Sinister: my mate - minimal B&S content - you have been warned

[Johnston, John CT]

All ,

I was shocked and horrified when I heard that certain members of our
favourite pop combo prefered Vegemite to Marmite. I was poised to resign
from the fan club ; cast out all my records and burn my demented
play-group leader's tee-shirt; thankfully I remembered that they make
the most wonderfull music I've ever heard so I stepped back from the
brink.

The Tsimshian Indians of British Columbia have a saying "In the land of
Yeast Extract - the Marmite Man is King". Marmite is the food of the
Gods - or at least you'd be forgiven for thinking so. In fact it's the
only commercially succesfull spin off of the British space program. In
the 1950s BASTARD (British Aero-Space Technology And Research
Department) were developping a revolutionary yeast-fusion engine.
Unfortunately it never got off the ground and British attempts to get a
budgerigar in space to mark the coronation of Elizabeth II came to
nothing. Eventualy our efforts were superceded by the Russian and
American programs who had taken the, at the time, controversial
non-yeast approach. But the boffins in the lab did have one result -
namely the discovery of Marmite. 

An interesting footnote here is that the original name for this product
was Cock Fun, it only became known as Marmite by the personal
intervention of Her Majesty Queen Elizabrth, the Queen Mother. How
bizarre is that!

xx
john
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