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 Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:12 am
~ when getting hit in the head with a pole doesn't hurt as much as it did.
~ When you make perverted jokes about long hard poles
~ when you compare suicide tosses to giving a hand job and dont care what your non-guard friends think. (sorry thats bad)
~ when top ramen becomes your prime source of daily nutrition.
~ when your goal in life is to smack a field judge in the face with your pole
~ when you get deffensive about people stepping near your flags
~ when you beat said people over the head with guard tape (electric tape)
~ when you call electric tape guard tape even thought the woodwinds use it too. (and if you've never used tape you wont get that)
~ when you yell at the drama club for being too loud while you practice in the auditorium
~ when you listen to the tapes only for guard comments
and thats all i can think of right now
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Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 4:29 pm
When the words "Watch out" take on a whole new meaning for both you and the marching band. True story from my guard we have a tendency to have a stoppers fly of when we throw what we call silk tosses (u do a cone and then toss the flag hand 3 fists in the silk) and one time this past season someone through a silk toss and their stopper flew off. We were in the endzone of the practice field and the band was marching around the 50 yard line and it almost took out a trombone.
When you tally how many points you have for hitting a band members from a hits points system (which we have posted in our guard room) and take pride in having more points.
When you can't count higher than 8 or 16 without starting back over at one. And if you get thrown an odd 12, 15, 13, or 7 count phrase you don't know what to do.
When you have what is known as the 'band tan' year round. And when you also have a glove tan. (I swear my entire guard has a glove tan and we have really white hands and tan arms.)
When you have some very impressive calluses on your hands and don't care because it makes the sabre hurt less when it hits.
When the band hall is your second home and you can't start your school day without going there. (Seriously if I don't go to the band hall before school half the time I don't know what to do, it like totally messes me up.)
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Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 3:06 pm
greenmonkey09 you know you've been in guard too long when you start spinning your instrument (if you're in band as well) true! My flute's got scratches and dents all over from all the stuff I do with it!!!
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Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 3:13 pm
DragonDemoness91 When the words "Watch out" take on a whole new meaning for both you and the marching band. True story from my guard we have a tendency to have a stoppers fly of when we throw what we call silk tosses (u do a cone and then toss the flag hand 3 fists in the silk) and one time this past season someone through a silk toss and their stopper flew off. We were in the endzone of the practice field and the band was marching around the 50 yard line and it almost took out a trombone. When you tally how many points you have for hitting a band members from a hits points system (which we have posted in our guard room) and take pride in having more points. When you can't count higher than 8 or 16 without starting back over at one. And if you get thrown an odd 12, 15, 13, or 7 count phrase you don't know what to do. When you have what is known as the 'band tan' year round. And when you also have a glove tan. (I swear my entire guard has a glove tan and we have really white hands and tan arms.) When you have some very impressive calluses on your hands and don't care because it makes the sabre hurt less when it hits. When the band hall is your second home and you can't start your school day without going there. (Seriously if I don't go to the band hall before school half the time I don't know what to do, it like totally messes me up.) About half of that is true for me. One of my captains can never get the stopper of her practice flag to stay on. And it ususally hits me for some reason... The "band tan". We practice in the Middle School parking lot, and with the way the sun hits us, only the tops of my arms are tan. If you turn my arms over, it's the ghostly pale skin I was cursed with. And the counting thing. I can't explain it, but since I'm a flag in MB, I actually count better that the flutes in CB. But I occasionally get lost and come in early at the most random places.^^
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Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 6:25 pm
-- when your arms don't hurt after an hour of drop spins pull hits and what not.(only if ur used to it)
-- when you can't quit counting sets
-- when you wont quit talking 'bout cg
-- when the only things you can think agout are spinning and dancing
-- when in pe you are trying to run the mile and start jazz runing 'round the track.
-- when in pe and it is free time all you want to do is go get somthing to spin or dance
FMC OCG/ICG
my school colors
FMC motto; "UNITY WITH PRIDE!"
oh and one more thing...
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YOU DON"T SUCK!!!!!
