OUR tale of the chap trying to get out of National Service on fallacious medical grounds reminds Frank Miller: "Some of my older colleagues in Glasgow Libraries told of one of their number who tried a similar trick to avoid National Service.
OUR tale of the chap trying to get out of National Service on fallacious medical grounds reminds Frank Miller: \"Some of my older colleagues in Glasgow Libraries told of one of their number who tried a similar trick to avoid National Service.
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When asked by the doc, 'When I speak, can you hear me clearly or is it just a murmur?' 'Just a murmur' came the reply.
"'Perfect hearing then,' said the doc."
Flash mobbing
COUNCIL elections today, so First Minister Alex Salmond was involved in the final electioneering in Edinburgh yesterday where an SNP supporter wielded her camera and asked him: "Gie's a flash o' yer gnashers, Eck." After the picture was taken Alex confided that he had initially misheard the request as asking for a flash of his knackers.
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Talking clever
OUR tale of the chap trying to get out of National Service on fallacious medical grounds reminds Frank Miller: "Some of my older colleagues in Glasgow Libraries told of one of their number who tried a similar trick to avoid National Service.
When asked by the doc, 'When I speak, can you hear me clearly or is it just a murmur?' 'Just a murmur' came the reply.
"'Perfect hearing then,' said the doc."
Flash mobbing
COUNCIL elections today, so First Minister Alex Salmond was involved in the final electioneering in Edinburgh yesterday where an SNP supporter wielded her camera and asked him: "Gie's a flash o' yer gnashers, Eck." After the picture was taken Alex confided that he had initially misheard the request as asking for a flash of his knackers.
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