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To: JoeGar

Never watched "American Idol"...

Never will...


7 posted on 03/23/2005 10:30:58 AM PST by MplsSteve
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To: MplsSteve

And that's why this thread is just the place for you! LOL just teasing....


8 posted on 03/23/2005 10:32:00 AM PST by RushCrush (Hitler was a gun-banning, abortion-supporting, business-regulating, Christmas-hating, vegetarian.)
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To: MplsSteve

And that's why this thread is just the place for you! LOL just teasing....


9 posted on 03/23/2005 10:32:00 AM PST by RushCrush (Hitler was a gun-banning, abortion-supporting, business-regulating, Christmas-hating, vegetarian.)
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Melikes Constatine, Bo & Dude with the dreadlocks eerr weave whatever.


10 posted on 03/23/2005 10:32:58 AM PST by meanie monster
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To: MplsSteve

And now you can no longer say that you've never posted on an "American Idol" thread.


12 posted on 03/23/2005 10:33:48 AM PST by new cruelty
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To: MplsSteve
Never watched "American Idol"... Never will...

That's what I say about sports. Guess we all have our own escapes .....

51 posted on 03/23/2005 11:15:46 AM PST by zippee
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To: MplsSteve

"Oh come on, have some fun!! I bet you'll read what AOL has to report:
""""'American Idol' Phone Foul-Up Forces Revote

By Gary Susman, Entertainment Weekly
FOX
The 'Idol' top 11 contestants will have a second chance. The results show will now air Thursday night.




Fox has accidentally stumbled onto a way to squeeze an extra airing of American Idol onto its schedule: foul up the phone voting. That's what happened Tuesday night, when the show displayed the wrong call-in numbers for three of the contestants. Voters who called the numbers listed for Anwar Robinson, Mikalah Gordon, or Jessica Sierra would have inadvertently registered support instead for Anthony Fedorov, Carrie Underwood, or Scott Savol. As a result, the error is forcing the first revote in Idol history.

Fox said in a statement that it would air a new hour-long Idol episode Wednesday night, adding that the show "will combine new live elements with encores of Tuesday's performances from the remaining 11 contestants." Fans will then be allowed to call in their votes on Wednesday night, while Tuesday's votes will be tossed out. The results show that usually airs Wednesdays will then air on Thursday. This may prove an awkward solution, but it beats getting the Supreme Court involved.

In a conference call with reporters on Wednesday, Idol producer Ken Warwick said that this solution -- airing new live comments from Ryan Seacrest and the judges around the taped performances from Tuesday's show -- would not only be less "boring" than a complete rerun of the performance episode, but was also "the only way the whole thing can be fair." He said that, as soon as Fox alerted producers to the mistake, all the votes were discarded, and no one involved in the production knew what the tally had been. He didn't say who would eat the cost of the re-vote, but callers and text-message users won't be charged for last night's votes. As for the cause behind the misprinted phone numbers, Warwick blamed "human error" but said the mistake was made by an outside contractor. He said he didn't know whether the man responsible was fired or not but said, "We probably won't see him in the building anymore."


03/23/05 06:50 EST


101 posted on 03/23/2005 1:21:57 PM PST by YaYa123 (@ They Wouldn't Try To Pull A Fast One, Would They?.com)
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To: MplsSteve

7 - "Never watched "American Idol"...
Never will... "

Too bad. I watched it the other nite for the first time, and some of the performances are really quite good, if you ignore the stupidity of the 'contest'.


110 posted on 03/23/2005 4:17:54 PM PST by XBob
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