November 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: HAPPY BIRTHDAY
by lorelei tremelor 25 Nov '98

25 Nov '98

HAPPY BIRTHDAY QUEEN BEE JANINE! ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: a toggle
by Archel 25 Nov '98

25 Nov '98

hi. i dont think i have anything to say on my own account today (so why is she f***ing bothering then?) but i can refer to other people's lovely posts. is the line about making blinkers fashionable about someone who looks like a horse? (sh)it-girl tamara beckwith perchance? no, seriously, i think it might be referring to the sort of people (casuals in fact i suppose) who think it's cool to be narrow-minded and closed off in their own little 'fake' world, hence they're blinkered. duffle coats! oh, i love them. i used to make my mum give me marmalade sandwiches in my lunchbox even though they went soggy and weren't very nice anyway, because i thought i might morph into paddington. er, what else. oh yes, i think this list has great taste - if that's not a loaded term now - generally. i mean, calvin and hobbes, louis macniece AND dorothy parker all just cropped up and i could go on for ever about all 3 of them but other people do it better. read 'prayer before birth' by macniece though - it's really stunning. oh, and i like 'taste of honey' too! i acted in a bit of it at school and got to regale evryone with my apalling manchester (?) accent. love and toggles, archel xxx "my celery days are over you put me straight on the finer points of asparagus" ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rachel Playforth rap101(a)york.ac.uk http://members.tripod.com/~RPlayforth/welcome.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon." +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: She and me grammar
by Mark Iles 25 Nov '98

25 Nov '98

>Incidentally I just thought of this: "Stuart Murdoch gives both of us (she >and me) severe heart palpitations" - WOAH is this it... hrm. well, does this >work? Spookily similar to something I posted a couple of weeks ago: >>Someone was asking why yu couldn't use 'she and me' in a sentence. >>I think it's because the two words are different declensions (is that the >>word?). So you can say 'she and I' (as in 'she and I are both wearing >>cardigans') or 'her and me' (as in 'Stuart Murdoch gives both her and me >>palpitations'). Errr... dull post this, isn't it. An easy way to work it out is to leave out one of the people you're mentioning. You can't say something like "Stuart Murdoch gives she and me palpitations" because if you leave out the 'me' you get "Stuart Murdoch gives she palpitations" which is wrong. It should be 'her' and not 'she'. That's why I don't think you can have "she and me" in a sentence - it's grammatically incorrect because the two words are incompatible being in different declensions (if that's the right word). I think it might be to do with one being passive and the other active, but I'm not sure. Incidentally, you can use the same trick to work out whether you should be saying "you and I" or "you and me". But for the same reason you can only say "he and I" or "him and me". You can't say "he and me". Pedantic or what? Mark ___________________________________________________________________________ Mark Iles, Tel: +44 (0113) 2065042 Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Fax: +44 (0113) 2340183 Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Ashley Wing, Email: iles(a)boreas.leeds.icnet.uk St James's University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7TF U.K. ____________________________________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Meaty pieces
by Robin Stout 25 Nov '98

25 Nov '98

Woo! I won the poetry competition! I never win anything! I'll put the prize on my shelf next to the tin of sausages I won in the Cub Scouts Christmas Raffle in 1988. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Decorating.
by Euan Leitch 25 Nov '98

25 Nov '98

B&S have made it into that heady style bible-Wallpaper, which none of you can confess to read. I'm tied down and forced to look at the pictures of beautiful buildings, food, design, and people. B&S get in on the back of AB, Barcelona's List/TimeOut. Any way, it means that along with the other beautiful things is our own beautiful Isobel, and bit of Mick I think. E. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Charles
by Marco Braca 25 Nov '98

25 Nov '98

Hi all, i adore Charles Bukowski. Do you ever read Pulp??? What a magnificent book. - depressed , too many fat made Nick Belane heavy , no money in the bank , to be getting on in marriage..............-. - the search for red sparrow.......-. Pulp a minimalist story full of brain-wave . I recommend you this writer that achieve distinction. In my cd player : velvet underground " velvet underground (banana) + Nico". Marco#7. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: The Sinister Suite - winner of most comic poem
by Charlotte.Hall＠smlawpub.co.uk 25 Nov '98

25 Nov '98

This is a suite of poems really. I've already had a complaint about the winning poem not having enough B&S content. This should satisfy any cravings of that nature. Watch out for the poems appearing on http://www.majordomo.net/sinister shortly. They are all wonderful. Charlotte My Dog on Wheels is Orange It's really quite a sight. While other's think he's so strange I think he looks just right. ##### With arms of sex and trousers of silver He rushes on his way His songs set everyone's hearts aquiver; I wonder if he's gay? ##### Mary Jo played Tug-o-war In Terry pants of purple She was the undisputed champ so powerful was her pull. ##### Boy on a bike, what are you like? You come here every month. You're not the third or second in my heart. In my world you're the oneth. JOHN JOHNSTON +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Is it THAT Ahren???? (smut content: 4.7)
by Brier Random 25 Nov '98

