Q: How do you fight hooligans?

[Soul Reaper]

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1968765,00.html

Barry Manilow puts revellers off
17/07/2006 13:42 - (SA)

Sydney - It could be magic for some, but the use of loud Barry Manilow music to drive away late-night revellers from a suburban Sydney park is getting on the nerves of nearby residents.

In a move reminiscent of US efforts to drive former Panama strongman Manuel Noriega from the Vatican Embassy where he took refuge in 1989, the local council in Rockdale, in Sydney's southern suburbs, started a six-month trial of high-volume hits by Manilow and Doris Day to chase away car enthusiasts who were gathering on weekend nights at Cook Park Reserve.

"Barry's our secret weapon," Rockdale deputy mayor Bill Saravinovski told The Daily Telegraph newspaper, four weeks after the start of the effort.

"It seems to be working."

But some people living near the park are less than enthralled. They say the barrage of Copacabana, Could It Be Magic and Que Sera Sera," blasting from 21:00 to midnight every Friday, Saturday and Sunday is driving them crazy.

"I don't know how I will cope," said Moya Dunn, describing how the songs have invaded her house.

"I just can't sleep when it's on, and to think there's going to be another six months of this."

Officials have given in a little, agreeing to turn down the volume a bit after residents complained.

"The initial reaction was that they found it irritating," Saravinovski said.

"I'm not disputing what the residents are saying. I can't swallow some of the tracks like Mandy.

"We have tried to reduce the sound and we are reviewing the songs. I don't mind Barry Manilow, but I'm more of an Abba and Celine Dion fan."

In 1989, US soldiers blasted hard rock music and news bulletins about Panama at the Vatican Embassy in Panama City in attempt to drive General Noriega from refuge there. The Vatican complained, and US troops stopped the noise. Noriega later surrendered.

[Ozzy Fudd]

LMAO ya take the barrage of Copacabana anytime over that rapp shat.

[Ozzy Fudd]

Shit Happy Birthday Bro :birthday: i just noticed

[Shaun Ponsonby]

What a grand idea...

[thome]

So these City Fuks pave everthing No place for the Kids to go and then the kids find a Place to call there own and the City paves them over ...Nice.

Fight The Power!

[Last_Child]

Nice.

Happy B. Day!

[EbDawson]

Panamark behind this?

[Soul Reaper]

Originally posted by Ozzy Fudd
Shit Happy Birthday Bro :birthday: i just noticed

haha...cheers, Ozz....:D

:bottle:


Originally posted by Last_Child
Nice.

Happy B. Day!

thanks to you too, LC....

:bottle:

[Panamark]

Originally posted by EbDawson
Panamark behind this?

Nah ! I would have chosen Sammy...
I saw it on the news here though, funny !!
The local mayor reckons if the Manilow shit
didnt work he was going to sing himself.
He started singing, and it sucked...

Those hooligans dont stand a chance ! lol..

[Soul Reaper]

This is Barry Manilow's response.....

“Have they thought that these hoodlums might like my music?,” says the singer. “What if some of them began to sing along to ‘Can’t Smile Without You?’ Or lit candles when ‘I Write the Songs’ was played? Or, heaven forbid, danced around to the infectious beat of ‘Copcabana?’ What if this actually attracts more hoodlums?”

[Panamark]

Shirley you cant be serious !!

[Soul Reaper]

I am serious, but don't call me Shirley...

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Well, that thought certainly didn't occcur to me.

[Panamark]

Barry Manilow with a "Doof Doof" beat behind it..
That might work for the ecstacy addled braindeads
that drive around sydney clueless...

[Panamark]

Originally posted by Soul Reaper
I am serious, but don't call me Shirley...


I picked a bad week for giving up glue sniffing !


Clasic Film, watched it again about two days ago..
The inflateable Pilot gets me everytime..

[Soul Reaper]

Originally posted by Shaun Ponsonby
Well, that thought certainly didn't occcur to me.

of course not....

hey Shaun, maybe we should play Barry Manilow full blast to all the chavs....;)

[Soul Reaper]

Originally posted by Panamark
I picked a bad week for giving up glue sniffing !


Clasic Film, watched it again about two days ago..
The inflateable Pilot gets me everytime..

Rumack: You'd better tell the Captain we've got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital.
Elaine: A hospital? What is it?
Rumack: It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.

[Panamark]

I loved the "crash posistion" :D
Nice set of gratutious jubblies flash, if you dont blink....

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Originally posted by Soul Reaper
of course not....

hey Shaun, maybe we should play Barry Manilow full blast to all the chavs....;)

Did you ever see Rowan Atkinson doing Barry Manilow on Not The Nine O Clock News?

"And, now I'm wet and lonley"
"La la la la la la-pancakes
La la la la la la-Rain
La la la la la la-you and me
La la la la la la-panckes again"
"Despair...despair of hands"

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Originally posted by Soul Reaper
Rumack: You'd better tell the Captain we've got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital.
Elaine: A hospital? What is it?
Rumack: It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.

And, that, more than anything, led to my drinking problem!

I was watching AIRPLANE! on Channel 5 the other day. They cut out the jubblies, sadly, because it was before the watershed. Hadn't seen it in years, forgot how funny it was!

[Soul Reaper]

Originally posted by Shaun Ponsonby
Did you ever see Rowan Atkinson doing Barry Manilow on Not The Nine O Clock News?

"And, now I'm wet and lonley"
"La la la la la la-pancakes
La la la la la la-Rain
La la la la la la-you and me
La la la la la la-panckes again"
"Despair...despair of hands"

:D.....no, I haven't seen that one yet....I have watched the Not the Nine o Clock news before....GRATE stuff....

I saw one where Atkinson was a modern artist and kept on describing London momunments (e.g. Nelson's Columns) as 'big willys' and 'a big phallus'.....

[Soul Reaper]

Originally posted by Shaun Ponsonby
And, that, more than anything, led to my drinking problem!

I was watching AIRPLANE! on Channel 5 the other day. They cut out the jubblies, sadly, because it was before the watershed. Hadn't seen it in years, forgot how funny it was!

And Leon is getting laaaaarrrrrger

:)

[Panamark]

Not the NIne Oclock News !

Fooken ell..

I didnt think anyone else remembered that show.
Classic !

Do you guys remember the sketch where Rowan Atkinson
was supposedly deaf, and it was an advertisement for
a phone that had a flashing light.

(The idea being the light would flash when it was ringing,
then the deaf dude would know when to pick it up)

The phone rings, then this big ass light starts flashing,
Rowan Atkinson picks up phone and goes..

Hello ?
Hello ?
Hello ?
Hello ?
Hello ?

LMFAO !!! :D

[Shaun Ponsonby]

I wasn't born first time around, so I've only caught them on UKTV Gold. But, yea, I have seen that one.

Posted some clips of it here...

http://www.rotharmy.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38176&highlight=Classic+Sketches

[Soul Reaper]

Originally posted by Panamark
Not the NIne Oclock News !

Fooken ell..

I didnt think anyone else remembered that show.
Classic !

Do you guys remember the sketch where Rowan Atkinson
was supposedly deaf, and it was an advertisement for
a phone that had a flashing light.

(The idea being the light would flash when it was ringing,
then the deaf dude would know when to pick it up)

The phone rings, then this big ass light starts flashing,
Rowan Atkinson picks up phone and goes..

Hello ?
Hello ?
Hello ?
Hello ?
Hello ?

LMFAO !!! :D

I definitely rememebr that one....

do you know this one?

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