WE mentioned the Edinburgh Playhouse asking theatre-goers to confess their sins in order to win tickets to the nun-themed musical Sister Act.
Food, it seems, figures in many sent in.
“I was making soup for my mother,” admits one, “and it boiled over. It was the last tin so I soaked it up with a dish towel and wrung it out into the bowl.”
Mum will be pleased.
And for those thinking of a trip to the chippy, another confesses: “Once when I worked in a chip shop, a moth flew into the frier. We immediately fished it out, but served it along with fish and chips to a horrible, obnoxious, regular customer.”
Talent spotter?
READER John Neil reads that pasty-faced bad boy Frankie Cocozza was booted off TV show The X Factor for “breaking one of the show’s golden rules”.
“Does that mean he was talented?” asks John.
Flag day
JAMES Christie in Perth tells us our story of the budgie whistling the Red Flag reminds him: “My father was an officer in a Dunfermline-based TA regiment in the 1950s, consisting largely of miners, communists or both.
“Once, while at Fort George, the regimental band had to provide the music for the Lord Lieutenant of Moray’s summer ball. Dad was in charge of the rather unenthusiastic band.
“They only cheered up at the end when my father innocently suggested they play Maryland My Maryland, the American song which shares the same music as a certain revolutionary song.
“So the band signed off by storming through the Red Flag for the benefit of the startled gentry.”
Comforting thought
A GROUP of young women out in Glasgow’s west end were comforting a pal who had been dumped by her boyfriend.
“Time heals all wounds” one of them portentously announced.
“But not as quick as getting on Facebook and seeing his new girlfriend is an ugly troll,” another added.
Tomfoolery
JOE Frazier, Mohammad Ali’s awesome opponent in the Thrilla in Manilla, has died. Joe had a difficult relationship with Ali after Ali called him “an uncle Tom” a dismissive term for blacks who sook up to Whites.
Fellow heavyweight George Foreman later revealed that Joe hadn’t known the term, and was actually angry as he thought Ali had called him a “peeping tom”.
Bear facts
YES we know we’re barely into November but already Christmas fever is rising amongst our younger citizens. A Jordanhill reader tells us their young son came home from school and announced: “Do you know, if I was a bear, I’d have only one more sleep until Christmas.”
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