Kevan Cooke, before spilling the beans on the Sex Pistols, wrote: >>I would have expected Mrs Murdoch to say "caretaker" rather than "janitor". Perhaps Struan picked up a few Americanisms on tour, and they've rubbed off on his mother<< (And Archel was worried that sarcasm mightn't transfer to the list!) Maybe my aged memory is totally bollocksed but I thought that DC Thomson of Glasgow used to feature the persecution of school janitors as a staple in their comics (Bash St Kids, and so on). If I'm right, Mrs Murdoch would have picked up the term when reading aloud to little Struan - there must have been some nights when he said "We'll give Kafka a break for a while." Which reminds me, James Kelman's book "How Late it was, how late" is a very funny and bleak version of what Kafka would have written if he had been a Glaswegian. Martin C +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+