Courting students

OUR tales of students reminded Ronnie McLean: "I remember reading a report of a court case back in the sixties in your sister paper, the Evening Times. A witness was describing the odd behaviour of the accused and said, 'I thought he was either drunk or a student'."

Taking a cue

WELL, did you enjoy the bank holiday yesterday? A reader emailed to tell us: "Nothing quite captures the excitement of a bank holiday as 35 frames of snooker played over two days."

Other folk braved the cold weather to tackle the garden. Kent Graham mused: "Another year of spring planting, another year of not finding a priceless buried heirloom."

Weighty issues

THERE was of course another Royal baby born. Some folk love all that stuff, others don't. As one observer rather tartly put it: "One of those so-called Royals has given birth to a baby boy weighing 3.26kilograms. Or if you want to put it in pounds, it's about three million pounds a year."

Fur goodness sake

SOME newspapers were getting excited about Australian actor Hugh Jackman being in Glasgow for a couple of shows, and taking his stage crew with him for a trip on Loch Lomond and stopping off at a Clydebank chippy where he may or may not have had Irn-Bru and deep-fried pizza. We suspect he didn't. Anyway we always liked the story of Hugh getting the role of Wolverine in the Marvel fantasy film series – it originally was going to Scots actor Dougray Scott but another film he was in overshot and he had to pull out. Hugh later admitted that he didn't realise wolverines exist – it's a small bear-like animal – and instead he went to see an IMAX film about wolves and turned up for filming pretending to be a wolf, until the director gently set him straight.

Faced the music

THIS might make you feel old – it will be 50 years this summer since the great Woodstock festival. Yes, there was a Scottish band there – the Incredible String Band, who flew to the Woodstock site in an Army helicopter with sitar player Ravi Shankar as the roads were clogged for miles. The pilot banked the helicopter to give them a better view, and as the chopper had no doors, Ravi almost fell out as he held on for dear life. Thank goodness he wasn't holding the carry-out or musical history could have been substantially altered.

To die for

TALKING of feeling old, we liked the comment of actress Anne Reid, who was in Last Tango in Halifax, and appearing in a new TV show Years and Years. Now in her eighties, she told the Radio Times: "I was very relieved not to be dying in it. I won’t do roles where I die any more, because it’s depressing enough getting old."

No way Jose

FOOTBALL news, and there has been some fanciful speculation that former Chelsea and Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho could be offered the position as Celtic manager. We liked the reaction of one Celtic fan who commented: "Would love to see Mourinho managing Celtic. He could probably bring a few top players with him and all will be forgiven. But if he doesn’t take the job he’s an arrogant so-and-so and he never would’ve improved us anyway."

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