Oh dear...

[venta]

Today I bought another two CDs by bands whose names begin with 'The'.

"But Elizabeth," you cry. "Lots of bands have names beginning with 'The'. Where's the harm?"

However, I mean two of those bands. The ones that all sound like that.

It's the beginning of a slippery slope...

Comments

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Thank you. You are getting very close to a commission as a phone-a-friend should I ever make it on to WWTBAM? - which, admittedly, would require me to start trying to get onto WWTBAM? in the first place.

From the news tonight, would The Cheeky Girls count as part of the "The" phenomenon?

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Erm... I hadn't heard of The Cheeky Girls until I saw their single in the shop on Saturday, but if it has "cheeky girls" lots of times in the lyrics, then I've heard part of it once (without knowing at the time who it was by) and I don't think they fit in.

What was the news?

[triskellian]

Urgh. Evidently you didn't hang out with Kauket enough while you had the chance ;-( She made me watch Pop Idol, or some similar TV show, which spawned The Cheeky Girls.

The news item might have been (although I don't know, cos I didn't see it) because someone is (was) trying to start an internet meme-thingie to get people to go out and buy their single, so they get to be Christmas number one, allegedly out of disgust at whoever was behind the current Pop Idol/Stars/whatevers programme declaring months ago that one of the two groups produced by their programme was going to be Christmas number one. Or something. But I'm drunk, so I don't necessarily know what I'm talking about, and you should be grateful that this post is (at least mostly) properly spelt and punctuated.

;-)

I got that particular 'meme'

[ieyasu.livejournal.com]

...and purchased the single. Don't laugh, I consider it an act of particular evil.

First of all, I've given it to my brother. Perhaps the Cheeky Girls will propagate to America as a result. If so, I will have single-handedly topped the worst thing I've ever done in my life, much less in 2002, at the end of the year.

Secondly, I really don't like the idea of the Rivals thing, so I sort of hope the Cheeky Girls win. Did they?

Re: I got that particular 'meme'

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

No.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/top40/