September 2000 - Sinister

Sinister: whatever happened to...toooooo many many names
by sweetie something 28 Sep '00

28 Sep '00

sinister 1stly honey i think squirrels (SP?!?!?) have got neither pouches or cheeks i do believe they have cheekles stretchy ones i think my only b&s badge a 3..6..9.. one kindly donated to the 'freethingsforsweetiecozshessounbelievablyskintshe cantevenaffordreallycheapthings fund' by the lovely wayne fortune at the edinburgh pic-o-nic has been through the wash twice :/ as always i is seated at me local library in dennyland, land of the boring i was in glasgow last nite for the dum dums gig (dont take me 2 pieces yet) i had never heard them not bad, methinx the supports were good big yoga muffin and co.uk was speaking to both of them co.uk were v nice indeed as it was my bday i have enough pennies and enough time to do things i wanna go c badly drawn boy and soulwax im gonna get tickets ASAP so is anyone else out there happens to be doin likewise then--LEMME KNOW! :) and we could ave a wee meet or summat i have sniffles :/ anyway short on time (how many behave?) so alas i have to go your friend always sweetie xox 'maurice got in trouble the other week when he put a ladybird in a tic-tac box and flushed it down the toilet "i thought it could have an adventure" he said' _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Blitzkrieg Bop
by Peter Miller 28 Sep '00

28 Sep '00

German? Pah! We British are very good at making up words too. Take "SPITFIRE" for example. Magnificent, isn't it? How could it possibly lose? Our German friends, however, chose to call their aeroplanes "MESSERSCHMITT" which means "Mister Smith". I rest my case. I went to the Baxendale soundcheck the other day. Strange but true. I went with the intention of being a mental groupie and asking them if they knew my friends Stephen Trousers and Erica. But I chickened out. But the shadow of Trousers loomed large over proceedings, as they did a song that appeared to be about having a nice time on a bus. They had obviously been inspired by Trousers' sleeve notes to the legendary "C188" CD from the equally legendary Papercuts. They dance like they've got hinges instead of hips. Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: shorten any word that's too long!!
by n|ck g 28 Sep '00

28 Sep '00

i just read rob's message and am elated that someone else knows about and likes the german language. i fell in love with it the first time that i heard it and now have moved here to speak it. i completely agree. i love making up words on the spot. germans will literally make one word out of like... um... well the most words in one that i have ever seen is 7, the most common is 3 or 4. it's great. but the best thing about the language is the constant shortning of words. any normal word that used to long has some shortned version or an acronym made of it. ie. the word for where class takes place is "HS." i'm not even sure of what it stands for but everyone knows what you mean when you say it, so... hey, why not? so i suggest that we, as sinisterines, start to overthrow the english language and shorten anything that we want and make words out of however many we see fit. rise up sinisterines! it's time to change some things :) nick _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: being sober, political, and is the Queen a poo?
by Kristin Mitchell 28 Sep '00

28 Sep '00

Settling back into life at uni, meeting up with old friends, making new ones. I managed to also aqquire some very old copies of a series of books, called Kristin Lavransdatter, for my mum. From what I gather, she was a famous Viking girlie, who shares my first name. My mum loved these books when she was at school, back in Norway, so I think she will like to have these copies. They are old, about 1921, and hardback as well, and although looking a bit worse for wear and a bit smelly, but I am glad I grabbed them. So far everything is going alright in my new flat. But we have a new rule, do not discuss politics. Purely for the reason that I am living with a paid up member of the Tory party, who actively goes to all the tory things at uni. Grr. So we had a long debate and arguement about everything, from the united Kingdom union, to ooh, why Scots don't have a tory in power. Plus he also made some ridiculous comments that I should not refer to myself as Scottish while I am here, but as British. Well, I am Scottish. I am British in the wider sense, as I am also European. But first and foremost, I am Scottish. Its taken me 18 years to work that one out, what with dad being English and mum being Norwegian, and when I was a little sprog at primary school, I loathed days when there had been an England/Scotland, or Norwegian/Scotland footie match the day before. And I don't like football. So now I am in England, I worked out I am truely Scottish, maybe not by blood or anything, but by birth, by education, and also attitude. So the arguements were flying on Monday night. But he was drunk, and being male, also certain that anything he said was right, true, and 100% correct. Men do this when they are drunk. They believe that the only right opinion is their own, and that everyone else is wrong. I'm not being sexist, but the male species has that quality. We also discussed the Monarchy, and I managed to wind him up successfully by calling the Queen a big poo. I said she reminded me of a dried up old poo. And he got all worked up, and said "The Queens not a poo!" and so on and so forth. But to avoid more serious arguements, we have agreed to disagree, plus never to discuss politics or the Queen being a big poo. As long as we stay away from discussions about homosexuality then everything should be okay. And drunk driving. Those are two things that I feel strongly about. And I get the impression his ideas conflict with mine quite a lot there. Decided to celebrate my 22nd birthday at the flat, and have a party. Nothing else to report. Except I can't get into chat rooms anymore, including sinister chat, jeepster chat and corduroy smoke chat. Grr. Anyone know any other university friendly chat rooms for a B+S girliefan? Love, Idles. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Re: Sinister: shorten any word that's too long!!
by man one 28 Sep '00

