NEWS: Another Disaster Waiting to Happen

MUSIC: Another Disaster Waiting to Happen

As if high school weren't already hard enough to take, a Pennsylvania school is making it that much harder, by playing Hanson's "MMMBop" over and over till the students cough up $3,000 for Katrina relief. Or till one of them goes berzerk and Columbines the place. Whichever comes first.

In fact, I can think of many, many more annoying songs than "MMMBop," but it's the principle of thing, isn't it?

Yeah, it's always funny till someone loses an eye or till the silicone chips inside their heads switch to overload...

The girls who came up with it are going to be hated. Forever.

I feel sorry for the kids, and those poor souls who's ears have never been tainted by the likes of such dribble as Hanson...but I feel more strongly for the adults and the parents who allow it to continue. It would be rather easy to sleep at night now, but not later. "Revenge is a dish best served cold" as is said by both Klingon and Tarintino alike. I can't wait to see what happens with this and how the media will blow it up.

They threatened to do it when I was in highschool with that 'I'm Blue, yes indeed I'm a guy' Song.
But to play something as out of date and obnoxious as Mmmbop... Sssssatan...

Hanson arent girls....they are fine young women now.

so what exactly is the message to the students?

You will be punished if you don't give money?

It seems to me that those two girls are padding scholarship and college applications with the line:

"Raised over $3,000 from fellow students for Huricane Relief."

From what I get from the story, it seems to me that the song started and then the requests for money came in. This isn't a unique way to teach teenagers social responsiblity, it's torture.

yeah, the song sucks... but man, that one girl in Hanson is hot.

seriously, if people don't want to make a donation, that's their fucking business, that's the way the freee market works. This cruel and unusual punishment for a crime that wasn't even commited.

Furthermore, where were all the people forcing empolyees and students to make donations when the tsunami struck southeast asia, where are the folks willing to play YMCA until somebody coughs up the moulah to rebuild Iraq?

Tsch. It's da ba dee da ba die, jeez.

Could it beeeeee......SATAN?!?

-TM

I'm instantly reminded of the bit w/Quagmire and Taylor Hanson on Family Guy.

-TM

I think if I were a student there I'd take a baseball bat to the PA system. I was always tall, even in highschool, and a two foot bat would be all I needed to crush that speaker in. Flimsy metal protective screen or not.

That's not a charity drive, that's a fucking shakedown.

yes indeed I'm a guy

whoa i never knew they actually said anything but i'm blue in that song.

When did "team play" become "cohersion by trauma"? Wait, how long have the Masons been around?

makes for a great learning environment. way to go mr. principal. "look i don't care about your stinkin education, cough up the dough"

It actually comes from the original French version of Dangerous Liasons. And it sounds so much nastier in its native tongue.

I wouldn't give any money just out of principal

This is actually a well known military torture technique used to make people crack mentally.

Go team.

Uhhh, that's "principle", unless you were yanking it out of El Gordo there.

Maybe he was making a very clever pun?