....I'd have crap all over my head. Broohah popchicks! << as i stepped up to make my

withdrawal, what to my wandering eyes should appear on the machine's sickly green LED display but:

"...so shines a good deed in a weary world." -Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory>>

D'you think the Bank Manager had a very keen sense of irony? It's just that anyone who's read much Dahl will notice a certain distrust of money, well banks at least, in his work. Just read 'Henry Sugar'... No. It was probably just a Readers' Digest style 'thought for the day', easily memorable, but ripped totally out of context. Amusingly inappropriate though- it's like when John Major stole that passage from Orwell's 'The Lion and the Unicorn', for one of his election broadcasts, or something. It sounded great- unfortunately, he must have got it out of a book of easy quotes for speechwriters. 'cause if he'd read the whole thing, he'd have noticed that Orwell's essay's subtitle was 'Socialism and the English Genius'. Hmmm. a paul wrote: <<I'd like to see Beadle in the USA he wouldn't last a single day he'd play just one joke on an American bloke and they'd blow the fucker away>> Good grief! Meat flavoured crisps! Jeremy Beadle! Doesn't Britain sound so sexy and alluring, hey kids? I've just had some Bacon and Brown Sauce crisps for dinner actually- they claimed to be Scottish, and they had a castle, some tartan, and even a wee Highlander on the packet, so they must have been. They were fantastic. Wash them down with Irn Bru, and you've got a whole gastronomical experience :-{ ) Aaa...nyway, has anyone volunteered/been volunteered for the monday poem yet? If not, I'd love to have a crack at it. I've a lovely bitter/sweet one about buses lined up for you- and anyone familiar with the ruthless culling of endangered routemasters will surely weep tears of loss and pity as they read it. And on a volunteering note, I volunteer to deal with all the 'unsubscribe sinister's sent to the list, if someone else wants to sort out the 'can I have a dub of Tigermilk' s and the 'can I burn it on to cd' s' and the 'can I turn my rectum into a sensurround arse-theatre and charge people to listen to Tigermilk in all its remastered digital beauty' s. Not that we get too many of the latter, of course, but it would be nice to be prepared. Play nicely children. And don't spit on the slide! seb PS- I'm shocked at the total lack of Animals that Swim on this list! So, in order to introduce you all to the glories of the best band since Belle and Sebastian, I'll throw in a little snippet of them into each post. And I'll keep doing it til you damn well like them! 'She wants to replace all the cars with horses- well fair enough. But what about all the shite?' Animals that Swim, 'London Bridge' +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+