THE LADY FROM WEST LOTHIAN - Just A Minute for Monday 4-20-09

            Howdy… it’s beginning a new week *again* and there are lots of things to be taken care of we know.

           

            This story is remarkable in its telling and in its viewing. Miss Susan Boyle of West Lothian in Scotland decided to try to win the “Britain Has Talent” on British the U.K. Telly….

 

            She’d had a modicum of voice training she says… and been in some other competitions in addition to singing in her church’s choir in West Lothian… Scotland… (that’s a region not a town) Her town is Blackburn – according to Internet contributors – about 11,000 population and she was not mentioned at her church yesterday except for a small note in the bulletin that congratulated her for her successful appearance on the British TV show.  

           

            The reaction I’ve been able to sample on the Internet is quite diversified. Europe seems to be fascinated. America is even more so – we always are stunned by celebrity it seems – although this lady does not seem to be impressed with her own importance and apparently is keeping her head – “while all about her are losing theirs.” (A Rudyard Kipling paraphrase.)

 

            So… while this site was nowhere near the leading edge of this story – it is one that is welcome nonetheless. I’m glad to see *her* head is not turned by all the attention. And can only wish her well in being able to accomplish one of her ‘dreams.’ [Plus it’s a good story that not until right here did the current political/economic crisis even get a mention. Sometimes entertainment does accomplish something.]

 

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

THE LADY FROM WEST LOTHIAN

JUST A MINUTE – Miss Susan Boyle, totally upset the “Britain Has Talent” show judges and audience with her singing. America loves an ‘underdog’ and when 47 year old Miss Boyle took the British stage last week; snide smirks were thicker than London Fog.  

Cynic Simon Cowell’s, eyebrows were first to show everyone had seriously misjudged the Scottish Lass. Obviously she was not a “Pretty Young Thing” and was marked off as ‘lower middle class’ definitely ‘below the salt.’

But the unmarried, never kissed (she says) church singer sat the judges and audience back on their heels from the first phrase, and brought the crowd to its feet. The cheering is still heard around the world in a reported 41 million plus   You Tube hits.

She says: "I expected people to be a wee bit cynical. But I decided to win them round. … I’d never had a proper chance. It's as simple as that. You just don't give up."  --- “She wasn’t ugly – we were!” said Guardian commentator, Tanya Gold.

Next contest round scheduled for May.

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