WE mentioned going for a curry in Glasgow in the old days, and Roy Gardener tells us: "I remember in the seventies being in a West End curry shop with some fellow students.
Our meal was curtailed when one of my pals bit into his chicken curry and promptly broke his tooth courtesy of a rusty nail cunningly disguised in the curry sauce.
"On the plus side, we did get our starters for free."
THE Herald news story yesterday about television sub-titling mistakes reminds Lesley Falconer of being in the gym earlier this week when the TV news, on in the corner, announced that New York had been hit by a "Harry Kane", although what the Tottenham striker was doing over there was not explained.
SOME readers have mentioned the Facebook challenge just now of mentioning seven things about yourself that people might not know. Alec Ross tells us about seeing someone who wrote as their number six that "People say I never finish anything I start. I dispute that."
There was no number seven.
OUR story about Dave Smith running the unabashed working men's pub, The Horse Shoe Bar in Glasgow, reminds John Crawford of another working men's pub on the south side of Glasgow, the Lea Bank, where he went for a pint with his company's trade union representative after a marathon negotiation session was concluded. They had got to the door when the shop steward warned him: "They don't like management of any kind, and as you're wearing a collar and tie, I'll say you're my cousin up here for a funeral."
Adds John: "And sure as fate when we walked in the barman asked, 'Is he management?'"
WE used a picture of a New York store selling woollen hats with the unusual slogan, at least for Americans, of "Baws" across the front. Tom Irvine in Strathaven tells us: "Walking around the John Hastie Park here I noticed a man coming towards me with a red wooly hat which was carrying the name of the football club he supported - Arsenal.
"He had unfortunately folded said tammie in such a way that only the first four letters of his team were visible."
WE wrote about the strange stories that appear in the local press in Dubai, and now David Reynolds tells us that the emirate is now home to former Celtic player Derek Whyte who was on the local television sports station discussing Sunday's Old Firm match. Derek used the colourful explanation, when asked if it tended to be a physical encounter, by claiming: "At the end even the ball was black-and-blue."
WE also like STV sports reporter Andy Coyle's innocent remark: "Andy Murray reaches the Australian Open final, delighting everyone who thought there was nothing happening on Sunday."
A GAG for the end of the week as a reader phones to tell us: "My wife asked me, 'If you could know exactly how, when and where you were going to die, would you want to know?' I said, 'No, I don't think so'.
"She said, 'Forget it then'."
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"New business launched in Renfrew today," announced Renfrew Development Trust.
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