OK, I was watching American Idol last night along with the rest of the world (and actually, this morning, since my DVR cut off the entire part after Ryan said “And the winner is …”), and I just couldn’t stop fixating on Paula Abdul’s weird, weird clapping style. I’ve noticed it before, but this is the first time I was wondering if she needed help. A cortisone shot? Perhaps she actually has no hands at all, and her appendages are actually those fake hands that animal control people use to make sure the nasty ones don’t bite their fingers off.
Anyway, I was sure the all-knowing Internet could help me. After all, I am slow on the uptake, so I was positive many, many astute people had asked this question before me. After surfing through some not-too-helpful Yahoo! Answers (example: She claps like that because she is actually a seal dressed up in a Paula Abdul suit”), I came across this long-ago clip of Paula explaining to a very-dark-haired Ryan Seacrest exactly why she claps like a survivor of Everest 1996.
There you have it folks. Mystery solved. (And in case you haven’t noticed, the purpose of this blog is primarily to practice different media insertions into WordPress so I can use it at work.
xoxo, Heather
