# What, no American Idol thread yet? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 7, 2006, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435 "2006-03-07T22:08:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435/181 "2006-03-09T01:55:27Z")
Ack. This guy blows. Worst of the night. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435/182 "2006-03-09T01:55:46Z")
Jesus wept. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435/183 "2006-03-09T01:57:06Z")
What the HELL are the judges smoking? Ace was hideous. This show comes off as so fixed sometimes. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435/184 "2006-03-09T01:57:09Z")
Is it me, or is Ace goo-gooing the girls when he has to hit a note he can’t so that they can scream and cover it up. Boy, maybe I’m hearing something else than all of the judges cuz sounded terrible all the way through. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435/185 "2006-03-09T01:57:40Z")
I can make squeaky sounds too, but I don’t call it singing. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435/186 "2006-03-09T01:57:46Z")
What? _WHAT?_ Randy – **WHAT?!?** The _hell?_ Are they all on crack? Did a Kleig light explode and everybody is sucking in fumes or something? (Do Kleig lights even _make_ fumes?) They’re calling that a “_falsetto_”? It sounds like somebody put his nuts in a vise. Or else Michael Jackson hisownself was touching him somewhere … bad. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435/187 "2006-03-09T01:59:17Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] Boy, maybe I’m hearing something else than all of the judges cuz sounded terrible all the way through. [/QUOTE] It must be some horrible distortion cause by the airwaves. My vote: Tyler Chris Gedeon Elliott Bucky Will Ace Kevin But I don’t think Ace will actually be out; I think it will be Will and Kevin. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435/188 "2006-03-09T02:03:11Z")
I’d rank Taylor as the best. Will, Chris and Gedeon were solid and safe. Ace sucked the hairy bag but it will probably be Kevin and Bucky going home. That’s too bad because Bucky is a better singer than Ace but for some unfathomable reason, the judges have decided to pimp Ace beyond all reason. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435/189 "2006-03-09T02:03:33Z")
When I was a kid, my dog Toby would scratch his back on a tree branch that was just the right height for him to scratch his back. Toby would also howl while he was scratching his back on the tree branch–“Owwww Owwww Owww.” This is what Ace made me think of. My vote is the same as JeffB’s vote, except that I’d switch Gedeon and Chris. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435/190 "2006-03-09T02:08:16Z")
Ace was horrible, and I wish he’d get voted off, but apparently lots of people think this is America’s Next Top Male Model, so he’ll be in the competition a long time. Elliot is the one who’ll get voted off while less talented people stay on. I wish I could be sorry for him, but… he sang Bryan Adams, so he deserves whatever happens to him. What was he thinking? He seems hipper than that. Maybe somebody told him to sing Ryan Adams, and he got confused. I want Bucky to be around for a while, because eventually he’ll dig up a Steve Earle song and it’ll kick ass. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435/191 "2006-03-09T02:11:41Z")
I agree that Taylor was best. If he had to do Michael McDonald, I wish he’d at least dug out an old Doobie Brothers track. Kevin was comically bad. Ace was uncomically bad. Everyone else was somewhere between “OK” and “Whatever.” ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435/192 "2006-03-09T02:14:36Z")
[QUOTE=Walter Windchill] I agree that Taylor was best. If he had to do Michael McDonald, I wish he’d at least dug out an old Doobie Brothers track. [/QUOTE] I thought that was a Dobbie Brothers song. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435/193 "2006-03-09T02:19:50Z")
[QUOTE=JeffB] I thought that was a Dobbie Brothers song. [/QUOTE] Ah, it turns out you’re right. I’ll shut up now. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435/194 "2006-03-09T02:22:43Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] … Bucky is a better singer than Ace but for some unfathomable reason, the judges have decided to pimp Ace beyond all reason. [/QUOTE] Oh, there’s a _reason_: Ace is pretty. Unfortunately, he’s pretty bad at singing and pretty obnoxious with the staring-into-the-camera-longingly. I keep _telling_ him that he’s not getting into my pants, and _he just won’t listen_. I mean, I know I’m gorgeous and all, but I want a man who loves me for my _mind_, dammit. He does that again next week and _I’m getting the itching powder._ ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435/195 "2006-03-09T02:23:00Z")
Well, I _hope_ Kevin and Will get sent home tomorrow, but Bucky and Ace aren’t safe, at all. My wife, who hates country music, is all of a sudden in love with Bucky. ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435/196 "2006-03-09T02:24:05Z")
[QUOTE=Eleusis] Well, I _hope_ Kevin and Will get sent home tomorrow, but Bucky and Ace aren’t safe, at all. My wife, who hates country music, is all of a sudden in love with Bucky. [/QUOTE] Ehh, I don’t think Elliot is safe either. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2006, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435/197 "2006-03-09T02:26:23Z")
Ace is safe. Teenage girls vote the most, and seem to listen with their eyes. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2006, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435/198 "2006-03-09T02:43:38Z")
I could have sworn I posted this already. I hope it’s not floating around unwanted in some strange thread. Ace’s performance was the worst since auditions. But he’ll wont get voted off because his fan base dails and dials and dials and dails and. . . I think Kevin is gone but everybody else was so mediocre the only person who I would be surprised to see go would be the worst singer of the bunch. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435/199 "2006-03-09T02:44:13Z")
Aha! I was just reading the message board at TWoP and someone put their finger on who Gedeon reminds me of - Velvet Jones, the old Eddie Murphy pimp character from SNL. ("Hi. I’m Velevet Jones. This is my new book, _I Wanna Be a Ho_.) ---
**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:** [March 9, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435/200 "2006-03-09T02:58:25Z")
The Windchill girl half-heartedly threw a few votes Willward, but she misses David. Really, was there any other boy in the competition you’d want your daughter voting for? If she voted once for Ace I’d lock her in her room. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-american-idol-thread-yet/347435.md?page=11)