Oh, THAT Simon!

[Barbara Need]

>In a message dated 8/20/04 4:53:50 PM, nee1 at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU writes:
>
>>  >Sure he didn't say "Solomon?" Who is Simon Cowell?
>>
>>  Not a watcher of American Idol? Mind you, I have never seen it, but I
>>  saw the ads and some commentary. The gentleman in question is now
>>  showing up on a Vanilla Coke ad.
>>
>>  Barbara Need
>  > UChicago--Linguistics
>
>Oh, thanks, Barbara--THAT Simon! I HAVE seen him sneering at contestants
>whilst I walked through the TV room (my partner is obsessed with
>IDOL, as are most of my friends--never having wished for a singing
>career myself, I find it
>tedious). But does he really JUDGE anything? I thought the judges were the
>call-in audience? The "panel" seems just to make comments.

We are now beyond my actual competence, but I believe that the
initial cull or culls are done by the panel and that it is only the
last round or two that the callers-in (call-iners?, callers!) vote.
But your partner would certainly know better than I.

>But then, maybe it was just nasty comments that were called for in
>the beer-drinking contest.
>
>I'm afraid I'd have just thought he said "Solomon" (or thought he didn't know
>the difference between Sololmon and Simon) and gone on about my day.
>
>--Butters (and, yes, I DO know about the character with the same name on
>SOUTH PARK, to whom I am as devoted as some folks are to Simon
>Caswell or whatever his name is. I am not COMPLETELY cut off from
>conrtemporary culture!)

Well, I guess I am. The character in South Park's name is? Simon? Butters? Ron?

Barbara