Eurovision Candidates...

Taken from MSN... last paragraph is very funny!!!

"That Joke Isn't Funny Any More
Well, the UK's candidates for this year's Eurovision Song Contest have been announced and instead of the potentially sublime prospect of Morrissey representing the nation, we've got the depressingly ridiculous choice of Justin Hawkins of The Darkness, former East 17 halfwit Brian Harvey, ex-Atomic Kitten Liz McClarnon, reformed hip-hoppers (and stars of Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed) Big Brovaz, execrable pop losers Scooch, and someone nobody's ever heard of called Cyndi.

Why any of this should even matter is interesting. The UK has long since stopped taking the competition seriously, enjoying it instead as a kitsch anachronism and a chance to snigger at Terry Wogan's sarcy commentary. Yet a nagging thought remains: pop music is one of the few things we're still good at in this country. A damn sight better than Israel, Turkey, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Denmark, Greece and Finland anyway, all of whom have won it since we last did 10 years ago. So how come we have to put up with candidates like this? I mean, Jordan was in the running last year.

I suppose I answered my own question when I said we stopped taking the thing seriously aeons ago. I think the only reason it's bothering me at the moment is sheer disappointment that Morrissey won't be doing the business after all. It's like being told the lobster thermidor is off the menu and you've got to make do with a Kids Club Happy Meal instead.

Actually, you know what? It's worse than that. Let's have it straight. It's being told that one of the UK's greatest ever pop stars won't be taking part, to be replaced (possibly) by the only man in history stupid enough to run himself over. No analogy can do that justice."