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celebrate the wonder of Eurovision 2008
O Europe 19 months ago

I love you. The wonderfulness of it all: castrate singers with feather wings, performance art, bearded Frenchmen and -women, pirates, power ballads, bellydancing, shimmying dresses, ice-skaters, men without shirts, instant costume changes and – yes, YES! – numerous key changes!

My favourites were Bosnia-Herzegovina (weird but wonderful), Denmark (an old-fashioned 1960s or 70s ESC song), France (it was just so… French) and Spain (well, erm… what can I say except that The Ketchup Song is one of my karaoke bravuras?).

I can understand why Russia won, though: ice-skating on stage! Shirt-ripping-open!

Congratulations to Norway for doing so well! :)



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Long John Silvie is moving about - slowly, but is moving about

A violinist and ice skating

Russia was a worthy winner, and as Sir Terry said, it was politically their turn this year. So we all meet in Moscow next year!!

The voting was predictable though, and I fear that after Sir Terry’s comments at the end he will be taking his bat and ball home now.

Our gimmicks did not work last year, and our serious singer did not work this year. We are always fashionably a year behind. So predictably we came last, although we did get a few points (pronounced ‘pwan’ of course).

However in spite of the predictable ‘voting for your friends’ the good songs do get the points (Norway were consistently picking up points from most people), and it remains wonderfully spectacular.

Zanna Campanula bookcart lady, is wearing her posh tetrapak frock

it's strangely satisfying

that my country of birth and my country of choice shared last place (with poland, clearly i must go to poland…). it was so very european to sit around the breakfast table this morning, losers all of us.

earlier in the week middle aged ladies were nearly in tears at bookclub talking about the guilt of being german—today the erstwhile enemies were jointly celebrating their crappiness (well, really, both songs were so crap they deserved to come last). i lurve eurovision, even when i don’t actually get to watch it.

what shall we do about sir terry? start an online petition?

Long John Silvie is moving about - slowly, but is moving about

Officially the UK was the overall last

‘Germany and Poland also received 14 points each, but they officially finished above the UK because their top scores in a single round were higher’

An on-line petition is a great idea – how do we start one???

Zanna Campanula bookcart lady, is wearing her posh tetrapak frock

yes but

germany only got 12 points from bulgaria because one of the “band” (lucy) is originally from there. they /we would have been outright definite last otherwise. excellent, let’s have a fight about who was last. yoohoo!

Andreya afraid of Halloween! :)

Well,

we didn’t even get into the finals!! :(
So I guess we ‘win’ ;))

AND we had a woman in a cage, a strip-change AND 2 guys on rollerblades…!! so, hmm…?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIUTY0KKML0

She was terribly dressed though, & some people think she’d win (or at least get into finals if dressed like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdE0k4C_LTo
(& singing the English version… which didn’t help the UK or several others, hmm..)

Ooh, there’s even an interview with her in Belgium!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1Sy6XA8l8Q (Belgium didn’t get into finale either, shucks!!)

I’m still convinced we lost big time because we didn’t have a coordinated hand movement… I mean, look at Norway! Loved the song, but fell in love with coordinated hand movement (& matching outfits!!;))

We were last!

It’s a fine Eurovision tradition. At least we didn’t get the dreaded nul points.

I was a little dismayed that Russia won – I didn’t like the smarmy man much, although the ice-skating chap was pretty hilarious.

I did quite like Greece’s entry – Secret Combination – especially the bit where she did a suggestive dance and then the next line was “I’m not easy”.

The whole family got behind the Latvian pirates and yesterday morning my father was still pondering why they had not done better in the voting. It was good to see the UK gave them 10 points It should have been 12, obviously, but there was a limit to how many times I could vote ;)

I also enjoyed the Norwegian entry which delivered the finest one-armed flappy dancing of the contest. It was strange that Sweden didn’t do better, although their singer did look disconcertingly like an alien so perhaps that put people off.

As for Bosnia, it was like something out of a Tim Burton film, complete with Helena Bonham Carter lookalike. Really quite strange and intriguing.

All in all, an excellent evening’s entertainment!

Andreya afraid of Halloween! :)

There are

a couple of options ;)

http://www.google.si/search?hl=sl&q=online+petitions&meta=

I must warn you though that a Snopes article denies the efficiency of E-petitions & says awareness better be raised by essays…?! hmm… huh?!

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