Tjohn: <<Actually thats the second nearest chip shop to my house, but we dont go to the one down the road ever since the fat kid that works there was caught by his boss... to paraphrase a hefner song... making himself go blind.>> This is very worrying... I have heard several examples of this sort of thing going on. Apparently it's not terribly uncommon practice. I read about a bagel shop where the male employees (as opposed to the females who could do so?) would take turns um, hmm how to delicately put it, wanking into a bucket of bagel mix. The resulting "special" bagels were then kept separate from the regular batch, and any time a rude customer came in, or anybody the bagel boys just plain didn't like the looks of, they would get served one of these as revenge. Reason number 1 why I am nice to food service employees... Jim "patiently awaiting his black sessions tape" Schmidt: <<was wondering if anyone else on this list likes the beautiful south (and the housemartins, of course)..>> Of course, I have used TBS as a description to people who ask me what B&S sound like. There are a lot of parallels... the bands both use this very sweet lovely music often coupled with caustic or sad lyrics, trade off between different male and female vocalists, seem to have a cross-generational appeal and erm...perform concerts blind drunk & fighting mad(?). The session version of "Seeing Other People" in particular strikes me as something the Beautiful South could/would do. But I've always been hesitant to bring up this comparison here, as I generally tend to be completely wrong about this sort of thing, which someone is surely going to point out... <<why can't i be happy being alone, and why isn't that okay with everyone else? not everyone is meant for someone.>> that was a really lovely e-mail.... you're certainly not alone...in fact i wouldn't be surprised if you were even in the majority... rainy days and mondays, *sigh* ta, taracita +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+