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    Elevator Music Deemed Unaffordable Luxury

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    Image of SeaBassTian SeaBassTian
    02/11/09

    In reply to Elevator Music Deemed Unaffordable Luxury
    I don't know if there is any correlation. But "the powers that be" have been playing the same tunes @ HB for a year. Somebody canceled their service.
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    Image of Iceland Spar Iceland Spar
    02/10/09

    In reply to Elevator Music Deemed Unaffordable Luxury
    My first thought was who in their right mind would lend half a billion dollars to a company called Muzak that produces elevator music. Then I realized that it was probably my pension or 401(k).
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    Image of Rumpelstilskin Rumpelstilskin
    02/10/09

    In reply to Elevator Music Deemed Unaffordable Luxury
    This strikes at the very core of our being! I was raised (read: brainwashed) that stuff. My parents would have the "Easy Listening" channel on the radio. If we let Muzak fail, the terrorists win!
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    Image of Rumpelstilskin Rumpelstilskin
    02/10/09

    @Rumpelstilskin: raised on
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    Image of SpacePope SpacePope
    02/10/09

    In reply to Elevator Music Deemed Unaffordable Luxury
    But, what will I listen to in Kitschy restaurants in Iowa when I visit my relatives?
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    Image of StonedAndDethroned StonedAndDethroned
    02/10/09

    @SpacePope: Screaming children?
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    Image of Noun-Verb-7-Eleven Noun-Verb-7-Eleven
    02/10/09

    @SpacePope: Answer: the overwhelmingly friendly chatter of strangers talking to each other. As a fellow Iowa relative-visiter, I can say it's not quite the same anywhere else. A woman in Target once cornered me for 20 minutes to discuss how they just don't make pants like they used to.
    Aw.
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    Image of SaraRueful SaraRueful
    02/10/09

    @Noun-Verb-7-Eleven: Hey, New York has people like that. One morning on the Grand Central Shuttle a guy told the woman next to him (and the entire car) that he hadn't had a herpes outbreak in four years!


    Beat that, Iowa!

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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    02/10/09

    @SaraRueful: And you immediately walked over to shake his hand and wish him the best of luck for the next four?
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    Image of uninspired uninspired
    02/10/09

    In reply to Elevator Music Deemed Unaffordable Luxury
    Zamfir is screwed


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    Image of dado dado
    02/10/09

    In reply to Elevator Music Deemed Unaffordable Luxury
    I'm going to buy stock in Otis Elevator because it is sure to go up.
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    Image of uninspired uninspired
    02/10/09

    In reply to Elevator Music Deemed Unaffordable Luxury
    Muzak just couldn't get with the times. No MySpace page, iTunes downloads, intimate shows in Brooklyn...it's like they wanted to fail.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    02/10/09

    In reply to Elevator Music Deemed Unaffordable Luxury
    I had no idea Muzak was a real company. It's like Xerox.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    02/10/09

    @Mount_Prion:


    or Dumpster.


    There truly is no generic term that will ever be better than dumpster.

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    Image of Mary Mouse Mary Mouse
    02/10/09

    @Mount_Prion: Oh, yeah. Go into your office bathroom and look at the round thing in the ceiling that the muzak comes out of. It says "MUZAK" around the edge.
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    02/10/09

    @Mount_Prion: Sure is! I had to work on a logo redesign for them back in the mid 90s. As I learned, it's not just for elevators. Stores, bars and restaurants all (used to) subscribe to Musak cause that way all of the royalties etc. get paid from Musak to whomever is on the playlist. Musak creates their own instrumentals so that the royalties are less, so they only need to pay for the composition or whatever it is and not for the performers.
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    Image of misscherrysez misscherrysez
    02/10/09

    @Mary Mouse: So THATS what you're doin in the can all day?
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    Image of Mary Mouse Mary Mouse
    02/10/09

    @misscherrysez: That, and weeping uncontrollably. I would stay in there even longer but the lights are on a timer.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    02/10/09

    In reply to Elevator Music Deemed Unaffordable Luxury
    At the Muzak headquarters (in Connecticut, I believe), they play Muzak everywhere but in the elevators.


    Look it up!

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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    02/10/09

    In reply to Elevator Music Deemed Unaffordable Luxury
    Joseph Lanza needs to update his epic tome:


    [www.amazon.com]

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    Image of T.S._delegate T.S._delegate
    02/10/09

    In reply to Elevator Music Deemed Unaffordable Luxury
    Say it ain't so!

    Musak was the only thing distracting me from the obvious health-code violations of my local Chinese restaurant!
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    02/10/09

    In reply to Elevator Music Deemed Unaffordable Luxury
    In stormy economic times like this, the head of Muzak must feel as if raindrops keep falling on his head.
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    Image of Astigmatism Astigmatism
    02/10/09

    @Kid Twist: Every day he regrets not running away from it all with that girl from Ipanema.
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    Image of blix blix
    02/10/09

    @Astigmatism: It keeps running through the windmills of his mind.
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    Image of Not The Red Baron Not The Red Baron
    02/10/09

    In reply to Elevator Music Deemed Unaffordable Luxury
    $100 - $500 million?!! Ker-riste.
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    Image of SaraRueful SaraRueful
    02/10/09

    @Not The Red Baron: Whichever it is, their debt-to-asset ratio makes me feel a WHOOOOOOOLE lot better about my $18,000 in credit card debt!


    Drinks on me!

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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    02/10/09

    In reply to Elevator Music Deemed Unaffordable Luxury
    The Grim Reaper prefers Pandora.
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