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]

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."

My sister and I were about the same age when we came up with what we knew was a dorky parody on "Don't Cry Out Loud" (a popular sappy ballad at the time) called "Don't Sneeze Out Loud." (Just keep it inside / and learn how to hide your geeerms...)

The Wheel of Time

I've never read those.

That's for the best really.

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

Yeah, but if you listen to them speak [link] , Rob really can't pronounce th or w sounds.

Yeah, but if you listen to them speak [link] , Rob really can't pronounce th or w sounds.

At first I don't think anybody bothered to analyse it that closely -- accents fade when people sing. That probably would have been good enough if they'd never blown up.