Sinister: The sound of violins drowned in gunfire

[Michael Jones]

October.  October, October, October.  Oct meaning ‘eight’, Ober
meaning ‘add another two’.  Ah, isn’t this is what it’s all about ? 
The winds, the falling leaves, the sodden turf, autumn all thick and
creamy and running down your shirt.  Better go and change before the
housemaster sees it or you’ll be eating your breakfast in the Lesser
Shed with Swarther of 8C and he has whooping cough.  Oh, marvellous.

Ailsa:
> Oh, and not liking something doesn't make you marrow-minded 
> does it?

How fortuitous a slip !  I often characterise folks who disagree with
me as [i] vegetables or [ii] having an abundance of the fatty tissue
normally located in one’s bones where their brain should be.

To be honest, I don’t really know what to infer from so vague a
phrase as ‘dance music’ thesedays.  That could mean anything or it
could mean nothing - pertaining to something entirely imaginary
("y’know - that dum-dum-dum-dum rubbish... people in nappies blowing
whistles... ingesting cod liver oil and swaying in some muddy field
‘til 5 in the morning... *that* sort of thing").

Alasdair C:
> The overwhelming majority of people hate the music
> that most of the people on this list like, it's just something
you've
> got to get used to.

And the overwhelming majority of people on this list hate the music I
like, so there you go.  I hover near the stereo at a social gathering
and suddenly it’s "well, it is really that late ?" and "anyone fancy
some fresh air ?".  "Oh come on, guys", I plead, "‘Beyond Dentistry’
by Hexen Kaiser isn’t *that* bad - there’s definitely a tune lurking
in there... once the orphans stop weeping, and just before the
buzz-saw car alarm there’s a brief snatch of Toto’s ‘Africa’...  Guys
?"

Mark C:
> Was the Richard Stilgoe programme the one where they did 
> something a bit
> like Battleships? I thought it was fantastic.

Couldabin.  Dunno.  You’re now almost imperceptibly ahead of two
others in the race for the Top Prize.  Essentially what I’m looking
for here is simply someone to make a strong case for what the Stilgoe
show *might* have been, since we’ve already established that no-one
on Earth can recall what it actually was.  In fact, I’d go so far to
say that anyone who now claims that they *do* know the real answer is
lying and, as we all know, lies make the baby Jesus cry.

This is by far and away the greatest response, on- or off-list, to
anything I’ve ever posted.  And it regards Richard Stilgoe.  This
just isn’t healthy, is it ?

Paul R:
> The "WHO" referred to in the text is an
> acronym for the well-known(apparently not) World
> Health Organization
[snip]
> I am in a
> fraternity and it has been a wonderful experience

Did they give you a keg in exchange for your sense of humour ?  No,
I’m kidding.  I’m having you on.  I’m pulling your chain.  No,
*seriously*, I’m *joking*.

Marcus O:
> i think french rap sounds really suave and sexy
> like rap in most other languages, works best when the rapper
> just constructs complex plays on words, and puns away for a while
> (à la tribe called quest)

My mum used to make that.  Duck a la Tribe Called Quest.  Not edible
in the strictest sense of the word.

But he’s right of course.  MC Solaar’s yr man in that regard, and
that fella "Prose Combat" is what you’ll want to be carrying on with.


Some Tories got together today to choose their man for this London
Mayor business.  I see around 1% of the ballot papers were ‘spoiled’.
 I’ve often wondered what this entails exactly.  I mean, I think I
know what *soiling* a ballot paper would involve.  Just how difficult
is it to spoil your voting slip ?  Suffer a stroke just as you make
your cross ?  Give it all the sweeties it wants until you
fundamentally weaken its character ?  Suggestions to the usual PO
Box.

Courage, little ones.

Mike.



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