I must confess I haven't posted for a while-but that doesn't mean I've forgotten about you all! I cut my toenails tonight. I kept getting frustrated at the fact that I kept cutting them wonky, but it wasn't til I reached my second-to-last toe that I realised I had the scissors the wrong way round! Silly me. Just this second I thought of a 'brainteaser' that somone set me last week. I spent a good few days working it out before finally coming to the right answer! It sounds rude at first...but of course it's much cleverer than that... What word begins with 'f', ends in 'k', and means a lot of heat and excitement?! THE ANSWER WILL BE REVEALED LATER ON IN THIS POST! And before you ask, it's not 'flapjack', nice try though... Did any sinisterees spot the cryptic Sean Bean line in Lord Of The Rings?! The first line he says is "the blade...and its still sharp". Now Sean Bean is a Sheffield United supporter, and their nickname is the BLADEs. And he first became famous for his role in the television series SHARPe! How amazing is that! I bet you are totally astounded at this wonderful discovery. Nope, the answer isn't 'flask', good attempt though. Keep trying :) Last night it was the sixth form party. We were in a bar beforehand and my friend goes up to the dj and requests mc hammers 'cant touch this'. 5 minutes later, its played. So i go up and request a smiths song. I said to the dj 'any smiths song', so i was been quite flexible! He nodded his head so i went and sat down again, ready for 'Sweet and tender hooligan' or 'Panic', which is always a fave with everyone. But did he play it?! No! All this chart rubbish for the rest of the evening! Boo! What's that? 'Fishfork'? Heat? Excitement? Not really, sorry you're wrong! I realised this week mainly through looking at the subject lines on sinister that even lyrics that are 4 or 5 words long are often quite obvious as belle and sebastian ones. I guess it's the same with any band but I think it's quite cool that to most people phrases like "I will confess to you", "I missed the bus" or even "you're not listening" sound very normal-whereas to us sinisterees straight off it's like "Ooo! B&s lyric!" 'freak'? Well perhaps some of them are exciting but I don't think that's the answer... Well, ok. You can stop tearing your hair out. The answer to the brainteaser is of course... ... 'Firework!' Heh, I enjoyed it! Congratulations to anyone who got it right without peeking at the answer beforehand. You gain 150 points! (value 0.0001p) This post seems to have included lots of boring titbits. Ah well, I'm sure the brainteaser stopped you from falling asleep! Richard +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+