You look lovely when you wear that dress, Sinister! It really brings out the color of your eyes, It took a massive event to bring me out of my State of Lurk, and the event was this from Marianna:

Like a Flan obsessed with an Adam, I keep seeing Stuart Murdoch

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everywhere. I thought I saw him recently on the advertisement for >ITV's Secret Weddings.The premise? Propose to your boyfriend, be >separated instantly for three days, show up in the studio in a frock >and hope that he turns up to be wed in a 30-second ceremony.

Okay, so I'm not in the UK, but did anyone in the US watch "Married by America" last night?* Anyone? Anyone? One of the suitors looked exactly like Stuart Murdoch! I am not kidding. And his name was SMITHY, and he was wearing an oversized ribbed sweater, undoubtedly to cover up his slim physique and draw attention away from his firm bottom. He was precious, and I considered checking the Married by America website to see if he will be appearing on any other reality tv shows in the future. This is all very weird. And with that, I go into lurk mode once more. Kisses, Jenn P-B *The premise of this show is that successful, gorgeously chiseled singles who have had a tough time with the whole romance thing and are ready to get hitched are presented a panel of suitors. America votes and then they get married on air! Isn't it great? The contestant's family & friends prepare questions for the 5 suitors along the lines of "Barbara really loves her cats. How do you feel about changing the kitty litter?" and "You studied Philosophy in college. How can you possibly provide for our daughter?" Then the suitors respond with scripted 1-sentence answers that say absolutely nothing about themselves. Gosh, this is all starting to sound a bit like the 2000 election. I'm not sure who appoints the fiancee at the end of the show--I didn't watch after Smithy was voted off Suitor Island. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+