Hi, Having just graduated from the Sinister Nursery, I thought I'd better post if only to be able to say I've written words read by over 1000 people. A scary thought, indeed. On the subject of books, I'd recommend The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, in which a guy is wrongfully imprisoned for years and then escapes and wreaks revenge over about eleven hundred pages. It's very good, though, take my word for it (if a bit of a commitment...). Also, Mr Strong by Roger Hargreaves - in my opinion the best of the Mr Men books. Watch out for the twist at the end, though - it took me by suprise. Someone asked a while back whether Roger Hargreaves was a woman, but being in nursery limbo, I was unable to reply - I can confirm, however, that Roger Hargreaves was a woman, or at least a bit confused. (S)he's listed on the publishing history page as Mrs Roger Hargreaves. So there you go. I don't think I've ever inserted anything of interest up my nose, although when I was a child I almost choked on an Aniseed ball, to which I now have a terrible aversion - who can blame me, though - the little bastard almost killed me... My sister has a hamster called Colin, for what that's worth - not a very fishy name, though, I have to admit. Mind you, at primary school the class goldfish were called Zippy and Zappy - the results of a "First out of the Hat" style draw. They only lasted a term or two, though - my friend took them home for the Easter holiday and managed to kill them - by neglect or abuse we never found out. The line in Seymour Stein definitely goes "Has he ever seen Dundee?", not "North of Scotland has he seen?" as written in the lyric sheet. Also, the line in the lyric sheet at the end of that verse goes "Seymour bring her back to me" but is sung "Seymour send her back to me" which conveys a completely different meaning, if you can be bothered to work it out - I can't, though, due to the amount of revision I ought to be doing for my A levels this summer. Do bands/record labels deliberately change the lyrics in the CD book bit to keep fans on their toes? I think we should be told. Anyway, that's enough of that. Maybe I ought to go and do something constructive... Apologies for anything I've discussed which was cleared up ages ago - I have a backlog of 210 Sinister messages taking up space in my Inbox which I just don't have time to read - it's not that I'm lazy in particular, just overworked, that's all. Mark Ollerenshaw PS: I'm curious - am I the only person who rates Subcircus? They released an album a few years back, did a session or two for Mark & Lard on their (much missed) Graveyard slot and then vanished into thin air, so to speak. I now get the feeling that I'm the only person that bought their album (Carousel, which is actually very good) and they gave the whole music lark up, bitter and cynical indviduals. "Keeping an open mind is a virtue - but not so open that your brains fall out." - Carl Sagan +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+