******* the boy on the right looks down at his letters and can't believe that he has seven vowels. seven frickin' vowels! he still manages to get 15 points though. the boy on the left adds 15 to the boy on the right's score before glancing down at his letters. he has a nice mix of vowels and consonants. unfortunately the board is a little cramped up, so he slides a few tiles into place for a disappointing single figure score. he takes a swig of beer and thinks that life is okay. sure, a lot of his friends have moved away recently, but this is a great opportunity to meet new people. and to get to know other people better, like the boy on the right. the girl in the background purgingly flicks through her CD collection. in with the new, out with the old. the old green armchair on the far left sits in the corner knowingly. see that bit of paper on top of it? it is a printout of that night's bowling expedition. ******* ******* jeremy ever so stylishly bowls the ball down towards the ten defenceless soldiers. the sound of crashing pins echoes in my ears as jeremy's ball smashes into the soldiers, knocking them in all directions. but one stubborn soldier refuses to go the way of its brothers and sisters. it is rocking back and forth, trying to succeed where its siblings so horribly failed. time slows down as we wait to see the fate of the lone soldier. our eyes transfixed, our mouths agape. the gravity of the situation becomes too much for the soldier, and with pride and dignity it slowly topples over. Jeremy triumphantly returns to the bench as we applaud his successful strike. he may have won the battle this time, but the war is far from over. ******* terry --- here's what i think: http://naivetysucceeds.blogspot.com caitlin and terry's sinister recipe tree archives: http://www.joannou.net/topofthestairs/sinifood/ _____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus&ref=lmtplus +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+