The Diary

The Herald › January 19, 2005

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Backwards step

TODAY'S snowfall reminded Michael Bruce, of Glasgow, of the time his teacher brother was reprimanding a youngster for being very late to school after a snowfall.

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"But sir, " said the lad, "it is so slippy out there that for every step I took forward I slid back two."

Immediately latching on to the illogicality of this statement, Michael's brother asked: "Well,...

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