28 Sep '00

ok, german is wonderful yes. there is also a derivative language i've been working on called nulage. however, don't be confused--nulage is not actually a proper word in nulage. it is a contextual language-compression system: i.e., architecture lecture= archilecture train times = trimes ad infinitum, or aditum. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: oh goodness
by C.R. Phillips 28 Sep '00

28 Sep '00

hello it's funny really - i've started five "hey! this is my first mail!" things already over the past few months but every single time, it has failed either because (for the first time) i didn't read the rules for sending things or because my unworldly university can't just provide us with normal computer services cos they just have to be as difficult as they can whenever they see an opportunity. and then also, i guess i'm a bit dumb. what this means is that i can't face properly introducing myself agaaain and that may well make me look a little, hmmmm, apathetic or rude but i'm really v. not. all i'll say is that as i look round, i'm sitting in a deserted room tapping away loudly (because it's deserted and so i can) and wondering where all the people are. maybe they are having a midday party somewhere. but this is a university where i don't know if people party....not to be criptic....hmmmmm. so, my name is charlie. hope you are all well. i like the way that the people in this world of letters (i.e. sinister - i'm in a weeeiiiirrrrdddd mood and that makes me look silly) seem so placid and content and i'm sure that they aren't all the time but i guess you can come across that way when you're just writing to lots of people because it's a beautifully calming thing to do and it gets out what you're trapping in your head. yay. the talk of foreign languages made me think of the book i'm reading - "the secret history" which i'm told is v. cliché of me but boo to that - in which people address each other from time to time in ancient greek or latin and that seemed so wonderful as a way of adding meaning in the way you say something as well as what you're saying. and i worried that the other people in the story who don't so that might think that those who who do are v. pretentious and that that would be so unfair because pretending is good and gives weight to the things you do that are concretely real. does that make sense? well, if it's not too forced a jump, then i think it's also true of the lovelylovelylovely heroes of our worlds because without mr. stu's voice or isobel's too, it wouldn't be the same because they design the words for their own voices and their voices are part of the message. the lyrics should be printed with their voices in them, tho i guess that's impossible from a physics point of view or whatever. some things are just beautiful because of the way they exist and they exost to be beautiful and hey, that's belle and seb. yay. love charlie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Re: Sinister: shorten any word that's too long!!
by Mark Hester 28 Sep '00

28 Sep '00

Lorraine, there's nothing ludicrous about 'ambulance'. It originally referred to a stretcher used to carry wounded soldiers who had "Fought in a War" (had to get the reference in there somewhere). As the stretcher bearers were walking they were ambulatory, hence 'ambulance'. So the German is obvious and the English is interesting. So there! I think my fave long German word is Strassenbahnhaltestelle, meaning tram stop. I remember a cartoon in my German textbook that had a bank robber (complete with bagful of cash, stripey jumper and mask, natch) approaching a trembling old lady and asking "Wie komme ich am besten zur Strassenbahnhaltestelle?" The German language direclt affects their crime rate. Rob Brennan, is there really a venue in Portsmouth called the Wedgewood Rooms? This conjures up wonderful images of people too afraid to dance or get too drunk for fear of smashing all the china. Who knows, maybe Pompey residents talk about a "mosher in the Wedgewood rooms" rather than a bull in a china shop. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Uber Alles!
by Lorraine Hosie 28 Sep '00

28 Sep '00

The German is: Krankenwagon The Literal Translation is: Ill Car The English is: Ambulance Theirs is Clever Ours is Ludicrous Germans 1 English 0 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Spiders, Delgados and words. Oh my!
by Robert Brennan 27 Sep '00

27 Sep '00

Hello. I must say you're all looking well. Lucy said: "Albino spiders! Hens' teeth! I brushed them onto the floor and tried to forget they were there because they gave me the willies." They give me the willies, the creeps and the shits all at once. Faced with two(!) albino spiders I probably would have ran out of the room screaming choice colloquialisms. Then gone back in and burned the bed. And the house just to make sure. Gordon whispered over the crowd: "Big words made easy Most big words are wee words strung together with choice letters missing and no spaces in-between. The Germans seem to specialise in this area." I once quizzed a German flatmate about the finer points of her language. The above seems to be correct - even to the extent of just making up portmanteau words as and when required. Fantastic! If only we could be that creative in English. The Sinisterlist would be a verbalfest of neuvauxlanguage. The Delgados are playing Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms on October 12 and I'm going to be there. G!R!A!T!E! Have fun Robster ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: All you greedy ugly people make my heart go ka-boing.
by jarkko frantila 27 Sep '00

27 Sep '00

Hello. Just a little thing to all you UK listees: Both Hefner& And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead have recorded their very own John Peel-sessions. Now, I'd like to get them both (not just listen to them via the internet, like you can do at the BBC pages). So if there's anyone who has them, would you be interested in taping them for me? Or burn a cd, whatever. Also Sigur Ros is on Peel tonight (tuesday), which also sounds interesting... That too, maybe? What else? Oh, and if you really are a greedy bastard, I could tape something to you in exchange. "Something" being a surprise. That's it. Six hours from now I'll be drunk. Ace! -Jace le PetitE _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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