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 Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 10:06 pm
our conductor cussed out a bunch of jocks today.
although I really hate him, you have to admire him for that.
anyway though, our sports teams usually shut up later cuz they eventually see it takes more physical skill to be in marching band than football. xd
in yo faces!!
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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 11:12 pm
There was this one kid in my history class last year who gave me s**t for being in band. I would make fun of him for plaing Magic: The gathering, and it was just joking around, neither one of us were serious.
Most of the school respects the band. There are more of us then there are jocks, and we get a certain level of respect. When you see a kid in a band t-shirt/sweatshirt walking down the halls you know not to mess with him. We've even had kids try and sneak into band practices and post-game parties.
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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 11:38 pm
Deathtron There was this one kid in my history class last year who gave me s**t for being in band. I would make fun of him for plaing Magic: The gathering, and it was just joking around, neither one of us were serious. Most of the school respects the band. There are more of us then there are jocks, and we get a certain level of respect. When you see a kid in a band t-shirt/sweatshirt walking down the halls you know not to mess with him. We've even had kids try and sneak into band practices and post-game parties.
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 2:08 pm
We got a lot of shouts the other day. Near the beginning we were in sectionals, and the guard was near the road. Some guy drove by and yelled (in I guess what he thought was a seductive and sexy voice), "Hey, girls!" and my instructor goes, "MY GOD!!!! THEY KNOW OUR GENDER!!!!" eek lol.
Then later we were running stuff and this guy drives by and yells "FU** BAND!!!!!!!!!" and we all are like, "oh, that's mature....." xp
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Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 7:35 am
Honking is something alot of Alumnis consider tradition. But if they were any decent alumnis they would know it's very annoying getting disrupted durning rehearshals. What do yall think?
A bunch of jocks sat on the back of our bd's truck (very nice expensive truck too) and he kept yelling at them and so did alot of people. We got the whole band to yell "Hey get off The Truck!!!!!", Then finally one of the assistant bd's when over there and sat on one of the girls cars until they got off and didn't come back. Cause they would get off but they'd come back.
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Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 12:51 pm
Everyone loves the football team, but the band at least doesn't get actively screwed over. Whenever a jock tries to make fun of me, I usually have some scathing remark to retort with. After I'm done making them look stupid, they usually just kind of slink away in shame. xd I wish they'd do that more often.
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Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 2:16 pm
Some people make fun of me. I shake my head and walk away and think this: You laugh at me because I am different, I laugh at you because you're all the same. Mean people suck. The jocks here are too stupid to say anything because they can't even play their sports and win. Our band wins more than any of the other sports.
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Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 4:58 pm
*laughs long and loud* Oh boy do we ever have a rivalry at our school!! Not only do people make fun of the band (which is more well-known than any sports team at the school), but the bloody FFA (Future Farmers of America) HATE us with a FIERY PASSION. During band camp one night, (we practice on the parking lot which has yards lines painted on it and is blocked off by cones during practice) we're all out practicing and running drill blah blah blah when these guys drive up in the parking lot and start playing with their lighters. We all, being the smart band people that we are, ignore them for being idiots. Well, we keep on working and then they steal four of our cones!! They get in their cars and drive off with them! Our director yells at some of the parents to go get the guys that stole our cones and all is well after we get MOST of them back. Then, a few weeks ago they stole the keys to our director's lift! Talk about mature -.-
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Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 5:06 pm
Our band is awesome. In our school, as long as you're active within the school, people respect you. Plus, we work really hard, so the school respects that.
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Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 7:17 pm
Our practice field is actually a parking lot w/ yard lines and dots spray painted on it.. people normally honk or shout something... People do it when we practice on the football field Monday nights too... but one day during practice someone drove by and honked at us to the beat of the metronome. I was like "it takes a real band geek to drive past a marching band and honk to the beat..."
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 10:45 am
People who do that to our band get put into the feild show. eek And if they mess up, they have to do push-ups (Show love, as she call's it) like everyone else. whee Sometimes, our teacher rocks. Other times, she's the dragon lady.
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 3:09 pm
I've seen parking lots with fields painted on them..... our guard diresctor wouldn't like it, cause our show flags would shred if we spun them on concrete to long, and our school is too cheap to afford enough practice flags and poles for us.
Also, the rifles can't drop on concrete, that's suicide.
Plus there are one or two people who'd drop their instruments and get in huge trouble.....
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:15 pm
Neko Kafweenu I've seen parking lots with fields painted on them..... our guard diresctor wouldn't like it, cause our show flags would shred if we spun them on concrete to long, and our school is too cheap to afford enough practice flags and poles for us.
Also, the rifles can't drop on concrete, that's suicide.
Plus there are one or two people who'd drop their instruments and get in huge trouble..... Oh, the flags don't get frayed... and people don't drop instruments.. it's normally just mouthpieces. I've got a few grains of asfault permanently embedded into mine. Besides, I like the parking lot more because we've got dots painted at 4-step intervals and you get better gripping.
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 9:15 pm
Kinmotsu Neko Kafweenu I've seen parking lots with fields painted on them..... our guard diresctor wouldn't like it, cause our show flags would shred if we spun them on concrete to long, and our school is too cheap to afford enough practice flags and poles for us.
Also, the rifles can't drop on concrete, that's suicide.
Plus there are one or two people who'd drop their instruments and get in huge trouble..... Oh, the flags don't get frayed... and people don't drop instruments.. it's normally just mouthpieces. I've got a few grains of asfault permanently embedded into mine. Besides, I like the parking lot more because we've got dots painted at 4-step intervals and you get better gripping. I'll give you the gripping, but we have the dots too. We just have to repaint them every couple of weeks. Tohru Honda-san Honking is something alot of Alumnis consider tradition. But if they were any decent alumnis they would know it's very annoying getting disrupted durning rehearshals. What do yall think? Yes, some of the shouting and honking we get, say 25%, is positive, as in "Go Band!" "Trumpets Rock!" etc, but a smart person who wanted to support us would keep his mouth shut and his hand off the horn, since "supportive" honking is just as annoying as the negative stuff.
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:46 pm
Neko Kafweenu I've seen parking lots with fields painted on them..... our guard diresctor wouldn't like it, cause our show flags would shred if we spun them on concrete to long, and our school is too cheap to afford enough practice flags and poles for us.
Also, the rifles can't drop on concrete, that's suicide.
Plus there are one or two people who'd drop their instruments and get in huge trouble..... We practice on a parking lot at Norwell and use our show flags everyday. Rifles and sabers drop their weapons and we drop our flags. sweatdrop It's really not that bad.
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