Sinister: Happy Birthday You

[Ian Watson]

Today is also my birthday! Happy birthday Sinister! And happy birthday to
me! Anyone else born today?
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> From: honey at xxx.org
> Reply-To: honey at missprint.org
> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:14:36 +0100 (BST)
> To: sinister at missprint.org
> Subject: Sinister: Happy Birthday You
> 
> Sinister,
> 
> Today is Sinister's 5th birthday, finally, for real, and I thought
> day 1826 or something of Sinister could be the day I could break all
> the list rules and send a short somewhat FAQ-breaking mail.  I just
> wanted to say happy birthday, and don't really know what else to say.
> I'll ramble for a bit then retire in embarrassed silence, coughing and
> rearranging flowers on the windowsill.
> 
> I'm not really up to counting properly (maybe there's a Sinister
> Statistician chewing a Sinister Pencil somewhere), but I'd take
> a rough guess that the Sinister archive since August 27th 1997
> contains 24,000 messages.  Multiplied out by the average number of
> people who've been on this list, I'd guess that my poor tired little
> mail servers have sent more than 20 million messages in the course
> of their 5 year childhood.  I'm not sure if when the servers hit 15,
> get spots and start to hang out drinking cans of cheap lager outside
> the chippy they'll be so happy to do so (I expect some fairly surly
> error messages), but I'd like to thank the little darlings for their
> tireless work.  Of course really I'd like to thank YOU all because
> you all joined the list, made the list, and kept the list going, but
> I'm a bit embarrassed and don't know how to put it.  Just.. you know.
> 
> My best friends for life have been made through Sinister.  Some of
> you have said the loveliest things, but I've gained more from Sinister
> than anyone and consider it an incredibly lucky and unlikely thing to
> happen to me, and maybe a life-saver.  All it was was an idle thought
> on a Thursday afternoon, and not a very original one.  You made it
> all what it is, and you should thank the flowers, not the gardener.
> 
> I've been pretty much a silent mum retired to bed with valium and
> vodka, and I'm aware how rubbish I've been.  I've been poking away
> in the background fixing stuff and keeping it going, and Linda's been
> her own sweet self keeping everything going publically.  Things have
> and continue to be pretty impossible in the world outside Sinister,
> but I couldn't not mail on day 1826.  Happy Birthday Sinister. Honey xxx
> 
> 
> 
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 +-+       "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper           +-+
 +-+  "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+
 +-+    "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000     +-+
 +-+  "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000  +-+
 +-+  "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001   +-+
 +-+               Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa                 +-+
 +-+               Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut!                +-+
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