Rabbiting on
SYMPATHY goes out to the staff at Jamie Oliver's restaurant in Glasgow who have abruptly lost their jobs with the company going into administration. Reader Roy Ingram in Bearsden recalls: "Years ago I visited the restaurant in George Square, and was intrigued to see there was wild rabbit in the menu. 'How wild was the rabbit?' I asked the waitress. 'Absolutely furious', she replied."
Creaky
ACTOR Arnold Schwarzenegger is returning for a role in the new Terminator film, Terminator: Dark Fate which is coming out soon. Thinking about Arnold's longevity in the series, a reader phones to ask: "Will his catchphrase in the film now be, 'Ah, me back'?"
Catty remark
WE always like our readers' schoolchildren stories. Says Ada McDonald: "A favourite family story is when one of the family, aged about six, came home from school very upset, and announced she was too frightened to go back. The reason was that she was to have a new teacher who was absolutely terrifying, so much so that she was called MacTiger. So next day mother went to school to clarify the situation, and met the 'terrifying' new member of staff - a Miss MacTaggart, a charming lady. After a somewhat wary return to school, normal service was resumed."
Not managing
SOME surprise that Neil Lennon has been offered the Celtic manager job after weeks of press speculation suggesting some high profile European managers were in the running. As our old colleague Stewart Weir put it: "Slaven Bilic, Davie Moyes, Jose Mourinho, Rafael Benitez, Phillip Cocu and André Villas-Boas have set up a WhatsApp group to discuss where they might have gone wrong during the interview process for the Celtic job."
Teething problems
SCOTTISH actor and comedian Craig Ferguson has written a memoir entitled Riding the Elephant and is being interviewed in American newspapers about his book and his life. In the Wall Street Journal, for example, he described Cumbernauld where he grew up as “soulless” which, to be fair, quite a few folk from Cumbernauld have said over the years. Actually Craig has moved back to Scotland after his late-night TV show filmed in Los Angeles came to an end so he does love the country. His interviewer for the Washington Post said she missed his smile in his photograph on the book cover and unexpectedly asked: “Describe your smile.” Said Craig: “A miracle of American dentistry! Especially given that I grew up in Scotland in the seventies.”
Under a cloud
NEWS you might have missed - the owners of a Noah's Ark replica at a leisure park in Williamstown, Kentucky, are suing their insurers for refusing to cover rain damage at the site.
You spray it well
WE got onto unusual names the other day and Steven O'Neill recalls: "My business Newton Factors, for 20 years used the services of a brilliant gardener and his name was Gordon Hose."
May or may not
SO Theresa May is on her way out. As independent Edinburgh publishers Canongate stated on social media: "Delighted to share the news that we'll be publishing Theresa May's memoir in autumn 2020! A moving and engaging behind-the-scenes account of her time in power and sorry I can't keep a straight face obviously we're not publishing her and very much hope no one ever will."
To be fair, there were commenting on the books so far published in her name rather than on the woman herself.
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