Comments on: Hendon takes another step towards New York with Uncle Doovy’s kosher ice cream van.

By: asif

asif — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:42:20 +0000

Hey man thats my school youre talking about! 🙂

By: d boy

d boy — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:45:26 +0000

When I still lived Melbourne, the Chabad Girls High School had a chime that was copied from the chimed played when an Over is Completed (OC) in Cricket.
Shim I wish the Muslims did put Little miss Muffet on Anything even a dog would sound better than those “eee” and “ooor” donkey noises.

By: Shim

Shim — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:28:57 +0000

About 6 months ago, I started to hear what I thought was an Ice Cream Van at strange hours of the day.
It turned out, much to my ever-growing collection of disappointment buckets, to be the bell for the new religious girls school.
I would like to know whose idea it was to broadcast sinewave versions of Row, Row, Row Your Boat to an entire neighbourhood of tradition-steeped Jerusalem.
I mean, the muslims don’t go around playing Little Miss Muffet from their minarets. The shintuists don’t go around shouting Shing-A-Shong-of-Shixpence while shattering sheetglass…
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By: Yoz

Yoz — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:07:16 +0000

Indeed. And the soft ice cream was surprisingly good, though the flake was Elite and thus nasty. He also does veggie hotdogs.
Vaguely related, I read recently somewhere (probably the Guardian’s Notes & Queries section) that modern ice cream vans have little MIDI players for the jingles, and you can upload your own .mid of choice to them. This info was supplied by an ice cream van owner who used Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters”.

By: Shim

Shim — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 02:55:49 +0000

Surely this can only be a Good Thing?