# Cruel and Unusual Musical Punishment **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 22, 2000, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruel-and-unusual-musical-punishment/15085 "2000-03-22T15:29:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruel-and-unusual-musical-punishment/15085/41 "2000-03-24T03:05:00Z")
HA! That’s right, I say HA! to you amatuers. The ultimate in torture? SLIM WHITMAN!! Rose Marieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee… ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_cow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ad7895/32.png) [@tiny\_cow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_cow)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruel-and-unusual-musical-punishment/15085/42 "2000-03-24T04:08:00Z")
This from [http://www.eonline.com:](http://www.eonline.com:) > [@](#): > > **Torture by Backstreet** > by Emily Farache > Mar 21, 1996, 12:00 PM PT > > Teenyboppers worldwide may disagree, but to University of Toronto campus police, playing the Backstreet Boys is the harshest form of torture. > > In a move that would make the Spanish Inquisition proud, campus police are pumping in Backstreet tunes, along with a healthy dash of AC/DC ditties, in hopes of ending a student sit-in. > > For the past six days, a band of socially conscious students has been demanding the university institute a campus-wide ban on the sale of clothing made in Third World sweatshops. To get their point across to campus officials, the students decided to occupy the president’s office. > > For its part, university officials say they are happy to talk to the students, but not while they’re occupying the office. > > To expedite the exodus, campus police cut the phone and power lines and cranked up the boom boxes. > > So, the activists are forced to take sponge baths to the tune of “I Need You Tonight”, eat meals (hoisted up in buckets from friends below) to the strains of “Larger Than Life” and stay up to date on homework (via their laptops) as “Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely” plays. And plays. And plays. > > “This is probably the first time the Backstreet Boys have been deliberately used as a form of sleep-deprivation torture,” one protester tells Canada’s National Post newspaper. > > As university spokeswoman Jane Stirling says, the Backstreet Boys were chosen in hopes of “making life a little more uncomfortable” for the protesters. > > And so far it’s worked. Of the 19 students who began the sit-in last week, only eight remain. * * * —_Aquí nos paga veinte muertos, teniente_. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruel-and-unusual-musical-punishment/15085/43 "2000-03-24T04:23:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Clawson is about 30 miles north of Detroit. Yikes! When did they move Clawson out to Orion Township or Romeo? The principal east-west road in Clawson in 14 Mile. ---
**Author:** ![EnigmaOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EnigmaOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnigmaOne)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruel-and-unusual-musical-punishment/15085/44 "2000-03-24T07:14:00Z")
Torture is having to listen to musical attempts by such greats as Sylvester Stallone, Leonard Nimoy or John Travolta. I believe Tom Cruise might have made a similar attempt as well. ## Then there’s the Barney Theme… – **Kalél** [TheHungerSite.com](http://www.thehungersite.com) _“If our lives are indeed the sum-total of the choices we’ve made, then we cannot change who we are; but with every new choice we’re given, we can change who we’re going to be.”_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruel-and-unusual-musical-punishment/15085.md?page=2)