Eurovision Song Contest

[Malc]

Here's three good 'uns.

Celine Dion kick-started her career with a Eurovision win in 1988. The French-Canadian performed Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi for Switzerland.

 ABBA's first attempt at Eurovision was in 1973 with Ring Ring, which failed to win the Swedish national selection competition.

 When 18-year-old Dana won the 1970 Contest for Ireland, she beat established singers Mary Hopkin (UK - placed second) and Julio Iglesias (Spain - placed joint fourth).

[Tom]

Here's some more trivia for you:

Finland's entry in 1973, Marion Rung, came sixth with Tom Tom Tom.  I've only just found out about that one!

The first country to get "nil points" was Belgium, back in 1962. Fortunately, they were joined the same year by Spain, Austria and The Netherlands. 16 countries took part.

[madjock]

Ireland hated Johhny Logan winning as it nearly bankrupted them hosting the event!

[The Peepmaster]

Ireland hated Johhny Logan winning as it nearly bankrupted them hosting the event!

And one of my favourite songs from the 60s came from Ireland, of course.


Joe Dolan didn't get ANY points in the Eurovision Song Contest, interestingly, mainly because he didn't enter.

[Joan]

Help, there's too much nostalgia on here at the moment!  Now I'm back in 1964 walking down the street in Bowmore, Islay, singing "Do Wah Diddy Diddy".

Mince, I need your help - have tried all ways to embed youtube video, including copying code from other people's posts, but when I do it, it comes up with two sets of video and a whole lot of the code - will leave it to show you what's happening - could you please fix it and tell me what I'm doing wrong?  Here's the link 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30p0PJrHrgE 

Okay .... after my spending a lot of time trying to do that, the link seems to have embedded it once - can everyone else see it?  I won't leave the "embedded" videos now - sure you don't want to see three lots of it, but would appreciate your advice on this, Mince.

I think I'm going nuts, or maybe it's that sip of butterscotch schnapps I had last night.  :

PS The "roll eyes" smiley doesn't seem to be working.

[The Peepmaster]

I reported the fact that the Roll-eyes smiley wasn't working a while back. It's a mystery. We only ever regularly used it on Mince (who's the guy that controls, and tinkers with the back side of this forum). It was an extremely useful icon in that respect. I can't imagine what's become of it. All the other smileys appear to be working normally...

[Malc]

It's obvious that Mince has sabotaged the Roll Eyes smiley.

Still he's got his hands on the controls, so he can do what he likes.

He can disable the roll eyes smiley, write the feem toon, or even sing the feem toon.....

[The Peepmaster]

He doesn't control ALL the world's smilies though.

[Vulture]

I reported the fact that the Roll-eyes smiley wasn't working a while back. It's a mystery. We only ever regularly used it on Mince (who's the guy that controls, and tinkers with the back side of this forum). It was an extremely useful icon in that respect. I can't imagine what's become of it. All the other smileys appear to be working normally...

Do you mean he 'a*ses around' ?

[Mince]

I haven't touched the smileys.

If it ain't working, then I can only assume that in your attempts to mess with the smileys you have in your incompetence sabotaged the very thing you were trying to keep. And that's really funny.

[The Peepmaster]

I haven't touched the smilies (smileys?).