Boring stuff first: 1. (Yawn) PLEASE don't send subscribes/unsubscribes to sinister@majordomo.net, send them to majordomo@majordomo.net. All attempts to do so to sinister will result in 10 additional subscriptions to the list and a packet of stale crisps through the post. 2. Please remember (particularly digesters) that a "reply" in most mail programs will come to me and not go to the list - re-address to "sinister@majordomo.net". I don't send them on, not until someone has a *nice* dream about me. 3. Don't use the list for private mail or mail to about 5 people. Some specific content in a general message is fine but please don't rattle on for ages. 4. Don't quote gallons of text and add a line. If you're quoting more than you're saying don't bother. 5. I applaud loudly the big leap in creativity and thought in the last 3 days (including stupid thought). The drill is: compose your message... hover your finger over the send key for 10 seconds... think whether we all want to hear and whether Cliff Richard would approve... send. On 2 Feb 1998, Nick Dastoor/BSHO/GB wrote:
Talking of dreams, I had my B&S dream the other night. Well, to be precise it was a rather embarrassing B&S mailing list dream. In it, I somehow ended up offering to let Paedophile Paul (poor boy's gone a bit quiet since the great baby picture scandal shit hit the fan) stay at my house for a while. It turned out he was a hideous one-legged dwarf (I kid you not) but I tried to disguise my shock and take him out on the town, go shopping and stuff. It reminded me of having to do the same with my french exchange partner many moons ago. Not that he was a one-legged dwarf or anything. But he did have dandruff.
HoneyPP replies: the nerve. I would like to go on record as saying that (a) I am do not want naked pictures of children if that's OK, even if from the 1970s/60s/50s (although I might make an exception for Linda), (b) I do not have dandruff/one leg/a height "problem" (hideous is up to you lot, although I'm a bit worried about being pictured as "Smelly Spice" by Linda's wee cousin if you've found it on the WWW pages), (c) I bet one-legged hideous dwarves are the best of people. However I *do* like appearing in people's dreams - Nick, what did you buy me on the shopping spree? M&S? Did you keep the receipt as it may not be my size? "Johnston, John CT" scribbled:
Hooray! Somebody else has had a list dream!! I must reveal that ol' HoneyChile himself appeared in my dream and he was NEITHER hideous NOR one-legged NOR in anyway a dwarf. (PC note - not that there's anything wrong with any of the above). But I couldn't write about it quite like Nick could (marvellous stuff). What was the film??
Lumme, I was just about to retire to a back seat on the list, put on me slippers and smoke a pipe. OK, I am willing to appear in dreams on request. But John you leave me dangling - what happened? John is quite right in saying you lot have been right miserable gits in not sending pictures. I now have... hmmm 6 baby pictures which isn't enough to shake a stick at. The boys are winning on the sickly cuteness scale. If I don't get more soon I will give up on any competition idea and just shove them on the WWW page - like a damp squib. Oh and I also have a scanner in the office so you'll be able to see me soon at 3, with two legs, normal height (for 3) and smiling in a preposterous way. Honey xxx 10 seconds... Cliff... just about... send. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------