time passes slowly up here on the mountain

[Dayna]

Oh thanks. I will look, but I like it here. It's ok. I will find things eventually on the Internet

[Dayna]

I sure hope I wouldn't be just among a bunch of crazy female Groupies or something. That's not what I am. You know?
I have had a lot of fun talking & laughing about things on here today. I want to gain some freinds hopefully. Maybe all the posts that are on here now, will be interesting to some others. Hopefully Charlie will find them entertaining as well. He thought it was funny at first when i was talking to myself. Do you mind if I ask where is Gateshead? Don'tworry, I'm not going to call you at 3:00 in the morning. I just want to know about UK, from talking.

Hope you are feeling better Charlie!


Dayna

[ritchie]

Dayna,

please don't tell me that you are a crazy male groupie, it would shatter my preconceptions beyond belief.

Lets not turn this into a 'chat room' or there is a chance my 78 year old mum would clip my ear.

Trust me, I wanted to be a Doctor!

Get on the Mudcat, just 'lurk' around a bit, mind you there is also the froots forum as well.

In the meantime ....did you hear the one about the......,

[Dayna]

I don't want to go to those other places. I like it here. It's good enough,what I've written here. I get some occasional information from one fan site, but have no desire to write anything there.

[Gordon Neill]

Ritchie wrote:

Dominic was the first one to use the term SAOL.

Fine, but I still don't know what 'SAOL' stands for and who sang it. Was it that lot who did 'YMCA'? You know, one of them wore a cowboy hat. Perhaps Dayna can help? I need to know or another goat gets it.

[ritchie]

Gordon,

As long as it's not the 'Jacob's goat of many colours'.

Dayna will help as long as you can look up her long lost relatives. I have nt told her that Deepest Fife is in Scotland but I'm sure someone will.

I remember now, I was supposed to be keeping a list of the SAOL to see who was fit to 'wear the crown' I'll have to trawl thro' all of the post's to find out....gosh that will be fun.

I think you are on the wrong track with YMCA you are probably thinking of the guy who played in the 'hit' tv series called Starsky & Hutch....the series that is not the guy!

hi ho hi ho....it's off to work we go.

[Dayna]

I kind of noticed that last night, that Fife is in Scotland, because I have had so much trouble sending these messages at times to post things. I keep getting frustrated, & end up sending a private message to someone, & hoping maybe what I want to say will at least get seen somehow.
That's why I really send so many private messages & bothering people, more than I want to. I have so much to say here. I end up writing things, & not being able to get them posted for some reason.
Oh well, I'm a frustrated person.

[Dayna]

That song, YMCA, was by the Village People. I heard the guy that was playing the cop got arrested for something in California.
A couple years ago, there was a really funny commercial on about the Village People, that they were performing live in a Mall somehwere. They were all aged & all their fans were elderly people. It was hilarious.
I don't know what those letters stand for at all, for the time difference. I just write & hope it will get posted, somehow, & whenever it gets read is fine with me. It's actually 3:00AM here now. I guess you can't really bother anyone by talking this way, unless you leave your computer on, all the time & keep having something that says "You've got Mail" , like AOL does. Then I can understand why it could be bothersome.
I couldn't sleep, so I'm up now, & getting silly. Fortunatley, I'm off today.
One other thing. I keep my name hidden on here most of the time because I have looked at the "Who's On Line" thing, before. I don't do it to be nosy, but I always wonder what people are looking at. I'd like to know if anything I write is interesting or not. But if my name is showing, when I do that, it says, "Looking at who's on line". Then I think, "Well what did you have to tell everyone that for?"

[Gordon Neill]

I feel that time is getting even slower.

Dayna said

I don't know what those letters stand for at all

Well I do know that YMCA stands for Young Men's Christian association. But I still don't know what SAOL means.

Ritchie said

I think you are on the wrong track with YMCA you are probably thinking of the guy who played in the 'hit' tv series called Starsky & Hutch

Yeah, I'm always thinking about him. He's so dreamy. Actually, wasn't the other one a soul singer (gedditt?). There, I managed to get this thread onto music (of a sort) at last.

