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You know you're a marching band dork when...
(For those of you who've been asking, yes I made this up. And yes, I had a lot of free time... mmk?)

1) You cut class to spend time in the band wing.

2) You find yourself traveling in herds of band geeks at all times of the day.

3) You and your friends will randomly begin singing the show tunes, any place, any time.

4) You have plotted Dr. Beat's ultimate destruction.

5) You find that you're walking on the same foot as your friends through the hallways.

6) When you hear 'zero' in math class, you either run and scream like a moron or think 'not again'.

7) You get upset when the football team is using OUR field.

8 ) You have very few friends outside of marching band. ((Not always true....))

9) During your spare time, you taught yourself a new instrument.

10) You get annoyed when people use the phrase 'This one time at band camp...', when they have never actually been to band camp.

11) You know that to survive band camp, you need to bring tons of Cup A Noodles.

12) When people call commands outside of band, you respond to them.

13) When you feel like relaxing, you go to parade rest.

14) You mark time to elevator music.

15) You have enough food and clothing to survive for weeks in your locker.

16) You argue with other teams that marching band is much more difficult than their sport.

17) When you see marching bands in movies, you get excited.

18 ) You watch holiday parades to compare our band to their's.

19) "Pull the string" means something to you.

20) You look at your music for even the tiniest details, because you know LaMorte is going to ask you to tell him something about the music.

21) You know about band gossip before it actually happens.

22) You've sat in something while wearing your white pants.

23) You start to sympathize with the Fiddler on the Roof cast.

24) You made plans to visit Las Vegas and Hollywood as a graduation trip.

25) When you talk to people outside of band, they have no idea what you're saying.

26) You're way too comfortable with your sexuality.

27) You realize that even the flutes hate the flutes.

28 ) You could do the same drill over for hours, and manage to do it worse than the time before.

29) You dread LaMorte's speeches.

30) You make up new words to the show music, making fun of it.

31) You know you shouldn't date Sal, and why.

32) You can't find the bottom of your locker, from old drill, music, or random school notes.

33) You divide your day into 'classes before band', and 'classes after band'.

34) Everyone in the music department knows who you are.

35) You know that you can get away with cutting, and if a dean stops you, all you have to do is say that you have to talk to Mr. LaMorte.

36) NYSSMA solos are not optional. They are not manditory. They are simply a sign of status and power.

37) At competitions you know where the food stands are right away.

38 ) You laugh at other bands that still have to wear their uniforms.

39) Your have had a cheer-off with other bands.

40) Drill box annoys you to no end.

41) You play in 4 or 5 different band classes, but you're only scheduled for one.

42) You have been in the school for 4 years, yet you've only used the bathroom in the bandwing

43) You play in SING, because the 40 hours of work in Marching band "just isn't enough"

44) You know all the words to bohemian rhapsody (fowards and backwards)

45) Guys-You dance terribly and kind of homosexually
Girls-You are embarassed to dance with the guys

46) You've been on Tower of Terror with a large group of friends

47) Whenever somebody mentions georgia, you can only think of the cracker barrel

48 ) Whenever you hear drums, you look around for john beras (miss ya buddy)

49) You understand incoherent words such as "pap" and "awa"((awa is the pacman sound.....dun ask))

5o) You've been involved in a "quack" session

51) You've been involved in the only dinner/dance in the world that isn't much of a dinner or dance, it's more of a long speech and award ceremony, yet every year you look foward to it thinking "hey, maybe well dance to more than 4 songs this year"

52) No matter how close or far away you live, you get to school for first period.

53) You have trouble waking up to a normal alarm clock, because you've been woken up by an entire drumline on multiple occassions

54) You've been hit with the worlds most discusting sock (formally named spermy)

55) You've blamed something you did on Rosanne Pellegrino

56) You've memorized the previous years show, even if you were'nt in the band yet

57) You have nightmares about 12 beat scales in which you crescendo and decrescendo

58 ) You don't watch ESPN, but you convieniently caught ESPN's Marching Band Drumcore championship, which is on once a year (lol relax, i know some of , including myself, actually do watch ESPN)

59) Peaks, Valleys, Dynamics, Attack, Duration, and Release are all things you understand but choose to constantly ignore

56) You've heard Armand's randition of every Billy Joel Song. Ever. (J/K, love ya buddy)

57)YOU TOOK TIME OUT OF YOUR LIFE TO WRITE OR READ THESE FACTS!!!










A) i take no credit for any part of this list. mi amiga wrote it


B) i understand some of it is personalized for our band


c) Comment and add more!!! rofl

I was responsible for one of our school's many Dr. Beat's destructions. Our section stole it and just beat the crap out of it. Good times. It was recorded and put on our band video, and our director was like, "So that's where it went..."

But the instrument thing, I haven't stayed on the same instrument for more than a season.

Mello-Baritone-Sousa!

dude, that's awesome. a chick who plays sousaphone!!!

You realize that one of the walls in your school is painted exactly like your MB uniform. (This just happened today.)

another one:

you hear the metronome going off at random intervals each day and feel like screaming
'MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
gonk




You know you're a band geek when the met turns you on
You know you're a hard core band geek when you can turn the met on

xd

we actually broke our dr. beat

but now we have a new fancier one...

5) You find that you're walking on the same foot as your friends through the hallways.

You know you're a band geek when it bothers you that people aren't walking on the same foot as you

Haha I love Dr. Beat!


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