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Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Friday, April 24, 2009 - 6:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
Apparently Susan (Mrs. Boyle if you're nasty)has gotten a makeover. We'll see how it affects the public.

Beekindpleez
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07-18-2006

Friday, April 24, 2009 - 7:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beekindpleez a private message Print Post    
She's never even been kissed. Wouldn't she be MISS Boyle, if you're nasty?? LOL

ETA: Texannie has a pic of her new look in the Hollywood thread.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, April 24, 2009 - 7:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
i just read that she said that she was just teasing Simon about the never been kissed

Beekindpleez
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07-18-2006

Friday, April 24, 2009 - 7:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beekindpleez a private message Print Post    
Well, crap. That changes everything. Ha~!

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, April 24, 2009 - 8:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
LOL

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Friday, April 24, 2009 - 11:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
I find it disheartening that her hair and eyebrows are making headlines.

I am on Team Susan. I don't care what anyone else thinks about her, I don't care about the skepticism the rumor mill is kicking up. yay Scotland and yay Susan.

(anyone else notice that Scotland produces some pretty big stars?)

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Friday, April 24, 2009 - 12:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
I'm proud to say that one of Canada's most beloved stars is a rotund woman with a harelip! While Rosie O'Donnell saw a resemblance to Shrek's Princess Fiona outer looks and inner beauty and shining talent, I had a similar reaction but in my case, Canadian songbird Rita MacNeil came to mind as Susan sang. I've met (& interviewed) Rita who is lovely, talented and spunky.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Friday, April 24, 2009 - 12:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    

Actually I'm not sure if it's a hairlip or a scar, but my point is that Rita, who's in her 60's, is not your typical teenybopper-waif either, which is what is most bankable these days.

Jgalt
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02-17-2009

Friday, April 24, 2009 - 4:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jgalt a private message Print Post    
Oh, and Rosie O'Donnell is such a beauty that she can just sit there and throw stones?

I love Susan, I love her back story, I love her singing, and I think we have become entirely too cynical. Why must we always want to destroy goodness in others, or find fault? Just sit back and enjoy her beautiful voice. What a wonderful gift.

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Friday, April 24, 2009 - 4:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
Good grief. I totally blew that. Sorry everybody.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Friday, April 24, 2009 - 5:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Rosie wasn't dissin' her - she was making the comparison to show that looks DON'T determine the beauty of a person! Here's the actual blog:

"susan boyle - once in a lifetime
authentic real
the kind of tv we hardly see anymore
in r pre packaged world

out she came
like fionna in shrek
reminding us all
how 2 shine inside

2 c the 2 boy brits
eyes brimming
simon even
showed his soul

20 million people watched
over and again

finished wowing the world
she turned and walked off stage

u couldnt write that

all life is about
is found there
a cottage in a village in scotland
a dying mom and a kitty named pebbles

susan boyle

a woman i hope never gets a make over
her brows forever bushy
reminding the world
where beauty lives

no matter what happens next
nothing will compare to that moment
that song - that woman
a perfect storm

all together now
amen "


Jgalt
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02-17-2009

Friday, April 24, 2009 - 5:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jgalt a private message Print Post    
I think all of this was lovely except the comparison of Fionna in Shrek. I know what she was trying to say in the comparison, but how would you like to think you resembled the Ogre side of Fionna. All the rest was beautiful sentiment, but Rosie isn't my favorite person, I guess I'm just too conservative for all of her extreme rhetoric. That being said, this was the most touching writing I have seen from Rosie.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Friday, April 24, 2009 - 6:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Thanks Teach!

Rosie honoured Susan beautifully:

a woman i hope never gets a make over
her brows forever bushy
reminding the world
where beauty lives


And FWIW, I think that Fiona is adorable as both an ogre, and a princess.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Friday, April 24, 2009 - 9:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
Singing I Don't Know How to Love Him 25 years ago: youtube

Holly
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07-22-2001

Saturday, April 25, 2009 - 6:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
Rosie is desperately grasping at straws with her bad poetry. The world will never see the beauty in ugly women. Sad, but just the way it is.

Physical beauty and inner beauty are two entirely different things. "The world" (i.e. US--you and me!) is NUTS for physical beauty. And Susan Boyle is not going to change that whether she plucks her eyebrows or not.

Holly
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07-22-2001

Saturday, April 25, 2009 - 7:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
<(anyone else notice that Scotland produces some pretty big stars?)>

Not only stars but some pretty important scientists and inventors, to name a few:

Alexander Fleming-Penicillin
Sir James Young-Anaesthetic
John Logie Baird-Television
Alexander Graham Bell-Telephone
Charles Macintosh-Raincoats
John Macadam-Surfaced Roads
John Boyd Dunlop-Tires
John Paul Jones-US Navy
James Chalmers-Postage stamps
Kirkpatrick Macmillan-Bicycle
James Barrie-Peter Pan

And perhaps the best...Single Malt!