PS It's 9.42, if anyone's interested.

[Dayna]

I know. It means SAOL Patrol!

Ritchie is part of Taylor Hicks fan club!

[Gordon Neill]

Dayna said:

I know. It means SAOL Patrol!

Ritchie is part of Taylor Hicks fan club!

There are times, Dayna, when I feel that you could get a job writing the instructions for self-assembly furniture. Your message meant absolutely nothing to me. However, I had a quick google and found the Taylor Hicks unofficial fan site. I'd never heard of the bloke and, frankly, he looks a bit scary. But the site referred to something called the 'soul patrol'. So although I've no idea what it all means, at least I know what it is that I don't know about. And have no wish to know about.

Interestingly, the top left hand of Taylor's unofficial website http://www.taylorhicksfansite.com/ contains a countdown for his birthday. Quite spooky given that all this rubbish started with Ritchie muttering about time passing slowly. For the record, Taylor Hick's birthday is in 49 days, 3 hours, 11 minutes, and 39 seconds. I'm not making this up. See for yourself.

Perhaps Charlie could add a countdown to his birthday on the Sound Of The World web site. It would be kinda neat.

[Dayna]

That is hilarious. It's really nice having something to laugh at, after the day I had at work today.
Did you figure out he was the one that won American Idol this year? I swear I never watched that show at all, except when I saw him on it. I hate reality shows. There isn't anything realistic about any of them, but he may have been an exception, as far as singing. Do you think?
Just not really as good as my favorites, not to me at least.
The Soul Patrol thing had something to do with him being from Alabama & being influenced by Southern style Rock music.
That would be nice, if Charlie likes having a reminder of his birthday, like that. When is it?
Dayna

[howard male]

Now, this is a huge confession to make in such esteemed company, so please don't be too hard on me. But in that dead time between Dr Who and Charlie's show on Saturday night I did catch a bit of American Idol and I did get drawn into its bright and scary orbit. And let me tell you, Mr Hicks wasn't a bad singer at all!

He was also interesting in that he wasn't from the usual pop idol mould, being in his thirties, silver haired and stocky. When Marcia and I first saw him we thought - he's great but he'll never win. And then he won. So there is hope for America as a nation if they can make the right decision in picking the real thing from a bunch of plastic fakes.

And even you might like him, Charlie - he sounds a lot like Ray Charles without sounding like he's trying to impersonate him. Obviously the backing band is just generic big band pop, but if this guy has any song writing ability and can break away from the whole pop idol aesthetic, he could be a force to reckon with.

And his birthday is now only 48 days, 14 hours, 53 minutes and 14 seconds away - no sorry - 52 minutes and 55 seconds, no wait. . .

[Gordon Neill]

Yup, I did figure out that Taylor Hicks won the Amereican Idol thingy. Being a bit snooty, I've never heard him and I'm determined never to like him. As Dayna says, reality shows are so unreal. So there. Unless, of course, he appears on World 2007.

But it doesn't surprise me that Howard quite likes him. I mean, this is the bloke who still has all his Bowie posters up on his bedroom wall. And to admit it as well! Honestly, a TV pop show winner! I feel some of our more puritanical ex-members may wish to rejoin so that they can leave again.

It does strike me, though, that Ritchie has been awfully quiet. I mean he hasn't denied being a member of the Taylor Hicks fan club. Imagine if his 78-year old mum found out about that!

[howard male]

Do you know what it is, Gordon? I just try to resist my own knee-jerk impulse toward cultural snobbery, and sometimes that means I end up having to confess someone like Taylor Hicks actually has a pretty good voice. If you prefer to go out of your way to avoid even having an educated opinion on him by actually hearing him first, that's your prerogative.

In the meantime it's now only 48 days, 13 hours, 23 minutes and 42 seconds to Taylor's birthday so I'm off to find him a card - and get some posters of him to replace my Bowie ones - time to move on I think.