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FEELING old? Kenny Hardie in Stewarton tells us it was 50 years ago this week when Pink Floyd played a gig in Dunoon. The ferry was cancelled because of rough weather and the band hired a reserve ferry, the Granny Kempock, to get there from Gourock. Incidentally it was our old chum, former Labour Minister Brian Wilson, then a student, who hired the band. Also on the bill was the Glasgow group The Poets, and Brian recalled that when Pink Floyd finished the gig – the hall keeper said he didn't care who they were, they had to be out by midnight – they came outside to find someone had written in lipstick on their van "Youse are rank. The Poets is fab."
Reader Kenny tells us he only made the show as he and his pal went the day before "to hit the night life." Dunoon, Kenny?
Mug
IT can be a bit tricky agreeing with your children about child-rearing when you become a grandparent. An Ayrshire grandpa explains: "My pregnant daughter says they were going to name their new son Jack. I said Jack was a nice name. But then she said they were going to spell it without the C which I wasn't so keen on. When she saw my face she asked what was wrong with Jak? All I blurted out was that he would be really upset when he was on holiday and couldn't find a mug with his name on it in the souvenir shop."
Roll with it
WE mentioned the Ryder Cup beginning and a reader tells us that the rivalry between Europe and America even extends to the caddies. He told us: "Billy Foster, who has caddied at 10 Ryder Cups, told the story that before his golfer teed off at the Ryder Cup at the Belfrey Billy said he had to dash back to the clubhouse for a 'Tom Kite'. He had gone into the first cubicle in the loo, but noticed there was no toilet paper, so turned and went into the cubicle across the aisle. While he was there Tiger Woods came in and shut himself in the cubicle with no loo paper. Billy says he came out and heard Tiger 'give a little sigh'. Billy passed a roll under the door and shouted to Tiger, 'One up to Europe'."
Shopped
HOW many will agree with Simon Holland who says: "Next week is October. I hope you’re ready for that one mum you can’t stand on Facebook to post about being done with her Christmas shopping."
Come on!
YES we share a common language but as Glaswegian Maggie Wood, now way down in Adelaide tells us: "The ticketing system was changed for our IT help desk at work. It's now called Avanti, and it seems I was the only one in the South Australian government department who howled with laughter at the prospect of the chance to say 'Avanti get this flamin' computer fixed!'"
Got the needle
OUR story about tattoos yesterday reminded Russell Smith in Kilbirnie: "I know it’s an old one, but what about the story of the Glasgow chap saying about his new girlfriend, 'She's really classy. All her tattoos are spelled correctly'.”
Trumped
THE news story yesterday about Donald Trump was about his speech being greeted with laughter at the United Nations. A reader in Hillhead phones to tell us: "Not to brag, but I was laughing at Donald Trump way before the UN decided to do it."
Cutting
STILL trying to make sense of the Brexit debacle. Joe Heenan attempts to be positive and declares: "The thing I’m looking forward to the most after Brexit is barbers becoming doctors again."
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