Piazza New York Catcher -------------------------------------- I'm a bit disappointed with Piazza New York Catcher now that I know that "Ferdinand" was a reference to "The Collector", by John Fowles, rather than to "Rio Ferdinand" of the English Premier League, by Barclaycard. I was absolutely convinced of the latter, what with all the references to the "Hotel Bedroom" gang rapes and "limping round" after a fight in the tunnel on pagan (aka Turkish) holidays. "I love you I've a drowning grip on your adoring face" - the way Turkish player Alpay poked David Beckham in the face. "Beside you and strong warnings in the guise of gentle words, come wave upon me from the wider family net absurd" - a double reference to the "I'll kill you" line by Macedonian player Sakiri and the insults to Beckham's mother from Alpay. "Life outside the diamond is a wrench" - how Butt, Scholes, Beckham and Gerrard formed the formidable Diamond formation in midfield, and how the rest of the team were shite. The giveaway line "A Trail for the DEVIL to erase" - Rio plays for Man United (the "Red Devils"), who are trying to help him shake off the Drug test evasion charges! I was so certain of this, until this revelation of this John Fowles thing. Oh great, thanks a lot. The DVD ------------- During the few moments when I'm not so depressed about this Ferdinand business, I managed to watch some of that B&S DVD. I loved how they have English subtitles so that people who don't understand Scottish accents (i.e. everyone) can have a clue what the hell they're saying! It's funny to have been to Glasgow a few times and recognising places in the videoes/little documentary bits. Almost like a holiday programme of somewhere you've been. Even more weird if you've been to those gigs that were on it I guess, or if you ACTUALLY APPEAR ON THE VIDEO. Look at me I'm on TV it makes up for ... etc. I've also just realised that I was once inside the same shoe shop as the bloke who made this DVD, yeah man, fame. I've also witnessed a near-death incident involving a football and the girl who's on the cover of the DVD and I'm glad that from the photo she looked to have recovered, although a little cold perhaps. Excellent. Unnecessary Information ------------------------------------ The inside of my thigh just twitched involuntarily in the exact same frequency as the vibration that a Nokia 8310 would generate when it rings. Which made me think that I had just received a text message, and I didn't. The shame. c u l8r Ken ********************************************************************** This email is confidential and intended solely for the person or entity to whom it is addressed. If this email was not intended for you please notify the UCLH Mail Administrator at mail.administrator@uclh.org. This footnote confirms that the email and attachments contained no viruses when they left UCLH. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+