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Parents call for boycott of Ben & Jerry's Schweddy Balls flavor
Ben & Jerry's
By Vidya Rao
Schweddy Balls ice cream is the latest in frozen threats facing your children, at least according to One Million Moms. The conservative organization, an offshoot of American Family Association, has called for a boycott of the newest Ben & Jerry’s flavor because they find it offensive.
“The vulgar new flavor has turned something as innocent as ice cream into something repulsive,” the group posted on its website. “Not exactly what you want a child asking for at the supermarket.”
The flavor is named after the classic Alec Baldwin sketch on “Saturday Night Live,” in which he plays a bakery owner named Pete Schweddy. The most famous line (and the one most often repeated by drunk frat boys) is his end note: “No one can resist my Schweddy Balls.”
Clearly there is a double entendre here, but is it really worth protesting vanilla ice cream with rum and fudge-covered malt balls? After all, Trix may be for kids, but rum ice cream is for the rest of us.
“We’ve been hearing from many fans. It appeals to those who love our irreverent sense of humor,” Ben & Jerry’s spokesperson Sean Greenwood told Gannett News Service. “If you watch the skit, it’s a lot easier to get the joke,” he said.
Well, One Million Moms watched the skit (they give a play-by-play in their call to action), and they are still not amused. They are asking for people to write to Ben & Jerry’s and ask them to refrain from producing another batch of what’s currently a popular flavor.
They also cite their disdain for the special addition of Chubby Hubby called Hubby Hubby, created in 2009 to celebrate the start of legalized gay marriage. “It seems that offending customers has become an annual tradition for Ben & Jerry's,” One Million Moms writes.
We asked some parents on our TODAY Moms Facebook page what they thought, and here's what a few of them had to say:
Rachel Helie: "That's kind of the point. Tongue in cheek. Sheesh. Just because we are mommies, we shouldn't lose our ability to have a sense of humor. My fave is Karamel Sutra, and that is 'provocative.' As long as they keep making it, I could care less."
Jennifer Dean Martz: "Of course it's vulgar. The SNL skit was intentionally vulgar...what SNL skit is not? I just won't buy it as i would never want to hear my kids say they were eating schweddy balls lol"
Shannon Orton: "I'm mad that I cannot find it in any stores in my town and I want to eat Schweddy Balls! Oh and I'm a mom."
What do you think? Did Ben & Jerry’s go too far with Schweddy Balls, or is this organization overreacting?
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Shannon Orton: "I'm mad that I cannot find it in any stores in my town and I want to eat Schweddy Balls! Oh and I'm a mom."
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http://bites.today.com/_news/2011/09/21/7876625-parents-call-for-boycott-of-ben-jerrys-schweddy-balls-flavor (http://bites.today.com/_news/2011/09/21/7876625-parents-call-for-boycott-of-ben-jerrys-schweddy-balls-flavor)
We should have known. Alec Baldwin is behind it...
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:facepalm:
Really?
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I don't give a flying damn what they call that ice cream. Those two assholes are two of the most liberal pieces of shit in this country, HUGE donors to the DNC, and I would rather be forced to wear a crimpsum tshirt than give those rat-bastards one penny of my money. I avoid all of their crap completely - there, problem solved.
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I don't give a flying damn what they call that ice cream. Those two assholes are two of the most liberal pieces of shit in this country, HUGE donors to the DNC, and I would rather be forced to wear a crimpsum tshirt than give those rat-bastards one penny of my money. I avoid all of their crap completely - there, problem solved.
So you're saying that you don't like sweaty balls?
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So you're saying that you don't like sweaty balls?
Don't put... uh... words in my mouth...
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Don't put... uh... words in my mouth...
:thumsup:
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I don't give a flying damn what they call that ice cream. Those two assholes are two of the most liberal pieces of shit in this country, HUGE donors to the DNC, and I would rather be forced to wear a crimpsum tshirt than give those rat-bastards one penny of my money. I avoid all of their crap completely - there, problem solved.
You know they don't actually own the company anymore, right?
BTW - liberal or not, they make ice cream the way it's supposed to be made. Not like a fucking frosty from wendy's that comes from a damn powder. I hate fake ass ice cream. Closest to homemade is the best.
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You know they don't actually own the company anymore, right?
BTW - liberal or not, they make ice cream the way it's supposed to be made. Not like a fucking frosty from wendy's that comes from a damn powder. I hate fake ass ice cream. Closest to homemade is the best.
