SO did you get involved in the big internet debate about what colour was the dress a woman wore at a Scottish wedding?
We thought Glasgow comedian Frankie Boyle made the best point when he opined: "A fabric that looks blue to some, and green and gold to others, could bring peace to Glasgow."
THE death of American actor Leonard Nimoy reminds a Star Trek fan of when Leonard came to Edinburgh some 20 years ago to talk about his autobiography - an event which for some reason was held at the Church of Scotland Assembly on The Mound. Leonard, we're told, strode up to the microphone, took out a scrap of paper and said: "Someone handed me a note here. 'Dear Mr Nimoy. Welcome to Edinburgh. My family and I are great admirers of your work, especially your role as Dr Spock." Leonard - probably not for the first time having his screen role confused with that of the doctor who wrote about child rearing - added: "I seem to have an identity problem."
GOVERNMENT Minister Danny Alexander has provoked controversy by announcing that infrastructure projects in Scotland will now carry plaques with a Union flag on them and the message "Funded by UK Government". A reader phones to ask: "Can we get something that says 'Caused by the UK Government' to go on food-banks and job centres?"
FRANTIC scenes in Glasgow as do-it-yourselfers descended on great store Crocket's the Ironmongers to take advantage of its closing-down sale. A reader tells us how successful Crocket's had been. "It sold," he tells us "my wife a lock to put on her locker at work. Then when she lost the key it sold her the hacksaw to get the locker open. And then it sold her the replacement padlock. Genius."
SAYS reader John Russell: "I worked as a sales assistant in a Glasgow store and a lady came in looking for four wall lights, but we only had two of the design she wanted. I checked the computer and found that the Clydebank store had two, and phoned the store to reserve them. The lady then asked in quite a loud voice, 'Where is Clydebank?' The assistant, still listening at the other end of the phone said to me, 'Oh come on, even the Nazis knew where Clydebank was'."
JOHN Park in Motherwell phones to put a smile on our coupon: "I asked a woman sitting next to me on a flight, 'Does the airline charge you extra for sitting next to good looking men?' 'Yes,' she said. 'But I wasn't willing to pay'."
THERE was a certain conversation that was heard more than once yesterday. But as James Martin summed it up: "I image all the people who said, 'I can't believe it's March already' are mainly the people who were shocked to discover it wasn't butter."
BIG win for Celtic yesterday. As football fan Oldfirmfacts summed up the state of Scottish football by tweeting after the Celtic Aberdeen game: "Celtic manager Ronny Deila set to experiment with his line-up during the next five months of pre-season friendlies."
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Eanna Doyle visits Lewis in the Hebrides and wonders if this village is expressing links with Centra Asia.
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