Sinister! Who would have thought that last night's pleasant pancake-party was actually a cunningly wrought trap... We were happily munching down our pancake-wrapped stir-fried veg (delicious by the way). Then our vaguely christian-leaning hosts steered the conversation around to Lent and the traditional giving- up of one of your vices for 40 days. I'm not a christian but I still give presents at Christmas so why not? My offers to give up work, bathing or dropping obscure pop references into conversations failed to impress anyone - so I was eventually persuaded to take up a challenge... exercise! Anyone who's met me knows my relationship with exercise so far has been a cold one - ever since I discovered that being cynical about fit healthy people is easier than being one. And young people don't worry about turning into wobbly lard-buckets when they're older. I'm getting older. So I have resolved to run like a bastard - at least twice a week, maybe more - until I nearly collapse for at least the next six weeks. Who knows - maybe at the next picnic I'll be the lithe, flat-bellied athlete that you always knew lurked inside the ugly fat man. I realised that I got off lightly as others around the table found themselves forced to give up chocolate, swearing, tea, porn or alcohol. I can still do all those things! It also occurred to me that this is a really good idea and can actually work when there's peer pressure involved. So is anyone else prepared to drop their unhealthy addictions or take up new healthy lifestyles for this six-week church-imposed trial period? Maybe Ken could give up red bull? (maybe not - waits to be pelted with empty redbull cans) That'll do Robster content: anybody planning to bootleg the Glasgow gig? ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+