Hard to believe
ODD are the things that are left at a library. The prestigious National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh announced on its Facebook page yesterday: "Strangest thing found in our reading rooms – a bunch of Viagra tablets. If anyone is looking for them, just go straight up, erm, upstairs."
Any other strange library stories out there?
Not sneezed at
GROWING old continued. A Dennistoun reader tells us: "My daughter praised me for covering my face when I sneezed the other day saying I was not so hygienic in the past. I didn't want to tell her that I had false teeth put in and I was just making sure that they didn't shoot out."
Sock it to them
SOME odd weather over the past few days. Chris Hannah has a go at folk trying to be trendy by claiming: "Breaking news. Due to the recent cold snap NHS Glasgow has advised Hipsters to wear socks, or longer trousers, due to the rise in cases of frost-bitten ankles."
And Andy Robertson muses about the weather in Glasgow: "Find me another part of the world where the sun comes out at the same time hailstones start falling."
Moving decision
THE Scottish political news yesterday was Scots Tory leader Ruth Davidson confirming that she might seek a seat at Westminster in the future rather than remaining in the Scottish Parliament. It was surely harsh of one Herald reader who commented to us: "As my father used to say about some folk, she'll raise the average IQ in both Scotland and England when she moves south."
Not Moore the merrier
LOTS of folk delighted that Roy Moore, the Republican accused of chasing young teenage girls when he was in his thirties, was beaten in the election to the Senate in his home state of Alabama, thanks to a large turnout of female black voters. Roy did not take the defeat well, threatening to challenge the result and adding: "God is in control." Harry Potter author JK Rowling couldn't resist commenting on social media: "Narrator's voice, 'Roy was right. God was in control. What he didn't realise was, She's black'."
Figure this
A PARTICK reader swears to us that he was at his local supermarket, and when the bill for his messages came to £20 exactly, he told the check-out operator as he fished in his pocket: "That's a nice round figure." She replied: "You're not so thin yourself."
Sprouts
WE asked for political Christmas Cracker jokes, and John Henderson tells us: "What's the difference between Nigel Farage and a fussy kid at a Christmas dinner? The kid doesn't get a pension for leaving Brussels."
Boxing clever
FOOLISHLY asked a colleague how he had got on when he asked a girl out the other night. "My date ticked a lot of boxes," he told me, before adding: "Mind you, she said it was a bit weird that I made her fill out a questionnaire."
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