hello all! i know you're not meant to talk about yourself too much, but i had an experience yesterday that needs sharing. having quit my dull inland revenue job some weeks ago - to start doing semi hard labour on an archaeological dig rather than watching day time tv - i was suprised to find that i was being made to go on an its a knockout thing. i'd signed up for a paid day off work ages ago, but my ex-colleagues were quite insistant i still showed. i don't know if they have its a knockout in the states, its jeux sans frontieres (or something like that) in europe, but for those not familiar with it, i shall explain: lots of people ( around 300 none too fit civil servants in this case) sign a legal waiver saying they won't drink alcohol or sue if we hurt ourselves, drink lots of alcohol, then proceed to humiliate and injure themselves on a series of inflatable death traps filled with water mixed with an extremely acidic non sensitive skin friendly detergent. on an overcast fairly cold day in a field in sheffield. i felt pure misery for the first time in memory. it was ok on the dry courses, but there was a point where i was completely dry and some paid chimp threw a whole cold bucket of water over me from unsporting point blank range. then it got worse. ok, so most people did work for the revenue - but they're nice people just doing a job - cold soakings are out of order. a bit of a splash to the legs may add to the fun, but complete drenchings all over in coldish surroundings - no fun at all. after this i went to the bar for a large brandy, and felt much better. our team came in 30th out of 32. we were definitely in the top 5 for drunkenness though. anyway - content and that. i havn't heard jonathan and david yet, even though i've listened to radio 1 for the first time in years on the off chance. i possibly have a spare standing ticket for the rah - i'll be selling at cost price £16 and a quid or 2 booking fee. i may still be able to get a chum to go, but i thought i'd test the water. sorry if this is list abuse, but, in my defence, i'm drunk. i never post sober. is this a rule yet? is there any big meet up for london? i've got the day off and am getting the train down from nottingham. i don't know london so i can't suggest anything, i think someone did a while back that sounded ok. i seem to have been typing for ages, way more than 15 mins. i won't have anything interesting to say for at least, ohh, 17 weeks anyway, so its ok. goodbye, (much sympathies and best wishes to jen - hospitals are scary places, i had a bad drip experience once too) hugo. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+