... but nobody is more scary than maniacs. I've been having maniac incidents this week you see. Like today, I was walking home from school and there were three scary looking men standing around looking shifty. As I walked rapidly past, one of them asked me if I had a light, to which I replied the negative and hurried on. This, in itself, is not too scary, I understand. But the reason I was in such a hurry to put quite a bit of distance between myself and these men is that one of them, not the one looking for a light, was holding what I can only describe as.... a big, fuck off knife. It was like a machete. And he was just brandishing it in broad daylight on a busy street at lunchtime. Obviously as maniacs go they weren't very good, because real maniacs make the effort to conceal any 8 inch blades they have about them. And then the other day I was walking down my street and this yoof was going the other way, and as we passed he spat. Imagine a Dickensian London scene where there's a guy in a top hat and a worker from the workhouse spits at his feet as he walks past. Except that I wasn't wearing a top hat and I know this yoof and he is absolutely loaded. He is a maniac, because he nutted a friend of mine without any good reason. But I find it quite funny that he likes to swagger around pretending he's from da ghetto, wearing his sports gear bought from Oxfam for the tough ghetto look. And driving around in his car with some bangin choons on occasionally stopping to nut people. He's not from the ghetto though, I know where he lives. He's from a plush leafy middle class suburban estate. Cheery bye, Mike Email - smiley@rebelmonkey.freeserve.co.uk The Black Den - http://www.rebelmonkey.freeserve.co.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+