Misfits Of Science and Hayley Westenra, Fool's Love

[logpos]

:O !!!!!!! Never in a million years would I have thought...

[itchyguri]

Wow, i like Hayley Westenra. Take her to church?. Haha. Funny.

[DoDo7202]

That's vild! She's 17????!!!

[rynerich]

Hayley Westenra performed with Misfits of Science for the Grand Finale at the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards at the Aotea Centre in Auckland, Wednesday September 22nd 2004 so she was 17

[rachel900]

This Is Very Funny

[Siliven]

What? Hehe, how old is she there? 17?

[Sqid101]

About that. I think this was in 2004 so she'd be 16 or 17, I think. Some of the Hayley experts should be able to confirm this.

[rynerich]

This performance with Misfits of Science was for the Grand Finale at the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards at the Aotea Centre in Auckland, Wednesday September 22nd 2004. So Hayley was 17.

[Sqid101]

That's obviously not the same Lew or Lou. The one I'm talking about is the Australasian trivial pursuit champion.

[Sqid101]

Who said there is anything wrong with using Google as a verb? Listen up you big dummy.

Living languages are in a state of flux -- change is occurring all the time. If language didn't change we'd still be talking and writing the way Chaucer did.

There is nothing wrong with using "Google" as a verb. Only the most crass and pedantic of prescriptivists would find fault with that. And it is "sanctioned by usage" as Fowler would say.

Pullum is another damn yankee himself.

[Sqid101]

Ignorant frigging yankee. Geoffrey Pullum! Google him, read his blog.

[Sqid101]

These Kiwi girls like Hayley and Liz Marvelly would eat you for breakfast. They don't understand the meaning of "corruption" or "rehab". They only understand terms like "gross profit", sales, fees, bottom line, and so forth. Available market research suggests a public lewdness photo-shoot would impact negatively on Japanese album sales; so don't get your hopes up too high.

[Sqid101]

I thought a harbinger was sent about in times of war to warn the villages that the hordes were on their way and that they should prepare for the worst. I plainly remember Lew the Cab-driver telling me this etymology of it. He thought it awesome that I had used the term in "normal" conversation because he had rarely seen it in print let alone heard it in speech. (Didn't mix with intellectuals like you.)

[Sqid101]

"Lastly, I don't need a prescription filled... "

Your description has been filed... ;-)

[Sqid101]

Please don't try to be clever. Our stance on grammar couldn't be more different. You are one of these incredible ignoramuses who thinks there is such a thing as "correct" or "proper" grammar. You misunderstand my use of quotation marks and my parodying a prescriptivist approach. But understanding irony and other subtle uses of language never has been an American forte. There are what Pullum describes as "correctness conditions", but I won't go into that here.

[Sqid101]

I think this was in 2004...

"Harbingers" seems infelicitous, if not a downright "incorrect" usage (if you were a prescriptivist), in that context. Shouldn't it be "a harbinger of"? What about "presages", or the more usual "heralds" instead?

Doesn't "harbinger" usually have negative connotations?

[ncoua]

Well done sqid!!! video is amazing!!!

[Sqid101]

Not, I think, the worst essay into the world of modern music that we have seen in these far flung regions. A couple of attempts by certain other illustrious folk to reinvent themselves as pop singers have more genuinely plumbed the depths, don't you think? Have you ever seen such versatility? I'd like to see you sing arias with that old opera hack - Major, or whatever her name is - one week and then cavort about with distinguished artists like Misfits Of Science the next!