It would start to become rather repetitive if everyone did a speech every 500 posts.

Depends how good the speech is!

True indeed my fellow Mafiosi.

I expect your forum speech, marking your 1000 posts, to be excellent. Some achievement!

I'm going to have a long list of people I'm dedicating it to, so it will be quite a long speech

Looking forward to it, Consigliere!

Heres a quick question for you all (will give a harder one later).

Rank Danielle's performances in order 1 = best & 8 = worst??? And why that order???

Well Mambo was clearly best, and CIBM worst. As for the inbetweeners, will have to give them careful thought! And I am too tired to think carefully tonight.

Well obviously Mambo number 1

That is the first part to the puzzle sorted but can you do the rest

1 = 76 Trombones because it was hilarious and scared the crap out of us all

2 = Mambo 1 & 2 (because they are both mambo = enough said)

3 = When you believe - "small but still resilient voice" is still probably my favourite line out of any performance

4 = Red - she really made the song 100 times better than the original

5 = On my own - I really wanted to put this higher up but because of pre-tend-ing it had to come down but I love it alot.

6 = Just a little girl - its not that i dont like this performance because I really do its just I like the others a bit more

7 = CIBM - I like the start of this song but after that im not keen on the full song at all. Any version not just danielle's

8 =Cry me a river - truthfully this may be one of the best vocals but i just dont like the song and I though they made her look too much like kate winslet

That was hard, i like them all alot.

ETA: Oops were we supposed to do one each?

No, that was the kind of answer I wanted

I've got a feeling Mambo and Trombones will take top spots in everyones answers.

They were the best performance, I think they shocked alot of us (in a good way of course)

Hillier - mainly because I cannot remember the others and she was hilarious. I would have swapped her for Emilie.

Argh! This is going to be difficult.

Hmmm...

Well, to start off, I don't like to use the word "worst" because I don't think any of her performances were bad. There were two that were more flawed than the others, but I still enjoyed them. OK, now it's time to try this. My opinions change around a lot (although the first two never change), but currently, I think it's this:

1. "Mambo"--Just the ultimate Danielle performance IMO
2. "76 Trombones"--Sheer gutsy brilliance
3. "When You Believe"--Warm, believable, excellent vocal
4. "Just a Little Girl"--Awesome with the acting
5. "Red"--Sincere, truthful, great presentation
6. "Cry Me a River"--Classy and stylish
7. "On My Own"--Good but with one weird part
8. "Could It Be Magic"--Made the most of a silly routine, but shouty in places and looked a little uncomfortable at times.

Numbers 3-5 are practically tied and the order is somewhat arbitrary.

Ask me tomorrow and the order might be different.

1.76 Trombones - The first time i saw this performance i thought it was okay, but since then it has really grown on me. Every time i watch or listen to it, it gets better.

2.Popular - Let's face it, this was Danielle's performance. She stole the show completely. It showed of her acting and comedic timing very well. And to Lauren's credit without her Danielle would not have been able to act off of her.

3.Mambo Italiano 1/2 - I'm not going to choose between the both of them. And i don't think that there is anything left to say about it that hasn't already been sad. It was epic.

4.The Happening - It's worth mentioning that thanks to Danielle this song reached a whole new level.

5.When You Believe - For me anything is better than the original. As long as you don't do it like the original, you have a green light in my book. But saying that, she did sing it really well. She put a bit of roughness in it which made it sound really good.

6.Cry Me A River - After a really bad performances last week, she came back fighting. Every time i see this i feel that it's a real adult song and that she has been doing this for a long time. Not the greatest but still very enjoyable.

7.Just a little girl - The problem i have with this song is that i don't think that it's sung that good. comparing to the original it's not good enough. Saying that, she really tells the story of the song. It's great to look at, but not to listen too.

8.Could It Be Magic - This is arguable her worst performance, but i think that the only people that are to blame are the people who told her how to do the song. Anyone who told her that she should walk with arms open, while see should be dancing, is the one to blame. She did her best with what was given to her. But it was already a sinking ship

This was my best/worst list.

Oooohhhh Sheila is on TV just incase anyone wanted to know

anyone wanna skype I am on it now xxx

dhf

Dan is Dot

I got my signed autograph today it even came with a message on the back ........I'm going to treasure this forever!!

Wow, yay!

Good for you

As I will be out later, I'll post some questions now for you all to discuss

1.Favourite group number (particularly Danielle's best bit)? Why?

2. Favourite mission? Why?

3. Favourite mash-up? Why?

4. If you were to cast all the Dorothy's into the WoO, which roles would you give them? Why?

Its now official, I'm going to see WoO on March 2nd!!! I just bought the ticket, unfortunately I'm making the trip up by myself The good news is I'm fairly close to the front, row J

Ciao mafiosi. Dan is Dot and mambo mafia lives forever.

VIVA LA SPERANZA!