Sinister: sinister- oh yeah? well sinister *this*!

[Suzanne Schroeder]

OK.  I've decided to break down and have a happy thought.

Yippee!  A new B&S album!  I can finally put something new in my CD player.

Please, for the love of God, tour Austin!  I'll look up contacts for
venues, cook your meals (well, I'll fully understand if you pass up on that
since my friends call me Chef Boyardee) and I'll be standing at the door
and keep the disinterested music snobs who show up only because it's cool
outta there....or I'll guard the van and make sure nobody breaks in this
time.  They'll see a 5'3" woman who weighs 115 and run crying.    ;^).  

Screw that.  Just tour anyway.  

> I'm wondering - are all the colloquialisms and cultural references 
> complete gobbledygook for non-uk-listees? I mean Wogan, pish, Ronnie 
> Corbett, Diamond White, et al. These are things that take some 
> explaining - I mean Jim'll Fix It....where do you start? (maybe "he was 
> a blonde man with a denim magic chair with secret compartments and he 
> could grant the wishes of little children....")Perhaps an appendix with 
> definitions, purely for comedy factor alone.

I don't know if those could ever be explained.  I went to school in Glasgow
for 3 months and watched programs with high numbers of British pop culture
references (game shows......like the one about sports that I cant think of
off the top of my head and Vic Reeves...super stars?  I forgot) and felt
like my whole language system had been ripped from me....(because my
metaphors are usually pop culture) sadly, I still can't tell you much about
them.  I remember Chris Evans (I actually had a little crush on him!),
TOTP, the Smiths lawsuit (and pics of Joyce looking a bit, erm, haggard for
being only 33), Spice Girl mania before it became huge in the states and I
had to relive the nightmare again once i got home, radio clyde and hanging
out with Dougie one afternoon, Marc Radcliffe (my favorite...AND when he
was on at 10 at night and not as some stupid morning dj), a proliferation
of vinyl, and that CD's are way too expensive.
> 
> Would any of our American listees care to respond with some things that 
> would sound strange across the ocean? Like cheese food, cookie dough, 
> and that bee guy from the Simpsons (he's real you know - has his own 
> show even)

Cheese food?  self explanatory, I hope since I've never heard that one.
Cookie dough-  sort of like the material used to make biscuits (british)
from.  It's batter that hasn't been baked yet.  We feel compelled to eat it
in raw form (especially when it has lots of chocolate chips) as the other
half of the batch is baking in the oven.  
The bee guy is basically a take off of every spanish language
sitcom....well, not everyone of them, but the wacky ones.  Not being too
familiar with telemundo (the major producer of most spanish language tv) I
can only tell you more about the soap operas.

