Oy oy saveloy..... The "Christopher Timothy Experience" (and there's a name for a band if ever I heard one) continues, don't you know. I was late for the train this morning, through ignorance, weakness, or my own deliberate fault, so had to catch one that I don't normally get. Anyway, I sit down on the platform, do a roll-up (which was part of the curriculum in our school for B.A.G.A. level 3 gymnastics), and happen to glance at the bloke sitting next to me. Yes, you've guessed it - it was the one, the only, Mr. James Herriot again. I thought for a short while of trying to apologise for my previously drunken behaviour at the Saint Trinians night, but I didn't, for one reason. Have you any idea how hard it is to keep a straight face when you're sitting next to someone who: a) is dead, dead, famous b) met you last when you had "SLUT" written in lipstick on your forehead, and c) has been seen by Ian having rampant anal sex with an Orang-utan?? Well?? Have you?? Hmmmm. Thought not. It's bloody hard, let me assure you. So, not wanting to make even more of a tit of myself than I undoubtedly already have to this particular celebrity geezer, I hauled my convulsively giggling self into the other side of the carriage and kept well away. Probably best, I reckon. On the Jysaw-Dave-raised question of indie-cool, I tend to think that doing things just because they're "cool" is just a bit pointless, really. Pointless because "cool", like most other things in life (thank-you Mr. Einstein) depends entirely on frame-of-reference, on perception. As my mum used to say, "One man's meat is another man's mustard", which, even though it is one of the worlds most tenuous analogies, does have some truth to it. What you think is "cool" may get you universally laughed at by other groups in society. So why bother? Do what *YOU* want to do. Wear what *YOU* want to wear. Listen to what *YOU* want to hear. And that's to say at all that you should only do all that if it happens to be non-conformist. If what you want to do is completely MOR, but it happens to be your own particular scene, your style, your movie, then that's great. IMHO, there's nothing worse than people not being themselves. Here endeth the lesson. Anyone not agreeing with the above can send the usual boiled rabbits, horses heads and packets of excrement to the usual place, peter.ramsdale@wdr.com......... Have a good weekends picnicing. I shall be with you in spirit. In that litre bottle of Famous Grouse at the end of the bar, to be precise. .....yolevas, yo, yO lol p xx. -- -----------------------------*||*-------------------------------- "Edgar Malroy said, 'A supermarket trolley that believes in God,' and then burst out laughing. He laughed like this: Ahhhh-ooo Ahhhh-ooo. I told him I wasn't the only one." Bo Fowler - "Scepticism Inc." Pete Ramsdale - Unix Systems Administration, Warburg Dillon Read Phone: 0171 568 3836 -----------------------------*||*-------------------------------- This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+