It's changed days in the universities of Britain these days... Kristin Mitchell wrote: "there is a Smirnoff Ice promotion at the union bar and its only costing like a quid a bottle." Whatever happened to students drinking student drinks, in my day it was all snakebite and cheap lager, no wonder they're always complaining about being skint ;) It's true about those stars of track and field you know, looks like quite a few of them fell out the ugly tree and hit all the branches! Seems like Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner was written with Britain's middle distance runners in mind seeing as how most of them spend most of the race 10 metres behind the leaders! It's strange how many B&S songs could relate to the Olympics, here's a few I thought of... Expectations: What all the Olympic athletes start out with. She's Losing It: What the commentators tend to say when a British athlete is entering the last 100 metres. You're Just a Baby: Description of the female gymnasts. I Could Be Dreaming: Of winning something It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career: (if he hadn't finished last in the first heat.) Hmm, need to get out more.... David White www.belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+