Once upon a time there was a girl, who despite, or perhaps because of, or perhaps incidental to, her love fairy stories, was slightly unworldly in the ways of computers. Therefore when the big bad computer company Microsoft offered her a free email account with a personalised email address she gratefully accepted. Little did she know what evil schemes they were already plotting with which to entrap her. One day when she returned home after a short stint at porridge theft, and a trip up a beanstalk she opened her email account to discover an angry sounding message from the big bad computer company demanding she delete some of her emails. She wept silently at the cruelness of the world, and deleted many an email containing magic spells to make her younger or larger or many other things that she was too naïve to understand. When she had done that she looked at her nice clean email account and thought: There that will keep them happy for a while longer while I go looking that wretched glass slipper of mine But her happiness was short lived and she reeled back in horror as soon she realised that the big bad computer company said that her nice clean email account had 600kb of emails still in it. Even though she was unworldly in the ways of computers she knew that this was a lot of space for nothing to take up and she became suspicious. Days and weeks, months and maybe even years went by and the poor girl was haunted by the 600kbs of nothingness. Then one day, while the girl was getting bored of being asleep for a thousand years and needed to think of another way to put of doing some proper work for a while, bravely began to investigate the mystery. For many minutes she fought with option settings but to no avail. She dropped helplessly to her knees in front of the and screamed (in a silent and sitting down fashion): what do you want from me you evil thing!? She was just about to give up when she remembered her magic find tool and searched for the word @ which is an ancient symbol present in all email addresses. Magically lost emails started to appear before her eyes whilst the girl look on in amazement. The emails seemed to have come from a far off land where people wore cardigans and worshipped a god called B&S. She smiled as she remembered her own trips to this land. There were stories about the day the B&S gods landed on the earth and people from all over the world ran to worship them. There were emails containning the words to the scared hymns of the land. She also found stories she had written herself when she had been very sad indeed. But most importantly of all she found the kind things people had said in reply. Her heart glowed with warmth and fondness for this land and she decided to revisit this beloved place. Many years later she blew up the big bad computer company, and everyone else went to live in a gingerbread house, and lived happily ever after. The End hope you are all safe and well, Take Care Rachel ************* Your homes are set upon the land a dreamer found. The pictures on its walls are visions from a dreamer's soul. http://www.friendsoftheheroes.co.uk ***************** _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+