Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 19:03:58 EST

Matthew wrote:

"I am not sure exactly where the poster came from originally. Listee Amanda gave it to me in return for chocolate from England."

I don't want to be funny, but I can't help feeling someone got a bit of a bum deal here. Amanda, you are young.....you will learn by your mistakes.

Bum deal? No. Yum deal, yes. Allow me to explain. A few months back, I posted an inquiry to the list, asking if anyone had any B&S memorabilia that would make for suitable wall decor. In true list fashion, an immediate offer of a leftover Enclave poster (from someone whose name escapes me at the moment; she worked for EMI) came through and in a matter of days I found myself the owner of THREE count 'em THREE _IYFS_/Scotland gig posters that they'd had lying around since the Enclave went bust. Big red ones. Ask and ye shall receive, I suppose. Anyhoo, I kept one for myself, gave another one to my good pal and fellow B&S fanatic Ned (who first introduced me to their music, so I felt like it was the least I could do in return), and saved the third one to give to lucky Matthew to commemorate our in-person meeting over the holiday. You know, in the spirit of giving and all. I wasn't really looking to get anything specific in return, but I had mentioned a fondess for Cadbury's chocolate at some point in our email correspondence and so he gifted me with some when we met up in December. It was lovely, really. And on the pet/poster tangent: when I was at home, with the aforementioned poster rolled up and ready to give to Matthew, my cats also took a liking to it, pouncing and batting it around with (thankfully) declawed paws.Perhaps there might be some kind of feline/B&S connection, since many of us listees have cats...hmmm... So, that's that. And now it's back to the old Spanish books for me... ta, Amanda (whose offer to tape Tigermilk still stands for stateside listees) ------------------------ Amanda Bergman Northwestern University a-bergman@nwu.edu "Play me a song to set me free." --Belle and Sebastian ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------