You won't catch me or Mr Rusty talking about children's television. Will Porter wrote: Dig: the French 'adieu' and the Spanish 'adios', when whacked in two with some sort of metaphor, become 'a dieu' and 'a dios'--literally, 'to God'. Meanwhile the English 'goodbye' means 'goodbye'. "Goodbye" 1573 - a contraction of "God be with you (or ye)". "Bye Bye" 1432 - a contraction of "Beelzebub be with you (or ye)" Good luck to Mister Chris for tomorrow night's nerve-racking-make-or-break London showcase. Mark, is it Truck Turner? Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+