Cherry Garcia, Chunky Monkey, Half Baked, Chocolate, Peanut Butter Cup, and Vanilla Heath Bar Crunch..............Gotdamn! I didn't realize there were other Ice Creams but those six.
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Cherry Garcia, Chunky Monkey, Half Baked, Chocolate, Peanut Butter Cup, and Vanilla Heath Bar Crunch..............Gotdamn! I didn't realize there were other Ice Creams but those six.
Phish Food is their best creation imnsho.
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Cherry Garcia, Chunky Monkey, Half Baked, Chocolate, Peanut Butter Cup, and Vanilla Heath Bar Crunch..............Gotdamn! I didn't realize there were other Ice Creams but those six.
Half Baked - my personal fav.
They have/had one called Dublin Mudslide too. Actually had Bailey's in it (minus the liquor). Roxxors.
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You know they don't actually own the company anymore, right?
BTW - liberal or not, they make ice cream the way it's supposed to be made. Not like a fucking frosty from wendy's that comes from a damn powder. I hate fake ass ice cream. Closest to homemade is the best.
i disagree...ben and jerry's is to ice cream as starbuck's is to coffee. both good but marketing is better. don't stop for a minute to think that the sales of schweedy balls hasn't increased by a bazillion due to the name and the publicity it created.
mcdonald's brew is so much better. the dozen of independent coffee drive-thrus that i pass by each day are far better in coffee and customer service than starbuck's. ice cream...some of the best come from the regional dairies.
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i disagree...ben and jerry's is to ice cream as starbuck's is to coffee. both good but marketing is better. don't stop for a minute to think that the sales of schweedy balls hasn't increased by a bazillion due to the name and the publicity it created.
mcdonald's brew is so much better. the dozen of independent coffee drive-thrus that i pass by each day are far better in coffee and customer service than starbuck's. ice cream...some of the best come from the regional dairies.
I guess the jist of what I was saying is that they actually use cream, butter, milk, sugar. Not a fucking powder (like sonic, wendys, mcdonalds, etc). I can taste the difference between a "frozen desert product" and real ice cream. Ben and Jerry's is about the only mainstream brand that makes it right.
I agree McD's brew is better than Starbucks, but that's a subjective taste thing. Doesn't mean that Starbucks doesnt use quality coffee beans, because they do. Taste is subjective, quality and process is not. I don't care for Starbucks, but I admire their quality. At least I know their product isn't rubbish, even if I don't like it.
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i disagree...ben and jerry's is to ice cream as starbuck's is to coffee. both good but marketing is better. don't stop for a minute to think that the sales of schweedy balls hasn't increased by a bazillion due to the name and the publicity it created.
mcdonald's brew is so much better. the dozen of independent coffee drive-thrus that i pass by each day are far better in coffee and customer service than starbuck's. ice cream...some of the best come from the regional dairies.
I think Starbucks coffee is shit tier coffee. I don't stop on the 30 coffee shops on the way to work. I would much rather have a cup of Donut Shop. Much better coffee to me. Anyways, I don't really see any commercials, hear or read any adds for Ben and Jerry's. The only time I see something about it is in the Publix sales paper which isn't very often, b/c it hardly ever goes on sale.
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I think Starbucks coffee is shit tier coffee. I don't stop on the 30 coffee shops on the way to work. I would much rather have a cup of Donut Shop. Much better coffee to me. Anyways, I don't really see any commercials, hear or read any adds for Ben and Jerry's. The only time I see something about it is in the Publix sales paper which isn't very often, b/c it hardly ever goes on sale.
I like Dunkin and McD's probably the best of all the chains.
Starbucks, IMHO, is better made at home because their beans are the roxxors. I think they make it so commercially in the stores, that half the time it's "off" by the time it gets to you. Either too weak, too strong, luke warm, bitter, etc
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It's all in my name.
Case closed.
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I like Dunkin and McD's probably the best of all the chains.
Starbucks, IMHO, is better made at home because their beans are the roxxors. I think they make it so commercially in the stores, that half the time it's "off" by the time it gets to you. Either too weak, too strong, luke warm, bitter, etc
I stopped buying from the chains and mom and pops a while back. Too expensive. I buy the K-Kups and use those at home and the office. I haven't tried it in a long time, but believe it or not Captain D's used to have some damn good coffee, too bad they aren't open in the AM. A cup of joe doesn't really go good with the Captain's cod though.