25 Nov '98

If this "Ahren" is the same Ahren who once worked at The Gap on High Road, then read on::: One time when I worked there with him, we were folding flannels on the ladies' sale rack when he looked me straight in the eye, licked his lips, grabbed my ass with one hand while the other one gestured wildly in the air to emphasize his declaration that he wanted to "tickle my pickle" and was only going out with his girlfriend (this was 1995) because she "drives a convertible VW Rabbit", and that he hankered for boys like me, and that, like the flannels we were folding, he'd always wanted to "try one on for size." I rebuffed him in no uncertain terms, and he stormed off in a huff to belts & accessories, so I had to do the entire plaid section by myself. Just a word of warning. AND:::: do you think B&S put four songs on all their singles on purpose, as a kind of self-defeating gesture or a "sod the charts" attitude? So they can actually AVOID being chart-toppers? Or is it so they can avoid the possibility of seeing an elligible single not chart so well? Naah, it's probably because they come up with so many sheer masterpieces that they have to stuff their singles or else they'd be releasing one every month. Not a bad idea, either, that. C'mon, B&S. How about a single with one B-side every month? Worked for the Smiths. And you're better. AND:::: People were talking about the Housemartins, and how B&S MUST be fans. It seems so. Wasn't the Housemartins' "Now That's What I Call Quite Good" played a full two times in Toronto as the faithful in-limbo masses wondered whether there would be a show at all? Then "Five Get Over Excited" cuts ominously and wee Chris delivers the bad news. I'm glad I wasn't there; I could never hear that album again without having a terrible sense of defeatist forbodeing and a case of the shakes. AND:::: I had my TBWTAS CD stolen months ago, so I bought another, SO::: does anyone in the US need the case w/booklet? I've now two and don't want to throw the extra away. Only take me up on this if you are really missing your original & have real need for it. How does one get nominated for the Monday poem shenannigans? What is the criteria for the poem? In my CD player: Charles Bukowski, "King of Poets" (home recording, 1970) In my tape player: Buckley V. Valeo (my band) In my heart: Y'all -The Brier +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: The Smell of Tummy Granite
by PJMiller 25 Nov '98

25 Nov '98

Brad wrote: hey, everyone....stop sending so many damn messages. if you're gonna send a lot, at least make me laugh. Well, that saved me the trouble of trying to find a "nice" way to say the same thing without appearing to tell people what to do, like a mean fucker. The list appears to be doing the dying fly at the moment, lots of legs waving in the air, but not much substance. My mum wouldn't let me watch Tiswas, except when Tarzan was on. Fat lot of good it did her, I must say. Anyway, I digress. I put the list malaise down to the novelty factor of the Sha-La-La list. I feel like an East German refugee clambering over the fence into the American Embassy compound, only to find it a chaotic quagmire. I'd try and reassure people, but it would be like Nicolae Ceaucescu shushing the multitude from his palace balcony. All I can suggest is to hang on in there baby. I hope the rearguard troops uphold the regiment's name, and the citizens who have defecated to the Sha-La-La Republic remember to come back from time to time. We miss you. remember you're quite welcome to talk about things other than buses on this list, should you get the urge. For instance, you can talk about council house dwellers. I was deeply moved my the far-fetched notion that there is warmth and humanity in council houses, I always thought it was the exclusive right of Margot and Jerry from "The Good Life". On Monday I went to the pictures and it was a feelgood film about council house scum called "My Name is Joey" and it was good and it was in Glasgow and there's a football pitch in it like the one in "Gregory's Girl", an orange one. Yestarday I went to the pictures and it was a feelgood film from Japan called "Hana-Bi" and it was very good, most unusual. Today I'm not going to the pictures. I have noticed that my crystal ball has been on good form lately. Everyone loves the film "Happiness". Have you seen it, Brad? I think you'd like it, it contains some good ideas for what to do with leftover bodily fluids. Well, one good idea. Also, the once mighty Juventus football team have chickened out of playing Turkish superstars Galatassary. I think they should just forfeit the points. Bob Holness seems to have come up with the goods, I knew he wouldn't let me down! Unfortunately I didn't hear "Anything Goes" and I found my address book anyway, but it's nice to know it was on. I'm not in Chile though, my long-lost friend is. Or was. I love Bob Holness. It's a shame his reputation is based almost entirely on the saxophone solo from Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street". Excellent poem, Stout Robin. I heard Mercury Rev on the radio, it was very nice and festive, just right for this time of year. Typically, it's not out here yet, so I'm planning to purchase a 3 Cd Tito Puente compilation. It's written in the stars. Afro-Cuban jazz is the tenth type of music I'm hoping to like. David Moore wrote: Whilst in this totally BS free ( :) ) mode, the college bookshop is advertising a new biography of Keith Moon, and a picture of Keith's mum recently appeared in a local scurrilous rag for some reason. I lust after that Keith Moon biog, I bet there's a picture of his mum, Mrs Moon the Loon, in it, bouncing her bonny wee laddie on her lap. The Ox never really realised that Moon the Loon was gone until he saw Mrs Moon the Loon senior crying at the funeral. I realise that is slightly off-topic, but I'm hoping Keith Watson will take the bait and we can continue our attemopt to transcribe the interview sections of "30 Years of Maximum R&B" in their entirety on the list. I love The WHO. I'd better go now. Keep the faith, Sister Disco +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: My err
by Richard M Juzwiak 25 Nov '98

25 Nov '98

Hey all- Oops...the line in "Century of Fakers" is "'Cause you're making BLINKERS fashionable" not "blinders" as I had said before...someone pointed this out to me in e-mail (thanks)...and now the line makes even less sense to me! Rich +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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