In Finland, we used to have a children’s song contest. If the idea of an Europe-wide children’s song contest scares you, think about Finnish children singing off-key and moving stiffly. I still remember one particularily shudderworthy performance of “Apinaorkesteri”.
Watching the news last night on Sky (I know, I know, shush)…
The UK duo claims they are ‘devastated’ and they had to do a show in Manchester (IMS).
Can you imagine having to stand up in front of your countrymen/women after such an appalling performance??
All the ‘man on the street’ interviews suggest that your average Joe Bloggs thinks that the UK duo got nil because of ‘political reasons.’ Except your last guy, who said, “They were the worst singers. That’s saying a lot.” I can’t believe they aired that.
Next year:
The First Annual EuroVisionDope!
Good gawd. Okay, now I know that next year I’m staying up and staying on the SDMB 
But this year I recorded it for flodjunior, and I’ve finally gotten to see most of it…
Post-Iraqi backlash my ample flod@$$. To get votes with the current system you need to get people to remember you until the end of the program. The only memorable parts of Jemini’s performance were the wedgie costume and their complete inability to agree on a key signature. And Greece had already tied up the BDSM vote (if you’ll pardon the pun). Hence, not many votes.
On the other hand, how Romania escaped joining the UK in the nul-points ghetto is beyond me. That singer had a voice that could peel paint. I suspect people remembered the catchy stage show and forgot what it distracted them from.
The Belgian entry was tres cool, although their fantasy language sounds a bit short on syllables.
Drove flodjunior nuts with the Estonian entry, pointing out that I survived the '80s, dammit, and that wasn’t the '80s. Music wrong. Ties too wide. Hair styling products not applied liberally enough. Catchy tune though.
The Austrian guy had guts. I thought it was funny, but when I read the English translation of the lyrics I was confused - were we supposed to laugh?
Tatu, on the other hand, chickened out big-time. That was the controversy? One little kiss that went by so quickly I actually missed in the first time? Phhhhbt. Cowards. The song was bad, too, and they were out of tune. But the keyboard player doing his interpretation of an epileptic seizure kept it from being a complete waste of time.
Turkey had a good song, good performance. They weren’t my favorite but I can easily understand why they won.
And thank you to whoever gave Jostein Hasselgård help with his accent. Trust me, it sounded a lot worse the night of the national final…
The latest is that the Uk entry’s dressing room allegedly got turned over and no-one else’s did, thus proving that it was all about the Iraq War. Either that or they are not only shite at singing but shite at locking doors as well.
Whoever turned over the dressing room was obviously just looking for earplugs.
Did the theives make off with her skirt as part of their booty?
Well that would be because they couldn’t find the key. <= DYSWIDT?
Very good, jjimm.
Don’t encourage him, Kal.
You might not know this, but I used to be the third member of Jemini.
In fact, we once did a gig in Afghanistan.
- Jalalabad?
Yes, we sang appallingly.
(Is this thing on?)
I humbly apologise to the staff and members of this message board for encouraging jjimm.
I await punishment for my crime.
On preview: I request the death penalty.
Oh. My. God.
and only a year in waiting for the oppertunity, right jjimm?
Or should I say, Mr. Bobby Ball?
Once, while I was on tour with Jemini in New York, we wrecked a hotel room, and got thrown into jail.
- Sing Sing?
Alas, no.
Please, someone, help me to stops jjimm’s jjokesss
Any way that I can
Pops off to put belly dancing frock on
I am an armed police officer! Step away from the keyboard! Keep your hands where I can see them!
jjimm, I’m sure that if you ever walked sideways into an airport, I’d guess that you were going to Bangkok.
Jemini used to run a market stall. Unfortunately they never sold anything, because their pitch was terrible-
[Gunshot]
Ugh. Tell them I died trying… Very trying, from everyone else’s reactions. See what I did there? Stop me, stop me.
[Dies]
Bwahaha…
I’m in a public internet cafe, sad bastardess that I am. Very amusing.
Just to clarify, I’m awaiting the protest in front of Shitty Hall, and being the awkward Yank that I am, I refuse to wait in a smokey pub so I decided to come here for my daily dose of amusement.