PSD's given me an idea for another thread.

If mobile libraries did play tunes, what should they play ?

I'll start with the obvious (or ironic) 'Silence is Golden'

The Book of Love? Paperback Writer?



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

Sound of Silence or Bookends, by Simon and Garfunkel?
Lady Writer - Dire Straits


My favourite, however (seeing as you can only borrow books from a mobile library), is

Can't Buy Me, Love - Beatles.



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Voices Carry....by Til Tuesday "Hush, Hush...keep it down now...Voices Carry..."

I'll think of more later...off to read some Wodehouse....

Surely they should be silent. Or have a stern librarian voice saying 'Shhh!'

Hush, by Deep Purple .... Oh So Quiet, Bjoooork



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

Well, it's not as if ice cream vans play tunes of particular relevance to ice cream. Although I do agree that the mobile library tunes should be played as quietly as possible, and preferably only through the driver's headphones, to minimise disturbance to all the mobile readers.

That's a point - does the "Ssh!" rule apply to mobile libraries, and if so, how? 'Cos the point of the "Ssh!" rule is to let people read in peace, but technically with mobile libraries that would have to apply to the entire town... And there's not really enough room in the back for the mobile library to cart its readers around with it. More's the pity. Bring on mobile library juggernauts, say I. Or floating mobile libraries - look out Ark Royal, here comes the refit!



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"Whisky-wa-wa," I breathed - she was dressed as Biffo the Bear.

You know, I drove ice cream truck one summer and I used to have nightmares featuring the one and only song my truck played for the 10 hours a day I was in it. In fact, in one of my dreams I remember that I had dressed like a clown and started using my truck to mow down the bratty neighborhood kids who tried to give me Canadian money.

Does it frighten anyone else that about 2 months later, I moved to the East Coast and became a nanny?

One of my favorite tricks was to slow down so the kids could almost catch me then speed up for about a half a block....and watch em chase me. (this was only for the kids who sprayed me with hoses or threw water balloons or did other stupid kid stuff...I didn't do it to everyone!)

I once chased an ice cream truck two blocks on my bicycle before catching up and flagging it down to buy something. The obviously weren't terribly eager to sell, since you have to first let the kids catch up with the truck.

But my favorite ice cream truck story (of those I've heard) involves the medieval recreation group I'm in. A group of guys in Florida were having an outdoor fighter practice. Picture a bunch of men in armor, hitting each other with rattan sticks wrapped in duct tape. They're all hot and sweaty, when what should appear but an ice cream truck.

Picture the reaction of an ice cream truck driver, who suddenly finds he's being chased by a gang of men in full armor.

Fortunately those trucks don't go all that fast, so they did catch up and get their ice cream.



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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith

I once saw something similar with Durham University's Bouncy Sword Brigade (oh, all right. 'Treasure Toss' or whatever they called it). They (all four of them) were coming back from a hard day's role-playing when some old duffer drove into the back of them, right outside the student union building. The look on the hapless driver's face as four heavily armoured orcs got out of the car was absolutely priceless.



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Poul Anderson once wrote about an incident when a bunch of young hooligans assumed that some people whom they saw (through a window, or a glass-panlled door) dancing to old-fashioned music whilst dressed in "odd" clothes would be easy meat for harassment... Unfortunately for those thugs the dancers were actually his local SCA group, and not only refused to panic when attacked but ended up marching the louts to the nearest police station at sword-point. :-)

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[whispers] what's a SCA group?

[conspiritorial hush tones] Yeah, I was wondering that as well. It can't be Student Community Action can it ? Doesn't quite seem to make sense...

[equally conspiratorially] unless he means local Ska group, in which case they'd all be bopping to Madness and the Specials? Or local Skoda group? Ski group? but then it'd be ski poles rather than swords....

[also whispering] by the sound of it, I recon it's "Silly Costumes Annonymous", or something of that sorts.



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Well if you really want the answer, it's the Society for Creative Anachronism.

Here's a synopsis of what it is:
[www.cynnabar.org]

And yes, that's what the fighter practice was too. In fact, there are hundreds of apocryphal SCA stories along this line, including the one on the New York subway where a fellow (coming home from an event and still wearing chain mail under his shirt) was accosted by a thug and told to hand over his money. When he asked why he should do so, the thug pulled a knife and said "I've got 6 inches of steel that says you're going to do what I say". The SCA member reportedly replied with "I'll see your six inches and raise you 20" while unsheathing his sword.

I'm a member of the local SCA group here in Ann Arbor, Michigan (US). I don't fight, but I sing with a small madrigal group and do and teach medieval and reniassance dance. In fact, our group is hosting a big dance event on the 29th, at which I'll be teaching a class, and running the dessert revel during the evening ball (for which I'll be making and decorating a large cake).

Within the SCA I'm know as Lady Magdalena Vogelsang (but all my friends call me Magda, even in real life, rather than using my legal name).



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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith

BTW, the SCA ranges from people who simply like to dress in costume and party to serious scholarly types. Most are somewhere in between.

The pic in my profile was taken at an SCA event, BTW.



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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith

How about?:

When I write the book.. - Dave Edmunds

Everyday I write the book -- Declan McManus

Paperback writer - beatles (like nobody else thought of that one)

Hush -- some band from the 60-70's that I've removed from my memory like
Steppenwolf (no offense Mr. Hesse)

Helter Skelter -- just thought it would be fun to hear in a library.

"The Ice Cream Truck in my Neighborhood plays Helter Skelter!."

I believe that a mobile library would of course play footnotes.

LOL! Very Clever!