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Sinister: Stuart Murdoch is a nutter
by susannah 19 Feb '98

19 Feb '98

Stuart Murdoch wrote: *What makes a biscuit a biscuit and a bar a bar? For example, Twix, biscuit or bar? 5,4,3,2,1 bar or biscuit? Which treat surfs the elusive dividing line the best? and also *Who is the most famous living person? Stuart, Stuart, I understand that you are new to the list, but please please read the FAQ's on what you can and can't post from Honey's Sinister site. Irrelevant topics like these just waste evreybody's time and clog up the list with useless information. If you want to say anything at all please make it relevant to the band. Right now that's been said, the Collins Engish Dictionary states that a biscuit is : 'a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough.' Whilst a bar is: 'a solid rectangular block of any material' So, a biscuit must contain something that is made from a dough, and then can be covered in chocolate or not, depending on how you like it, whilst a bar can be anything rectangular. Therefore anything can be a BAR, but not anything a biscuit. Hence there is an area of overlapping territory here, a bit like a Venn diagram, with bars/biscuits that fall into both, so a twix/club/penguin are biscuits and bars simultaneously. However WHERE THE HELL DOES THAT LEAVE WAGON WHEELS? Most living famous person: Could be you Stuart if you bothered to re-release Tigermilk, play more gig and do interviews. Just a thought. Maybe I've hit the nail on the head and that's actually the reason you choose to spend your pop career hiding behind the sofa. Love, Susannah xxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Fame
by Chris 19 Feb '98

19 Feb '98

Bugger this 'Whose the most famous person in the world' thing, when the answer is clearly Oprah Winfrey. More relevantly, who's the most famous person in B&S? Jane? Jenny? Judy? (Jennifer? Jason? etc.) C. "Could we please be objective?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Buiscuits & Boerdom
by Huw Jenkins 19 Feb '98

19 Feb '98

I'm sorry Stuart, but I'm finding it really difficult to get interested about this buiscuit debate. Can't you think of something more inspring to challenge us with, I can't,my mind is just blank with boerdom due to my job (I hope my boss doesn't catch me writing this). I'll just keep myself entertained with B&S tunes washing around my mind. I did a music business course just like that guy in B&S (sorry I can't remember his name), and look where it's got me, sitting in front of a computer from 8-4 m-f, hopelessly trying to sort out other peoples problems- Oh Well, I'd better stop before I begin to ramle on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on............................................... Bye for now. Huw If any body can give me some advise on how to get into the chat romm you'd make a special little boy very happy.

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Sinister: re: Pazz and Jop
by Francisco Alberto Wong 19 Feb '98

19 Feb '98

This posting address has the distinction of being at the very bottom of my list, so it's easy to find~ Anycase, just to let the good kids on this list know--if ya ain't on the NYC tip--that the Village Voice just printed their annual Pazz and Jop insert. It's basically a chance for Robert Christagau to drop kewl words like "electronica" and "unfettered access". Watch the oxford dictionary change before your very eyes! magic! As for B+S, they made it to #18 on his list, and to the top 10 on two other "contributor's" lists as well. There were 2 comments made by readers about Belle and Sebastian that, if I had the copy in front of me, I would share with all of you. But for now, suffice that one was pro-Stu, the other anti-Stu. Whilst the Spice Girls get a headline and a near page devoted to their "wings of a butterfly in South America" affect. I will try to get a copy of the voice and share the exact numbers and opinions. francisco ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Sinister: re: Pazz and Jop
by Angelina.DeGiovanni＠v2music.com 19 Feb '98

19 Feb '98

Anycase, just to let the good kids on this list know--if ya ain't on the NYC tip--that the Village Voice just printed their annual Pazz and Jop insert. It's basically a chance for Robert Christagau to drop kewl words like "electronica" and "unfettered access". Watch the oxford dictionary change before your very eyes! magic! As for B+S, they made it to #18 on his list, and to the top 10 on two other "contributor's" lists as well. There were 2 comments made by readers about Belle and Sebastian that, if I had the copy in front of me, I would share with all of you. But for now, suffice that one was pro-Stu, the other anti-Stu. Whilst the Spice Girls get a headline and a near page devoted to their "wings of a butterfly in South America" affect. I will try to get a copy of the voice and share the exact numbers and opinions. francisco >>>IYFS was #8 on the overall Pazz and Jop list! All of you can check out the results on www.villagevoice.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Long messages
by Manic Burnie 19 Feb '98

