On the train back to Glasgow last night I was sat a few seats away from some real life comedians. They had a flyer for some comedy club. They laughed smugly at how often Des McNeil appeared ("he’s such a whore" apparently). They then started to talk about their sets. One of them was really happy with his and for the first time in ages he was enjoying doing his routine. The other one mentioned "cocks and robbers" causing comedian no.1 to burst out in fits of uncontrollable laughter. I didn’t think it was that funny but I did think "Hey, why not plagiarise?". After all they get paid to be funny so they must be, right? They didn’t mention any other jokes apart from some band called the throbsongs which wasn’t even worth copying. I then made a note to myself not to mention the fact that the joke wasn’t my own. The note must have been ignored ‘cos the next day I posted to sinister telling the whole story. When the comedians got off the train I thought about following them, listening in and copying their jokes all so I could appear witty but then I decided not to be a stalker. I then thought about how "cocks and robbers" would be even funnier if it were "cocks and rubbers". I made that up myself, honest. Unfortunately I missed B&S playing that very night. The gig sounded quite good particularly the playing of scooby driver. Can anyone remember when they played that rectorial campaign gig at glasgow uni? I think stuart introduced one of the songs as being off storytelling? I’ve been trying to remember which one it was. More bad luck meant that the reason I missed B&S didn’t happen anyway. Fortunately, I still had a good night and I didn’t get run over once despite two near misses. Richard _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+