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Barry Manilow to drive out 'hooligans'
BBC ^ | Monday, 5 June 2006 | unknown

Posted on 06/08/2006 9:02:19 AM PDT by Atlantic Bridge

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Hobbies; Humor; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: australia; barry; barrymanilow; bbc; day; doris; dorisday; dorothy; elisabethhasselbeck; homosexualagenda; hooligans; manilow; piehole; sydney; theview; warcrime
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To: sully777

Looks like I picked a bad day to give up vomiting.


41 posted on 07/17/2006 10:37:29 AM PDT by scott7278 (The War on Terror includes defending the homefront from the MSM.)
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To: sully777

42 posted on 07/17/2006 10:40:42 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Atlantic Bridge
From July, Barry Manilow's greatest hits will be piped into one car park in a bid to drive the youths away.

Really? "Have it your way" and "Like a good friend, State Farm Is There"?

43 posted on 07/17/2006 12:57:32 PM PDT by weegee (Seasons greetings and happy holidays this June-July!)
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To: sully777

The Polite Police?

Talk about a nannystate.


44 posted on 07/17/2006 12:59:39 PM PDT by weegee (Seasons greetings and happy holidays this June-July!)
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To: Atlantic Bridge
Barry is a little like Neil Diamond, and John Denver later in his career:

Everybody makes fun of them, but they have an army of fans who will show up to shows, and keep them making a very good living for the rest of their lives.

I know it's not pleasant to thik about, but it's true ;-)

45 posted on 07/17/2006 1:09:00 PM PDT by lawnguy (Give me some of your tots!!!)
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To: Xenalyte

The should play The Hoff to make sure they leave.
Get Into my Car
Get OUTTA MY LOT


46 posted on 07/17/2006 6:34:27 PM PDT by Feiny (It isn`t premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married.)
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To: Atlantic Bridge; JRios1968


This is as disturbing as the Top Gun volleyball scene.....

47 posted on 07/17/2006 6:37:12 PM PDT by MikefromOhio
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To: MikefromOhio

Tough call, that scene is pretty gay.


48 posted on 07/17/2006 8:41:34 PM PDT by rattrap
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To: Atlantic Bridge

"Her name was Lola..."


49 posted on 07/17/2006 8:45:01 PM PDT by 185JHP ( "The thing thou purposest shall come to pass: And over all thy ways the light shall shine.")
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To: Atlantic Bridge

Why do the Aussies have to go with a foreigner, when their very own Air Supply would do the trick?


50 posted on 07/17/2006 8:46:15 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Why do the Aussies have to go with a foreigner, when their very own Air Supply would do the trick?



Or Savage Garden or Bee Gees or Olivia Newton John.


51 posted on 07/17/2006 9:47:45 PM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: Allegra

This thread is insane! I love the Top Gun pic.


52 posted on 07/18/2006 5:43:21 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: feinswinesuksass

The power of The Hoff would just draw the hooligans, because it would inspire in them a desire to emulate that which is good and pure about The Hoff.

So it might make the problem worse in the short term, but just think of all the Hassetized hooligans driving around crooning to the ladies!


53 posted on 07/18/2006 5:44:44 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: MikefromOhio

"At the Copa...Copacabana..."


54 posted on 07/18/2006 7:31:45 AM PDT by JRios1968 (There's 3 kinds of people in this world...those who know math and those who don't.)
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To: Xenalyte
This thread is insane! I love the Top Gun pic.

It's almost, but not quite as insane as the David Hasselhoff threads.

55 posted on 07/18/2006 7:35:47 AM PDT by Allegra (FReeping LIVE! from suddenly one of the safer places in the Middle East)
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To: JRios1968
I wonder how much of an ego-blow it would be to know that your music is being used as a weapon?
56 posted on 07/18/2006 7:36:53 AM PDT by Allegra (FReeping LIVE! from suddenly one of the safer places in the Middle East)
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To: Allegra

A weapon of mass teen disruption, nonetheless. Explains the crappy muzak at the malls, though.


57 posted on 07/18/2006 7:39:57 AM PDT by JRios1968 (There's 3 kinds of people in this world...those who know math and those who don't.)
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To: Maceman
They should just play BS singing her greatest hits

"People; liberal people, are the luckiest PEE-pul--in the world..."

58 posted on 07/18/2006 7:40:08 AM PDT by subterfuge (Call me a Jingoist, I don't care...)
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To: Atlantic Bridge

Fools! Profligate use of Barry Manilow as a prophylactic will eventually breed Barry Manilow resistant hooligans -- then what will we do? Have we learned nothing?


59 posted on 07/18/2006 7:41:08 AM PDT by tortoise
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To: Xenalyte

THAT needs to be made into a TV movie.
Quick, call the Hoff to see if he is available.


60 posted on 07/18/2006 8:59:13 AM PDT by Feiny (It isn`t premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married.)
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