"men, dont do that stupid warbly whistling all round the shop.and if you do dont stand with your hand on your hip and do andrew loyd webber. its not ladylike." I've never noticed it in supermarkets but I have noticed that everytime theres been somebody in my house to do domestic repairs or deliveries (gas man, electricity man, delivery men or whatever) they always do that warbling whistle thing. It's never a tune I've ever heard but seems to be kind of organic in that it constantly changes and doesn't seem to be one tune in particular. I reckon it must be part of the training. The only other place I've ever heard them is on trains. Theres generally some old bastard sitting right behind me whistling away in that incredibly annoying, through the teeth style that makes the sound penetrate through even the loudest personal stereo headphones. Grrr. Speaking of trains, British Rail (or whatever they are called these days) really are hopeless aren't they. I say this as a regular train traveller, but today they surpassed themselves. In the one week when trains have become much more important since people can't use cars (petrol shortage in the UK for all those overseas listees), they decide to introduce a brand spanking new train at Glasgow Central station. Except that the damn thing got no further than 100 yards out of the platform before it derailed and thus caused pandemonium for all subsequent trains in and out of the station. D'oh! David White david@djwhite47.freeserve.co.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+