My, we've all gone shy again, haven't we? It always unnerves me somewhat when it goes quiet (...try not to fart...try not to fart...) - maybe you're all giggling behind my back. But this is the second time in two weeks that this has happened, and just when my work has become so boring I could die as well. Don't you know it's your duty to entertain me, Sinister? Cause if you don't then you just get idiots like me trying desperately to think of things to post, just to keep keep myself entertained. Such as this: Where I work we spend a lot of time looking through all the records (that's births and deaths and stuff, rather than 45s and EPs) kept in Scotland and last week we were amused to find that in 1901 there were two men in Shetland called Hay Hay. Now while this might be ample excuse, if any were needed, for a rendition of the Monkees theme tune, or even, perhaps, an impression of the Fonz, it's not really something that 1400 souls are going to be interested in, is it? So start posting again, or else I'm going to have to think up more dismal nonsense to annoy you with! Some stuff that people said: Blake: (how are your Seven doing, by the way? Sorry, that's probably the millionth time someone's said that)

does everyone know that if you search for your name via yahoo or google or something, and you've posted, that your posts will turn up? That scares me.

So, being an inquisitive sort I tried this, but all that I got was stuff about yachts and St Mirren. Which does explain one of the more odd phone calls I've ever had - that time Tom Hendrie called me up..no, no not that one. But that one, about five years ago, when I was working in an advertising agency and I got a phone call from someone asking if I could come and fix his boat, cause I'd worked on it about 15 years previous. I was highly dubious about this as I would only have been three at the time and while I was obviously a talented child, fixing boats was probably a bit beyond me. So finding out that Ian M Nicolson is an authority on yacht building was something of a relief. Although how this feller got my works phone number is still a puzzle. Archel:

change in pockets: has anyone done the gender test at www.thespark.com? we worked out that of the 50 plus questions, the only one they use to really determine your gender is 'do you carry stuff in your pockets?' if no, you're officially a girl.

Well, I'm a chap and I carry stuff in my pockets and I said I did, but I still ended up being a woman. Darn. See, this is the shite that you have to read when you don't post, so do something now! It can't be any worse than this. Ian N. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+