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Heart Warming in these Troubled Times
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Sorry to burst the bubble, but this was a staged event and did not happen extemporaneously.
<span style="font-style: italic">"The 200 dancers were promoting the Dutch TV version of “in search of Maria“, a BBC format, staged by the Belgian commercial VTM network."</span>
Source: https://antwerp.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/antwerp-central-station-dances-to-the-sound-of-music/
I'm watching out for all those stones that will be heading my way now :smirk:
<span style="font-style: italic">"The 200 dancers were promoting the Dutch TV version of “in search of Maria“, a BBC format, staged by the Belgian commercial VTM network."</span>
Source: https://antwerp.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/antwerp-central-station-dances-to-the-sound-of-music/
I'm watching out for all those stones that will be heading my way now :smirk:
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Staged or not, it certainly brought out the inner child in the bystanders!
Which, as far as this eternal optimist is concerned, was exactly the point, regardless of "ulterior motive"!
I say, "WAY TO GO!" We need more of this!
Which, as far as this eternal optimist is concerned, was exactly the point, regardless of "ulterior motive"!
I say, "WAY TO GO!" We need more of this!
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yes, I realize that it was staged. But again, it was the reaction of those who were not privy to the plan that was so pleasing! here's another done at London's Liverpool Street station,to the music of "you know you make me want to shout"
London - T Mobile advert
London - T Mobile advert
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I assume both groups were arrested for disrupting the train stations. 
tony barnhill
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They would've been here in the USA!
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Buncha buzz-killers!
Delicious irony: Some reactions to this are exactly what the enterprise addresses!
GRINCHES - the lot o' ye! :smirk:
Delicious irony: Some reactions to this are exactly what the enterprise addresses!
GRINCHES - the lot o' ye! :smirk:
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Let the stones begin 
tony barnhill
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"but you can't tell me nothin'...."
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It was heartwarming because just like any other similar advertising campaign, that was the intent. In the T-mobile ad they hired 400 people as dancers and extras for the scene. It was controlled and staged from start to finish.
But there's more: some time later a bunch of people decided to create a real version of the T-Mobile ad - unstaged (except that they planned to do it by putting an ad on facebook). Thousands of people crammed themselves into a train station in a flash-mob-style recreation of the T-Mobile ad. Some climbed on top of a ticket office, others stripped naked, and it was a madhouse. At the end several were arrested by police.
But there's more: some time later a bunch of people decided to create a real version of the T-Mobile ad - unstaged (except that they planned to do it by putting an ad on facebook). Thousands of people crammed themselves into a train station in a flash-mob-style recreation of the T-Mobile ad. Some climbed on top of a ticket office, others stripped naked, and it was a madhouse. At the end several were arrested by police.
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OK, y'all win... :frown:
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<span style="font-style: italic">"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of the facts and evidence"</span>
- John Adams
- John Adams