Seems like a few years ago I read about a school principal who, for detention, would make offending students put on earphones and listen to Sinatra for a while. The kids called it "getting Franked." Sounds like a similar thing is going on here.

Now, if this judge is making miscreants listen to Brenda Lee or Frankie Valli, we might actually have a constitutional crisis on our hands...

Well, they won't be listening to Barry at gitmo anymore. Asshat Obama. If I lived in or near a prime terrorist target, I'd be moving as soon as possible. He couldn't have sent a stronger message that we won't be retaliating or fighting them. Stopping all trials my ass!

I wonder if this works, in terms of stopping the offending behavior. It's a creative punishment - too bad I can't use it on the boys with the bass who drive down my street thump, thump, thump. It's not frequent enough to be worth calling the cops over, just rude.

At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, it never would have been tolerated when I was a kid. Thanks, boomers, for destroying civility. That's probably the worst indictment of my generation.

http://mugli.multiply.com/video/item/22/Robot_Chicken_Barney_Parody

Hmm.. Wonder if ASCAP is going to get on his case?

That is cruel and unusual punishment. If I had to listen to Manilow for hours they'd be locking me up for killing the judge. Just kidding, though it's true that I can't stand his music. This is probably more effective than the fines which, as he said, were probably being paid by the parents.

I wonder if old Barry has heard about this, yet. Is he known to have a sense of humor?

It's a world of laughter, a world of tears.
It's a world of hopes, it's a world of fears.
There's so much that we sheare,
that it's time we're aware
It's a small world after all.

I bet that stick in half your minds all day!

Damn you Eric!

I have that silly song in my head now!

That's great! This judge is giving these kids a chance... again... "Nowwwww Iiiiii'm READY to take a CHAAAANCE agaaain, rrready to put my LOVE on the LINE, RRRREADY to TAKE a CHANCE a-GAIN with youUUUUUUUUUUUUU..." :D

That does it, Melissa! You've forced me to take drastic measures!

Ohhh Mandy,
Oh You Came and You Gave
Without Takin'
But I Sent You Awayyyyyy

(Cue over-the-top orchestration with inevitable key change)

Woahhh Mandy....

ACK! ACK! ACK!

It's the End of the World as we Know It,

And I'm not fiiiiiinnnnne!

(No spanks for those earworms, dammit!)

o.O

PS - REM is way better than Barry M!

I want you to know I never intended this, but you all have backed me into a corner and now you must all suffer in the nuclear firestorm

This is the song that never ends
Yes it goes on and on my freinds
Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
And they'll continue singinig it forever just beacause
This is the Song that never ends. . .

Best comments in while;)

SHE'S LUMP!!! SHE'S LUMP!!! SHE'S LUMP!!! SHE'S IN MY HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!.....

whiny guitar lick

Good for at least 3 days. I recently tortured my friend Bob with that one, he ended up downloading it and blasting it in his car for a week to get it out of his system.

The subways in Toronto use the classical music technique to keep kids from loitering. They play it pretty loud in any areas where they may congregate, and it keeps them away. I like it.

so, you understand that gtmo prisoners were forced to listen to barney? i never heard it when i was there. or in afghanistan. i was in baghdad, but not abu ghraib..

reprieve claimed it, therefore it is true? and you propogate it?

i don't believe it. didn't happen. which sound system did they use? there are no speaker systems in interrogation rooms, or cells.

i guess the camp loudspeaker (giant voice for you army types) could hve been used. but then they would have been forcing guards and passersby to listen to barney as well. besides, continuous play on the giant voice would interfere with ops and security.

didn't happen. nice story. but fiction it is.

I luv you,
You luv me,
We're a happy family,
With a great big hug and a kiss from me to you,
Won't you say you luv me too?

:D :D :D

That does it, Melissa G! I hope Baby Bop haunts you in your dreams, like Edith Bunker in a lizard suit.

My kids passed out of the Barney thing some years ago. Do they even make Barney any more? I remember asking my eldest if Barney was a carnivore or an herbivore. Well, she said, it did seem like there was a different cast of kids every episode...

ROFLOL-- Best reply ever! Your kid is pretty cool, old rpm daddy!

Well, opera and Boy George are OK by me, but maybe not to teens. I think Celine Dion is another good torture device, as well!

Some 7-Eleven stores in my area actually played Frank Sinatra inside and outside as a way of dispersing idiots congregating around the store. As I recall, it did work. I believe it was a suggestion of the Southland Corporation which owned 7-Eleven.

I'd go for this one because I like Frank's stuff more than Barry's. Gotta say two things about Barry though -- he's got lots of fans even if I'm not one, and he's done a great job of providing instruments to school music programs. If your kid played clarinet or sax in a high school band, it quite possibly was funded by Barry.

There are those who will say this is cruel and unusual punishment, but I say do it more often and it won't be unusual...