sounds a good joke.

I also definitely advise everyome to check out Kevin Bishop's send up of her singing the James Bond theme.

I can't believe Amy Winehouse self-harms. What would be the point.

... now your version please

You CANNOT be talking about Whinehouse, really.

Unless I missed the <sarcasm>.

As for the self harm, I suppose that carrying that rats nest about on top of her head must qualify.

She may have been talented to start out with, but any scrap of that seems to have been buried under the over indulgence in her own publicity.

"A tasteless jibe at the expense of galactically-talented bouffant platform Amy Winehouse"

I'm sick of hearing how talented Amy Wingehouse is, and how sad and tragic it all is. She's a waste of space!! Talented, maybe, but the press and music business ought to spend their time on more worthwhile people than the drugged-up waste-of-time mess that AW is.

That is all

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Other words ending in -us show a very varied pattern. Like octopi, the plural hippopotami is now generally taken to be either funny or absurdly pedantic, and the usual plural is hippopotamuses.

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that ANY reference to the 'talent' that Mrs Fielder-Civil once possessed would result in a barrage of flaming cow-pats.

Unfortunately, the only 'talent' she currently exhibits is that of being a drink/drug/publicity ravaged shadow of her former self. Her apparent inability to perform (ie the recent Bond Theme fiasco) serves only to fuel the flames.

As for the 'famous friend' angle, I went to school with Robin Guthrie (and Bill Heggie) of the Cocteau Twins (bit before your time, I suspect). Still see Bill around occasionally, but Guthrie was, and (living in the states) still is I suspect, a self indulgent wanker. I do hope he's managed to replace the old army greatcoat he used to wear to school, and to college, as it stank of cat's piss.

A certain Mr Gadd, ex 70's pop star, has been required to sign 'the Register' upon his triumphant return to Blighty.

Cue a joke-fest, surely.

I'm possibly older than the two of you put together as I recognise the hippo joke as old also.

dervheid: If you went to school with the original bassist from the Cocteau Twins, then you'd know his name was Will, not Bill.

Sarah: If you like the Cocteaus, then check out a band called Lowlife if you haven't already. Will Heggie's band after he split from the Cocteaus.

saw Andrew Laurence at Latitude this year - he was effing *hilarious*. if you like your humour dark and very, very wrong - do go see him!

Hippopotamus has Greek (not Latin) etymology. A perennial point on discussion fora, I know.

Stop it You are being ridiculi

Should it be 'hippopotamoi', then, Mr Woods? I confess my Greek noun cases aren't what they could be.

As for the rest, who the hell is Amy Winehouse?

Sad to see the comparison with Billie Holiday and Amie Winehouse..

Maybe you should ditch the MP3s and listen to the Vinyl (preferably on a decent Turntable).

The difference is clear - Billie Holiday had talent.

Amie Winehouse appears to have very little.

Regards,

Mick Gregory.

Winehouse is a road traffic accident. She's appalling and you know you shouldn't give her attention, but somehow it's not possible to avoid rubbernecking the carnage.

I simply did not get Zoe Lyons' joke about Amy Whinehouse, since I have no idea who is Amy. Must be an inside British joke that I American is too narrow-minded to understand.

Based on all of the blog entries, Amy must be a waste of carbon...

I'm not so sure, her voice is hardly pleasant although she can hold a tune. She can also convey emotion, fair enough, but hardly worth the tag of talented. I have flushed more talented turds.

imho, and the opinion of others I write better songs and write better music than Winehouse, and I'm in IT. My sound engineering skills are far from awesome though.

Some people just don't have a clue, accepting I maybe one of them and I is just deluded. Yeah right I like I really believe that.

Did some one compare Amy with Billie Holiday ??? you got to be kidding me

But in the end the press did tear her apart look up how her career ended

I accept that "talented" was probably the wrong name to describe Billie Holiday, perhaps the nickname Lester Young gave her of "Lady Day" will suffice.

It's nice to see that someone with your self confessed limited sound engineering talent can still recognize her name, fifty years after her death.

Begs the question - how many people in IT will remember your name 50 years' on?

Hot Tip - Spend more time analyzing her music rather than analyzing your talented turds.

Regards,

Mick Gregory.

I made no mention of Billie Holiday so I am at a loss as to the point you are trying to make. Perhaps you confused my post with the one immediately below?

As for me being remembered, That is not my purpose in being here, at least I don't think it is. Whatever the case, I haven't finished yet ;-)

As for analysing her music, I'm afraid it contradicts with at least one purpose I am here for... enjoying life. And despite sucking (currently) as a sound engineer I am sure I could out mix the Winehouse non-entity, even on the rare occasion she has clarity of mind.

Like I said she has no talent, at least none that should be lauded.

Although the truth sometimes does offend, please don't take it personally.

regards

Adnim ;-)

Surely those Yanks who read MAD magazine have heard of AW. She is the butt of some jokes in the September 2008 issue.

Two cannibals eating a clown. One say to the other, "does this taste funny to you?"

"Hippopotamus means 'horse of the river', so the plural should probably be something like hippoipotamos, 'horses of the river'."

Hippopotamus is a second declension Latin noun, so the plural in that language is hippopotami. The fact that it came into Latin from the Greek doesn't change the Latin grammar!

Please don't judge me by your own standards - the truth never offends.

It's just people that are economical with it, that I find offensive.

Please don't take this personally.

Bye Adnim.

Regards,

Mick Gregory.