[kj] OT : be careful what you wish for ...

[Paul Rangecroft]

It could've been worse, Antoni. At least you didn't have to go to tonight's
Chris Rea gig.

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:24 PM, pssyche23 <antoni at clara.net> wrote:


>  Yesterday afternoon I was with the family at a kids theme park (Adventure

> Wonderland) in Bournemouth watching the Alice In Wonderland midday show when

> (along with one other) I was suddenly pulled out of the crowd by The Mad

> Hatter to sing onstage - as I was encouraged to don a sparkly outfit and had

> a long black wig thrust on my head the sheer horror dawned on me that I was

> to be Cher singing It's In His Kiss and I had to go first - I was handed a

> laminate with the lyrics < http://home.clara.net/antoni/P3270460s.JPG >

> but didn't quite know how and when to start so made a total f*ck up of the

> first verse, but somehow got it right for the second verse. The other guy

> had been handed an orangey ruffled & spiky wig so it was no surprise that he

> started singing "Simply The Best" - to be fair to the lad, he played a

> blinder & gave it his all as Tina Turner. It wasn't a contest & we were both

> thanked & given a bag of Cadbury's Creme Eggs that my kids were very happy

> about. I said to Dawn "typical, it wouldn't have been so bad if I'd got

> Simply The Best, I could have worked that one out" ... anyway back to the

> Haven Holiday Park in Poole and the kids were grooving it again down in the

> evening with the Tiger Club, and late in the evening the reps were

> running around the club/bar looking for a couple of volunteers to join them

> on stage. To my horror, one of them pulled me out ... I protested ... "I've

> already been on stage today" ... it didn't wash ... a few seconds later

> myself and another reluctant volunteer were up there either side of their

> "club" singer Louise and lo and behold, what came out ?!? A couple of orange

> spiky wigs ... we were to be backing singers/dancers for "Simply The Best"

> !!! Dawn caught that performance on her mobile phone but I can safely say

> that I will be keeping that one under wraps ... Regards, Antoni

>

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