AN EDINBURGH reader tells us she was in a smart Stockbridge deli when a young chap asked: "Do you sell whales' eggs?"

The assistant thought about this briefly before asking: "Do you mean quails' eggs?"

There was an even longer pause before the potential customer answered: "Maybe."

House doctor?

"I'M on these tablets," said the chap in the Glasgow pub the other night, "which lists amongst the possible side-effects that I might lose all sense of taste."

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