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48 minutes ago, Chief Guns said:
I was just trying to get the whining and crying started early. Lol.
But now that I think of it, I screwed up and went out of order.
First thing that is supposed to happen is to overreact to BDs Community Performance in Wyoming, when the show is literally bare bones and nothing of substance has been added yet.
THEN I am supposed to cry West Coast Inflation after the first show.
And I think the third thing is then make threads about performers sitting out like five years if they change corps to keep them from going to BD.
Sigh, maybe I will get it right next year.
Oh! Let me play!
1. BD is finishing fourth this year! That show is so weak!
2. Judges are ALREADY slotting BD in first because of last year's performance.
3. We should kick BD out of DCI, they're already basically professionals.-
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Nah. If Boston did that they'd be looking through classic literature to figure out which book had been adapted.
If Bloo did it, they'd say, "Finally, the agriculture show theme has arrived! Composting for fertilizer!"
Now do it for other corps-
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Heh. So are we talking about the rock band's reps or is BD going classical?
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For high school, we had to have all white shoes for summer parade (white shorts, the years orange band T shirt, and specific calf high socks that we bought from the school.
Fall uniform was black shoes of our own, must be all black with high black socks.Often the spray paint was pulled out to ensure "all one color" much to the annoyance of parents on a budget trying to balance kids' fashion desires with a need for marching band shoes. [waves]
I became proficient in using tape well enough and picking the most bland shoes I could. So my shoe game was terribly dull until college. When I promptly got the loudest most colorful running shoes I could.
My senior year though we had new uniforms with white pants and white shoes that were uniform marching shoes, so that at least alleviated the shoe budget for some families-
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4 hours ago, Terri Schehr said:
I walk about five miles a day so walking is good with me! I have a smart knee now. 😂 I picked tickets way up top just so I’d have to walk up a lot of steps.
The water thing has me a little worried, though. I think I’ll get there early and buy a few bottles.
[bookmarks post for the “why did I buy these seats and extra water? I missed a corps because I had to go down and up all these steps to use the toilet” post]
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A lot of bands had 'copy and switch to school colors' uniforms from the DCI 'iconic uniform' era. Ours were an orange jacket/brown pants version of the Blue Devils classic.
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Deaf or hard of hearing is still the preferred term by most of us, particularly those who sign.
Hearing impaired measures one by one's deficit after all.
Even in the best of conditions, the best lip readers get about 25%-30% by lip reading and the rest by context or a lucky guess.-
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1 hour ago, JimF-LowBari said:
Ex-friend (walked out on wife hence the “ex”) went there. Story of their football team decades ago. Beat a high ranked team that got over confident. Other team players were saying out loud what they were going to do because “they can’t hear us”. No.. but they can read your lips. 🤦♂️
Not sure i've heard that one directly. Lip reading isn't the magical thing TV and Movies would have you believe.
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53 minutes ago, IllianaLancerContra said:
Idk re LOS price, but if construction delays mean it isn’t ready, then it isn’t ready. DCI might get a refund I suppose.
IDK Detroit cost, nor what condition St Louis dome is in. But if DCI is committed to dome, those are closest. And looking at St Louis dome website, they have a concert (band called Pink (who I have never heard of)) on schedule for 10 Aug.
[laughs]
Pink is a solo act, not a band. She could sell that dome 100 times over what DCI could put in it.-
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5 minutes ago, IllianaLancerContra said:
I recall seeing once the Gallaudet football team having bass drum on sideline & when hit it, vibrations tell center to hike hall. Is this still the case?
Yup. Although they've got some new tech helmets to play with these days.
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9 minutes ago, rjohn76 said:
I feel like a lot of people missed the "Telehealth" part of things. Obviously there are times where an in-person visit is going to be the best course of action, but quite a few basic issues can be addressed through virtual/telehealth services. This list isn't complete, but it's covers many of the common issues that can be addressed through a virtual/telehealth visit:
- Allergies
- Bites & stings
- COVID-19 concerns
- Cold symptoms
- Diarrhea
- Fever
- Headache
- Pink eye
- Skin infection or rash
- Urinary symptoms
- Yeast infection
[reads list]
[realizes each and every one of those probably happens to every corps, every year, every tour...to multiple marching members]-
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The neighbors in Trinidad would be "WHAT IS THIS LOUDNESS? YOU'RE A DEAF SCHOOL."
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I'm now envisioning this and realizing just ONE corps caravan would probably take up half the Lincoln Circle road that loops through campus. Lulz.
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17 minutes ago, IllianaLancerContra said:
How about you go talk to the athletic department & have Gallaudet host it?
