David - How on earth could you find a harmless , saggy, old, cloth cat scary....;-) All I used to think was "how in the blue blazes does that girl make any money out of that shop?" Bloody good question if you ask me. I mean - she didn't sell anything. Ever, in fact. She just gave it back to the rightful owner. Personally, I think it must have been a cover up operation for massive drug trafficking - imagine if you will: person drops off a small plastic ship or a ballet shoe outside emily's shop. Unbeknown to the general public and unsuspecting pre-pubescent viewers, there's a huge wad of cash inside. Emily takes it into the shop and Bagpuss and his mates get going. Madeleine the rag doll sings a bit, Gabriel the toad does a wicked George Formby impression on the ukel..uki...ukeliel...banjo, Professor Yaffel the carved wooden bookend sits there going "Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah" for a bit, and then the mice on the mouse organ turn a bag full of butterbeans and breadcrumbs into the finest coke this side of Lawrence Dallaglio's hotel room (there you go, Nick, that's as close as I get). The aformentioned class 'A' drug is then stuffed back into the ship/ballet shoe, and shipped off back to the owner, straight under the nose of Her Majesty's Customs and Excise. Foolproof. Anyway, I'm off home. Maybe there'll be some proper B&S content tomorrow. Sorry..... lol p xx. -- ---------------------------*||*------------------------------ Life is full of regrets, and I've had a few, as Frank Sinatra once sang, before hiccuping loudly and falling over sideways. Pete Ramsdale - peter.ramsdale@wdr.com Phone: 0171 568 3836 ---------------------------*||*------------------------------ This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+