Teething problem

FOLK have been reminiscing about the Glasgow clothes shop Flip in Queen Street in the eighties that brought in loads of second-hand authentic American gear. As broadcaster Nicola Meighan recalled: “I loved going to Flip when I was at school. One pair of old Levis I bought had a full set of false teeth in the back pocket.”

Any other memories of Flip or second-hand clothes?

Went a bit flat

WELL done the trade union Unison obtaining a court ruling that it was unlawful to charge punters big fees to pursue claims for unfair dismissal. We still recall the chap who worked as a salesman for car company Arnold Clark and was awarded over £8000 for unfair dismissal from the firm.

It was a real Nae Luck Award for Arnold Clark’s as their representative failed to turn up for the hearing - and later explained that he had suffered a puncture en route and was not carrying a spare.

Reflections on Westminster

SOMEHOW our story about a poster of Henrik Larsson on the Celtic fan’s bedroom ceiling reminded former Ayrshire MP Brian Donohoe: “Madam Speaker, Betty Boothroyd, was showing new MPs round her apartment and was telling us about the bed in Speaker’s House when I noticed a very large mirror on the wall which I suggested would be better above the bed on the ceiling.

“She whispered to me ‘Oh you are naughty but I like you’. After that I didn’t have any problem getting called in the Chamber.”

She shooed them out

VERBAL misunderstandings continued. Says Margaret Thomson: “Many years ago, I was seeing my company of Lifebuoys out after an evening meeting. I spotted a pair of sandshoes and called after the boys. One wee lad came back, looked at the shoes and said, ‘They’re mashoos’. So I told him to take them. ‘No miss, they’re mashoos!’ I was about to lose it when he continued, ‘They’re Mashoo Brown’s’.”

Job done

OUR stories about job interviews remind a Glasgow reader: “I was once asked that cliched question, ‘What would you say is your greatest weakness?’ I replied, ‘Being unemployed’.”

All up in the air

TODAY’S piece of whimsy comes from a Dennistoun reader who phones to tell us: “At this time of year you always get folk complaining about crying babies on airplanes. But I always tell them, ‘Better than a crying pilot’.”

It’s a rum do

AS the film Dunkirk continues to garner praise, we liked the crew at the Margate Lifeboat who looked back through the records to when the Margate vessel took part in the Dunkirk rescue. Each trip is recorded in the files, and on the Dunkirk page, at the bit where any equipment needs to be replenished, the coxswain had written: “Two bottles of rum. Urgent!”

Bin there, done it

WELL are your teenage children getting ready to go off to university this year? We liked the comment of a young woman named Erin who summed up her first taste of uni: “If you ever wondered what living in student halls was like, my housemates unfriended me on Facebook because I told them to take the bins out.”