[78-L] Muzak is 75

[David Lennick]

Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
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>>
>>     Oh they DO use modern  crap in torture places! There MUST be something 
>> in the Geneva Convention, right up there with Gas and nuclear?I think the 
>> ACLU is on this case?
>>
>>     Bob.  all for  "Sound of Silence"
>>
>> *******
> You might have asked the management to either turn it down, turn it off 
> or you'd turn your business elsewhere.
> Short of that, speaking very loudly to your companion throughout your 
> stay might get their attention! If they come over to request you dial it 
> down tell 'em you'll be happy to (loudly, of course) as soon as they 
> dial down the offending background noise. I bet it'd work.
> I tend to dance around in the Safeway with an imaginary partner when 
> that unlistenable crap comes on their intercom, mostly for my own 
> amusement but it also lets other patrons know exactly how I feel about 
> it. Maybe it'll start a trend.
> Unfortunately I can't do that to the "ONE FIVE TWO EIGHT BAKERY 
> DEPARTMENT" loudly repeated in an electronic voice over and over until 
> some ignorant sumbitch in that department picks up the phone. It's a 
> relatively new phenomenon and it really bugs me.
> Mal
> 

You mean you can actually discern individual words when they're screamed over 
the public address speakers? My supermarkets are staffed by teenagers who 
swallow the mike and scream into it.

Elevator music joke: last night on Letterman, Tom Driesen (sp?) held up a photo 
of himself and golfing buddies Tiger Woods and Kenny G. Letterman pointed to 
Kenny and said "There he is..get him!" And then "Push 6, please."

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