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Subject: Amiright Idol
Humm....
With the new season oh American Idol starting and the new Amirght Hall of Fame how about something to get some new authors the recogniton to become a Hall of Famer. It's called Amiright Idol. It starts with as many authors that want to posting songs to be voted on by anyone who votes. An exculsive board of members similar to those of the Hall o Fame will look at the Quality of the songs and elimatie however many i t takes to limit the field to about 25 or so. Each week the authors still in the competition will have to post a song that meets a perticular criteria. Example, the authors will have to do a parody to a certin song, theme, author, or genre. The competiors will only have a couple of days to write the parody. As the field drops, the parodies get harder. Once they're only 2 authors left they will have to write 2 parodies of a certin criteria and 1 of any choice. The three songs will be posted at the top of the site and will be voted on with the autors with the best total quality becoming the first ever amiright idol.
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Dude, that's an awesome idea! Hopefully we see this idea in action. ;D :D
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I'd be up for it... but who would run it?
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ok an amiright idol a good idea, but please no simon.
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ok an amiright idol a good idea, but please no simon.
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I don't know, some destructive criticism would be fun ;)
I wanna play, when do we start? :)
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seeing as mike and 1 are two people and it wouldn't be very fair... and seeing as we're already established, I would be willing to judge to see who's worthy.
I say we make 1 VERY BROAD catagory for a parody, and then maybe have 3 judges (I would be willing to come up with some system that we could all rate them evenly) and then get it down to a reasonable number, say 8??? that would compete each week and we would drop one until the final four.
Once the final four is set, I think that fan vote should count too, but because of the possibility of voter fraud, I think the judges should still get to have a say.
In short, I'm ready to take on the task to provide tons of negative and positive criticism. If we could get two other established authors to judge it, we could come up with the catagory within the next week or so.
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We have to do this. This is such a good idea.
WE MUST DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!
AmishJD
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Hey, cool idea. Can I be Simon? :P
If so, I already have my script ready:
1. YOU SUCK!
2. Don't quit the day job buddy.
3. Somebody get me a gun and put me out of my misery.
4. You sing worse than Paula!
5. I hope you HAVE a day job.
6. Damn, Imelda Marcos could beat you in THIS contest!
Heh heh...
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I think this is a most excellent idea.. and with the whole American Idol thing in full swing on TV again, maybe this is a good time to take advantage of it..
so.. if you're an author with more than 25 parodies who wants to be a judge, post a message here. If there's more than three people who want it, I'll pick the three I feel are the best judges based on a review of the critique's they submit for a test parody.
I'll write a couple scripts to promote it on the site. Set up sections for the parody judges to add their comments, and a place for the approved contestants to enter their selections for consideration.
unfortunately, if I focus on this, I'll have to delay the Hall of Fame idea for a few weeks.. but I think this could be an excellent promotional tool for the website.. once the winner is determined at the end, it might be something that could gain the interest of the press or at the very least, sites like fark. Of course the promotional value for the website would be most excellent, but for the panel and the authors who participate, it would be very notable as well.
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oh, and one more thing.. I think we need to come up with a title that doesn't contain the word American or Idol in it.. I don't think I want the American Idol people suing me for infringement..
the concept of voting people out of the contest, is of course generic enough (like Survivor or American Idol) that we don't have to worry about them suing over the concept.. but amIright Idol would probably get me a nasty cease and desist letter in the mail..
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Hey, cool idea. Can I be Simon? :P
If so, I already have my script ready:
1. YOU SUCK!
2. Don't quit the day job buddy.
3. Somebody get me a gun and put me out of my misery.
4. You sing worse than Paula!
5. I hope you HAVE a day job.
6. Damn, Imelda Marcos could beat you in THIS contest!
Heh heh...
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how bout:
Avril Lavigne is a better writer than you!
You call this funny? I bet you actully laughed at Rushmore!
I hope you have a hearing problem, cause the song aint paced like that!
That sucked, this is to be the amiright idol, not Billy Idol (Just a joke, Im a fan of Billy Idol)
and my all time favorite: I have Chunks of punks like you inmy stool! (ok, so thats Frank Sinatra, does it make a difference, Ive actully never watched an episode of American Idol anyway)
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oh, and one more thing.. I think we need to come up with a title that doesn't contain the word American or Idol in it.. I don't think I want the American Idol people suing me for infringement..
the concept of voting people out of the contest, is of course generic enough (like Survivor or American Idol) that we don't have to worry about them suing over the concept.. but amIright Idol would probably get me a nasty cease and desist letter in the mail..
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how bout, "become a star without really trying"?
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I would be interested in judging.
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Ill judge! Sure! ;D
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Hey, cool idea. Can I be Simon? :P
If so, I already have my script ready:
1. YOU SUCK!
2. Don't quit the day job buddy.
3. Somebody get me a gun and put me out of my misery.
4. You sing worse than Paula!
5. I hope you HAVE a day job.
6. Damn, Imelda Marcos could beat you in THIS contest!
Heh heh...
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how about...
