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Bob the Builder
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#16 Post by Bob the Builder » Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:11 pm

Frankie use to say, when they wanted to clear out the Savoy Ballroom, the Manager would ask the band to play a waltz.

That would send me home anyway.
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#17 Post by djstarr » Fri Dec 17, 2004 4:04 pm

It seems like sometimes it takes forever to clear the floor after a dance because people love to talk, bla bla bla.

A while ago we were trying to clear everybody out since the person who had to lock up needed to be up early; I started playing more and more obscure songs, it finally took some ABBA to clear the room.

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#18 Post by Doug » Sun Jan 16, 2005 9:26 am

Playing ABBA, or the Village People, to clear the room is ceratinly a LOT nicer than just standing up and ordering everyone out of the room. I have seen that happen and it is not a terribly friendly feeling to be simply told to leave. Crap for music is much better.

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#19 Post by Shanabanana » Sun Jan 16, 2005 1:03 pm

My local coffee house blasts Christian rock to get people to leave. They scatter like roaches in the light.

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#20 Post by david » Sun Jan 16, 2005 4:33 pm

You could try playing "I'm a mormon", available for download from http://www.ubu.com/outsiders/365/index.html (see the entry for January 5).

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#21 Post by Nando » Mon Jan 17, 2005 12:41 pm

Howabout some Right Said Fred or RuPaul to end the night and get people the heck out of there.

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#22 Post by gatorgal » Tue Jan 18, 2005 3:20 pm

Shanabanana wrote:My local coffee house blasts Christian rock to get people to leave. They scatter like roaches in the light.
The cubicle mates down the hallway can still hear me laughing. :)

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#23 Post by JohnDyer » Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:09 pm

david wrote:You could try playing "I'm a mormon", available for download from http://www.ubu.com/outsiders/365/index.html (see the entry for January 5).
LOL!!! Makes me want to march around the house (good thing I'm working from home today).
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#24 Post by julius » Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:55 pm

Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" is pretty much guaranteed to drive anybody from the room quickly. It's nothing but feedback, white noise, and angry, nasty metallic crashing sounds.

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#25 Post by scowl » Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:34 pm

Believe it or not, some people can get numb to the racket of "Metal Machine Music" after a few minutes and others just find it annoying. What's missing is screaming tuneless vocals, and no one was more tuneless than Test Dept. I think any cut off of "Beating a Retreat" would make it clear that the evening has come to an end.

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#26 Post by Yakov » Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:00 pm

someone should have mentioned Taco by now...

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