Sean Kane wrote:
>
> At 09:05 PM 7/8/02 -0400, John wrote:
> >When I was in college, I was one of the lucky few to have a corner room.
> >The only disadvantage to the corner room is that it was right next to the
> >pubilc "study lounge" balconies. Well, one day, a group of smokers
> >decided that the balcony would be a cool hang out - and since my roomate
> >and I did not want the smoke wafting into our room, we decided to take
> >action. We put in one of his Patsy Cline CD's and played it at loud
> >volumes. :) Funny, they suddenly decided that the study lounge wasn't
> >such a cool hangout anymore. Go figure. :)
>
> A couple of friends of mine were great at dorm sound wars. If neighbors
> wouldn't turn down their stereos, one would blast back with O Fortuna from
> Carmina Burana in retaliation... usually worked pretty well. The other had
> a very extensive music collection, and would typically be able to find the
> same song the neighbor was blasting, and would blast it in return... just
> off the other's beat. Surprisingly effective :-)
Wow. We just used Beethoven at high volumes, and once we had good
bagpipe recordings, we found that those work fairly well, as well. The
nice thing about the bagpipes is that not only do they shut down the
annoying stuff, they also attract some of the people you'd want to hang
out with anyway. :)
(Symphonies 5, 7 and 9 on the Beethoven, if you were wondering.)
(Oh, and one of our dogs likes bagpipe music. If you start playing
some, she'll come into the room, lie down, and hang out until it's
over.)
Julia
