Love Struck
IT would break your heart, the Scotland-England score, after two great goals from Celtic’s Leigh Griffiths. As film actor Martin Compston later confessed: “Already watched the replay of those two free-kicks by Griffiths considerably more times than my wedding video.”
Unbelievable OH, and a bit of an election last week as well. Former Labour MP Dennis Canavan tells us: “Theresa May’s love affair with the Democratic Unionist Party reminds me of a visit by a delegation of MPs to the DUP headquarters in Belfast in the 1970s. At one point during the discussions, Labour MP Martin Flannery told the DUP spokesman, ‘I have no religious axe to grind. In fact, I am an atheist.’ Whereupon the DUP man interrupted, ‘Aye, but are you a Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist?’”
Red Face of Ulster
READER John Henderson says: “Words that will come back to haunt you. In the wake of poor Theresa May’s numerical difficulties with the fickle electorate, some kind soul on the Police Community Forum social media account explained: “Dear Theresa, it’s not the number of MPs that counts, it’s how you use them. You have to do more with less, that’s all’.”
And as Bruce Skivington succinctly put it: “Theresa May warned us we could end up with a coalition of chaos with the country being run by people with past links to Irish terrorism. She just forgot to say she would be leading it.”
Radio Gaga
SAD to hear of the death of actor Adam West who played Batman on the long-running television series. Says Stuart Neville: “I met him many years ago at Radio Clyde, and a nicer person you couldn’t wish to meet. Radio Clyde people met all the big names and weren’t overawed by stars but, as it got close to time for Adam West to arrive, suddenly reception was unusually busy with middle-aged men from accounts and sales needing a reason to be there.”
Famished
AH yes, the healthy eating message. A west end reader says he heard a young chap on the bus at the weekend tell his pal: “I’m so hungry I could eat vegetables.”
Child’s Play NOT such a great weekend, weather-wise. A south side reader tells us he took the grandson to the National Trust’s Greenback Garden near Newton Mearns where the family sheltered in the tea-room. “Why is it so quiet?” asks the little lad. “It’ll be the rain,” replied his grandmother. “Oh yes,” says the little lad. “Everyone will be out splashing in the puddles.”
Jetwag
AN easyJet flight made an emergency landing in Germany after British passengers were overheard making alarming comments. “Apparently one of them was saying how comfortable and pleasant it was to use easyJet,” phones a reader.
Puer Chat
A GLASGOW reader tells us he heard a student type in Byres Road explain to his pal: “A good way to impress girls is to throw some Latin phrases into your conversation. At least, that’s my modus operandi.”
DIARY CAPTION Reader Jim Walker spots this comment on the election last week at Camserney near Aberfeldy.
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