so does everyone else feel the same way, or are we all feeling a little fragile about our little bourgeouise beatnik pasts? ;-)

the duke

[Keith Watson] I'm completely in agreement too - I'm just surprised how much he knows about these kind of people living in Glasgow - there are none of them there. I live in Edinburgh where all the Oxford/Cambridge Yah Hooray Henry types come and it's unbelievable. Before coming to University in Edinburgh I didn't know these people existed. It's a case of any excuse not to do a real job, and to have a huge extended "holiday" under the guise of "helping people" (This, at least is the analagous situation that I see to the beat generation

On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Keith Watson wrote: thing). I need a bloody holiday - I haven't had one since a week in Llandudno in 1990.

Cheers, Keith.

The Oxford/Cambridge Yah Hooray Henry types don't exist. Well not in Cambridge anyway (except possibly Peterhouse College, but they don't count). Edinburgh Uni seems to be like Durham Uni; it's where all the Hooray Henrys go who think they have the right to go to Cambridge or Oxford because they've got lots of money, even though they've not got 2 brain cells to rub together, and then they find out that we don't take wankers like them here. Personally, I'm on a full student grant, which makes me just as down to earth as people anywhere else; all this "they go to Cambridge, they must be snobs" stuff is complete balls. Phew, that was a bit vitriolic, I don't know what came over me. Has anyone read this week's Melody Maker? It's got a full page "Tour Diary" type thing written by B&S about their time in New York, in the form of imaginary messages left on an Answerphone to someone in Glasgow while they were there. It's well worth a read, if you can tear yourselves away from researching the Waronker family history... Stuart G ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net -----------------------------------------------------------------------