I'm coming after you!
You Mall Rat!
Posted on 03/03/2009 10:37:37 AM PST by dirtboy
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - It'll be Barry Manilow versus the mall rats.
The New Zealand city of Christchurch hopes that putting the American crooner's smooth and gentle tones into the mix of music to be broadcast through the central mall district can pacify unruly teens who congregate there, or at least convince them to go elsewhere.
"The intention is to change the environment in a positive way ... so nobody feels threatened or intimidated," Central City Business Association manager Paul Lonsdale told The Associated Press. "I did not say Barry Manilow is a weapon of mass destruction."
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Mandy rocks.
This could backfire. It may ATTRACT an unruly mob of middle-age Jewish women.
I'm coming after you!
You Mall Rat!
Is the ACLU aware of this 8-?
This is just TOO funny.
Call me weird, but I actually like Manilow’s music.
Weird
LOL!!! Hey, at least I admitted it first :)
I do, too, but after he made those cracks about Elizabeth Hasselbeck (wouldn’t come on “The View” because they have a conservative), the dude is dead to me.
I do, too, but after he made those cracks about Elizabeth Hasselbeck (wouldn’t come on “The View” because they have a conservative), the dude is dead to me.
Her name was Lola
she was a showgirl...
They won’t be able to hear it over their mp3 players stuck in their ears.
Mandy does rock!
Me, too. “Swing Street” was an excellent CD (’94, I think), and the old stuff had class.
Colonel, USAFR
And no cracks about don’t-ask-don’t-tell...
It might backfire.....the rats might think the’re at the Copacabana and start dancing.
These things just tend to get escalated to weapons of mass destruction.
Next thing you know we'll have an uptick on Slim Whitman album orders.
We have a walgreens here in my town. Every time I’ve gone in it, country music is being played over the loud speakers. I avoid going to that store simply because I loathe country music, especially since it’s so loud I can’t tune it out. Ditto for DBF’s periodontist-he plays country music in the waiting room. Isn’t having your teeth worked on torture enough? I don’t know if Barry Manilow is an improvement or would be worse than country, but I can see this working.
Two Words: Mars. Attacks.
I know it works to prevent teens loitering around strip malls and stores. Of course I’d have to have hearing protection myself, I’d go nuts.
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