Erniesgirl
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06-26-2006

Saturday, April 25, 2009 - 8:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Erniesgirl a private message Print Post    
Holly,
many would be sure to add:

GOLF

Holly
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07-22-2001

Saturday, April 25, 2009 - 8:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
Oh how could I have forgotten that, LOL. My family is populated with avid golfers, and I have a pretty well-known nephew in the field.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Saturday, April 25, 2009 - 9:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Tish - thanks for posting that youtube link! I just love Susan's voice, I could listen to her all day. :-)

Holly
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07-22-2001

Saturday, April 25, 2009 - 10:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
LOL, she really got that pub up on its feet and into a partying mood in that youtube . What a depressed and morose looking crowd! (with the exception of the one young guy in the corner making faces for the camera, lol)

Do you think someone told them all to be quiet while she was being "filmed"?

Erniesgirl
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06-26-2006

Saturday, April 25, 2009 - 5:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Erniesgirl a private message Print Post    
On the morning news yesterday Susan was filmed outside her home holding hands with her boyfriend. She insists that never been kissed thing was a joke for Simon.

Jgalt
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02-17-2009

Saturday, April 25, 2009 - 10:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jgalt a private message Print Post    
Maybe we're not looking at the big picture when it comes to Susan Boyle. Was the shocked reaction to her beautiful voice because of her looks ( which I found sweet and unassuming), or was it agism, which has taken all of the world by storm. Anyone over 45 or 50 can't have anything worthwhile to contribute, they have no value, so just get out of the way, type of mentality.

Just think, if she would have been 20, and a little plain, lets say, and belted out that song, would they have been half as amazed?

In America, it's the dirty little epidemic no one speaks about. In all of business, if you're over 50, you better watch your back, you are expendable. Yes, you may have the knowledge, the work ethic, the intelligence, BUT, we have to get rid of you, you're ......old. Of course they cover this up with a hundred excuses, but the bottom line is agism and everyone knows it.

This dear woman gave up her life to care for others, she was born without enough oxygen and had learning difficulties, and in spite of all of this, she held on to her dream.

I suggest the shocked looks were a reflection of society and our attitude to anyone who isn't young. People over 45 have worth, they have talent, and they have dreams. All I can say is, you go girl.

Jgalt
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02-17-2009

Saturday, April 25, 2009 - 10:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jgalt a private message Print Post    
I'm sorry, I believe I misspelled ageism in the above message.

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 3:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
After all the squeals about John Edwards (candidate for POTUS) $400 haircuts, I can't see how a $57 dollar job at the village beauty shop could POSSIBLY qualify as a "makeover".

"Susan Boyle has dyed and cut her frizzy, graying locks and thinned her famous bushy eyebrows, a $57 sprucing-up that has become huge news in Britain.

On Wednesday at the Miss Toner salon, with the blinds pulled down to give the unlikely global celebrity a little privacy, Boyle got a haircut, semi-permanent color rinse and eyebrow shaping, according to a receptionist at the salon in Whitburn, Scotland."
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/24/AR2009042402895.html?hpid=artslot

So, she's living hand to mouth, living in Govt Assisted housing, maybe DIDN'T have a bunch of bucks to pretty herself up, just dressed in her best dress and jewelry, probably stretching to pay for transportation to get there, munching her measly sandwich (if you watch the beginning of the Youtube), and went on to 'deliver the goods'.

However, once it looked like she had positive impact (with the audience & judges howling, Youtube hits going crazy) maybe she felt she could afford to splurge. I would splurge too if I were in her boots.

I think she's the real deal myself. Kind of seems like the most cynical haven't had to live on a fixed income is my own impression.

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 3:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
If Susan Boyle's Mom died 2 yrs ago, wasn't that about the SAME time Paul Potts won in 2007? Wouldn't it be very likely for her Mom to say something like:

Hey, Paul Potts doesn't look fancy and he's just a mobile phone salesman, but he can sing. And he WON! You need to go on that show and show them what YOU can do.

The timing seems very likely to Bisc.

Funny, I googled, to make sure I had Paul Bott's name spelled correctly, came up with this article of interest:

Paul Potts gives his verdict on Britain's Got Talent star Susan Boyle
http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2009/04/17/paul-potts-gives-his-verdict-on-britain-s-got-talent-star-susan-boyle-115875-21286069/