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Our band director is infamously known for being intimidating. Therefore, there are two inside jokes with him [I am a senior, so these are well known to me].

1) Every year at band camp, when its blisteringly hot, he yells and screams and makes us do push ups [well... we do them throughout the year... but still]. All these little freshmen are so scared. Finally, he will scare one of them so bad they freak out. Well, to get them to understand better, he screams "I don't give a d**n about your self-esteem, got it!!" and everyone laughs. The freshmen tend to chill out after that.

2) During concert season, he will get onto a section about playing something wrong. Inevitably, another section with the same phrase will play it wrong the same way. The first time it happens, he goes into the cornflake story.

So one morning two sons come down for breakfast. The father asks the first son, "what do you want to eat?" The son thinks, and says, "I want some of those d**n cornflakes." The father smacks his son and sends him to get ready without breakfast. He turns to the second son. "What do you want to eat?" The second son hesitates and then says, "I dunno, but I sure as hell don't want any of them d**n cornflakes."

And so, he calls moment where one section plays a phrase wrong after he got onto another section for playing it wrong - cornflake moments. The rest of the year he will chime in with "Hey now, don't ask for any of those cornflakes."

It freaks out anyone not in band. So those are my two inside jokes.

I saw this thing on some joke website for musicians and it said, "French horn players, you won't like their kissing ['Cause of their tight lips], but you'll love the way they hold you." I thought it was sort of funny. I'm a french horn player, by the way. There are a lot of jokes about percussionists being stupid. They're pretty funny. But yeah, my friend does percussion and he's a bit stupid. rofl

lol. im a french horn player too. :p what was the website?? do u remember it?

our Band Director closed a piece with his fingers closeing together and we didnt stop so he was showing us we he goes like that we need to stop and Amanda[clarinet] said apinnch_____________ and he[BD] started to crack up and he even wrote it down so he wouldn't forget.

I started a tradition for long bus rides. It's a game I "made up" that everyone on the bus can participate in, and it goes like this:

Write one sentence on a sheet of binder paper. It doesn't have to be anything in particular, just a single sentence. Pass the paper to the next person. They write one sentence. Once the sheet makes its way around the bus, pass it up to the BD and have him read it out over the pa system (if your bus has one, which it ought).

I remember there was a kid on our bus who was very full of himself. The sheet started, "Once upon a time, there was a superhero called, "____."

The kid who was full of himself (Jared) wrote, "And he had a sidekick named Jared, who was the most powerful, amazing, good looking sidekick in history." And the kid after him wrote, "But he died."

We laughed so hard! blaugh

ok last year when we competed at state there was this one band that only did triangles for a visual ( they won too! no lie...it was like...oh look...another triangle) so now whenever their name comes up everyone shouts TRIANGLE! and makes their hands form a triangle...


there was another one where all of the band directors come together every so often and make fun of each other...and it always turns into a match on who can diss who more...pretty much everyone is practicully rolling on the floor crying form laughing too hard...

There's a song that our band sight-read called "The Ghosts of the Taman Negara" and my friend Julia and I call it the Egg song because it reminded me of the word "Tamago" is "Egg" in Japanese. So it's kind of stuck with us ever since.