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Bob Servant, window cleaning kingpin and beneficiary of Dundee’s Cheeseburger Wars, turns Agony Uncle for The List
Bob I’m thinking of buying my wife a pair of nice pants for her birthday, however I’m not entirely sure what size she wears. There’s negative aspects to going either too large or too small – what should I do? Yours, Mike Thornley Mike, I have always been a tight pants man myself. They make you feel alert and send a very firm message to anyone clever enough to pick up on it. So really the best idea is for you to work out how much your wife looks like me and, if there are obvious physical similarities, then go for the tighter pair. Feel free to look at your wife and imagine my face where her face should be. It will make dinner time fly by and cause absolute havoc (in a good way) in the bedroom. All best, Bob
Hey Bob, A lawyer here. After your various legal wrangles over the Cheeseburger Wars, etc, I was just wondering if you had any views on our much derided profession? Thanks, JT JT, Lawyers are decent folks, trying to get by like the rest of us. And if that involves stealing a man’s three kids and forcing them to call another man Dad and then the first Dad sees his children at a carnival in Dundee’s Caird Park in 1987 and the kids ask the new Dad things like, ‘Why is that man crying?’ And, ‘Is that man not too old for the swings?’ – well, that’s just all in a day’s work, isn’t it JT? Be lucky, Bob
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BLONDE ON BLONDE Re: Marilyn explores relationship between Marilyn Monroe and Simone Signoret (676)
Like a lot of people I am fascinated by anything to do with Marilyn Monroe. She and Simone Signoret were in love with the same man, Yves Montand. I think Signoret was married to him. It is an aspect of Monroe's life that we do not know much about, so this should be very interesting. OP Wood
Editor’s note: You are correct, Simone Signoret and Yves Montand were married, and the play speculating on the relationship between Monroe and Signoret is sure to be interesting. Marilyn is on at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, Thu 17 Feb–Sat 12 Mar; Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh Tue 15 Mar–Sat 2 Apr.
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