Flash mob in Dublin this weekend (1 Viewer)

[Theseus Mock]

'Flash mob' phenomenon to hit Dublin this weekend
08/08/2003 - 10:45:52 am

A bizarre craze which has been sweeping the United States and Europe for several months is expected to hit Dublin in the coming days.

"Flash mobs" have been springing up in cities on both continents this summer and one is planned for Dublin this weekend.

The phenomenon involves organised gangs of people gathering quickly in the same place, engaging in some bizarre act and then dispersing within a couple of minutes.

In Rome, hundreds of people recently turned up a music store, demanded non-existent CDs, broke into spontaneous applause and then disappeared.

A crowd of 200 people also gathered at a London furniture store recently and started praising the sofas.

The craze started in the United States, where last night, a "flash mob" descended on a Toys R Us store in New York to worship a huge model dinosaur. The mobs are organised over the internet and with mobile phones.

http://breaking.tcm.ie/2003/08/08/story108996.html

 

[ann post]

Idiots, just looking for a reason to walk around in a big incomprehensible gang, now that all the anti-war marching is redundant.

 

[kstop]

By all accounts, the London one was a bit of a travesty. The press were there waiting for the crowd, and the targeted shop had already closed for the day but re-opened to let them in.

Methinks the meme is running out of steam.

enchance, did you get ze PM?

 

[Theseus Mock]

By all accounts, the London one was a bit of a travesty. The press were there waiting for the crowd, and the targeted shop had already closed for the day but re-opened to let them in.

Methinks the meme is running out of steam.

enchance, did you get ze PM?

aye, but was too lazy to ring. Will hook you up next week with the stuff.

 

[rumpus]

a jaysus, memes

I used to be obsessed with them in college.

Now I don't care.

I've got the 'don't care about memes' memetic disease.

 

[snakybus]

a jaysus, memes

I used to be obsessed with them in college.

Now I don't care.

I've got the 'don't care about memes' memetic disease.

ah yeah, back in the old days when you liked stuff

I remember those days

 

[snap-apple]

ah yeah, back in the old days when you liked stuff

I remember those days

now its just all meme meme meme

 

[snakybus]

For shame, Con Air, for shame.

 

[pete]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3134559.stm

 

[snap-apple]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3134559.stm

they're maaaad over there aren't they - just wacky like, up for anything:

Final instructions involved descending on the Sofa UK store on Tottenham Court Road, appreciating the furniture on show and then ringing a friend on a mobile phone and talking about it without using the letter "o".



for
fuck's
sake

 

[ann post]

just looking for a reason to walk around in a big incomprehensible gang, now that all the anti-war marching is redundant.

54321

 

[rumpus]

5 4 3 2 1

54321

chew chew chew chew, chewy caramel

54321

chololate and penauts too!

5 4 3 2 1

54321

54321!

 

[snap-apple]

5 4 3 2 1

54321

chew chew chew chew, chewy caramel

54321

chololate and penauts too!

5 4 3 2 1

54321

54321!

ahhhh, the 80's

 

[snap-apple]

and sure a cat for good measure

 

[ann post]

heh heh heh.

It was the five characters rule of thumb (thump?) that got me.

 

[Theseus Mock]

Do yiz remember Buster bars? Kinda like penguins but with a gingery taste.

 

[ann post]

Do yiz remember Buster bars? Kinda like penguins but with a gingery taste.

drawn a total blank on this one.

 

[Unclealo]

Stingers!

 

[ann post]

Stingers!

western ireland lived off stingers during the recession.

 

[Jimmy Magee]

Ah, I remembers when I was in college back in the day...there were loads of ads on for the new Lotto 54321 game. Me et mes mates went an entire college year thinking that the bars were making a comeback and wondering why they weren't in the shops. Only later did we twig what the ads were actually for. Ah, the craziness...