That'd be fun but, we don't have the stands. We'd be a pretty cool housing site tho.
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Boo. I loved going to that stadium. Although if they tap College Park, its even closer for me.
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5 hours ago, Kopeck said:
Having marched with Phantom Regiment in 1985, early on learning the drill there was a lot of "get from here to there in xx counts" which made things sloppy at first but over time were worked out. And over the course of the season, everything did become muscle memory.
That pretty much sounds like my band in 1988. We'd sometimes have instruction to 'scallop' into the spot for the last four counts. Although the emphasis on basics had us moving better. We had an alum (Mike Hardiek) come back and work as a M&M cleaner early in the season as we were up against Marian Catholic who was marching their summer championship show though so it was drilled into us to clean fast.
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Interesting. I had friends who marched with me in high school (ISSMA finalists every year MBA regional top tier competitor when we went and grand nationals finalist when we went) We had dot book drill sheets and were taught to use the "two markers" from dot to dot my first year (85) as we got started. But after awhile the use of the markers was dropped. I forget who wrote that drill.
We had Chops Czapinski as a drill writer my sophomore and junior years. We'd still start with the two markers and a dot book method but after DCI season was done, Chops came in person and we had a lot of "on the lot" changes to the drill we just sort of did via the "ok bring this line over here now, there. that. those are your new dots."
By my senior year (88), we had a dot book for the drill (Greg Cesario wrote this drill, lots of solid forms that morphed into lines and back). we were told to leave the markers at home as we started learning the drill. But also were drilled on a variety of basics of different ways to approach our dot rather than marching directly from dot to dot. Lots more emphasis on intervals and who would be setting the arc of a line. Then guiding off of that. it was an entirely new way to learn the drill for us and more intuitive. Prior to this year, we were largely known for our excellence in music and keeping our Marching and Maneuvering 'good enough' not to pull down our scores. This approach though was heavy on individual technique and movement and we quickly got noticed for our M/M scores then. We had new uniforms with white pants and a stripe down the leg rather than our 'brown pants that hide things...that even the stripe of sequins down the leg couldn't help.' So moving to more exposed legs meant a lot more attention on person to person movement being clean. There was a lot we did in basics block throughout the season for warm ups that was largely muscle memory building for foot movement, placement, and upper carriage adjustments that really made the viz pop in the end. Greg was writing and instructing and Phantom Regiment in this time and we had judge tapes that noticed.
Some of the folks I marched with went on to march in corps after graduation with a fair few to Star for their best years. They described pretty much what supersop talks about with learning drill. A lot of 'on the field' experimentation that was learnt and became body memory. -
11 hours ago, Jeff Ream said:
Keeps her off the panel
2 hours ago, keystone3ply said:👀😄
That was pretty much my first thought and reaction to saying the quiet part out loud too.
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"psst...wanna buy a band circuit?"
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1 minute ago, JimF-LowBari said:
When my old church implemented protection policy mid 1990s. It was two adults regardless of number of youth. Policy written by the insurance company. Sad part was people who didn’t like it relented when we said it would save money,
That standard is all over churches now as yes, it was written by legal teams in the employ of the insurance industry who then made it a stipulation of your insurance coverage for liability.
Like most things in America, laws that legislate behavior can be tough to enforce but laws/policies that hit the pocketbook are more effective.-
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Presenting their 2024 show, “Ohio Metaphors” DCI is embarrassed to present….
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8 hours ago, Chief Guns said:
Yea the Cavaliers were never even in the state of New York in 2002. I am not the world's best in geography, but it looks like Toledo Ohio was the closest they ever got to Buffalo that year.
To be fair. Buffalo and Toledo are both armpits on the end of Lake Erie…
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35 minutes ago, Chief Guns said:
The Navy should have been saying that saying back in 1991. The "Tailhook" scandal shook the Navy to its very foundation.
By the time I got to Boot Camp in 1997, we were receiving training and lectures on it.
Yeah, I was in a grad school seminar in a fairly progressive school where a guest speaker from the Navy (recently retired) in 1993 was giving his two cents on why the forthcoming "Don't ask, don't tell" policy was a terrible idea because, "we have men as young as 18 joining the military and there might be perverts after them."
A woman in the back stood up to presumably ask the next question and simply said, "Tailhook," and sat down.
Navy guy shut up pretty fast.-
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19 minutes ago, spacewill said:
DCI WACO just added to the schedule. @Hook'emCavies may have to drive a little north if the Houston show doesn't get flushed out. Cavies will be in WACO.
Why not both?
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