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Eurovision's Over: Couldn't the Pirates Have Won?

May 27, 2008 at 8:50 AM | by | Comments (3)

We're shattered that Eurovision is over for another year, and it's lucky we had an extra long weekend so we could get over the disappointment of geriatric rapper 75 Cents and his crew not winning.

We did predict, though, that good-looking Russian candidate Dima Bilan had a good chance, and now we wish we'd put some money on it: He and his nation raced away with a more than 40 point victory over Ukraine.

We're also a bit disappointed that the Latvian entry slipped under our radar until grand final night, because we would have liked to show them some support. For reasons surely known only to them, they entered a pirate song! And we loved it. Roll on Eurovision 2009. We'll see ya in Moscow.

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Eurovision

It's the Eurovision Sound Contest, not "Eurovision".
Eurovision or EBU, the European Broadcasting Union is a co-op of broadcasters, sharing technical facilities, news stories, sports coverage, and creates TV standards for the word's broadcasters. Calling the Sound Contest "Eurovision" is like calling "American Idol" "Fox".
buggedknot on May 27, 2008 at 11:23 AM #Permalink

Wait...

Isn't American Idol the only show left on Fox?
pbb on May 27, 2008 at 11:32 AM #Permalink

ESC ...

I always thought the full version was Eurovision Song Contest rather than Sound ... Actually I'd never heard of "Eurovision" in the other sense - good to know - sorry to abbreviate misleadingly. That must be my Aussie slang - we're very lazy down here :-)
amandak on May 28, 2008 at 5:19 AM #Permalink

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