All , I was shocked and horrified when I heard that certain members of our favourite pop combo prefered Vegemite to Marmite. I was poised to resign from the fan club ; cast out all my records and burn my demented play-group leader's tee-shirt; thankfully I remembered that they make the most wonderfull music I've ever heard so I stepped back from the brink. The Tsimshian Indians of British Columbia have a saying "In the land of Yeast Extract - the Marmite Man is King". Marmite is the food of the Gods - or at least you'd be forgiven for thinking so. In fact it's the only commercially succesfull spin off of the British space program. In the 1950s BASTARD (British Aero-Space Technology And Research Department) were developping a revolutionary yeast-fusion engine. Unfortunately it never got off the ground and British attempts to get a budgerigar in space to mark the coronation of Elizabeth II came to nothing. Eventualy our efforts were superceded by the Russian and American programs who had taken the, at the time, controversial non-yeast approach. But the boffins in the lab did have one result - namely the discovery of Marmite. An interesting footnote here is that the original name for this product was Cock Fun, it only became known as Marmite by the personal intervention of Her Majesty Queen Elizabrth, the Queen Mother. How bizarre is that! xx john ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------