Hiya, its only me... Astrid told us that its been lovely in Stockholm. It impressed me. I remember, back in the days of yore, when I was out in Tromso (approx 400 miles north of the artic circle, chilly fact fans) and how it was starting to get sunny, but there was still a good 3 inches of snow lying on top of 2 inches of solid ice, on the roads, while on the roadsides, it was ooh.. more and more inches of snow. Even when I left in May, the grass was still as clear as mud, and the snow was still laying there. Within the space of a month, it would turn, from being a cold winterland to being summery, with the leaves bursting out of the trees, and flowers finally able to show their little flowery heads, the tulips and the snowdrops within days of one another, like summer and spring were thrown together into a week in June. It was like Mother Nature had a very busy calender, and thought it would be a good idea. David Moore wrote about being called a turkey while bowling. I think the worst insult I have received (this can't be true - there must be worse) from a computerised thingy was a chicken. And to prove its point, it showed a picture of a chicken, just in case I didn't know what a chicken was. That was while bowling also. I was a bit of a chicken the other day though. My laptop, that has more mood swings than I do, started screaming at me. So I ran away, in fear of it blowing up or something. Turned out I had the mic and the speakers on so loud it was getting feedback. Ah.. yes. I thought I'd report back on an unsinister weekend. I didn't do anything remotely sinister whatsoever, not in the mailing list sense. Not unless you count porn. Me and some pals, who I shall call Bernard and Nellie for the sake of anonominity (I always want to spell that as "anonyminty" although I suspect my own spelling is wrong anyway), thought it would be a good idea to go and sit in Borders cafe on a sunny sunday afternoon, and indulge ourselves in watching men looking at mens so-called lifestyle magazines. Then we had a good idea with watching one bloke, who seemed far too interested in some of the mags, in particular, the pictures of naked ladies (*imagines Ken Chu finding this post as he performs -fnar- a search for the words "porn; naked; blow -up; ladies" in sinister*) and we watched him walk around the store for a bit. So my pal thought it would be a laugh to go and set down a soft porn mag - Barefoot Beauties - somewhere on a shelf near the P.J.O'Rourke books this guy was looking at. Sure enough, we enjoyed a full 45 minutes of the guy looking coyly at the magazine laid before his eyes; then picking it up (inside a copy of a book that was much too small to disguise his true "reading" material); rubbing himself against a bookshelf as he did so; putting it down; going for a wander; cooming back to the mag; picking it up; putting it down; going for another wander while groping around in his pocket; showing it to his pal; and then finally investing in some titilating.. erm.. tits. Hey, what else do you do on a sunny afternoon? It was quite amusing, playing gods of some description or nature who get their thrills from people getting their..erm.. thrills. We went out clubbing too, on Saturday night, the traditional sabbath of the boogie generation, but thats besides the point. Anyway. time to go. Love idles xx ===== http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corduroysmoke/ starting playground gossip and passing notes __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+