CHILDREN'S author Lyn McNicol, who pens the Badger The Mystical Mutt series, was passing a Glasgow pub at the weekend when she heard an elderly woman, popping out for a fag, tell her pal:
"The doctor had the cheek to tell me he thought I was drinking too much. Ha. He doesn't seem to mind when I'm pouring him a dram on his visits. I'm telling you, that's the last one he's ever getting at mine."
Not playing the Game
FANS of the television comedy series Still Game, who have gone to see its stage run at The Hydro in Glasgow, have been taking to Twitter to extol the show. Great laugh apparently. However among the paeans was a plaintive story from a teenage girl in Falkirk who wrote: "Still no' over the fact that my maw got her and her boyfriend tickets for Still Game the night and no' me."
That's telling them
REFERENDUM postscripts. Glasgow stand-up Janey Godley was appearing at a club in Newcastle the other night where a local shouted out: "You never got your independence!"
Recalls Janey: "I told him, 'No, your Tory NHS-selling, war-mongering government was too appealing'. Oh how we laughed."
Credit where it's due
NEWS from credit card processing company Worldpay which analysed spending at party political conferences last year and found that the Tories were the biggest boozers with pubs around its conference seeing a 15% rise in business. Glasgow pubs however, around the LibDem conference at the SECC in Glasgow, actually recorded an 8% drop in takings.
So the pubs couldn't have been that excited that the LibDems were back again this weekend in Glasgow. Incidentally, a political cynic tells us: "The LibDem conference in Glasgow? They've sold out.
"Still lots of tickets available for the conference though."
Unkindest cut of all
JOHN Bannerman in Kilmaurs was telling us about his wait in his doctor's surgery. Says John: "My eyes wandered to the various pamphlets on view - quite frightening to read of the multitudinous diseases around. Picked up a glossy one proclaiming, 'It's here! Contraception that lasts for years'. Below, someone had written, 'Castration is even better'."
The sober truth
WE asked for your staying sober stories during the "Go Sober for October" charity fund-raiser. A Glasgow west end reader tells us her pal announced over coffee the other day: "I've been sober for 136 days now. Not in a row, but still."
You can bank on it
SIGNS the world is changing, continued. Reader Eric Macdonald tells us he and his wife were getting their 10-year-old grandson ready for the Scouts when his gran asked if he needed cash for a collection.
"No gran," he replied. "They get it monthly by direct debit."
Born loser fear
FOOTBALL news, and Motherwell fans can't believe how badly their team has started the season. A reader in the local Electric Bar in Motherwell heard one fan blame the manager for poor signings this year. A fellow fan then blamed the players for not giving their all. A third fan blamed his parents. "How's it your parents fault?"
"Well if I'd been born a few miles away I'd be a Hamilton fan and be in the top half of the league."
He was only joking of course. No Motherwell fan would want to be born in Hamilton.
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