Y'all need good Mexican food.  I missed it a lot when i was there,. but if
it's prepared anything like what the yankees make it (I get Tex-Mex since
I'm in Texas) then I wouldn't bother.
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> Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 12:28:06 -0400 (EDT)
> From: blink at xxx.net
> Subject: Sinister: take it like a man baby if that's what you are
> 
> hidely ho sweeties,
>  i have to stay in today..this is upsetting me so much...arctic
woman,grrrr!
> why is mothers always think you're sick when you're not..conveinantly
when
> you mentioned you'd be going to some guys house? Why do they think every
boy
> is a boyfriend...but oh well,you guys are all my kleine gurkens.
>         my,all of you round here failed a lot of driving tests! I cannot
> wait till i can legally drive... the license is nice you know.I envision
> driving around in a silver or bright blue Bug playing B&S. Then I will
get
> my Cobra...
> I can feel the stress of exams round here.Tell Mama Genevieve the
> problems,she outstretches her arms and enfolds you...come to my
cottage,the
> grass..the windchimes..the sunshine...Mama Genevieve listens...exams..i
have
> an orale... an ecoute an ecrit and a lecture,yes all next week.Plus an
> english,physical science,history and math exam.Plus a media presentation
> 'Get Me Away From Here,I'm Dying',oh yes and an essay and a Lab exam.Love
> triangle and strawberry fields..but it's allright...let us breathe and
use
> some of that Herbal Essences shampoo..it does smell so nice! 
>  Polish listees? I am some polish.I can't speak it..i know that 'dupa'
means
> butt,right? Sometimes when i was messy my grandma said i looked like a
> sheblick...which means 'lost boy in the woods' right? (i hope)
> 
> Layla: Lactose-Intolerant Shagging by Arab Strap? so catchy!
> 
> my bus driver pulled over once and stopped to get soem McDonalds...100
> percent beef? that's what they'd like you to think
> 
> my cat doesn't eat squirels,but he eat the dragonflies...you can hear him
> crunch! dragonflies are such nice creatures too...they eat the mean
> bugs...but i've got quite sharp teeth too..my friend told me i put holes
in
> his shirt! I don't remember tho...
>         did any of you have to read 'Bless The Beast And Children' i had
to
> do  song for it...to the tune of (remember this?) Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla
> Ice...i never thought i'd use the line 'Cotten,he ain't into booty' but i
> did.I really dislike this book...
> 
> >Fave T-shirt at the moment.  Plain white with "SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE" on it
> >in black letters.  Until it goes under a UV light, when the words
"HERION
> >MINDFUCK" mysteriously appear.
>  badass! da nuh da nuh da nuh nuh nuh! Gang De Bike!
>         
> 
>  mmmm mmmm goooood,
>  kiss kiss
>  Genevieve 
> 
>  Muss es sein? Es muss sein! Mit Sahne,Bitte.
> 
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> Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 17:55:18 +0100 (BST)
> From: "A.M. Horne" <amh20 at xxx.uk>
> Subject: Re: Sinister: JESUS
> 
> On Sat, 23 May 1998, eeyore's tail wrote:
> 
> >    for a vegetarian, espadrille, you're a mean fucker.
> >  
> >    seamus
> 
> 
> not quite sure what i did to deserve that... and when did i tell everyone
> i was a vegetarian (oh the silly things we blurt out when we're drunk) 
> 
> maybe it was the comment about ronnie corbett being a comedy genius...
> 
> espadrille (unblessed)
> >
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> 
> Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 13:43:20 -0400
> From: vlass at xxx.com
> Subject: Sinister: cars and proms and lingo

> maybe b&s fans are just not meant for driving. maybe we all belong in
buses,
> riding on bikes, skating on ponds, walking through parks, flagging down
> aeroplanes and if all else fails: closing our eyes and pretending we're
> somewhere else. poetic yes, but annoyingly inconvenient! i actually
passed
> my driving test the first time but i have a feeling the tests are a bit
Hell, you're in the wrong country.  I've been driving successfully since I
was 16.  In England, you have to recite the Canturbury Tales while doing a
backbend and eating pudding.  But, that's fine with me.  I think the US has
too many morons on the road.  You've never felt anything until you've been
in Austin traffic.

Then again, we have to make it easier.  Our public transportation sucks and
the country is too huge to link up with anything substantial.

> easier here, especially since the one i took was on a special course
> designed for driving tests. it was kind of silly really - there was a
> simulated railroad track, but it was only about 5 feet long and there
were
> hardly any other cars on the road with me. heh. anyway, a drivers
liscence
> is not very valid for me anymore, considering that like poor sebastian, i
> crashed my car... except it wasnt raining, it was actually a beautiful
day.
> i was just dumb! but that was back in january and im hoping for another
car
> soon. isnt singing really loud in your car the funnest thing?

Yes it is until someone pulls up next to you and starts staring.  

> were actually obedient and nice. the music sucked, of course - "my heart
> will go on", "barbie girl", etc. 

Hehheh heh heh heh.  Oh, here is my startling confession-I have NOT heard
"my heart will go on" in it's full entirety.  Not even more than 30
seconds.  I am the last person alive not to hear it.  I keep guessing that
they play it so often on the radio so they can finally get me and rejoice
that my life has been ruined.  Am I that good with my dial?  No.  I've
never seen the movie, and I live on some planet that is removed from the
rest of society where I don't watch much TV, or go to any big movies.  I'm
boycotting Godzilla this summer.  I remember how Independence Day stole a
few hours from my life, so I refuse.

I did see the Butcher Boy which was a fine piece of work.  I had read the
book over a year ago, and rejoiced that it was coming out on film, but even
when I sat through the movie, I realized I'd forgotten how fucked up he
was.


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