I think I should start quoting Whitlams lyrics for all my subject lines, because a) They are a wonderful band who most people on this list have never heard of; and b) I can never think of anything better, I ran out of original imaginative subject lines to use in my postings about 3 years ago. Speaking of bands (now how's that for a tenuous link?), thanks to the people who told me about the Kings of Convenience, a unanimous vote of approval. So I've bitten the bullet and ordered the album. It hasn't arrived yet, probably because in the same order I asked for a Shakira album which there seem to be no copies of anywhere in Britain... Meanwhile, David gave us his Sinister drinking game: 1. You get the urge to snog Mark Casarotto. 2. CarsmileSteve puts something on his website. 3. Genevieve makes the boys blush! 4. Someone downloads a song off napster. 5. Someone who isn't you goes to a sinister meet up and your sooo jealous. 6. PineFox mentions a band you've never heard of. and I would just like to make it perfectly clear that I have never had an urge to snog Mark Casarotto. Calm down ladies, he's ugly. And Genevieve doesn't make the boys blush, she just makes us daydream about being the lucky guy in her dream who saw her frolicking naked through the meadows. Forget the tape tree, what we need is a Valentine's Card tree. All the single listees could just send each other anonymous cards with little messages of love inside, and the world would be a better place. Of course, it's a bit late now for the actual day, but if we don't start it until Thursday we'll all be able to get the cards at half-price. Ah, the romance. Two new B&S singles? This Spring? Oh look, is that a flock of pigs up there in the sky? Still, maybe it's time to revive the long running campaign to get them to play a gig at the Royal Albert Hall... OK, time for a bit of a rant (translation: you've read the relevant bit, time to delete now): Turn your mind back two or three years. We'd just had a couple of very hot summers in the UK, water shortages all over the place, even rationing in some places, and the reservoirs were almost empty. And we were told that it was all because of global warming, and we'd better get used to it. Now, in the last few months we've seen the worst flooding for many years in parts of England, the reservoirs are overflowing, there's no way there'll be any water shortages for the next couple of summers, and we're told that that's all because of global warming as well. Erm, hello? Does that make any sense at all to anyone? I've just been waiting for someone to go on the telly and say that last week's heavy snow in Scotland was because of global warming as well... I'll probably a few replies now from environmentalists slagging me off, but before you do, just answer me one thing: surely even if every single bit of ice-cap at the North Pole melted, it's floating anyway, so doesn't Archimedes' Principle say that the sea level wouldn't change by a millimetre? <\rant> Lots of romantic slushy kisses you all, Big Stu +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+