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Captain D's used to have some damn good coffee, too bad they aren't open in the AM. A cup of joe doesn't really go good with the Captain's cod though.
:puke: You nasty fuck.....
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If I go to Starbucks, I just get a small cup of the house blend in the hopes that it's the most mellow coffee they have. Drown it in half/half and it's still so strong that I toss it after half the cup. I've been stopping in Atlanta Bread Co. on the way to work for years. Nothing compares to their house IMO. Maybe I'm just so used to it but damn, I gotta' have my ABC coffee every morning.
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If I go to Starbucks, I just get a small cup of the house blend in the hopes that it's the most mellow coffee they have. Drown it in half/half and it's still so strong that I toss it after half the cup. I've been stopping in Atlanta Bread Co. on the way to work for years. Nothing compares to their house IMO. Maybe I'm just so used to it but damn, I gotta' have my ABC coffee every morning.
I think I saw the ABC you are speaking of last weekend on my way to teh panhandlez. Were you the guy wearing the banana hammock out front holding a BOGO free sign with the pink hat? I thought it was you and maybe you had a side job in the mornings for the insurance. I waved and asked you if you were a sign holder that cared, but you shot me a bird in response. You really are a bastard in the mornings.
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:puke: You nasty fuck.....
When we were working late we would have a gopher run out and pick up about 10 coffees. It wasn't bad, shit was stout too. Wake you back up.
Not really crazy about ABC coffee.
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I think I saw the ABC you are speaking of last weekend on my way to teh panhandlez. Were you the guy wearing the banana hammock out front holding a BOGO free sign with the pink hat? I thought it was you and maybe you had a side job in the mornings for the insurance. I waved and asked you if you were a sign holder that cared, but you shot me a bird in response. You really are a bastard in the mornings.
I hadn't had my coffee yet. DUH!!!!
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I think Starbucks coffee is shit tier coffee. I don't stop on the 30 coffee shops on the way to work. I would much rather have a cup of Donut Shop. Much better coffee to me. Anyways, I don't really see any commercials, hear or read any adds for Ben and Jerry's. The only time I see something about it is in the Publix sales paper which isn't very often, b/c it hardly ever goes on sale.
marketing as you know isn't limited to the tv or print. you never heard of the cow mobile or seen their delivery vans. t-shirts are common. the packaging is fun with quirky names. not disagreeing, but they aren't where they are because of awesome ice cream they had vision....and so on. i like the ice cream a lot but i've also found some of the best come from the local dairies at the fraction of the cost.
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marketing as you know isn't limited to the tv or print. you never heard of the cow mobile or seen their delivery vans. t-shirts are common. the packaging is fun with quirky names. not disagreeing, but they aren't where they are because of awesome ice cream they had vision....and so on. i like the ice cream a lot but i've also found some of the best come from the local dairies at the fraction of the cost.
Nope, If it doesn't happen on the X, ESPN, Fox News, some other cable channel or right outside my office door I usually miss out on it. The closest dairy around here closed up shop last year, but it was real good. He was actually more expensive which was part of his problem.
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I don't eat ice cream because it makes you fat.
Fatties
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I don't eat ice cream because it makes you fat.
Fatties
Speaking of fatties, afterwards, some taco bell and Ben and Jerry's was the titz.
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I don't eat ice cream because it makes you fat.
Fatties
let me guess frozen yogurt.
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Speaking of fatties, afterwards, some taco bell and Ben and Jerry's was the titz.
i'm telling you if you ever come this way...
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let me guess frozen yogurt.
:facepalm:
Nope, but I did just polish off a cup of Activa Strawberry Yogurt with granola mixed in.
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I guess the jist of what I was saying is that they actually use cream, butter, milk, sugar. Not a fucking powder (like sonic, wendys, mcdonalds, etc). I can taste the difference between a "frozen desert product" and real ice cream. Ben and Jerry's is about the only mainstream brand that makes it right.
That's fast food ice cream. Have you eaten Bryer's? That's milk, sugar, cream. And Blue Bell, from the creamery right close in Brenham, TX, has their own damn cows and as many unique flavors as the liberal assholes do. I would put Blue Bell up against those pinkos any time. I know y'all get Blue Bell as least as far north as Montgomery - isn't there a creamery in Moblie?