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Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 6:31 pm
DragonDemoness91 When the words "Watch out" take on a whole new meaning for both you and the marching band. True story from my guard we have a tendency to have a stoppers fly of when we throw what we call silk tosses (u do a cone and then toss the flag hand 3 fists in the silk) and one time this past season someone through a silk toss and their stopper flew off. We were in the endzone of the practice field and the band was marching around the 50 yard line and it almost took out a trombone. When you tally how many points you have for hitting a band members from a hits points system (which we have posted in our guard room) and take pride in having more points. When you can't count higher than 8 or 16 without starting back over at one. And if you get thrown an odd 12, 15, 13, or 7 count phrase you don't know what to do. When you have what is known as the 'band tan' year round. And when you also have a glove tan. (I swear my entire guard has a glove tan and we have really white hands and tan arms.) When you have some very impressive calluses on your hands and don't care because it makes the sabre hurt less when it hits. When the band hall is your second home and you can't start your school day without going there. (Seriously if I don't go to the band hall before school half the time I don't know what to do, it like totally messes me up.) this is so true.
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Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 6:35 pm
Lori2345 -- when your arms don't hurt after an hour of drop spins pull hits and what not.(only if ur used to it)-- when you can't quit counting sets-- when you wont quit talking 'bout cg-- when the only things you can think agout are spinning and dancing-- when in pe you are trying to run the mile and start jazz runing 'round the track.-- when in pe and it is free time all you want to do is go get somthing to spin or danceFMC OCG/ICGmy school colorsFMC motto; "UNITY WITH PRIDE!" oh and one more thing...... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... YOU DON"T SUCK!!!!! and --when you think hitting a judge(that is in your way) is fun
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Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 6:38 pm
Blue Water Fox No way. Really? That is funny. See, I'm the only senior on my guard, so I get to spend two hours yelling at a bunch of underclassman snots. Who never listen except when I hit them... stare i spend the whole season yelling at rookies... stare even those not in color guard.
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Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 6:40 pm
Blue Water Fox Yay! Come on, Guard people. Post your love. ^^ Some more favorites: ...You walk in step to all music you hear ...You force your Non-Guard friends to walk in step ...You do split leaps down any hallway you come across ...You jazz walk/run to mall music with your Guard friends ...When the smell of sunscreen makes yout hink of Band Camp ...When you have the word "left" screamed at you repeatedly, and you are not in the army ...When you have screamed "FRESHMAN!" a billion times in one day that last one sounds alot like somthing i did at the end of every practice
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:57 am
lol! i'm lovin this!!!! im a graduating senior this year, and i plan on starting a guard club in my college. totally looking forward to it!!! and any advice would be great.
....all your favorite songs have the "perfect rifle/flag/sabre/swing flag" moments.
....you have whole field shows planned out to your favorite songs.
....when you finally have to replace ur light fixture (this hasen't actually happened to my, but i did break a light bulb once).
....when you have guard tape in ur purse, and you actually use it
....when your bandroom ceiling has more pole holes than pencil holes
....when you go to a restarant after a competion and wonder why there's glitter in your food
....when you have a heart attack when you hear the words "NO GLITTER?!?!"(that one was kind of an inside joke for my guard)
....when you laugh at a kid whose lost his tooth because he ran THROUGH your guard while they were practising.
....when you yell at the band to watch out for the flags even though your pretty sure they know by now(but there's always just one.......).
lol, that's about it for now.
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:18 pm
hehe..
when the first thing you do after school is run over to the band room and spin rifles/flags while chatting with fellow band mates or the director biggrin
i do this a lot.. biggrin along with stepping off on my left foot to ANY of my music on my Mp3.. :]
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:02 pm
You can take the girl out of the guard but you can't take guard out of the girl. I've been out eleven years and I still have the same attitudes toward changing in front of others as I did then: if you're female, I ain't got nothin' you ain't seen before and if you're male, if the sight of a partially-clad female body sends you into fits, you need a life. After job interviews in the summer, I'll take my car to a far section of the parking lot where there's not much, if any, traffic and change into something cooler in the car.
I still refer to waiting for the next command as 'marking time'. I also continue to Intensely Dislike my band's biggest competition on general principle (of course, they're still dishonest as ever and still bribing the judges at States, so there you go).
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 3:02 pm
You know you've been in Color Guard too long when your nickname is "Grandma"
Yes...that's my nickname!
Says misha's Friend!!!
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 7:08 pm
when the fire drill becomes marching practice and when tle alarm sounds more like snare drums and snare drums sound more like the fire alarm
and when the band director becomes like your father(mother)
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 7:50 pm
-when the kind of car anyone living in the same house buys has to be tested for flag storage
-when you can make an entire bus of girls[and one boy] smell like aussie hairspray
-you end up losing your mind after weekday competitions
-you switch your gay boy's hairspray with glitter spray
-you have a giant GOOSE EGG on your head that turned purple and had all of the signs of a concussion from doing a rifle horizontal, and you don't have to go to the hospital.
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