"Looks like we made it......"
Posted on 06/05/2006 3:27:59 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
I POSTED THIS IN THE AMERICAN IDOL THREAD, BUT THOUGHT IT DESERVES A WIDER CIRCULATION...
BARRY MANILOW DON'T GET NO RESPECT. BUT HE's USEFUL
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5047610.stm
Manilow to drive out 'hooligans'
A council in the Australian city of Sydney is taking radical measures against car-revving youths - the calming tones of singer Barry Manilow. Officials in Rockdale say that local youths have been hanging around in car parks, revving their engines and generally annoying residents.
So the council has decided to strike back.
From July, Barry Manilow's greatest hits will be piped into one car park in a bid to drive the youths away.
Deputy mayor Bill Saravinovski said the decision was taken because the youths were intimidating local people.
"They are just hanging out and causing a nuisance to the general public," he told the AFP news agency.
The music will be played for a six-month trial period at a car park in the suburb of Brighton-le-Sands.
Mr Saravinovski said it should not annoy residents, but would will be loud enough for the youths to hear it.
"Daggy music is one way to make the hoons leave an area, because they can't stand the music," he told Australian newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
Daggy is Australian slang for unfashionable or uncool.
The music would not be limited to Barry Manilow, he said.
"It will be all types of classical music and music that doesn't appeal to these people."
Rockdale Council is not the first to employ such measures.
In 1999, the Warrawong Westfield shopping mall in Wollongong played Bing Crosby hits over and over again to drive away loitering teenagers.
"Looks like we made it......"
Let's try it in Gitmo.
Ha!, it could have been worse, it could have been Yoko Ono.
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OK, I'll go quietly now. The police can chalk it up as a mercy killing.
That 'Rat is sooooo bad.
Haven't you noticed that his insipid songs all sound so much alike? Not that I'm a critic or anything.
I've only noticed that they're all pwetty. (Except Copacabana - yuck!)
His name was Rico, he wore a diamond. . . .
"youths have been hanging around in car parks"
Is a car park like a dog park? I guess the teens let their cars rev up and run wild, eh?
Wow, that's an idea....
How about playing "the Best of Robert KKK Byrd" or "Swingin' Teddy Kennedy"?
"They had to taser me..."
Then did your hair look like Barry's?
That's almost in English. ;)
Barry's looking better these days. . .
Looks like it is not a case of "I Write the Songs" But
"I RIGHT THE WRONGS"
:)
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