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Fabnsab | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 09:20 am     As a Clay fan, I called for all three hours and got in nearly every time I dialed. Of course I didn't count but it was alot. I don't know why I got in so often but I think I single handedly helped him take Ohio! I would love to know why I got in so easily and others never did. |
Djgirl5235 | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 09:22 am     I just want to wish both men & Kimberley L all the best that life holds for them! They all performed brilliantly and have promising futures ahead of them!!! All the best to everyone here - see you around the TVCH!!!
Deej |
Midlifer | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 09:23 am     <lurking, sending all posters happy thoughts, positive vibes, and hopes that everybody will have a nice day>  |
Hermione69 | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 09:26 am     Midlifer has the unfortunate misfortune to work with me today, ROFLMAO!! Isn't she a sweetie??? |
Readonly | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 09:27 am     I'm from the Washington, DC area. I tried for almost the whole three hours (I took a little nap from about 10:00 to 10:30), but I only got through to Clay's line 3 or 4 times. I tried constantly from 11:30 to 12:00 and did not get through at all. I too am curious why some people seemed to have no trouble and others of us got nothing but a dial tone. I've got to let this go. The show is over, Ruben (who I also thought was great, but he was my second choice) won, and it's time to move on. I think I need therapy. |
Readonly | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 09:30 am     I meant busy signal, not dial tone. I'm new here and don't know how to edit yet. Sorry. |
Meli456 | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 09:35 am     On Fox's Good Day Live, they are saying some network executive (of another station) is calling for an investigation of the results. Randy was there and they all said it was someone trying to get publicity. But, after the show last night, the LA Fox News did a story on how people could not get through. They reported on the phone problems that I had experienced, like no dial tones and calls dropping out. They played voice mails people left at Fox saying they had tried for three hours to vote for *Clay* and could not get one vote in. They never played any people who said they couldn't get through to Ruben. I think it was only a couple voice mails they played, so it might be only a bad sample (I think not, but so I don't get bashed...). A good reporter would have edited the story to include people saying they couldn't get through for both finalists, unless they were slanting the story. Who knows. Also, they are on the phone with Simon (who is in bed hung over) and said that Ryan was so sick, that he needed to have the winner written down. Simon also said Ryan was also so sick that he didn't hide the card well enough and Clay saw Ruben's name 5 minutes before the results were announced. So, Simon says, watch Clay before they announce the result, Clay is facing Ruben and watching Ruben's face the whole time. Then Simon was jerk enough to throw in "It looks like he wanted to kiss him". That reminds me of something that happened to me... I didn't want to learn the sex of my last child, but when I was being checked in for my C-Section the nurse asked me if I wanted the baby circumcised. All that suspense only to find out an hour beforehand!! |
Crossfire | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 09:38 am     Ahhhh, so that is why Clay was looking so intently at Ruben trying to say something to him, while Ruben looked like he was about to crap his drawers. Interesting stuff. |
Max | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 10:00 am     That does explain Clay's actions. He kept looking like he wanted to whisper something to Ruben, but he couldn't get close enough to do it (partly due to Ruben's girth, partly to his height) and Ruben wasn't paying attention to Clay to see that he was trying to talk to him. Seacrest jumped the shark, methinks. |
Meli456 | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 10:03 am     One other thing I forgot to mention about the LA phone situation. They interviewed someone from the phone company who said they got 18 million more calls than usual (in Los Angeles). Considering the total vote tally was only 24 million, thats a lot of calls not going through. I also find it interesting that Clay's mom could vote only 30 times while Ruben's mom voted 200, especially if they were using landlines in LA. I don't remember anyone on the boards saying they couldn't get through to vote for Ruben, did Ruben voters have the same problem? I'm not trying to start something, I'm just getting more and more curious about the statistics. |
Hermione69 | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 10:03 am     Ruben looked like he was going to crap his drawers because he thought Clay wanted to kiss him?????? |
Puttergirl | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 10:06 am     On Fox News just now, they said that there might be a recount! When I hear more, I'll post it. |
Crossfire | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 10:08 am     No, I never thought Clay was trying to kiss him. Geeez.  |
Hermione69 | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 10:08 am     Oh no. I don't want a recount. Let's just move on. Oh no. I love Clay, but if he jumps on the recount bandwagon, I will be disappointed. |
Hermione69 | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 10:10 am     Crossfire, sweetie, I knew you didn't, but it was the first thing that popped into my head after redaing Simon's comment and your post, ROFLMAO! I was trying to be funny. I guess I should stick with being a librarian instead.  |
