{"id":334,"date":"2006-05-18T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=334"},"modified":"2010-01-09T16:34:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T16:34:12","slug":"countdown-to-eurovision-a-clarification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/05\/countdown-to-eurovision-a-clarification.html","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to Eurovision: a clarification"},"content":{"rendered":"
A large part of this week has been spent out working or out somewhere south of the river going to the Frederic Rzewski<\/a> gigs (trying to find the venues is half the fun!). The few hours at home have been spent reinstalling my computer’s operating system (hint: don’t upgrade Firefox!) Instead of going on about my own shortcomings I will actually finish writing up the Rzewski concerts tomorrow, in between posting stupid crap about Eurovision.<\/div>\n
Speaking of which, a clarification of the Eurovision Drinking Game<\/a> is in order. The Key Change<\/span>, the Buck’s Fizz<\/span> and the TaTu<\/span> are to be honoured at each and every occurence. Is That English?<\/span> and Don’t Mention The War<\/span> may be honoured only once per song, at its first appearance (for those of you worried about this year’s Turkish transvestite who yells “Superstar!” 8 or 9 times during a song otherwise in Turkish). <\/div>\n
The San Remo<\/span> applies once per person per song; the Cultural Rainbow<\/span> and the Wandering Minstrel<\/span> only applies for each distinct phenomenon per song (e.g. repeated bouts of pretending to strum a stringless zither is only one Wandering Minstrel, whereas strumming a stringless zither in between waving a set of pan pipes around is two Wandering Minstrels).<\/div>\n
It’s all a matter of common sense, if you think about it.<\/div>\n
To the person who suggested that the World Cup<\/span> be renamed My Lovely Horse<\/span><\/a>: your submission is being given serious consideration.<\/div>\n
Refresh your memories of last year’s debacle with a (ahem) brilliant review<\/a>. Oh, it’s in two parts<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A large part of this week has been spent out working or out somewhere south of the river going to the Frederic Rzewski gigs (trying to find the venues is half the fun!). The few hours at home have been spent reinstalling my computer’s operating system (hint: don’t upgrade Firefox!) Instead of going on about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3376,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/3376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}