Q and A

A collection of side-pieces from over the years (mostly from 2006 which i just stumbled across)

Q. Does the bitching between Nintendo fans and Sega fans remind you of a football rivalry?

A (me). Well not really.

Its like how the Old Firm forum would turn out if one of the two sides had been relegated, but that sides fans still thought it was the superior team.
(15th September 2006)

ON MADRID WANTING BECKHAM TO STAY
(me) Sounds a bit like wanting the child after the abortion, to be honest.

ON PEOPLE TENDING TO VOTE FOR THE FIRST CANDIDATE ON A VOTING SLIP
So when I want to run for dictator of Scotland (or the QM) i should refer to myself as "1.0 Michael S. Collins" then?

ON THE SSP AT THE LAST UK ELECTIONS
Ah well, its hard to become a real force when your distracted by backstabbing. Good riddance, I say.

ON VOTERS CHOICE
i've often wondered if someone got their name put on all the ballots as "Andy Allan (Dictator)" could he get in because people saw his name first. Or didnt care.

TRUMPED BY SEUMAS'S RESPONSE
See 'Alex Salmond for First Minister SNP' results for your answer.

IF YOU DON'T VOTE, ALWAYS HAVE A GOOD EXCUSE READY
I didn't vote, but thats because I was ill and didn't fancy treking across the city to the wee bit i'm registered in to vote against a Labour landslide.

I'm not apathetic however. I knew enough of the candidates to know i didn't like any of them anyway.

ON EMMA PARKERS ASSESSEMENT OF ALEX SALMOND AS "CLEARLY A TEDDY BEAR IN DISGUISE"
I'd vote for the Teddy party.

THE GENTLEMANS GAME
rugby is a lousy game, thats where i broke my ankle the first time.

ATTEMPTING THE FIFTY BOOK CHALLENGE
diderot, the nun

i urge you not to read it, even if you hear rumours of the lesbian nuns

ON MEETING OTHER KNOWN GLASGOW FIGURES
tam cowan passed me the other day. ignored me.

ON HOPES AND DREAMS
I hope Aberdeen dont get 2nd place, Chris Murdock would never let me hear the end of it.

HE SPELLS MAGIC WITH A K AND FAIRES WITH AN AE, SO HE MUST BE REAL...
damn, is that legit? So that wee old lady back in Peterhead was talking the truth then...

ON A.M. BURRAGE
A.M. Burrage (1889-1956) was an English short story writer who excelled in ghost stories. Recommended by no less than M.R.James (and that man was impossible to please!) his reputation has gone into disrepute over the last few decades since the in-thing has become Stephen King.As one of our best 20th Century writers is currently lying with their legacy forgotten, this is frankly unacceptable. Therefore, the "Save the Burrage" campaign is my one man attempt to spread some knowledge and love of the man into the world, and hope that one day, some nice publisher will give him the full works he deserves.Found myself 3 new A.M. Burrage tales this week.One, "The Recurring Tragedy", I found online, that I shall admit.
The second, "The Shadowy Escourt", I found in one of the anthologies Mandy has in her room.
The third, whose name slips my mind, Mandy found by complete fluke along with Bierce's "Little Toe of the Right Foot" in a book in a charity shop on Great Western Road.
So whilst the finding the actual publishers with the rights currently is at a standstill (with a huh in response), my own personal collection is up to 8/70 of his short stories, with the hunt ongoing.
The hunt shall not stop until Burrage is republished, and held in the deserved regard that is bestowed upon James, Lovecraft and his contemporaries.

ON TAGGART
Quite a soft spot for TAGGART ever since I mentioned on the European Football Forums that I had moved to Maryhill, and someone said "God, I've watched Taggart for years and I never realised there actually was a part of Glasgow called Maryhill!"

DEFENDING SOME FOX-SQUIRRELS
the idea is that now they have his scent they will come for him once he leaves his house.
But they seem to be more confident at night...doesnt mean they wont go for him still.
It probably should be made clearer, I agree, in future drafts.
Bryan M Ferguson (Glaswegian director) thinks that the man in question is undergoing some sort of pyschological changing akin to lycanthrophy in his mind that prevents him leaving. Need to ponder that further, I think.
Oh, and the rainbows is the calm before tthe storm, so to speak.

ON REPUTATION
but i dont worry or care about the possibility of negative reps. If someone thinks I deserve it then so be it. Once you've had hate mail from several different countries, very little online negativity throws you.