This morning I heard Sir Bob Geldof launching a survey to find the nation's favourite word. The presenters on the Today Programme (dammit, just revealed myself as a Radio 4 listener) did their best to crack jokes about the likelihood of the Favourite Word being 'fuck' or 'shit' or 'cunting' without actually saying those words, because it's Radio 4 and they can't and it's ho-ho-hilarious, isn't it? I mean, it's not even as if they can say F___ or S___ or C___ing like the NME used to. Still, it got me thinking, which is quite an achievement at that time in the morning. I even got my dictionary down from the shelf to find out how to spell 'mimsy' but it wasn't there. Isn't 'mimsy' a word? I thought it was. The closest I could get was 'mimosacious', which means 'like mimosa' but it's not really a contender. My favourite word of all time... ever! comes from my least favourite of languages. The gutteral utterances of the Germanic tongue give me the willies, but its one redeeming feature is 'meerschweinchen'. The fact that it means 'guinea pig' is definitely in its favour, but just try saying it. Go on... Isn't it great? LONDON BIT I could dance all night like I'm a soul girl but I'm going to restrain myself until Friday when my favourite groovin' go-go Da Doo Ron Ron is happening. If all you spinners, shufflers and headnodders aren't too worn out by the goings on at the pocaff that evening, I'd love for you to follow me there. It's at the Highbury Garage, finishes at 3 and I'll be dancing fairly restrainedly because I fell over in a puddle of beer last time. Juicy Lucy ps. there's a 5-day forecast for London here: http://www.met-office.gov.uk/sec3/sec3.html Looks like we might see the sun on Saturday, but the grass will be damp. -- This communication contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s), please note that any distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and then destroy any copies of it. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+