For the benefit of those with not much time, I've written important words in BIG. FUNNY NEWS STORY THAT YOU MIGHT LIKE I have a POLITICS exam in five weeks and know nothing. I thought a good place to start would be the news, it's usually got some sort of political relevance and it's on when I eat so I can do two things at once. Today I was enjoying GEORGE ALAGAYA (sorry George, don't know how it's spelt. Is he on the list? Do we have any news readers or weather folk on the list?) presenting stories in his usual cheerful manner when I stumbled upon two examples of extreme rock and roll excess. Firstly, although actually secondly on the news, but firstly to me, was S CLUB 7 taking cannabis. I don't encourage drug taking of any kind, so younger people (Jen) I know you see me as a father figure/trend setter/role model but don't get any ideas. This is a top news story and hopefully it will confuse many kids as they realise that some pop stars don't still have the same mentality as them and have a less naive outlook on life than CARE BEARS. Better still though, someone broke into Geri Halliwell's house and poured RIBENA everywhere! I have my suspicions as to which list member it was, but I'm keeping stum. PICNIC May 5th is my 19th BIRTHDAY! Unfortunately it is in term time though and I live in YORK which means I can't come (student/no money/work etc.) There are currently 5 sinister people at York uni though and I'm sure we could find a few more who'd be willing to have a picnic amongst DUCK POO. CHUCKLE BROTHERS They're GRATE. IAN McCULOCH His birthday is May 5th as well, so as he's a JEEPSTER recording ARTISTE you could celebrate his birthday at the PICNIC. TIGER I found out the other day that the greatest British band other than BELLE AND SEBASTIAN is no more. I was sad. I think you might be getting bored by now as my PARAGRAPHS get shorter. Goodbye for now. Chris Jones. "We are computers... but we don't know how to operate computers" - STEPS +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+