Hello. Ive been to work again and this time I got to work with the fish. I had to wear big white wellies and a stripy apron and shut down the counter, which simply involved throwing water over everything and then sweeping the ice and water into the drain. Fun! Piss Chris said: please, people learn to spell. GRATE means a metal thingie with slits for drainage, ect. it doesn't mean "really, really good.". get back to school, the lotta ya. GRATE as a word denoting really good things, comes from the phrase cheese grater. Cheese is grated and eaten, and enjoyed a great (sic) deal. It has become popular among cheese afficionados (cf. Sarah Clarke, Tim Hopkins) to refer to a cheese session as a spin with the grater and like the word groovy which originally was used to describe a piece of particularly enjoyable piece of music (Shania Twain for example is not groovy, whilst Sarah Cracknell *is* groovy), has become a term that is used more often nowadays to describe a mental state of enjoying an action, rather than the mere physical action. So, although cheese is grated, and this action is known as a grate, the word grate has come, not just to show the action of grating, but also the result of the grating which is good, or grate. Lately, the usage grate has expanded, and is used to refer to anything that is really good. Jason Andreas fish bar: I'll give you a hearty handshake and a Radiohead bootleg <grin> Where I come from, radiohead bootleg is a euphemism for frottage which specifically involves clingfilm and hiccups. Im incredible excited about Clockwork Orange. I love Malcolm Macdowell, but only when he has no stupid beard like he had in Caligula. I can even understand Nadsat. I need massaging. I ache. Stuart Murdoch shopping. Aww. People look at me weird in shops, but its usually warranted. Like when its 3am and Im in my pyjamas, or in summer when Im barefoot in town. Or that time I pretended to be a goth. Accidentally got Bacardi Breezer cravings the other night so went to Dostlar Supermarket and got some. On a week night too. If anyone wants to come and watch the sunset on Primrose Hill on Tuesday night, do come along, Im going, cos Ive not been in ages and its lovely pretty. Lixi.xx "Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's an 8 inch anal probe, silly" ~ DNaMagazine ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+