19 Feb '98

Just two things I'd like to know: Why are the messages sooooooooooooo very long on this mailing list? And when are B&S playing London (or Newcastle) again? Gann canny now. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: B&S dream
by ***Rob B*** 19 Feb '98

19 Feb '98

Yes - last night I had a belle and sebastian dream.. sort of. I was going to Tokyo, for some reason, not sure why, by plane. I was going with a friend who for some reason turned into Isobel half-way through the dream (what does this mean??). Anyway, when we got the tickets on the morning of the flight, we discovered, much to our delight, that Belle and Sebastian were doing the inflight entertainment. Yes, they were performing a concert in the plane, half way to Japan. And they were being supported by 'The Cheesey Big Band' (!) - whatever that might be. Unfortunately I woke up before actually getting on the plane, which is a bit of an arse really, so I can't report on the concert itself. Shame. Ummm biscuit... bar? I think I have to agree that biscuits should be flat, and bars should be rectangular, but to be perfectly honest I think there's quite a lot of overlap between the two terms. And I really don't care one iota about the difference between kiosks and cubicles. That's all I have to say, so bye bye Rob xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Biscuits
by MATTHEW M STEAD 19 Feb '98

19 Feb '98

Just to throw a spanner in the works. Are there not such things as biscuit bars? I'm sure you see them at British Rail Station food shops. Are these some sort of strange mutants of the humble bar and the mighty biscuit? Safeway make Orange flavour chocolate biscuit bars. Any other examples?! Matt. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Ronan, second attempt
by Huw Jenkins 19 Feb '98

19 Feb '98

Ronan, sorry you didn't get my message the first time round so here it is now. Ronan, > Thanks for responding but I've already excepted an offer of an > introduction to Nick Drake from someonelse. however, I may soon own a > copy of Tigermilk and I'll pass it on to you after you've sent me a > tape. I will also copy you some Karate so that you will know. I > should be getting a copy o Tigermlk through very soon and as soon as I > do I will let you know. > > Bye for now, > Huw

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Sinister: a smashing orangey bit
by mctag＠mcmail.com 19 Feb '98

19 Feb '98

Hello, It's good to know that amidst these irrelevant debates on education cuts, the plight of the homeless, and Northy's (God, I miss him) concerns about the CHEMICAL WEAPONS OF MISTER SADDAM HUSSEIN (READ YOUR PAPERS PEOPLE!!!!!), that someone has their fingers truly on the pulse of the nation. I'm talking of course of Stewpot Murdoch, and his wandering band of minstrels, who asked.... >*What makes a biscuit a biscuit and a bar a bar? For example, Twix, biscuit or >bar? 5,4,3,2,1 bar or biscuit? Which treat surfs the elusive dividing line the >best? Bars are roughly cuboid in nature. Biscuits are thinner. So that a Twix or a 5-4-3-2-1 is a bar, and a digestive is a biscuit. Tunnocks caramel bars (a tasty treat with a thousand uses) are bars. But there are a number of strange issues. Fig rolls, for example, are not bars, certainly, but are they called 'rolls' because veer away somewhat from the biscuit concept? And although 'if you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit' implies that a club is a biscuit, there is a difference between biscuit as a filling or a base for a bar, and "a" biscuit. A club is not "a" chocolate either, even though it has chocolate in it. A club is a bar. And what about hobnobs? They can be in two forms - a biscuit or individually wrapped bars. And jaffa cakes, which are particular bone of contention for me. Biscuit or cake? Since they are described as cakes, a recent EC directive decreed that they should therefore be taxed accordingly. And a jaffa cake contains light sponge, chocolate and a smashing orangey bit, but not 'biscuit'. But I can't help feeling that an authentic cake should somehow be bigger. I have no problem with them being called jaffa 'cakes', somehow jaffa sponges or jaffa biscuits is aesthetically inferior, and a bombay duck is a fish not a duck, and a parson's nose is not a nose at all, so why should a jaffa cake be a cake. A case of EC bureaucracy gone mad, perhaps? Maybe, other readers or indeed Stuart himself would care to offer their views. >and also > >*Who is the most famous living person? The Lord Jesus, who lives in all of us ... >Lastly, thanks Keith Watson for answering some of the new mailers so nicely. ... especially Keith. In fact, I believe Keith is Jesus. His polo neck is merely a more stylish version of a halo. Tag xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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