# American Idol-- 1/31. My birthday edition! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 31, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369 "2006-01-31T17:04:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369/61 "2006-02-01T18:52:55Z")
Last night was wildly craptacular. The only interesting thing was Simon’s comment about Graystoke (hi, rockle!) that there’s no way Paula and Randy will let him through to the stage where the public starts voting. I thought Simon was going to trash him for not having the whole package, but then he sort of turned the tables on Paula and Randy and said they’re the ones who will not let him through. I don’t know if any of what I just wrote makes any sense. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369/62 "2006-02-01T19:30:15Z")
> [@yellowval](#): > > As far as repeat contestants go: Wouldn’t you love if just once, someone who really sucked went away for a couple of years, took voice lessons, came back and kicked ass? I think that would be really fun. When Seacrest was narrating about repeat contestants and they had brief clips of about a dozen or so, I’m pretty sure I saw one of them holding the yellow sheet of paper that people making it through get. ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369/63 "2006-02-01T19:50:41Z")
The link I posted yesterday is changed as of today. It just says “Taylor is persuing a great opportunity. Taylor Hicks is currently offline.” ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369/64 "2006-02-01T23:56:49Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I love that new version. > > _I should have changed that fucking lock, you should have shoved the fucking keys!_ I originally thought that the singer was just being obscenely creative, but I just realize that she was singing The Dan Band version of ‘I Will Survive’. And speaking of alternate versions – is there a new incredibly bad version of “Hey Big Spender” out there somewhere? ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369/65 "2006-02-02T00:11:52Z")
I love Peggy Lee, and I didn’t even recognize that song until she got to the chorus. I wish the judges would scold people for not respecting the melody and rhythm of the song, so intent are they off on showing off how many notes they can cram into one syllable. Taylor and Paris do the runs and stuff, but they know how to do it and respect the song. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369/66 "2006-02-02T01:06:33Z")
If fakers didn’t put them on TV, then the wouldn’t show up. Also we wouldn’t have to watch them. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369/67 "2006-02-02T01:09:23Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > If fakers didn’t put them on TV, then the wouldn’t show up. Also we wouldn’t have to watch them. Now, in English: If they didn’t give the fakers so much air time, they wouldn’t show up all the time. Also, if they didn’t put the fakers on the air, I wouldn’t have to watch them. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369/68 "2006-02-02T01:16:21Z")
That was awesome, Biggirl. I thought I was really, really tired. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369/69 "2006-02-02T01:17:49Z")
At five minutes in, we have the quote of the night: > [@Randy Jackson](#): > > What is up with Austin, man? My sentiments exactly, Randy. My sentiments exactly. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369/70 "2006-02-02T01:23:01Z")
I think I like the undertaker’s voice the best of the guys so far. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369/71 "2006-02-02T01:25:47Z")
Anybody with a tragic backstory I’m disliking on principle. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369/72 "2006-02-02T01:27:44Z")
Hear that woooooooooosh, Paula and Randy? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369/73 "2006-02-02T01:30:12Z")
Did Paula say, “A wonderful tongue?” ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369/74 "2006-02-02T01:32:24Z")
I’m not liking Tank Top Boob Girl. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369/75 "2006-02-02T01:33:44Z")
But there’s a party in her mouth! ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369/76 "2006-02-02T01:37:44Z")
Of course we don’t like Tank Top Boob Girl, she’s a _fit model_. She’s the one percenter that the garment industry ignores the rest of us in favor of. A pox on the her for all the hours we’ve wasted trying to find a good-fitting pair of jeans! University Music Major guy, think he was a smoker? One normally doesn’t stop to take audible breaths every third word of a song. Granted, he was a-trilling and a-running, albeit in a nice controlled way, but at the expense of sounding like a heavy-breathing 3 am phone caller. And Paula liked his **tone** ya big birfday perv! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369/77 "2006-02-02T01:38:43Z")
Damn, I thought she was saying she was a FOOT model. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369/78 "2006-02-02T01:39:46Z")
Cocky annoying guy was pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369/79 "2006-02-02T01:42:27Z")
Not that I’m really in any position to say anything here, but there are really a lot of … er, _ordinary_-looking people in Austin, aren’t there? I mean, not a lot of cuties of either gender. Or am I nutso? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369/80 "2006-02-02T01:43:02Z")
This should be stopped right now. Ronny and Tank Boobs could end up hooking up and having babies whose heads are so dense they’ll create a black hole and it’ll be the end of the universe as we know it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-31-my-birthday-edition/342369.md?page=5)