Sinister: like taking candy from a terrorist

[Rachel Playforth]

looks like i am too late for rachel fruitloop's inevitable report back.  but
anyway i find halloween stupid, mainly because for 364 days a year children
are told NEVER, not in any circumstances, to take sweets from strangers.
then on halloween the poor things are positively encouraged to go round to
strangers' houses and actually DEMAND sweets off them.  wrong.

so b&s have uk dates coming up in december, apparently.  although i'm never
normally inclined to trust jo whiley, who doesn't even know that being
barefoot does not a good interviewer make.

now for my own stab at being fruitloopishly referential:

rob wrote:
I regard semi-colons as a grammatical offside
rule; ask people to explain it and they start
confidently, then hesitate before backtracking and
starting again.  Did I do that right by the way,
Archel?

hm.  do you know, i would have used a full colon there personally.  however,
i'm not going to make an idiot of myself by trying to explain; nor am i
going to use a semi-colon ever again in a sinister post, just in case i
don't do it properly after all.  incidentally, one of the writers in the
festival i'm currently involved with had to pull out because of a
'perforated colon'.  which is quite an appropriate sounding injury for a
writer...

robin has multi-coloured pens.  i'm so jealous.  i hope i get them in my new
job, also colour-coded stickers for the revolutionary filing system i will
undoubtedly implement.

as for anthrax in lovehearts - this freaked me completely as my friend gave
me some lovehearts the other day which he had apparently got through the
post from virgin mobile.  i was a bit dubious about it at the time, but
having determined not to let paranoia get in the way of my sugar
consumption, ate them anyway.  so if this is my final post, you know why.

pez mentioned the two versions of harry potter.  why *is* the title
different in the us?  considering that the 'philosophers stone' of the title
refers to the specific alchemical legend (which i doubt has a different name
 stateside) what is the POINT of changing it?  if you treat audiences like
they're stupid, you'll make them stupider....

elise's hilarious merit badges reminded me of matt groening's 'life in hell'
stuff, and had a similar effect on the dryness of my pants :)

but then my sinister Post of the Week, possibly Year, came in from big stu,
and i was really in trouble.  almost out of clean dry pants.  i never
thought the idea of me rendering a will infertile would make me laugh so
much.  genius.

luv archel toast xxx (luckily mr hatchback's bread revelation will not
interfere with my toast plans - when we are living together matt will be
baking fresh bread for me every morning.  i've decided.)

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