"top 10 things you didn't know about marching band"
i found this in a band geeks com. but i thouht that it was realy funny so i stole. this was run in this guys local newspaper.
Written by members of the Council Rock High School North marching band (my old HS's sister school):
10. Our rivalries are bigger than the ones between football teams.
9. Unless you're a drummer, it's pretty much taboo to date outside of the band.
8. There is more drama in the flute and guard sections than there is in a week's worth of "Desperate Housewives," "Laguna Beach" and "The OC" episodes.
7. Bus rides are full of completely amusing antics that usually involve people who have consumed more sugar than they ought to.
6. Competition season sort of takes over our lives.
5. Uniforms are quite possibly the most un-breathable, cumbersome pieces of clothing ever invented in the history of man. But secretly, everyone loves the plumes.
4. Dinkles are a type of shoe, not some weirdly named nursery rhyme.
3. Jazz running backwards when you're ankle deep in mud is quite possibly harder than any play contrived by any football coach.
2. There is a little tension between sections. Trumpets and saxophones secretly love to have competitions over who can play louder. Clarinets and flutes like to see who can make the more obnoxious high notes. Drummers compete over who can play the cadence with more fluorish.
1. Even though we probably work harder than most sports teams out there, we still get criticized because people think marching band requires no effot whatsoever.
Written by members of the Council Rock High School North marching band (my old HS's sister school):
10. Our rivalries are bigger than the ones between football teams.
9. Unless you're a drummer, it's pretty much taboo to date outside of the band.
8. There is more drama in the flute and guard sections than there is in a week's worth of "Desperate Housewives," "Laguna Beach" and "The OC" episodes.
7. Bus rides are full of completely amusing antics that usually involve people who have consumed more sugar than they ought to.
6. Competition season sort of takes over our lives.
5. Uniforms are quite possibly the most un-breathable, cumbersome pieces of clothing ever invented in the history of man. But secretly, everyone loves the plumes.
4. Dinkles are a type of shoe, not some weirdly named nursery rhyme.
3. Jazz running backwards when you're ankle deep in mud is quite possibly harder than any play contrived by any football coach.
2. There is a little tension between sections. Trumpets and saxophones secretly love to have competitions over who can play louder. Clarinets and flutes like to see who can make the more obnoxious high notes. Drummers compete over who can play the cadence with more fluorish.
1. Even though we probably work harder than most sports teams out there, we still get criticized because people think marching band requires no effot whatsoever.