Hello, The other day I was walking down the street, past the Los Angeles Village Hall, when I noticed they had a big banner outside that said "Jumble Sale". Woo, I thought, I didn't know they had jumble sales in the states. How exciting. So I went in, and was greeted by none other than the shopkeeper from Festive Road, who had sent Mr Benn on many an adventure during my childhood. I asked him, "what's this all about then?", and to my astonishment he told me that it was a jumble sale just for 'sinister listees', but that I probably wouldn't know what that meant. My excitement had reached fever pitch. "But I do, I do!" I exclaimed. "I'm on the list!" "Oh", he said sounding rather suprised. "I suppose I'd better tell you all about it then". he went on to tell me that it was a very special kind of jumble sale where lots of items - clothes, books, records, toys, sweets - weren't sold, but exchanged or donated. "so it's a bit like the Christmas Present Exchange that Laura Llew organises?", I asked. "Not really", he replied. "That's a special thing. Once a year, where you get a nice suprise. With the jumble sale you get to see all the stuff and pick the things that you think you would like. So it's quite different really", he added. He let me into the village hall to take a look around, and I picked out some boy's jumper that was bright red and had a a pretty pattern on the chest. "What does he want in return for this?" I asked the shopkeeper. "Oh, nothing. That was Mr Benn's, he grew out of it. It's yours!" he replied, but as he did a troubled look spread across his face. "What's wrong?" I asked. "Oh, nothing really. Just that I wish I had a name for this sale, other than just 'Jumble Sale' ". "Hmmm", I pondered for a moment with my jumper in my hand. "That's it! 'Some Boys Jumpers' call it 'Some Boys Jumpers' " "I like it!" said the shopkeeper, "I think I will!" "I have to tell all my friends on the list about this. What should I say?", I asked him. "just tell them to pop in", he said. Tell them to go here: http://www.members.aol.com/someboysjumpers and tell them to donate lots of jumble!!! They can ask me any questions about it too, by emailing someboysjumpers@hotmail.com" "Excellent!", I said. "Oh just one more thing, does Honey know about this?", I asked. "Yes, he does, and Linda too", he replied. "I'm hoping they might contribute some jumble!" And with that he winked at me, and as if by magic, disappeared. Ben xXx _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+