Hullo chaps and chapesses, I saw my favourite con-man yesterday, he's really very good. About three months ago he came up to me and told me how he'd just finished serving a 6 year prison sentence and he'd come to this guy who promised him a job but he wasn't there anymore and he had to get back to where-ever ny 6 or the parole people would chuck him back in the slammer etc etc. Normally I find sob stories an insult to my intelligence; they're usually less than convincing. But this guy did tears and everything, he was really good. So I gave him 30p, which he didn't take too well as he stormed off at this point. To be fair to me I only had 30p. Anyway I saw him yesterday and he did exactly the same routine on me. I thought he lost points for not changing his story over three months, that seems quite lazy. And he *did* storm off again when I have him 40p (the 10p increase might indicate a rise in my social and financial position over the last 3 months. Then again, it might not). But to still be producing fake tears after over three months of doing so several times a day surely deserved my 40p, I thought. Must actors wouldn't manage that surely? His timetable and note telling him where to get his new job could do with being replaced though, it was looking a bit tatty. I'm not sure what this has to do with anything, but there you go. Love, Mikey :o) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+