Could Wet Wet Wet have some serious competition?
Literature has also reached a pinnacle in the form of the Herald Diary, though, of course, some old-fashioned folk still prefer their literature in book form.
Bibliophile Jason Daniels visited a pal, and found himself browsing the chap's well-stocked bookcases.
'Quite a library,' said Jason, not even trying to conceal his jealousy.
'Oh, I don't have time for reading,' said the pal. 'But if I did, these are the books I'd read.'
Crunch time
The Diary is fascinated by the interaction between teachers and pupils, in much the same way that some folk enjoy watching chaps in top hats taming grouchy lions at the circus.
PE teacher John Williamson attempted to inspire an incalcitrant student to try harder at cross-country running.
'Come on,' he said to the boy. 'You're tough. You've got grit.'
'Wit dae ye mean?' said the boy. 'You sayin' I'm like gravel?'
Ethical Ed
'I don't go out with married women,' says morally upstanding reader Edward Graham, who adds: 'Unfortunately my wife tells me that's no excuse for not taking her out for dinner.'
Uplifting comment
The past is a foreign country, pointed out author LP Hartley.
What's also true is that foreign countries are foreign countries.
None more so than the USA, which is exactly like the United Kingdom… if the United Kingdom was nothing like the United Kingdom.
To underline this truth, reader Samantha Russell notes: 'In Britain it's called a lift, but in America it's an elevator. I guess people are just raised differently.'
Talk is cheap
When Robin Medford was asked to make a best man speech at a pal's wedding, he took the gig seriously, and assumed he delivered it with panache.
'What did you think of my speech?' said Robin to his wife, later that day.
'Um… well…' said his wife, 'you certainly enunciated well.'
'But what about the jokes?' said an increasingly desperate Robin.
'Like I said,' continued his wife, 'great enunciation.'
Can you dig it?
Gloomy thought of the day from reader Dave Moseley: 'Just when you think you've hit rock-bottom, life hands you a shovel.'
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