Paula - (Pete puts his Jon Snow/Phillipa Forrester head on......) I think you will find ;-) that the Toastmaster (TM) is one of those Morphy-Richards Cool-wall jobbies that has eight different heat settings, seven of which cremate your bread. The aforementioned Toastmaster (TM) society is a conglomerate of Toastmaster (TM) owners, who regularly meet up down the Dublin Castle to fling around with gay abandon stories of marmalade mornings, apricot afternoons, elderberry evenings, and most of all, cremated bread. Why is it that so many settings on your average toaster cause spontaneous combustion of it's contents? And, dear Points of View, why, oh why oh why, is there a setting marked 'F'?? Does this actually stand for F**king burnt?? The nearest I've come to any sensible answer is Frozen bread, which doesn't work anyway, cause I've tried it. So there. Anyway. All tomorrows parties. After having missed Bowlie (penniless, dearies - buying a house) I have GOT to get myself to its successor. Ok, ok, so the puritans amongst you may say that it's not going to be the same without our beloved B&S, which is probably true, but (IMHO) there are so many class acts in the line-up that they may well make up for it. For example, if anyone has got to this point in their life without seeing the divine miss Laetitia Sadier (Mrs Gane??) and her entourage (Stereolab) I would heartily recommend that this be rectified at once. How can anyone not like a band that called one of the songs on their very first albums "You Little Shits"?? Top skills. If I've put anyone off going by my predicted presence there, I can only apologise. I promise I'll try and keep myself to myself. Well, that's it for now. I shall go back to lurking. To be quite frank, it's what I'm best at. Oh, and before I go - Chris (the one who asked for ideas on how to be less shy around girls) - that writing to them thing that I mailed you about doesn't bloody work. I did that, and although it means that she does finally know I'm alive, she just wants to be friends. Buggrit. lol p xx. -- ---------------------------*||*------------------------------ Life is full of regrets, and I've had a few, as Frank Sinatra once sang, before hiccuping loudly and falling over sideways. Pete Ramsdale - peter.ramsdale@wdr.com Phone: 0171 568 3836 ---------------------------*||*------------------------------ This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+