I saw a fox at the end of our garden the other day. It wasn't snowing though. My faith in humanity has been partly restored. Last week when I was in our local supermarket, the girl in front of me in the queue at the tills was having trouble paying - her debit card wouldn't swipe through properly. She said it was because her dog had chewed it a bit when it arrived through the post. So the girl behind the till had to type the card number into the machine instead, but she couldn't work out how to do it. Just when she was about to call the supervisor over for help, the middle-aged woman behind me in the queue said "It's OK, put it on my card, I'll pay". They'd never met each other before, she was just being really kind. I had a strange dream last night. It had a girl and a horse in it. She might have been called Judy. I've decided that "The Boy Done Wrong Again" is currently my least favourite B&S song. Not because it's bad; it's just inconsequential. At least other less-popular songs like Beyond The Sunrise and Electronic Renaissance provoke some sort of reaction in people, good or bad. There are too many things in this world which are just pointless. If they went away, life wouldn't get better, and it wouldn't get worse; noone would notice. Things which, if they didn't already exist, noone would bother inventing. Things like mime artists; hovercraft; car bumper stickers; neck-ties; paper doilies; Dr Pepper; the music of the Bluetones; the careers of Lionel Blair and Les Dennis; steak and kidney pie; synchronised swimming and rythmic gymnastics; Family Fortunes; and the countries of Paraguay, Chad and Laos. If you were told you could never eat another courgette in your life, would you care? A fortnight ago I went to Alton Towers, where there are lots of great rollercoaster rides. Props to David Moore (CUK) for getting the word "pulchritudinous" into his post. I think I'm going to have to start making up long words and putting them in my posts to make me sound like an intellectual. That would be mesoenterlogicinal. I saw some other people yesterday. Big Stu +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+