ello babies the wonders of babelfish strike again... as my schoolboy french seems to have disintegrated to the point where i couldn't read the benecassim review, i tried babelfish for some help. the subject line was possibly the most humourous bit (i think you can guess who "he" is, i know a canadian who'll be quivering at the thought of his strict trousers...) although most of it was the usual gibberish you get from babelfish. whilst wandering through the archives i remembered i was meant to be finding out where "struan" comes from, and it came as a bit of surprise. the first mention: http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/199803/msg00792.html actually refers to mr david, rather than murdoch, and was made by mistopher chris leonard. the first usage of it ****which still exists**** to refer to howlin' mad: http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/199807/msg00602.html (*if you read that one it refers to another chris leonard post .../199807/msg450.html which is 404, spoooooky...) was, rather inevitably, made by The Duke of Harringay who is responsible for more than you imagine, little children. Other early adopters include funky seb (ask yer grandfather), andre viera (nope, me neither), adrian evans, loulu, lixi, steady mike, rory, michelle wagner, david moore and, even more inevitably, peter miller. frankly the first 50 reads like a rogues gallery of names who were all the rage when i was in the nursery :) speaking of which, blimey! it's ian anscombe ;) here's the list of the first 50: http://www.missprint.org/cgi-bin/wilma_glimpse.cgi/sinister?query=str uan&Search=Search&sortlist=newlast&errors=0&maxfiles=50&maxlines=10&.cgi fields=partial&.cgifields=restricttofiles&.cgifields=lineonly&.cgifields =case&.cgifields=filelist the only b&s song i've tried to do movements for is the L. O. V. E. bit in legal man, in the style of YMCA, however it generally just ends up with me flailing my arms around (so no change there then). am i the only person not to have heard EYEWOOTY? my favourite (deliberate) mis-hearing is substituting the word "being" in wandering days... for "peen", thus making the line: The centre of my so-called penis The space between your bed and wardrobe with the louvre doors wahey, cough, fnarr, etc xoxo CarsmileSteve +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+