Fools, Fools, FOOLS!

You may have noticed the lack of recent posts and indeed there has been little important ESC news in the past week or so. Except some Swedish bird called Pandora claiming she actually wrote Flying The Flag and is possibly going to look into a plagiarism case against Scooch. Of all the songs to claim you actually wrote... To be fair, it does sound quite alike but I think that Scooch's Eurovision position is quite safe.

Yesterday however it was April 1st and so April Fools jokes ran riot on the Eurovision websites! Sadly there was nothing from esctoday.com this year who did actually have me fooled into believing that a score sheet had been found from Eurovision 1956. So gullible was I.

eurovision-croatia "announced" that their entry would be sung in French. A joke! Another one of my favourite fools from yesterday announced that the Royal Mail would be issuing a special set of stamps to mark the UK's 50th Eurovision entry. Sounds believable until you realise that on one of the stamps would be Nicki French. I mean would you lick the back of Nicki French. Actually, I would, Don't Play That Song Again was bloody robbed.

However, congratulations has to go to diggiloo.net who changed the titles of many of the entries to more comical names...

- Bulgaria's song became Vodka and Redbull
- Israel's was simply titled Disqualified Entry
- Denmark became Drama Queen Margarethe II
- Czech Republic turned into Dalai Lama
- Estonia had the topical Same-Sex-Partner In Crime
- France, in a tribute no doubt to Zdob Si Zdub turned into L'amour A La Moldavaise
- Scooch were Frying The Fag
- Armenia became Anytime You Need (Except Tuesday, I'm Busy Tuesday)
- And Latvia, taking influence from Italy of course, were singing Mamma Mia Dat's A Spicy Meatball

It's hard to beat that.