What has happened to Bergerac? When it was first on TV, Nettles was the coolest customer around. For a while during the late eighties, Jersey was the new black. Me and my family actually went on a pilgrimage there to check out all the famous scenery. I think it would be fair to say Bergerac was the most doogy thing around, the non-thinking man's Morse. At least that is what I thought... Now, 10 years later the programme has actually aged 40, some sort of twin paradox I think. Big John is now married to that old Italian bird out of Eastenders, the stories are worse than Big Brother, and corrupt business man Charlie Hungerford looks like he should be on a Worther's Original Advert. I mean, the other day Polly from Fawlty Towers was married to Michael Gambon! My boyhood dreams have been destroyed. The Likely Lads has aged less. It's very chicken chicken. If Bergerac is the downside of being on the dole, the upside is definitely Cricket. I feel sorry for any of you who will be earning money instead of watching the next thrilling instalment of England vs West Indies. I wouldn't swap with you for the world. Why don't Belle and Sebastian release Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner to coincide with the Olympic Games? They could include Steve Cram singing Stars of Track and Field and then maybe Michael Johnson could dedicate his 400m gold medal to Photo Jenny, 'They've got the drugs I could use, but then I don't need any'. This cat has started walking into our house, strutting up and down the kitchen like he owns the joint. I gave him a saucer of milk and some batter. He hasn't started sitting on our sofa yet, but I wouldn't be surprised it he did soon. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+