Gah. Dear Sinister, READ THE FAQ. Even you, Peter Miller, Stuart Gardiner and the other much-beloved dinosaurs. It's amazing how easy it is to forget how things are meant to work on this list. I apologise for being snarky in my last post, but I was not being rude without reason. Sinister is about looking out for each other, and occasionally that means pointing people back in the right direction if they head off the right track. I know it seldom requires the "nasty cop" routine (see apology above), but I'm approaching my 6th year on the list, and I have a fair idea what goes and what doesn't, even if the latter is sometimes me. What certainly doesn't is insulting someone by arbitrarily comparing them to a group of people they have nothing in common with and have never met. Joanne, I'd sort out that chip on your shoulder, it's unbecoming and it's dripping grease down your front. I notice on my Yahoo account that there is the opportunity to send money with this email. If I did so, would you have to share it amongst yourselves or would all 1,400 of you reap a separate windfall? In other news, I'm back in the USA. I like it here. Denver's glorious spring sunshine has already turned my pate a shade of uncommon pink, and the somehow-much-better-than-in-the-UK Dr Pepper is regulatin' muh bowels splendidly, especially when augmented with vanilla. I have watched my first ever game of lacrosse, too, cheering as the victorious Denver University Pioneers crushed the hapless Bisons (I didn't get where they were from) 11-8. Go Pioneers! I am even contemplating getting a DU hooded top. Is that so wrong? I also met some old-skool sinisterines in New York City on my way. They rock, a lot, and I owe two of them in particular a big thank you. And I've now seen snow in NY. A major desire in my yank-culture list of must-dos can now be crossed off. Standing at Somerville, NJ train station the other day I saw a pool of vomit. As everyone knows, vomit must obligatorily contain pieces of carrot, regardless of the diet of the vomitor. Not this puddle. Framed attractively in the centra was AN ENTIRE, LARGE CARROT. It's a crazy, crazy world. DV, how was the better, more nicer and fun B&S list meet-up? I hope there'll be a full report. Signing off, your man in CO, Mark xxxxx __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+