Hello Sinister, Well, I got mistaken for a lady again today in Safeway. It's happened a couple of times before. There was some nasty oik behind me in the queue who kept shouting questions at the cashier who was clearly pig sick of being stuck there rubbing tins of beans over the scanner the whole bank holiday. She gave them a lovely withering look and said "excuse me, I'll be with you in a moment once I've served this lady". I giggled and the oiks burst out laughing. I felt really bad for the cashier, she looked up at me with a mortified expression started apologising madly. I don't think I look much like a girl, not really - I mean my hair is really quite short, I don't wear makeup or anything. I know I've got great breasts but that's besides the point. Oh well. The other memorable occasion when that happened was a few years back when I was trying to buy a jumper from BHS. I signed the Switch slip and the old dear at the till checked my signature and the card and then looked up at me and said "I'm sorry love but I can't let you pay with this - it says *Mr* Bishop here"..... Oh well. Anyway, people keep asking whether they're the only person in the world who hasn't heard Legal Man, well, you're not because I haven't either. Mainly because I can't listen to the radio for more than five minutes before I break down in tears. Or start kicking things. I must admit to being quite fond of the Eurotrash theme though (although not Eurotrash itself, obviously) so I'm really quite looking forward to it. Apparently Belle and Sebastian are poised for world domination, which is just a bit surreal. All summer it'll be something like Mayfly pumping out of all the open topped cars stuck at the lights rather than like, whatever else they usually play. That'll be bonkers, but at least we'll all get to say "told you so". I'd love to see them on Top of the Pops, kicking the drumkit over, breaking amps and all that good stuff. That's it, I think. I'm off to work on a hangover for tomorrow morning. It's still only three so it should be a doozy. Kev (misquoted, misshapen) x ps. Rob - well done for bringing up the Elian thing. I'm sure you're speaking for a lot of us - I for one couldn't quite belive what I was seeing. How much sillier can it get? pps. My spell checker wants me to replace "Kev" with "Kiev". Hmm. Maybe I will. Maybe. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+