SO the Prime Minister has been to see the Queen to dissolve parliament. A reader phones to ask: "Does that mean no one is in charge? Is it like when you had a supply teacher and you could misbehave?"
And David Cameron's announcement that even if he wins he would not pursue a third term as Prime Minister, makes a reader comment: "Not even David Cameron wants to govern what would be left of Britain after 10 years of David Cameron in charge."
ELECTION leaflets continued. Ruth Davidson at the Tories points out that Labour leader Jim Murphy's latest leaflet in his campaign to remain as MP in East Renfrewshire doesn't say anywhere on it that he is actually standing for the Labour Party. Well, would you?
REMEMBER to change the clocks? Says Ian Power: "Seven minutes 36 seconds - the time it's just taken me to change the time on my car's clock. A personal best."
GOOD to see the National Theatre of Scotland is going to have its new base in Glasgow after announcing plans to convert an old cash and carry at Speirs Wharf into rehearsal space. We remember when its founding artistic director Vicky Featherstone, now down in London, adapted John Byrne's Tutti Frutti for the stage and she explained: "To me the Majestics are representative of a certain kind of working-class Scottish male, and the question is whether or not they're going to be able to reinvent themselves into a new kind of male in the eighties. I think it was a subconscious thing for John."
When asked about it going on stage, John cheekily replied: "I was delighted and surprised - especially when Vicky told me what it was really about. I had no idea."
IRISH actor Aidan Turner has been turning heads as the title actor in Sunday night telly series Poldark. As Rich Neville told us yesterday: "Slept on a pillow seam and now I have a mark running down my cheek just like Poldark. Ladies!"
A READER tells us of his impatience when he had to phone his bank's call centre, and they asked for his password. "Colonel," he told them. He hears a few keyboard taps at the other end, only to be told. "No, that's not it. Sorry." He puzzles for a few seconds, wondering if he has changed his password but has no recollection of doing so. Is his memory going, he fears. Has his account been hacked.
Exasperated, he asks again: "So it's not colonel. C-o-l-o-n-e-l," he spells out.
"Oh, so that's how you spell it?" says the operator.
STAND-UP Jo Caulfield, who is appearing at the King's Theatre in Edinburgh next week with Allan Stewart was indulging in a bout of whimsy on social media yesterday. As she asked: "Looking after a goose and a gander for a friend. Never done this before. Anybody know what's good for them?"
READER Gordon Evans contacted the Glasgow Memory Clinic, which researches memory loss, and was told by the receptionist that someone would phone him back. He heard nothing. Says Gordon: "Now I don't know if the Memory Clinic forgot, or whether it's a test to see if I remembered contacting them."
CATHERINE Woods goes into a supermarket in Colorado and finds boxes of Tunnock's tea cakes above a sign stating "Gourmet cakes". She wanted us to know so that we can feel better when gorging on them.
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