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Britney Spears' Music Used by British Navy to Scare Off Somali Pirates
The Guardian ^
| Tuesday 29 October 2013
| Tim Jonze
Posted on 10/30/2013 1:09:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
'As soon as the pirates get a blast of Britney, they move on as quickly as they can,' says merchant naval officer
In an excellent case of "here's a sentence you won't read every day", Britney Spears has emerged as an unlikely figurehead in the fight against Somali pirates.
According to reports, Britney's hits, including Oops! I Did It Again and Baby One More Time, are being employed by British naval officers in an attempt to scare off pirates along the east coast of Africa. Perhaps nothing else – not guns, not harpoons – is quite as intimidating as the sound of Ms Spears singing "Ooh baby baby!"
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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: british; britneyspears; music; navy; pirates; royalnavy; scare; somali; somalia; spears; used
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To: nickcarraway
Britney Spears' Music Used by British Navy to Scare Off Somali Pirates I would still rather have an .50 Ma Deuce
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posted on
10/30/2013 1:12:10 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: nickcarraway
A navy of any kind needs no music to scare off pirates.
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posted on
10/30/2013 1:12:38 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
10/30/2013 1:13:04 PM PDT
by
yoe
( Defund Obamacare now — or risk voter backlash in 2014)
To: nickcarraway
Are they trying to scare them off, or get them to shoot themselves?
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posted on
10/30/2013 1:17:16 PM PDT
by
Above My Pay Grade
(The people have the right to tell government what guns it may possess, not the other way around.)
To: nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
Dumb idea. Just project a giant image of hillary on the clouds. It will turn them all sterile within 5 minutes and they will all jump in the ocean.
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posted on
10/30/2013 1:20:25 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
To: nickcarraway
Well, at least she's good for somethin'.....
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posted on
10/30/2013 1:20:57 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: nickcarraway; presidio9
I'd bang that like a drumset in a special ed classroom.
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posted on
10/30/2013 1:21:19 PM PDT
by
Travis T. OJustice
(I'm not a gynecologist, but I'll take a look.)
To: Zhang Fei
"A navy of any kind needs no music to scare off pirates." SCARE them off? A REAL Navy lures them in, and then....WHUMP!!!
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posted on
10/30/2013 1:22:54 PM PDT
by
Henchster
(Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
To: Travis T. OJustice
It's degraded with time....
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posted on
10/30/2013 1:22:59 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Frequently wrong but rarely in doubt....)
To: Snickering Hound
To: nascarnation
Yama hama it’s fright night. She’s a two face.
To: nascarnation
That looks nothing like her. These are current, from 3 days ago:
Still quite bangable!
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posted on
10/30/2013 1:26:56 PM PDT
by
Travis T. OJustice
(I'm not a gynecologist, but I'll take a look.)
To: Travis T. OJustice
Good luck pal, crazy girls scare me LOL
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posted on
10/30/2013 1:29:53 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Frequently wrong but rarely in doubt....)
To: nascarnation
Good luck pal, crazy girls scare me LOLI hear that! I married and divorced one. I said I wanted to ban Britney, now marry her! :)
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posted on
10/30/2013 1:31:49 PM PDT
by
Travis T. OJustice
(I'm not a gynecologist, but I'll take a look.)
To: nickcarraway
Turning up the radio on the pirates is about all Obama will let the Navy do to his co-religionists.
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posted on
10/30/2013 1:31:52 PM PDT
by
MeganC
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To: nickcarraway
Did they project a hologram too?
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posted on
10/30/2013 1:35:16 PM PDT
by
jyro
(French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
To: MeganC
If Obama were Muslim, he wouldn’t allow any music to be played, as that’s against the religion.
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
10/30/2013 1:36:57 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
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