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Best Buy Invaded By Blue Shirt Improv Artists
deviantphil writes "About 80 Improv Everywhere agents invaded their local Best Buy store wearing blue shirts and Khakis. Eventually they were asked to leave, but not before capturing some great photos and video." From the article: "Security guards and managers started talking to each other frantically on their walkie-talkies and headsets. 'Thomas Crown Affair! Thomas Crown Affair!,' one employee shouted. They were worried that were using our fake uniforms to stage some type of elaborate heist. 'I want every available employee out on the floor RIGHT NOW!'" Their inspired cellphone symphony from this February is also well worth checking out.
Well done Improv'ers ...
Also, can't this be considered Slashdoting something physically.
Only if the customers starting using so much electricity that the building started to melt :)
Jeez, she should be fined.
"Is this an emergency?"
"Dear lord YES! there are people wearing Blue Shirt and Khakis! KAHKIS!!!"
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Big public wanking sessions are generally looked down upon.
Paul Grosfield - the quicker picker upper.
I wear a blue shirt at work and everytime I stop at Best Buy, I would get asked by numerous customers for help.
You're new here, aren't you? ;D
Any technology distinguishable from magic, is insufficiently advanced.
Well, I _thought_ my server load was on the way down after three days of getting hammered by this story....
I wear a vacant look and maintain a surly attitude every time I Stop at Best Buy, I would get asked by numerous customer for help!
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I'd think wearing a red shirt would mean don't bother dating me, I'll be dead shortly.
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
Unreported were 5 red-shirt clad improv artists at the same event. Unfortunately they all were all killed by a freak car accident in the parking lot ;)
Try wearing khaki pants, a white button down shirt, and a tie next time you shop at the supermarket. I used to have to wear that at work, and we'd often go to the Jewel supermarket deli counter for lunch. Usually I'd get mistaken for a store manager at least once per visit.
Eventually I stopped trying to tell little old ladies that I didn't work there. I had gotten to know the store well enough that it was easier to just tell them where their item was...
Ooh ooh, do me!
I wear a t-shirt, khaki shorts and sandals. Sometimes with socks.
Give up? I'm a grad student. They don't pay me enough to wear real shoes or full length pants.
What pisses me off is that we don't have more video of Agent Reeves.
I tour the store and feel pretty good about landing a spot next to the vacuum cleaners. There are no employees in sight. I hover. A 50-something bearded Jewish man makes eye contact, walks toward me, my first customer.
"Do you work here?" he asks.
"No, I don't."
He starts looking at vacuum cleaners, not knowing where to start.
"What are you looking for?" I ask.
"I need a vacuum cleaner," he says. "I have a Dirt Devil. It works really well, very powerful machine," I say.
"A Dirt Devil. Dirt Devil, OK."
A real employee approaches.
"May I help you sir?" the employee asks.
"Yes, I'd like to buy a Dirt Devil," the man responds."
I sold my first vacuum cleaner. Damn, it feels good.
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Related to my life. ;)
A few times, going into Walmart wearing my "Your Company's Computer Guy" shirt, I was asked for assistance, because of the way Walmart employees wear those vest-like things. Sure, it's a totally different shade of blue, and a different style, but that didn't stop them.
And yes, I did help them even though they realized mid-question that I don't work there.
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I loved it! Fantastic idea.
It's too bad they didn't really clown around a bit, act like cockroaches, walk into walls, curl up on the floor and go to sleep, do a little dance; perhaps The Robot etc..
Good job! You'll be receiving your brown shirt in the mail.
Without being a total Douch Bag.
Yeah. If you see anyone who looks even a little bit funny, YOU TAKE THEM DOWN!! Then you'll be a hero like those guys on Flight 93. Someone looks like he's from another country? GOUGE HIS FUCKING EYES OUT! He's probably a terrorist.
... and then they built the supercollider.