Oh you're all very quick-witted, I have to say. Well done you, pats to the back all round, on me. But unfortunately my threat/promise/gift thing was rendered futile by your excellence because I intended to use my intense and deep-rooted knowledge of belle and sebastian's little quirkisms to aid my future prospects. The tantalising treat of being told what the ref was was supposed to make you dash off, finding out how for instance, I could get work in the edinburgh arts fest or something. But no , you are all such clever clogs that that approach failed. Some of you may have noticed my bizarre syntaxical method of communicating. Having done a snooze inducing essay on the differences between sex and gender (and boy are there differences) I had to view this gender configuration from a modern Irish poet point of view. These poets are so difficult and having absorbed myself in their endless whinges about sex and gender etc, various syntaxical differences were observed, thus my own syntax is currently under scrutiny. Oh shut up me, all I wanted to say was is'nt it odd the way I said was was and then that that and it wasn't a typo. More wordy quizzes : Does anyone like the word multisyllabic because it is what it is ? variations on this theme will be accepted graciously. belle and sebastian content : oh there's nothing I can think of... no wait there is. You know "the boy done wrong again." Of course you do , what am I saying , well there's some line , I never read the lyrics unless I'm trying to avoid someone's glare , but there is some line that says something like "cry your life away" well I think it would be better if it was "cry your laughy way." and also in "Dream of horses." there's some line that I always think is gonna rhyme with eleven and be seven , ie she's been with boys since she was seven (this is from memory in the very distant , you could say archaic past) but it's "since she was young." The only reason I'm mentioning it is because the same thing happens me with a Leonard Cohen song only I can't remember what song...I'm waffling am'nt I ? ET, zahousen telephoneireann.!!!!! +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+