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banjo wrote:he was cycling along the canal heading towards clydebank at about 2 15.

banjo wrote:ah wisnae yokerbrian,what i was trying to say didnae come oot right.anyway since this is about the last famous person you saw ,i think i saw doorstop today but it might have been a lookalikey.he was cycling along the canal heading towards clydebank at about 2 15.

When Fats Waller, his wife Anita, and Ed Zirkeby strolled
down the gangplank of the Transylvania at Greenock one
July afternoon in 1938, they were greeted by some very
familiar sounds. Billy Mason's Empirex Orchestra, with
Duncan Whyte blowing plenty of Armstrong phrases on
his trumpet, welcomed the American visitors by playing
Waller's best-known tune, Honeysuckle Rose. The following
Monday night, at the Glasgow Empire, the reception was
even more overwhelming. It was, Fats assured the jubilant
audience, the greatest reception he had ever had in his life.
He responded to it by sitting down again at the piano,
with a plaid beret perched on top of his head, and playing
Loch Lomond dead straight. Only when a man high up
in the gallery shouted 'Hey, Fats, swing it P did the pianist
unbend and start twisting the melody to his own ends.

ClanClass wrote:Me!

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Dexter St. Clair wrote:But does it spell and know when to use an apostrophe?

KonstantinL wrote:The last famous person I saw on the streets of Glasgow was...

Tommy Sheridan, today on St.Vincent Street, having some banter with some workmen.

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Dexter St. Clair wrote:

ClanClass wrote:Me!

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...It counts, dammit.

But does it spell and know when to use an apostrophe?