19/01/2007

There, but for the grace of God. Clype ‘liked’ this story put out by a Glasgow-based news agency earlier this week, which began: “Bungling store bosses were left red-faced yesterday [Tuesday] after they mixed up one of Rabbie Burns' most famous poems.”
The report continued: “Burns fans were appalled after the words to ‘Ode to A Haggis’ were written incorrectly on a commemorative plaque just miles from the Bard's birthplace. Debenhams bosses had erected the sign in its Ayr store as a......[blah, blah].”
The mistake was the incorrect insertion of the word, ‘only’.
But Clype asks: What Ode will that be? The poem, ‘To a Haggis’, perhaps?

The Greenock Telegraph editor, Tom McConigley, was hosting a flat-warming party on Saturday evening, in a block of apartments converted from the former Herald newspaper HQ in Glasgow.
But one party-goer was dismayed to find how few of his fellow hacks were aware of the building’s former, glorious history.
He told Clype: “About 60 per cent knew the building had once housed The Herald, but not one of them knew it had also been home to the Daily Express,” he said.
He added: “And the future of door-stepping as an art form looks decidedly dodgy, since, once inside [the building, but not yet the flat], most of the guests couldn't actually find the flat where the party was taking place. And they were too shy to ‘chap’ a door or two and make enquiries.”

Kingdom FM was yesterday remaining tight-lipped about the future of its subsidiary, Livingston-based River FM, which it has put up for sale and which faces imminent closure if no buyer is found.
When asked by allmediascotland.com how the proposed sale was progressing, a spokesperson declined to comment. Indeed, so tight-lipped was the station, she even declined to say how many people work at River.
Clype was almost minded to put in a request to River: “Can you play Agadoo, for the mother-in-law, and, while you’re at, tell us whether you’ll still be on air by tomorrow night?”

Until the next time. Cheers m'dears!

clype@allmediascotland.com