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xandandl

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  1. Well, good luck in the Potato Bowl. Which team will get..........fried?
  2. Then again, according to the Journal of Higher Education articles, more colleges are switching to quarters/focus times and tri-mestesters as a way to bring cash revenue from previously empty/unused lecture halls and facilities. In the drum corps world this has often been a shift for engineering, medical arts, and non-music majors as colleges re-align required courses and preferred professors. I can cite several times when contracted mms, especially in the battery, had to defer corps membership for particular seasons as grades and course changes required Spring (and sometimes summer) studies. Have to have someone in those summer classes besides football, wrestling, and basketball collegiate athletes. With the number of high schools and colleges in the US, there is no one way of doing it; what is common is changing as well.
  3. Ghost Riders will now only refer to the jet exhaust as Troopers literally become America's Corps with the number of audition stops from Costa Rica to Alabama to Idaho.
  4. Watch out. The St. Bernard's carry kegs...and there are those younger-than-22 crowd to shepherd in DCI. Besides, the new director likes Australian Shepherds from the Heartland. He's probably going to use them to replace the yellow police barrier tape PR sets up each year in Indy.
  5. don't let a decade go without checking with the Ph. Rgt. thread about "decades." Something about year one ending in 1, etc. Having swum your way through the past years, hope the new one is a happy one for you.
  6. Maybe they are using Dog years now in Rockford. Whatever. May it be a happy, healthy, and blessed new year for all. Any news yet, DWW?
  7. Re: Given the new video the new admin. has posted on corps' website, is it safe to presume that the Regiment is going to the dogs? Good morning, it’s the last Monday of the decade. Make it a good one. (Here’s some puppies to start it off right) https://t.co/zz5bxbx1dU
  8. Ah, yes. Given the abrupt transition from BS to BK, I didn't catch it as this judge's eyes blinked. Homeland Security will deal with the hijackers. Now back to the Cadets.
  9. Such tentative admin. doesn't seem to engender confidence for noobies wondering about the corps... Of course, your wife's cooking has a wonderful reputation not limited by mere physical details.
  10. You've obviously put effort and time into this, but some of it seems a bit arbitrary merely to fit the corps into the equations, rather than the equations to the corps. For instance, Denver is contiguous to Academy but are destined for Seattle; same with Battalion and Casper. Bluecoats are a mere 7 hours from Allentown but have to meander two days to Fargo to appease the model. The idea is workable, details need tweeking. Perhaps a Rocky Mt. region?
  11. What, no props? Mt. Furlano wasn't a prop?
  12. Just imagining this with DCPers and mms storming the Janual: the Class of Brass vs. the woodwind whiners picketing and contra-picketing and beating their drums while the judges, corp reps. and lobbyists shrink back into their cups... https://www.theday.com/national-politics/20191227/virginia-school-system-will-let-students-take-time-off-to-protest-conservative-backlash-has-begun
  13. You owe another poster who-has-asked-to-remain-nameless one dollar for answer C; (we're totally engaged seeking a current DCI Rule Book to ascertain your penalty and whether taking advantage of that poster's disability makes the infraction worse; Tresona is helping us search, something about a licensing agreement despite some saying the remark is now so customary that it is in the public domain.) Otherwise your score is only a 75% and doesn't make the cut for Finals. Be careful given the new DCI membership rules.
  14. It amazes me how selective your presentation (bastardizing DCI with WW) and rationalizing it by quoting aspects of DCI's Mission Statement while overlooking a key component of those same descriptions and ignoring it. But then again ideologues are like that. That is, the term "marching" musical, etc. DCI is currently failing its own mission statement by removing the importance of drill because Gaines, Chandler and the judges have gotten bored, may have to work at it to keep the dynamics alive, and struggle to be creative rather than repeating what they've done during MARCHING band and winter group seasons.
  15. and hoping this is not just for Christmas wish list thread.
  16. Traditionally Gabriel played a brass instrument, not a woodwind. DCI/DCP current discussion should take note.
  17. Now Dawson will just have to keep up with the Joaneses (Queen of Joan, mega-puppet who died at the end of 2013 Triumphant Journey, and St. Joan of Arc last season 2019.) https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.669442696409886.1073741825.270414912979335&type=3
  18. has BD ever had one? Why is this NOT an un-expected surprise?
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