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    Default For those that haven't seen this video already

    Watching this video from Britain's Got Talent is life affirming and heart warming in equal measure.


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    Wow. Just -- wow! I don't as a rule like vocal music, but she nearly brought me to tears it was so beautiful. Thanks.
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    With pipes like that, I won't be surprised if she wins.
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    I doubt that you would get very good odds on her not winning.

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    With pipes like that, I won't be surprised if she wins.

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    That was just the tryouts, imagine after a bit of coaching.
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    Daily Mail article on Susan Boyle.

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    That was just the tryouts, imagine after a bit of coaching.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tom prendergast View Post
    Daily Mail article on Susan Boyle.
    Wha?
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    It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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    She probably wont win.

    Good thing is it wont matter.

    This woman will have the carreer she wants now with no more help from this show.

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    Just trying to bring you up to speed about her background. It would be a shame if she gets the full makeover treatment from Simon Cowell. I suspect that he thinks that he's hit the mother lode.

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    Wha?

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    I feel that I can say, without fear of contradiction, that she will win. The YouTube video has had nearly 15 million hits so far.

    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    She probably wont win.

    Good thing is it wont matter.

    This woman will have the carreer she wants now with no more help from this show.

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    I watched this the other day, she is amazing.

    Does anybody remember Paul Potts? He was on the show a couple of years ago. He was/is somewhat homely, similar doubts from the panel. He blew them singing opera away and wound up winning the competition.

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    He has built a good and hopefully long lasting career from the contest.

    Quote Originally Posted by Norman Paperman View Post
    I watched this the other day, she is amazing.

    Does anybody remember Paul Potts? He was on the show a couple of years ago. He was/is somewhat homely, similar doubts from the panel. He blew them singing opera away and wound up winning the competition.

    [youtube]1k08yxu57NA[/youtube]

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    Thats true there it is called "Britons got talent" instead of "Idol".

    In the US she could not win.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tom prendergast View Post
    He has built a good and hopefully long lasting career from the contest.

    He was brilliant and he seems so humble and down to earth. Both of their voices move me.
    Here lies the body of Mary Lee; died at the age of a hundred and three. For fifteen years she kept her virginity; not a bad record for this vicinity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tom prendergast View Post
    Just trying to bring you up to speed about her background. It would be a shame if she gets the full makeover treatment from Simon Cowell. I suspect that he thinks that he's hit the mother lode.
    Yeah, here's where I checked...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Boyle
    Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
    - -- Aristotle

    Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
    - -- The Buddha

    It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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