SINGER Bette Midler, who gave an impressive concert at Glasgow’s Hydro this week, has been giving her views on Scottish golf course owner and American presidential candidate Donald Trump after his offensive remarks about Mexicans. Said Bette: “Univision drops Trump, then NBC, and now Macy's! At this point, the only thing sticking with Donald is his hairpiece.”
PAISLEY’S Mhairi Black, Britain’s youngest MP, is getting much praise for her fiery maiden speech at Westminster. As stand-up Ed O’Meara put it: “When 20-year-old Mhairi was elected I made a flippant joke that an SNP deckchair could be elected over an experienced candidate in Scotland. Perhaps we need more deckchairs!”
However her skill can make fellow young people feel a bit inadequate. When her speech was put on YouTube one young woman commented: “How can we possibly be the same age? I feel so unaccomplished I’m going to eat an entire cheesecake and cry myself into a vodka-induced sleep.”
MOST older folk have got to grips with their mobile phones, but occasionally things can go wrong, especially if you use acronyms. A young reader away from home at university received a test message from her mother which read: “When are you coming home? WTF?”
The bemused young woman texted back: “Mum, do you know what that means?” only to get the reply: “Yes. Are you coming home Wednesday, Thursday or Friday?”
WE mentioned film-maker Enrico Cocozza making up initials after his name, and the BBC’s Reevel Alderson tells us: “My wife remembers an executive officer at HMS Gannet at Prestwick who had the impressive initials BAAB after his name on his office door. He confided to her that it stood for Been About A Bit.”
THE Herald feature pointing out that Maryhill was indeed named after a woman called Mary Hill reminds Alan Woodison: “The late Cunninghame District Council convener Jack Carson once described meeting his wife-to-be for the very first time at the dancing in Irvine, when he thought the young lass called Mary Hill was winding him up about her name as they got chatting over the Cha Cha.
“He was even more suspicious when, out of courtesy, he asked her best pal up for a dance - and was introduced to Bella Houston.”
OUR tales of moving from Glasgow to Edinburgh reminds a reader of having accomplished such a move and noticing that the upmarket area in Edinburgh did not have the same array of shops that he was used to in Glasgow’s west end. “Where do you buy your fruit?” he asked his neighbour hoping for some tips on local shops.
“What everyone else does,” he replied. “I get it delivered from a farm shop.”
AS others see us. Ian Dunn, who has lived in Glasgow for five years, has put on the news site Buzzfeed, what he has learned about the city.
We can see his point when he includes:
Toryglen might sound posh, but it is not.
The South American panpipe buskers on Buchanan Street never age, move, or play in tune.
Glasgow’s main industry in 2015 is restaurants that sell overpriced burgers.
If you wake up in north Glasgow the morning after the night before, you know things got seriously out of hand.
A READER overhears a woman complaining to her pals that her husband never listened to her point of view when they had an argument. An older friend wisely told her: “The only person who listens to both sides of an argument are the neighbours.”
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Our boat picture yesterday inspired a reader to send a picture of this craft which perhaps explains the owner’s other pastime.
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