/me jumps back just a little with a surprise expression at a couple of recent mails, and makes everyone a nice cup of tea. All I really want to say about it is remind people that it's list policy that Sinister Likes New People :) If anyone's got a glimmer of an impression from previous mails that we only like people who were on the list in 1977, although I know that impression was unintentional, then please have it surgically removed. Believe me, I'll always do what I can to keep Sinister as *open* as possible, while remaining sane and readable. It's like Mars Bars and Orange KitKats: we love and cherish the old chocolate bars that stay the distance, and we also love the new exciting variations if they make our tastebuds tingle. Sometimes in private we get naked and smear the chocolate on our bodies. What we don't want to do is spend all our time discussing which chocolate bars are best, instead of smearing. OK? I speak with authority, my Dad worked for Cadbury's for most of his working life. This doesn't of course mean that all chocolate is equal: some contains more intoxicating cocoa, some are rich dark and manly, some are beautifully frothy and milky, and just sometimes some are a bit bland. Just how far dare I go with this awful analogy? Please do keep being careful that what you're posting to the list is of interest to others. Chocolatey sermon ends. Besides, the Sunset Beach omnibus is on Channel 5 and all's well with the world. Now a mail from me as me rather than me as "god Mum I'll do the washing up LATER!". rachel said:
the ****** honey, while slagging the new primals album (don't listen to him, it's fantastic!)...
Eh! Well if I did slag it off, I must've done it in my sleep. What a nerve I have, I haven't even heard it! I've just had a horrible thought maybe I become Peter Miller when I'm asleep? Maybe he's just the other side of me, like that old episode in Star Trek when there were two Kirk's? Maybe when I'm sleep-typing I have romantic illusions of living in a castle in Spain and knowing all there is to know about the 70s Who, except for Keith? I'm going to book myself into one of those Sleep Research Centres and see if I grow a curly moustache, sombrero and maraccas overnight. I've just heard on the radio that "Hit Entertainment", the company who currently make "Bob The Builder" have put in a bid to buy the company who own "Thomas the Tank Engine" and "Captain Pugwash" - to make the biggest kids TV company in Europe (and presumable the one with the most double-entendres?). Does this mean Mark C of this list who works for Bob will become a billionaire overnight? Greig Marshall said ages ago:
Just a fleeting thought. Does Honey have a secret cheeky reason for getting a .org rather than a .com?
Ooo yes it's deeply political! I feel strongly that the Internet should be about ORGanisations and not COMmercial concerns. That and the fact that missprint.com belongs to a Portugese printing shop. I actually mailed them the other day, missprint.com, hands across the water kind of thing: I wrote a letter in English (or as close as I can do) and then ran it through Babelfish translator at http://babelfish.altavista.com to make it Portugese, then sent it. As older list members remember when we played with some B&S lyrics there, translating them into French and back to English the results are interesting. I'm expecting a call from Interpol about death threats to Portugese photocopiers any minute. There's at least three Portugese people on Sinister - what are Portugese prisons like? By the way, this is *not* an invitation to post more babelfished lyrics to the list! Go and see the archives e.g.: http://www.mail-archive.com/sinister@majordomo.net/1998-month-04/msg00325.ht... Still sneezing under quilt, Honey xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+