"Do you know how many dogs you can hurt with your voice?"
"thanks to that randition, everyone in this room is now a little dumber!"
"Thank God I dont wear glasses, ever see Carrie?"
"I can still hear it when I close my eyes"
"You should be thrown to the dogs!"
"You should be put in schoulding hot water, get all your limbs amputated, be hit in the balls 50 times with a bat, and then get attacked by 45 angry pigions, and finally, get drown in a vat of Slugs!"
Subject: Re: Amiright Idol
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oh, and one more thing.. I think we need to come up with a title that doesn't contain the word American or Idol in it.. I don't think I want the American Idol people suing me for infringement..
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Amiright Idle?
(a competition for people with too much time on their hands :-))
If you're short of judges, I'll fill up the spare slot, but I'd hate to keep out someone who wants the job more than me ;-)
Phil
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Amiright Idle?
(a competition for people with too much time on their hands :-))
If you're short of judges, I'll fill up the spare slot, but I'd hate to keep out someone who wants the job more than me ;-)
Phil
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well.. whoever does take the job, is going to have to write brief reviews of parodies.. and the first few weeks are going to require a lot of reviews.
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Let me know the How-Where-When. I'm there!
robzombie450@yahoo.com
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I'd like to have some kind of voting role since I came up with the idea but I kind of want to write to.
I'm ready to start whenever. Do u want me to decide stuff or is Chuck going to run this?
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oh yeah...
didn't Simon come up with american idol?
wouldn't that make me the new amiright simon?
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oh yeah...
didn't Simon come up with american idol?
wouldn't that make me the new amiright simon?
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I dunno about simon... I think it would be alot more funny (Mental Image) of going from a horrible singer to Wacko slamming his head with a mallett and alf chasing a cat around the room in a towel. Now THAT would bring ratings.
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A morning radio show in Indy (The Dave Smiley Show on WZPL) is doing the same thing Thursday, with the jocks doing songs like Alan Jackson's "Chattahoochie" and Skid Row's "18 and Life". They did preview their "talents' today, and I'll have my ears covered.
Meanwhile I've already have my Simon skills honed for this ripoff:
For the show's female sidekick: "So they call you K.J. I wish your song was as brief as your name."
For the host: "I think maybe you should change your name to Sonny, because you'll probably be covered with bulletholes after today's performance."
For the traffic guy: "You must be afraid of losing your day job, because your singing would cause some major car pile-ups."
For the weather dude: "My forecast, 100% chance of boos."
For the producer: "I'm afraid all the editing in the world couldn't hide the words I feel about your singing."
For the station manager: "Now I know why you hired these hams. ::)"
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For the show's female sidekick: "So they call you K.J. I wish your song was as brief as your name."
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I know someone named KJ, but its a nickname because his initials are KJ...relevence? NONE!
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If there is a need for a judge I'm here
(I'm the Paula Abdul of AmIRight, j/k)
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The KJ on the Dave Smiley program is female, which is also irrelevant. I don't know what the initials stand for since she never reveals that info on the air. :-/
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I know someone named KJ, but its a nickname because his initials are KJ...relevence? NONE!
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"You should be put in schoulding hot water, get all your limbs amputated, be hit in the balls 50 times with a bat, and then get attacked by 45 angry pigions, and finally, get drown in a vat of Slugs!"
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ouch, dude thats a little harsh dont cha think? ;D
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Hey I'm down. I want to be the new AMIRIGHT idol. Whens this thing going to start?
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you know, im thinking, this might take a little while to get enough people to participate....it might be better to do the Amiright hall of fame before this, and then do amiright idol after....maybe the hall of fame will attract more people to sign up for this, cause as of now, we only have like 4 people......(and blo-town, you got to participate in this!)...
If we do the hall first, then maybe more people will try to strive to the hall, and ergo participate in this....just my thoughts...either that or we get a celebrity judge (who knows Weird Als number?)
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I'm up for both
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Billy Florio might very well be correct that there is insufficient interest in the Amiright Idle concept. But I think there might be a lot of parody contributors who are just waiting for the contest procedures and guidelines to be developed. Once that is done, I suspect that a lot more than four people will compete.
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I still want to play, and I guess this will motivate me to submit more than I do ::)
Maybe you should set a period of time during which contestants can "register" for this event, so that you have a pool of players who will get subsequently eliminated one-by-one. Then you can recruit judges who are not part of this pool of players. But then it'll be based on the judges' opinions rather than an "audience vote."
It's up to you guys, I just wanna play :)
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I'm interested. Let's do this!
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you know, im thinking, this might take a little while to get enough people to participate....it might be better to do the Amiright hall of fame before this, and then do amiright idol after....maybe the hall of fame will attract more people to sign up for this, cause as of now, we only have like 4 people......(and blo-town, you got to participate in this!)...
If we do the hall first, then maybe more people will try to strive to the hall, and ergo participate in this....just my thoughts...either that or we get a celebrity judge (who knows Weird Als number?)
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I'm up for anything u want me to do dawg.
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Hey, we're all flexible.