Sinister: If wishes were horses...

[Funkyseb at xxx.com]

....I'd have crap all over my head.

Broohah popchicks!
<< as i stepped up to make my
> withdrawal, what to my wandering eyes should appear on the machine's
> sickly green LED display but:
> 
> "...so shines a good deed in a weary world." 
>                -Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory>>

D'you think the Bank Manager had a very keen sense of irony? It's just that
anyone who's read much Dahl will notice a certain distrust of money, well
banks at least, in his work. Just read 'Henry Sugar'...
No. It was probably just a Readers' Digest style 'thought for the day', easily
memorable, but ripped totally out of context. Amusingly inappropriate though-
it's like when John Major stole that passage from Orwell's 'The Lion and the
Unicorn', for one of his election broadcasts, or something. It sounded great-
unfortunately, he must have got it out of a book of easy quotes for
speechwriters. 'cause if he'd read the whole thing, he'd have noticed that
Orwell's essay's subtitle was 'Socialism and the English Genius'.  Hmmm.

a paul wrote:
<<I'd like to see Beadle in the USA
he wouldn't last a single day
he'd play just one joke
on an American bloke
and they'd blow the fucker away>>

Good grief! Meat flavoured crisps! Jeremy Beadle! Doesn't Britain sound so
sexy and alluring, hey kids?
I've just had some Bacon and Brown Sauce crisps for dinner actually- they
claimed to be Scottish, and they had a castle, some tartan, and even a wee
Highlander on the packet, so they must have been. They were fantastic. Wash
them down with Irn Bru, and you've got a whole gastronomical experience :-{ )

Aaa...nyway, has anyone volunteered/been volunteered for the monday poem yet?
If not, I'd love to have a crack at it. I've a lovely bitter/sweet one about
buses lined up for you- and anyone familiar with the ruthless culling of
endangered routemasters will surely weep tears of loss and pity as they read
it.

         And on a volunteering note, I volunteer to deal with all the
'unsubscribe sinister's sent to the list, if someone else wants to sort out
the 'can I have a dub of Tigermilk' s and the 'can I burn it on to cd' s' and
the 'can I turn my rectum into a sensurround arse-theatre and charge people to
listen to Tigermilk in all its remastered digital beauty' s.
                  Not that we get too many of the latter, of course, but it
would be nice to be prepared.

Play nicely children. And don't spit on the slide! 
seb

PS- I'm shocked at the total lack of Animals that Swim on this list! So, in
order to introduce you all to the glories of the best band since Belle and
Sebastian, I'll throw in a little snippet of them into each post. And I'll
keep doing it til you damn well like them!
'She wants to replace all the cars with horses- well fair enough. But what
about all the shite?' Animals that Swim, 'London Bridge'
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