DONALD Stewart, boss of commercial property company Forrest Developments, took the missus to the cinema in Stirling to see the Swedish-based crime thriller The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but at the ticket office he could not remember the film's full title, and instead asked for two tickets for "the film with the dragon in it".
The assistant behind the desk then handed over tickets to The Iron Lady – the biopic of Margaret Thatcher.
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OUR tales of courts dealing with drunken offenders reminds retired police officer Colin Simpson of the inspector at Glasgow's Govan police office who, when drunks kept in the cell overnight were brought before him to be bailed in the morning, would simply ask them in mock surprise: "How did you end up in Rothesay?" before sending the worried lags out into the streets of Govan.
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DONALD Stewart, boss of commercial property company Forrest Developments, took the missus to the cinema in Stirling to see the Swedish-based crime thriller The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but at the ticket office he could not remember the film's full title, and instead asked for two tickets for "the film with the dragon in it".
The assistant behind the desk then handed over tickets to The Iron Lady – the biopic of Margaret Thatcher.
Morning has broken
OUR tales of courts dealing with drunken offenders reminds retired police officer Colin Simpson of the inspector at Glasgow's Govan police office who, when drunks kept in the cell overnight were brought before him to be bailed in the morning, would simply ask them in mock surprise: "How did you end up in Rothesay?" before sending the worried lags out into the streets of Govan.
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Don't show me this again.