN thinking of buying a sat nav for a while now," said the chap in the Glasgow pub whom Andy Cumming overheard.
"But if I want to go to any Rangers away games next season I guess I'd better."
In it for the long haul
"MY parents went to Florida in January to avoid the Scottish winter," said the young woman in a Glasgow cocktail bar this week.
"It's July, and they're still not back."
Deathly quiet
WE mentioned the Edinburgh Fringe programme descriptions of the shows, and a reader points us towards the appearance of veteran left-wing campaigner Tony Benn, pictured, to answer questions from the public on a documentary about himself. Tony, aged 86, writes in the programme: "I got a death threat last week. I haven't had one for ages, so I was chuffed."
Funny, that
TALKING of the Fringe, subversive German comic Christian Schulte-Loh is appearing at the Base Nightclub in Cowgate. His website is germancomedian.com. As he told us: "When I made inquiries, the website with that name was still available. Who would have thought?"
Mega-scary?
IN the news was the story of the cheap carrier Megabus having one of its buses stopped by armed police on the M6 after a passenger using an electronic cigarette substitute being mistaken for a terrorist. A student tells us: "The scare was caused by an electronic fag? Someone lit an actual fag on my last Megabus journey and no-one batted an eyelid."
And as one observer of the news commented: "Conduct experiments to find the Higgs Boson at Cern and you're a hero. Do it on a Megabus on the M6 and you're a terrorist. Double standards."
Cash conscious
"WENT to the cash machine in Aberdeen," Andrew Horne tells us, "and was warned to look over my shoulder for thieves.
"Instead I decided to look at the screen for the real ones."
Betting racket
WE get a phone call from a Londoner who asks: "Fancy losing a few pounds? Try tennis."
He then adds: " A fiver on Andy Murray to win Wimbledon should do the trick."
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