Watching2 | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 10:11 am     This morning when I got in the car, the very end of the medely of Ruben, Clay & Kim was playing on the radio. It sounded fantastic! I'm along with those who think these 3 should record a CD together! Heck, why stop there, they could form the AI TRIO! This was my first year watching and I can't believe how much I got into it. I'm a true reality TV freak now!! Before it was just BB, now I can't count how many of them there are! YIKES! Although Clay won me over in the end (I kept changing my favs as the show progressed!) I wish Ruben all the best of luck and congratulations! Ruben got the title Americal Idol, which "one-upped" Clay, but they're both being signed, both are putting out CDs, so we haven't seen the last of Clay either. I'm feeling a bit nostalgic already that I won't be able to look forward to watching them every week. And I'll miss checking this board all the time - at least for AI. I thought last night's show was better than I expected, but it would have been nice to FF through all of those commericials. I guess that's the price we have to pay since they provide the money for the show. I actually thought Kelly sounded much better on her first song last night and she looked really cute and sweet. I hadn't quite "gotten" what she was all about since I didn't see the first season. Earlier in the car, my 19-yr-old daughter said, "I like her - that Kelly Clarkson girl!" Her song, "Miss Independant" was playing and I didn't even recognize it from the live shows. I have to say I DID like it on the radio. Her voice sounded a lot less overshadowed by the background and sounded much stronger. Anyway!!! Congratulations Ruben on your win as AI2!! Congratulations Clay!! You're a winner in my book!! Finally, congratulations to all of the finalists. You all made awesome acomplishments! As far as the bickering on the board goes, I'll quote our AI finalists in saying...."What the world needs now, is love sweet love. No not just for some, but for EVERYONE!"...... |
Crazydog | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 10:12 am     A recount? How ridiculous. It was already ridiculous the way they were "awarding" states to each of them. Like it even matters, it is a popular vote, they are not tallying electoral votes here. And now to say there might be a recount, in the hopes that American Idol fever lingers until they launch American Junior? Completely ludicrous. It really makes no difference since they announced that both of them are getting CDs produced. Last year, IIRC, they kept making a big deal out of a "million dollar record deal" awarded to the winner. I don't remember hearing anything about that this year. It's not like Ruben and Clay aren't both getting deals. While I'm still disappointed Kim didn't make it to the finals (I think she could have blown away whoever she was up against considering the two lackluster performances we heard), I think both Clay and Ruben are deserving of praise. It's too bad that all of the conspiracy allegations and complaining are taking away from their achievements. |
Crossfire | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 10:13 am     My fault for not explaining myself. I figure Ruben was just scared stiff, but now I know why Clay suddenly went loopy trying to talk to Ruben. The kiss thing is just Simon being a wanker. Heheh. |
Tishala | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 10:17 am     Meli, yes I had the same problem and I was in LA voting for Ruben....barely got in, got wierd recordings, etc [I made a posting about it around 11.30 PM tuesday]. It would never have occurred to me to complain to Fox, however. |
Faerygdds | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 10:29 am     I was voting for Rueben her in Texas. Tried the whole 3 hours and only got in 2 or 3 votes. So it was an "across the board" problem. A recount -- hmmmph.... since the 2000 election, anytime anyone wins by less than 1%, the whole country is in an outcry... go figure. Blame it on Florida -- they picked Rueben -- and we all know it's ALWYAS Florida's fault! (I am just kidding) Let's face it... within the time span of 6 hours, 24 million calls got through... the rest were busy. That's a HUGE influx of calls in a short amount of time. Of COURSE some lines were busy. Most times I got a busy signal and once I even got a "all circuits are busy now"... so to say it's some big conspiracy is just plain crazy. And yes... I would be saying the same thing if Clay won. They were both awesome and the difference was .56%. If you really want to break it down, I'll bet that the LL came in with almost exactly the same amount of votes. I tend to think it was the text messages that made the difference as the LL were flooded. JMO |
Puttergirl | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 10:34 am     I've been flipping back and forth between the golf tournament and Fox and might have missed their story about the recount. Did anyone else hear it? |
Fabnsab | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 10:39 am     I posted this same question in another thread. I hope someone here can help shed some light... I thought Simon's company gave the record deal but it is obviously Clive Davis and RCA. Does Simon work for RCA? Does anyone know this? |
Nanarobin | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 10:39 am     YES...all above was said....I am now watching the Fox at noon...they DID report the recount assertion by some other network official..just going now to Clay sites to search for it.. Also...Randy did say that he would probably be back next year...while Simon stated that he would NOT... |
Fabnsab | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 10:40 am     I posted this same question in another thread. I hope someone here can help shed some light... I thought Simon's company gave the record deal but it is obviously Clive Davis and RCA. Does Simon work for RCA? Does anyone know this? also, I went back and read the profiles for both Clay and Ruben. its funny but they both said Randy was their favorite judge. Ruben said Simon was his least favorite. I bet he wishes he could take that back now considering Simon is his biggest fan. |
Meli456 | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 10:43 am     Well, I think it would be prudent to change the voting system for the next installment of AI. They should add online voting and brand-blind text messaging. Nashville Star did online voting so I guess it would be possible. American Idol has done such a great job with the format, but some people are probably put off by the fact that they actually *cannot* vote for the next American Idol. I didn't vote very much last season and unless they make some changes next year, I probably won't vote then either. Regarding votes getting through, I agree that both Clay and Ruben "maxed out" the number of votes on the phone lines. Its great that so many people care about these guys. |
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