27 CORRECT ANSWERS IN UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE TONIGHT!!! my musical knowledge may have been badly shown up at All Yesterday's Picnics, but whne it comes to recognising 19th century women novelists, i'm unbeatable. speaking of which, arantxa flatteringly thought i would be the one to write the sinister novel, and i certainly have a few choice snippets of material now (though for lj's sake i will leave out the shameful isobel-bashing that went on at the weekend.) don't think it will be american though. i have too firm a grasp on the right length for a sentence to be the next henry james. speaking of which (i'm just the segue queen tonight, AND there was a q. about that very word on UC, wow), i think i may have declared that 'punctuation is the most important thing in the world' at some point in the early hours of sunday morning. this may seem extreme, but i've thought about it and i don't entirely retract it. although i take back the egg comment unreservedly... other picnic highlights: - alisdair's particular contribution to said early hours (apart from flashing body p[arts all over the place) - an uncanny impersonation of a glaswegian schoolchild as heard at the beginning of IYFS. - craig's upmarket picnic offering of an olive 'n' feta cheese combo thing. with flumps. - ailsa nearly breaking her nose on trousers' back while drunk in charge of a shopping trolley. - speculating about struan's 'winky' dimensions on a bus going to stoke newington. - the 'out of the frying pan into the colander' name game on sunday night, where mark 'has everyone got a pen and paper now?' casarotto discovered his new vocation as a primary school teacher. - generally, everyone being absolutely sweet and lovely to a picnic virgin with only flumps and chocolate fingers to recommend her. thanks! luv archel xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+