So said Pete... -- Christ, mate - not even the go-go dancers in Wigan wear pasties on their nipples. Meat pies, maybe, but I don't think any of them have sunk as low as pasties yet. Oh, the joy of words that mean different things at different sides of the pond. I suppose my pervious statement (and hence previous post on the subject) deserves some explanation. For those of you not used to going to the pie shop and ordering a pastie on a friday for lunch, a pastie (over here at least) is a sort-of pretender to the throne of the all-conquering meat pie. It's essentially a pastry wrapping around a filling of meat and potato or cheese and onion, and it comes in two main forms, "cornish" or "puff". A Cornish pastie has your average inch-and-a-half thick, solid as a rock pastry round it, and Puff Pasties have kind of more of a filoux (referred to as "puff") pastry. -- This is all very well and good but it only begs the question (well in my mind anyhoo) "What do you call the little things UK go-go dancers wear over their nipples?" I'm not about to go look at any UK stripping sites to find out either, what fun would that be. I think the closest thing we have to puff pasties are spanikopitas, very delicious spinach pies of Greek/Med. origin. This sounds like the UK version of the wrapped savory dish though a la egg rolls, burritos, knishes, ravioli, gyros, etc. So I'm to understand the go-go dancers in Wigan are of low quality over there? Perhaps some Wigan dancers on the list would like to defend themselves...? (I'm not holding my breath) I think I remember in my young non-global mind thinking Big Country were really really strange. "They're Scottish? But...they have a black guy in it!" (I thought only the US and Africa were privy to black populations....this was before I knew about imperialism and the like...or before my mind could handle such a mind-blowing concept as a black person with a Scottish accent) I don't think I even liked them the first time around. Man, I was so stupid then. But weren't we all. Now, bring on the Proclaimers reunion to accompany the apocalypse... Xavier -- BXK bkim0@dept.english.upenn.edu | www.english.upenn.edu/~bkim0 It's what kind of hair you have on the inside that counts.--G.S. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+