And I don't care if they still own it or not. The money they donate to the pinkos came from that damn ice cream one way or another, and I bet they still get money for their name and stuff. S
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I can't eat Blue Bell because of the commercials. Don't know if any product on earth has ever had gheyer ads.
Take a bowl of butterflies, on a sunny, country day. Stir in a cup of kittens while they purr the day away.....
AAAGHHGG...SHUT THE HELL UP.
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i'm telling you if you ever come this way...
Would love too.
Nope, but I did just polish off a cup of Activa Strawberry Yogurt with granola mixed in.
The fuck? I know you are old an shit, but damn!
That's fast food ice cream. Have you eaten Bryer's? That's milk, sugar, cream. And Blue Bell, from the creamery right close in Brenham, TX, has their own damn cows and as many unique flavors as the liberal assholes do. I would put Blue Bell up against those pinkos any time. I know y'all get Blue Bell as least as far north as Montgomery - isn't there a creamery in Moblie?
And I don't care if they still own it or not. The money they donate to the pinkos came from that damn ice cream one way or another, and I bet they still get money for their name and stuff. S
It's all subjective. I think Ben and Jerry's is the GOAT Ice Cream and no one else is close. Just like I think Dr.Pepper is the GOAT soft drink. Someone else might think it to be Bryer's and Pepsi. Just b/c they are liberal fuckers doesn't mean they make bad ice cream though. Just like Neil Young being a liberal fucker doesn't make him a bad guitarist.
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I can't eat Blue Bell because of the commercials. Don't know if any product on earth has ever had gheyer ads.
Take a bowl of butterflies, on a sunny, country day. Stir in a cup of kittens while they purr the day away.....
AAAGHHGG...SHUT THE HELL UP.
yo, snaggy is that ass okay for you? in the avatar...not mine. don't forget to delete those photos in your phone. i don't want to tell people our secret.
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Would love too.
The fuck? I know you are old an shit, but damn!
It's all subjective. I think Ben and Jerry's is the GOAT Ice Cream and no one else is close. Just like I think Dr.Pepper is the GOAT soft drink. Someone else might think it to be Bryer's and Pepsi. Just b/c they are liberal fuckers doesn't mean they make bad ice cream though. Just like Neil Young being a liberal fucker doesn't make him a bad guitarist.
dr. pepper ... can't be drank enough.
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dr. pepper ... can't be drank enough.
Could drink a box of them right now and not even hesitate. Damn they are good.
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Would love too.
The fuck? I know you are old an shit, but damn!
It's all subjective. I think Ben and Jerry's is the GOAT Ice Cream and no one else is close. Just like I think Dr.Pepper is the GOAT soft drink. Someone else might think it to be Bryer's and Pepsi. Just b/c they are liberal fuckers doesn't mean they make bad ice cream though. Just like Neil Young being a liberal fucker doesn't make him a bad guitarist.
To each his own opinion. I have mine - you can have yours too. I am not trying to ridicule anyone into changing their opinion either - just stating my case - because I sure as hell won't change my opinion. I despise liberal extremists. I would rather crawl on broken glass than listen to Neil Young. Would rather eat dog shit than pay for Ben & Jerry's. Don't expect anyone to change, even if i am horribly disappointed that you apparently choose to support pinko commie liberal fucks in every facet of your existence... ;)
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To each his own opinion. I have mine - you can have yours too. I am not trying to ridicule anyone into changing their opinion either - just stating my case - because I sure as hell won't change my opinion. I despise liberal extremists. I would rather crawl on broken glass than listen to Neil Young. Would rather eat dog shit than pay for Ben & Jerry's. Don't expect anyone to change, even if i am horribly disappointed that you apparently choose to support pinko commie liberal fucks in every facet of your existence... ;)
Not every facet, I don't buy GM or Chrysler. :)
Would never pay for a Neil Young album or a Clooney movie, sometimes you have rise above your morals and go the Chizad route to obtain certain things.
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yo, snaggy is that ass okay for you? in the avatar...not mine. don't forget to delete those photos in your phone. i don't want to tell people our secret.
I'm sorry, what? You say something? I wasn't paying attention.
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I don't eat ice cream because it makes you fat.
Fatties
That's why I have to run about 30 miles a week.
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Blue Bell has a plant in downtown Sylacauga, about a mile off of 280 midway between Auburn and Bham - stop by there on a weekday and they sell it in their little gift shop / parlor for fifty cents a cup.
