Someone said:

Gary Maher: not just 'you americans' but 'we brits' refer to those biza...sorry bazaar thingies as flea markets. But does anyone know why?

I don't know why they are called such, but many years ago a Flea Market came to our town and sold loads of broken action figures for 30p each. My mates brother purchased loads of these grrreat toys, and hence has been known as 'Flea' ever since. Flea's mate got a job in a fruit and veg a couple of years ago and after a weeks work the recession-hit greengrocer claimed he could not afford to pay the lad, but would instead give him the value of his wages in food. His mom wasn't best pleased when he showed up with tonnes of ripe fruit instead of cash. It's a good job that his wages weren't paid directly into his account as cash-machines cannot dispense pineapples. Just lately the cash machines I use have enough trouble giving me cash. A couple of weeks ago I got soaked in London and on the way home I read the front of someone's Evening Standard. The main headline was "F.O. TO RESCUE HOSTAGES 'They've done nothing sinister', says minister." Subvert normality. Someone else said: "Who needs cloning when one can have TopShop?" Our audience said: Why stop at TopShop? Who needs cloning when one can have McDonalds, Burger King, Gap, Yates, Bar Coast, HMV, Starbucks, Coffee Republic etc. in every town in England. "They" have cloned one town and put it all over the country, and eventually the world. I wonder which town was the original sell out? I don't know what happened to the Flea market though. Geoff ps just heard on the news that Time Warner have snapped up the Flea Market market. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ August 27th Sinister Third Birthday Red Underwear Day ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+