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20 minutes ago, BillyAnchor said:

f**k it was round the corner at Perthshire's ground? 

I lived in Park Rd in the West End as a wain, posh as f**k, next door to his first showroom (now a fruit shop). AC did a nice line in cheap deals from the meat market* plus sold motors.

*meat market and car market were next to each other.

Fur coat and nae knickers brigade ate well in those days.

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Jack Steedman, former chairman of Clydebank FC, was a secret agent with MI6 just after the war. Some of his exploits were dramatised on TV, but for security reasons the name of the character had to be changed slightly, to John Steed.

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2 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said:

The original spellcheck system for computer word processors was invented by a German named Otto Krekt.

He came up with the idea when his teacher asked him to "spell Czech".

German humour I guess.

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MC Beaton once submitted the manuscript to a Hamish Macbeth detective novel entitled "Death of a Peado". The publisher had to refuse to go ahead with a printing after lawsuits from 17 separate BBC household name personality/celebrity types who all felt it was written about them.

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