Screw those other yankee bastard libbies
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picked up a half gallon of blue bell "Georgia Peach" flavor before game tonight at kroger in Auburn. Good shit.
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The only ice cream that's any good at all is Cold Stone Creamery Pumpkin.
And I object to the ice cream name. I find it vulgar. It was funny as a SNL skit. It's not funny on the grocery shelf. Sorry.
Same difference as Charlotte Russe deciding to sell "fuck me pumps" and labeling them as such.
There are lines and this crossed it.
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The only ice cream that's any good at all is Cold Stone Creamery Pumpkin.
And I object to the ice cream name. I find it vulgar. It was funny as a SNL skit. It's not funny on the grocery shelf. Sorry.
Same difference as Charlotte Russe deciding to sell "fuck me pumps" and labeling them as such.
There are lines and this crossed it.
So don't buy it. I don't mind it being a flavor. Bigger fish to fry in the world at the moment.
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So don't buy it. I don't mind it being a flavor. Bigger fish to fry in the world at the moment.
Rudy G said if you fix the small things, the big ones begin to take care of themselves.
Good philosophy. People wondered why, with all the problems NYC had, he was focusing on trifiling shit like jaywalking and common courtesy. Turns out he was right.
Not buying it is -- sorry GH -- a fucked up stupid answer. How about them having sense enough not to put it on the shelves.
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Rudy G said if you fix the small things, the big ones begin to take care of themselves.
Good philosophy. People wondered why, with all the problems NYC had, he was focusing on trifiling shit like jaywalking and common courtesy. Turns out he was right.
Not buying it is -- sorry GH -- a fucked up stupid answer. How about them having sense enough not to put it on the shelves.
Fucking with ya K. You know this. :poke:
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Rudy G said if you fix the small things, the big ones begin to take care of themselves.
Good philosophy.
Helmets lined up?
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Helmets lined up?
I have a blueprint.
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The only ice cream that's any good at all is Cold Stone Creamery Pumpkin.
Cold Stone uses pudding to improve the workability of the ice cream
Same difference as Charlotte Russe deciding to sell "fuck me pumps" and labeling them as such.
So don't buy it.
I understand he wears makeup as part of the whole KISS thing, but surely he does not wear pumps?
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Cold Stone uses pudding to improve the workability of the ice cream
So don't buy it.
I understand he wears makeup as part of the whole KISS thing, but surely he does not wear pumps?
I don't care if they put horse jizz in it. Pumpkin ice cream at Cold Stone is the best.
And they're called "stacks" when men wear them.
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Rudy G said if you fix the small things, the big ones begin to take care of themselves.
Good philosophy. People wondered why, with all the problems NYC had, he was focusing on trifiling shit like jaywalking and common courtesy. Turns out he was right.
Actually Rudy didn't create that idea. It's from a famous (in city management circles) 1982 article by James Q. Wilson called the broken windows theory. I wrote a paper on it when I was in grad school at Auburn.
[...] a criminological theory of the norm setting and signaling effects of urban disorder and vandalism on additional crime and anti-social behavior. The theory states that monitoring and maintaining urban environments in a well-ordered condition may prevent further vandalism as well as an escalation into more serious crime.
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Actually Rudy didn't create that idea. It's from a famous (in city management circles) 1982 article by James Q. Wilson called the broken windows theory. I wrote a paper on it when I was in grad school at Auburn.
[...] a criminological theory of the norm setting and signaling effects of urban disorder and vandalism on additional crime and anti-social behavior. The theory states that monitoring and maintaining urban environments in a well-ordered condition may prevent further vandalism as well as an escalation into more serious crime.
Too bad Wilson died from a stray bullet used in a drive-by shooting while he was repairing an inner city window.
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sooo...has anyone tried this schweddy balls ice cream? i looked at safeway and tried to get the clerk to do a price check over the intercom but no one was buying.
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sooo...has anyone tried this schweddy balls ice cream? i looked at safeway and tried to get the clerk to do a price check over the intercom but no one was buying.
Rumballs mixed with ice cream. I dont see how that could go bad.
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Rumballs mixed with ice cream. I dont see how that could go bad.
Was kind of thinking the same thing.
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Helmets lined up?
Is this gem being ignored?
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Is this gem being ignored?
I pick and choose