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I never watch much tv, and a few years ago I was with someone when there were ads on tv for a guy who had won Britain's Got Talent called Pol Pot. I was a bit confused and startled but didn't say anything at the time,. Found out later the guys name was actually Paul Potts. I felt such a fool. Then I wondered if many other people made the same mistake. Easily done, if you're not a big tv watcher.
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lagrange wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:43 am I never watch much tv, and a few years ago I was with someone when there were ads on tv for a guy who had won Britain's Got Talent called Pol Pot. I was a bit confused and startled but didn't say anything at the time,. Found out later the guys name was actually Paul Potts. I felt such a fool. Then I wondered if many other people made the same mistake. Easily done, if you're not a big tv watcher.
Was he a good singer? How long did it take the judges to figure out that he couldn't possibly win the contest because he wasn't actually a salesman from Bristol but was actually a despotic genocidal dictator from SE Asia? 8-)
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John Bingham wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 2:06 am
lagrange wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:43 am I never watch much tv, and a few years ago I was with someone when there were ads on tv for a guy who had won Britain's Got Talent called Pol Pot. I was a bit confused and startled but didn't say anything at the time,. Found out later the guys name was actually Paul Potts. I felt such a fool. Then I wondered if many other people made the same mistake. Easily done, if you're not a big tv watcher.
Was he a good singer? How long did it take the judges to figure out that he couldn't possibly win the contest because he wasn't actually a salesman from Bristol but was actually a despotic genocidal dictator from SE Asia? 8-)
Apparently went on to have a big international career singing popular opera classics. Confused the hell out of a lot of people who paid to go along to see a mass murderer singing Nessun Dorma and ended up seeing some rotund little Welshman who had never done more than step on the odd ant.
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