EVERYONE was interested in space yesterday, following the landing on the comet.
As writer David Baddiel asked: "Has anyone claimed that the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko landing was faked yet?"
Niche market
READER John Cochrane reads the headline on BBC news - Sainsbury's mothballs shop plans - and thinks to himself: "Didn't think there was enough demand for mothballs to merit a separate shop."
Road to ruin
TIME for a piece of whimsy as Norrie Johnstone in Kilmacolm tells us: "My dad lost his job as a lollipop man for stealing from his employer. I should have known. When I got home all the signs were there."
Toilet humour
WE mentioned the charity WaterAid's hunt for the best toilet joke, and Russell Smith in Kilbirnie recalls: "From my student days long ago at Glasgow University students' union, on the inside of a toilet door there was the graffiti 'Happy New Year to all our readers' and in very small print 'You are now sitting at an angle of 45 degrees'. It's probably still there."
Climate control
THINK the weather is bad here? Mike Ritchie was at the recent Glasgow concert of Canadian singer/songwriter Cam Penner, who told his audience he'd "got his wood all chopped for the winter."
Says Mike: "He added that temperatures in Saskatchewan can drop to -49°C. "It's so cold,' he said, 'starting leads for cars come free with chocolate bars'."
Lost in translation
TALKING of concerts, a chap from Yorkshire asked on the internet why so many shows in Glasgow end with the crowd chanting for New York singer Billy Joel.
As he wrote: "I've only ever heard this in Glasgow, and it's every gig where the crowd wants an encore." After much discussion online it was finally worked out by a Glaswegian that the crowds were in fact chanting: "Here we go, here we go, here we go."
Modem manners
PROBLEMS that never existed in the past. A reader asks: "How soon after you visit someone's house is it acceptable to ask for their WiFi password?"
Fussy eater
CHAP in a Glasgow pub the other night swore his wife was insistent when he did the shopping that he buy only organic vegetables.
He said he asked the assistant: "I'm buying vegetables for the wife. Have they been sprayed with poisonous chemicals?"
"No sir," the assistant replied. "You have to do that yourself."
Lost property
IT CAN be fun being a student. We heard one in Glasgow's west end tell his pal: "I was in a coffee shop when the guy at the next table went to the loo, leaving his laptop on the table.
"So I stood beside it then asked someone who had just come in if they could watch my laptop for a few minutes, then left the shop before the guy came out the loo.
"Then I watched the argument through the window."
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