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Interestingly enough, I did not have the band in mind when I wrote the previous post.
My wife keeps wanting me to get on that (expletive deleted) Millionaire show and I have to keep telling her that I would fail miserably because I would get pop culture questions that would knock me out too early. Heck, I thought Britney Spears was a brand of asparagus!
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Heck, I thought Britney Spears was a brand of asparagus!
Asparagus, maybe. Virgin asparagus definitely, by her own, oft-repeated, admission. [sailing-close-to-the-wind emoticon]
She also has a problem with singing on key, but that's another problem entirely and one shared by most of her colleagues in the "music" industry.
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Showing our age, are we Monsieur Kiwi? I don`t think any of her fans have noticed her oft off-key melodies. The girls want to emulate her and the boys, well, lets not go there...
Have you tried listening to any of these sugar coated boy bands and teeny bopper girlie bands. I feel cavities blooming after just a few notes. But, like in any generation, the ones with real talent hang on. The rest fade into obscurity.
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BelMarduk intoned Showing our age, are we Monsieur Kiwi? I don`t think any of her fans have noticed her oft off-key melodies. The girls want to emulate her and the boys, well, lets not go there...Let those not guilty of afflicting the globe with Celine Dion cast the first stone.   
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But Maxie dear, I was simply agreeing with CapK on his most observant note concerning Britney Spears. And, hey, take that back. We did not afflict the world. The world came to get her .
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Hey, hey, I wasn't arguing with success, just saying that it is often visited upon the most undeserving vessels (would you understand if I said "barques of frailty"?). . I don't really go Celine either, and I wish that she had taken that year off to have a baby or whatever. The trouble is that the FM station we listen to would keep playing her, Bonnie Tyler, George Michaels, Britney Spears and all the other dodgy "artists" anyway. And, believe me, changing stations won't make a shred of difference ... Velvet Underground, come back - all is forgiven ... [sobbing emoticon].
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And, hey, take that back. We did not afflict the world. The world came to get her
I for one like a few of her songs. I don't like her attempts at "pop-opera diva", and am proud to be the only person I know who has not seen Titanic, but I have heard a couple of numbers from Celine Dion where she is singing more like a cabaret/ smokey nightclub chanteuse, much like Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys, and that style of singing seems to suit Celine much better than those ghastly "big" numbers she's always trying, in my opinion.
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She's sold a lot of records, and, as I said, I really don't want to knock success. Maybe Ted and I can get her to front "Creche Test Dummies" when we make the video. Incidentally AEnigma wants to change "creche" to "credence". Maybe we should inveigle the Fogarty brothers into the band as well.
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the only person I know who has not seen TitanicWell, Nemo, I have not seen The...baker boys, and did not know M. Pfeiffer could sing. But--I'll tell you something that was in the paper here, or maybe USA Weekend, shortly after Titanic came out: that girls would go see it together, and then come back, bringing their boyfriends so the guys could "learn how a girl ought to be treated". So, if you have a significant other who is perhaps less than you'd like him to be in some ways, you could scope out this movie--it's really pretty good, though not as good as all the hype said it would be--and see if he could use the hint!
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I waited to see it on TV. Not impresssed. Seemed to me a re-hash of all the older Titanic movies with more special effects. (Affects? or is it affected?)
I liked the old black-and-white Kenneth Moore version, out of England better.
Except for the one scene in the "new" version of the locked gate there was little done with -- to me -- the real horror of the Titanic, the hundreds of third class (steerage) passengers left to drown while the rich first-class passengers were put into lifeboats.
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