I bet on Rhinestone Cowboy to win and he came SECOND! Grrr! Carsmile, you'll pay for this! I've begun to take French lessons so yesterday I went into town to buy a French-English Dictionary. When I got home I pulled open the pages excitedly and began looking up stupid words like combine harvester*! Then I turned to the French section to look up a word beginning with L. But L didn't exist! The dictionary went straight from I to M; from page 144 to 177. Quelle horreur! I was shocked, no, gutted! Le dictionaire, c'est bollocks! Well, I've decided to write a letter of complaint about it to Collins, to see if I can get some free books from them. I complained to Usborne books when I was little about a code in the "Good Spy Guide to Codes and Ciphers" which I spent a week trying to decipher before realising it was nonsense. They sent back a letter of apology and a yellow balloon with a hole in it. So here's my letter of complaint. It’s designed to make Collins feel guilty and give me free things. Do you think I should send it? +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dear Mr Collins I am 12 years old and have just begun French lessons at school. Our teacher Miss Glum told us we must buy a French dictionary so we could look up words. Today we had a lesson on how to use your dictionary and Miss Glum told me to look up the word Jambon. When I looked in my dictionary I looked for J but it wasn’t there. The dictionary went straight from I to M. There weren’t any Js Ks or Ls (I DO know my alphabet). I told the teacher but she thought I was making fun of her and made me see the headmaster. He made me stand by a tree with a book on my head for half an hour. I almost cried then, but if I did the book would have fallen off and he would have hit me. I cried when I got home though. I don’t ever want to go to school again! I hate Miss Glum! I hate you too and your stupid dictionary! Robin (age 12) PS: Jambon is Ham, by the way, my dad told me that tonight, but its too late now, isn’t it???!!! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Do you think sending this letter would be BAD? I want to get as many free things as I can but I don’t want any teachers being sacked. Hmm. Suggestions would be welcome. Robin (age 23) *un moissoneuse-batteuse _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+