David Moore wrote: I do have three offspring, but when the eldest is 20 its hard to think of them as children. More often than not, I think of them as my mates. If I ever have children I shall think of them as slave labour, thrash them accordingly, and feed them to the local chimney sweeps. Gary, can we have the Ted Moult one next? Susannah said: Did you know that channel 4 are to screen a documentary on bestiality? Set your videos. It's funny you should mention that, because just look what I found! Perhaps this could be the inaugural waddling of the Pervy Pop Penguin, just like the Poetry Parrot only a bit pervy? A HORRIBLE CASE OF BESTIALITY There was a youth whose name was Stuart Murdoch...He was this year detected of buggery, and indicted for the same, with a mare, a cow, two goats, five sheep, two calves and a turkey. Horrible it is to mention, but the truth of the history requires it. He was first discovered by one Isobel Campbell, who accidentally saw his lewd practice towards the mare. (I forebear particulars.) Being upon it examined and committed, in the end he not only confessed the fact with that beast at that time, but sundry times before and at several times with all the forenamed in his indictment.....And whereas some of the sheep could not so well be known by his description of them, others with them were brought before him and he declared which were they and which were not. And accordingly he was cast by the jury and condemned, and after executed about the 8th of september, 1642. A very sad spectacle it was. by William Bradford, 1642 Shocking stuff, eh? Could it be that our own Stuart Murdoch is the pop reincarnation of this wicked fellow? I think so. Examine his genitals immediately, Doctor Baxter! Any sign of goat poo in his pubes? Hmmm. Is the new EP out today? Don't forget to ask your local stockist how many copies they've ordered! Of such stuff fine mailing lists are formed. I am about to attempt something breathtaking and daring, not unlike the collaboration between Russians and Americans on the troubled MIR space station. I am going to contribute to a thread that I noticed over on the fabled Shalala list. Our twee chums were discussing the demise of Creation Records, a topic that inspired Shalalalanians to impressively lengthy ponderings last month. Here is my own grain of sand, which may or may not have been covered without me noticing: About the time when Creation were bought by Sony, there wasa business programme on the telly that was devoted to the music industry for one week only. They investigated the M People phenomenon and some other stuff, including Creation. Alan McGee said fairly clearly that Creation was going to be a load of shite from then on, or at least he said the Sony influence would probably change their way of working. Also, after the success of Nirvana, there were seminars and stuff about marketing music after Nirvana, and I suspect that Creation people were jotting everything down in their notebooks to use it all on Oasis. None of the above of accounts for Slowdive and Ride and all that lot though, so it's probably all rubbish. I just wanted to get an idea of what it's like to be on Shalala. I look forward to the updating of the archives, a whole month of pop gumdrops in one sitting! Chuck D should wash his mouth out with soap and water. I thought that when he got mad he put it down on a pad and gave us something that we never had. Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+