In a message dated 2/22/00 4:56:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, chris.jones@saqnet.co.uk writes: << Can I organise a village cricket team? >> If the Sinister Village is to have sports, can we organize a Sinister basketball team? I know its none too popular outside the US, but it would give us "vertically enhanced" listees a place to go. We won't play in a gym because thats too fancy, so someone will have to build us a nice outdoor court and a few benches so we can put our ghetto blasters down when we're playing. We can also put up a chain link fence around the outside so the people not playing can lean against it and look really "hard." It will be great, trust me. If that falls through I'll enlist on the football team, 'cause I was a fair middie back in the day... As for an occupation, I'd like to head-up the Sinister Village's Department of Tourism where people can take tours of the city or at least be advised where everything is. It sounds totally mundane and irrelevant but its something I'd actually enjoy doing. I picture this village to be alot like the Smurfs village and I don't know why. Speaking of basketball, the other day a young guy came to play at our court and he looked EXACTLY like Struan. I'm talking the spitting-image of the guy. He was quiet and polite and went about his business on the court pretty quietly. I had a heck of a time trying to make myself play hard defense against him because I kept imagining I was blocking Stuart Murdoch himself and I just couldn't bring myself to do that. If any of us actually got to sport against any of the B&S clan I bet we'd find it hard to beat them. I have a vinyl of an old band from Washington, DC called Rites of Spring that has "I love it when you try not to laugh" etched in the run-out groove. I've always pictured this couple doing the etchings and flirting the entire time and then one of them etches that onto the record just to make the other laugh. I hope thats what happened, but its probably not. Love and stoichiometry Steve C. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* "Which Paul?" "BLAH!" visit http://callowkids.tripod.com or your crush will hate you forever +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+