POLITICS, and a reader spots a young chap in a Glasgow coffee shop wearing a T-shirt on which was printed: "So the red team are the good guys, but the blue team means I have more money, right?"
And Stephen Henson muses: "In Scotland a Clegg is an insect that attaches itself to any living host - so it would appear this is also true in Westminster politics."
WE like the style of country singer Ags Connolly who introduced a song at his Glasgow gig this week with: "This is the longest one I've ever written - so if you live in Kilmarnock or somewhere else out of town and you've left the gas on, then I'm sorry."
OUR mention of the Glasgow coat of arms and the saying "The bell that never rang, the fish that never swam" and so on, brings forth reader John Calderwood who feels it should be updated. He suggests: "The tower that never turned, from the Science Centre." Any other suggestions?
LORD Sugar took to social media to ask for suggestions for a title of a book he is writing about his 10 years on the telly. Suggestions we like include: "Ringing People at Six in the Morning Then Going Back to Sleep" and "Why Do I Keep Firing People I Haven't Actually Hired?"
SCOTTISH football. Remember that? Kilmarnock Football Club has complained to officials that the latest round of fixtures means the club will play 20 away games and 18 home games this season, which is unfair. Meanwhile a St Mirren fan has posted on a football forum: "We will also have 20 away games and 18 home games, but given our home record we are delighted about it.
Incidentally, the Kilmarnock club's marketing manager is a Nicola Sturgeon. Is there nothing that woman can't turn her hand to?
GOOD to see some long-distance coaches being updated with power supplies to plug in your phone or laptop. A reader says he was on one such coach when a chap took a travelling iron out of his bag, plugged it in, and started ironing the back of his crumpled jacket. Alas the driver pulled over, told him it was a fire hazard, and demanded he stop. He tried to argue, to no avail, that his ticket never made any mention of an ironing ban.
YES, the good weather finally returned to Glasgow yesterday. We thought Sue John at Glasgow Women's Library summed it up well when she commented: "Glasgow city centre has got that weird anticipatory vibe it gets when sunny and quite warm, before the full-blown 'taps aff' hysteria."
RETAIL news and John Crawford asks: "Sad to see that Malinki Boutique in Lytham has closed and the builders are in. I've been trying to pluck up courage for years to go in and ask, 'Is this where Skinny gets fitted out?' But would they get it down here?"
A NEWTON Mearns reader says he had forgotten what teenage angst was like until he told his daughter: "Your room's a mess," and she replied: "You should see my life."
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