what is wrong with me that Milli Vanilli isn't my reference for that kind of thing, Martha Wash is?

Being unfamiliar with both, I'd say there's nothing wrong with you using something that resembles my name less and therefore helping my reading of the board without going back to wonder "what was I doing there?"

The Wheel of Time

I've never read those. Then again, it's been forever since I read "Dune".

Me and a friend used to take books from the library - which let us take only one each - read and then quickly trade them and read each other's books (that way we could read two books in the timeframe the library let us read only one, and have the same books in our minds so we could talk about them without fearing of spoiling each other). She was the one who borrowed "Dune", and she literally threw it to my hands after she breezed through it with "you *must* read this *right now*!".

Being unfamiliar with both, I'd say there's nothing wrong with you using something that resembles my name less and therefore helping my reading of the board without going back to wonder "what was I doing there?"

Heh. I still blink every time that people refer to Paris Hilton as "P. Hil."

(Milli Vanilli, by the way, was a music act around 1989 or so. Their biggest hit had the chorus, "Girl you know it's true, ooo ooo ooo, I love you." It was happy fun music, and cute guys with long hair and good dance moves, and they won a Grammy. It was later revealed that they didn't actually sing any of their songs -- some other, less-photogenic people who couldn't dance had sung them.)

And now everyone lip syncs, so it won't be long before cover people are the rage. Heck, they did it in "Singin' in the Rain"--though that didn't work either, but at least Debbie Reynolds was cute.

Milli Vanilli: [link]

This video shows both of the ridiculous dance moves that they were known for: the thing where they jump in the air and bump chests, and the weird running-in-place thing.

Being unfamiliar with both, I'd say there's nothing wrong with you using something that resembles my name less and therefore helping my reading of the board without going back to wonder "what was I doing there?"

Heh.

The Martha Wash situation was similar -- she was the vocalist for a dance song, but they put a younger, thinner woman lip-syncing in the video.

What confuses me about Milli Vanilli is that, in the songs, the singers' accents are either American or sort of Caribbean, but the actual guys had pretty strong French and German accents. Did they just not give interviews?

What confuses me about Milli Vanilli is that, in the songs, the singers' accents are either American or sort of Caribbean, but the actual guys had pretty strong French and German accents. Did they just not give interviews?

Well, people tend to lose their accents to some extent when they sing.

Thanks, Hil [Edit: and Jesse!] (can't youtube on the university's computer, though, so it'll have to wait for the home computer).

[Oh, and it's been way too long since I watched "Singing in the Rain", as well. Hmm, I sense a trend here.]

In other issues, can we please make "teh" officially an English word by Thursday? It'll save me so much in proof-reading. Also, please to make "is" and "in" just the one word, because no spell-checker can help me here. Bonus if that single word is "if".

Ta, ever so.

Dude, I still love Milli Vanilli.

Go ahead, shun me. I don't care.

I remember my older sister and her friends (who were about 12 or 13 at the time) thinking themselves the height of coolness for coming up with a "Blame in on Hussein" parody of "Blame it on the Rain."

Also, I'd completely forgotten how utterly ridiculous the "Baby Don't Forget My Number" video was: [link]