Well it's not really. Chris Leonard just asked me to send something "funny" to the list, which as you know is against all my principles, so when I refused he's now sending me smutty and lewd innuendoes about list members. He's a bad boy and I bet he's wearing his saucy underpants at work today. In the meantime, can I be a total bore and ask people to remember again that replies to the digest won't go back to the list but to me? And then they sit in my mailbox for ages, I grumble to Splat "why doesn't anyone care, Splat?", she mutters "pish" and eventually inspite of my threats to just delete them, I send them on, with a grumpy look on my face, and accuse myself of being a right old sod. By which time the original poster has sent them again and I look like Arthur Mullard. Also - there's a right old tigermilky knees-up going on on rec.music.marketplace.vinyl at the moment. Here's a quick sample for fun, with some surprising comments about the old scratchy classic: Subject: Re: FS: Belle and Sebastian "Tigermilk" From: nez@usaor.net Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 09:56:59 -0700 Newsgroups: rec.music.marketplace.vinyl I'm basing my thoughts on the worth of this record by the fact that I just picked up TWO copies of it in Europe last month--one copy for 46 pounds--a mint copy--, (under a hundred bucks) one for 32 pounds--in very good condition--(about 50 bucks). As it goes when shopping for hard to find music the elements of luck and timing mean almost everything. A minute later or a day sooner and I may not have found them. But the point is, without trying very hard I found 2 copies for 2 of my customers--which I in turn sold for ZERO profit by the way--I take vacations all the time where I am more than happy to shop for out of print items for my customers, wanting nothing in return but the money I paid for a particular item. Making someone else happy with music makes me feel good. MUSIC is what this is all about isn't it??? That's it - go and have a look but please don't bring the growlings that are appearing on that newsgroup here: as you know, we all like dandelions, skipping ropes and fluffy puppies here. Honey xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------