That mild bit of pretend ex-Beatle harassing is OK as I once said "hello" to him in Harrods, and besides it'd have to be shot in a million for a satsuma to do any real damage. And we all know his solo material is every bit as classy as the stuff he did with the Beatles. Call me crazy if you must (56% of qualified Medical Practitioners already do) but I suspect that there's some sort of spooky psychic link going on between of own FunkySeb and PunkySarah. Please note that they both posted within 1/2 hour of each other using the word "cup" in their subject lines and both made scandalous allegations that different members of B&S smelled of wee. Now unless a lack of hygiene is a well know problem in indie circles then that's too convenient to be a co-incidence. Starry also tried to rouse the masses with the following kind invite: "By the way, if anybody wants to have a giggle and smash a few things on Nov 25th, there's another demonstration against abolition of grants and tuition fees in Lunding Town. Brilliant, I hope there'll be some new chants to learn this time. I hear my friend is taking a hammer along. Yikes. I'll take a teddy bear." Bringing a hammer sounds a little extreme, but maybe you could hang on a few days longer and combine protests with the "Stop the city" gang (Nov 30th I believe). Working for a money grabbing, child-labour encouraging, Nazi gold accumulating Bank like I previously did, we always got told to "dress down" and try not to attract attention when moving through the crowds on such occasions. Anyone who's ever meet me will realise that "dressing down" has never presented me with too much of a problem and last time I bravely ventured out into the rabid mob wearing my beloved Stow T-shirt. Far from being poked with sharp sticks for my perceived capitalist leanings I was greeted with many variations on the "nice shirt" theme and was even asked "How was Bowlie ?" (I wasn't there sadly). So our fair Scottish p!o!p!sters have obviously captured the hearts of the Stop the City crew, maybe it's time for everyone to rise up and sweep Stuart and pals into government. Tony Blair will be pre-occupied with the sale at Mothercare so the transition of power will be both smooth and bloodless (that's assuming Mr "Hammer" behaves himself). All that'd remain after that would be to appoint a new cabinet and commission Sir Cliff to re-write the National Anthem so it includes the word "cunting". Hmmm, ignore me - that's just a flight of fancy and might not actually happen. I think technically I've also just committed a capital crime - blimey. Anyway is the lovely Sarah Cracknell still being held prisoner by some devious listee ?, is she in danger of becoming the Terry Waite of the late 90's ?. And Squirrels, if you're listening please free Miss Campbell as a gesture of goodwill - the Helicopter you asked for is fully fuelled and ready to go and the unmarked acorns have been transferred to your Swiss Bank account. Time for me to slip quietly back into lurkerland, Craig xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+