hello my little sexpigs, i found out something very eeenteresting today, my dears. did you know that sinister means 'left-handed'? apparently the etymyoloymylogical root of the word is something to do with holding one's shield on the left side or somesuch. quite how this evolved to mean 'perturbing, in a worrying, scurrying, flurrying sort of way' (in the World Of Common Usage) and 'a bit peed off, 'cos no-ones listening to me' (in the World Of Struan Murdochette) and 'a bunch of corduroy-wearing tweeists who dance with wobbly head side-to-side yah!' (in Our World) is one of the Mysteries Of Time. this sunday, of course, i shall be insisting everyone holds their drinks with the sinister hand. and i shall be inspecting your underwear, and it had better be the correct shade of red, otherwise erm... otherwise.. otherwise Marie will lose her voice again and Uncle Remus will have to Save The World. and you don't want THAT on your conscience. ------------------------------------------ well, my loves, its been a frustrating day. the only plan i had was to download a life-size picture of jeff stryker (look, if you don't know who he is, just ask Stephen Hewitt) from the modern electrical interweb. unfortunately, there's been a fucking nun on my computer all morning. not a fucking nun literally, you understand. that might be forgiveable. at the very least i could take pictures, mark 'em up and sell 'em on. she spent at least two hours looking at www.winkingjesus.com and enthusing over www.jesusdance.com and, in the end, i gave her drugs to get rid of her. i've shoved her back in the shed with the man trap on. she may be a bride of christ, but I am the one who needs something blue. anyway, i've posted enough lately. some would say too much. so i'll go, and leave you with this thought. i hope you got that thought. i've never been great at telepathy. xx ian +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+