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Dot - Point of reference that is ALWAYS constant. You must ALWAYS go to your dot.

If the form is 2 steps off, and you end up on your dot you will ALWAYS be right. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS!

/sarcasm

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Free Day - an extra 2 minutes between stretching and basics

Free Day - getting marshmello cereal for breakfast

Free Day - only running 4 laps instead of 6

Free Day - getting more than 35 minutes for lunch

Free Day - getting up at 630 on a laundry day to get more work done

Free Day - skipping laundry because key design staff members are leaving later that night

Free Day - Indian sprints up and down a mountain in WV

Free Day - rehearsing in New England with a carnival and huge ferris wheel behind you

Free Day - carrying skittles / starbursts in your dotbook

Free Day - raining on finals and having rehearsal inside anyway

Free Day - anything BUT, actually taking a day off. Any members of the 2003 cadets out there?? :rolleyes:

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Black Hole - the point or space of a form which is never together with everyone else, usually caused by the same person all the time but can also apply to a small group of individuals.

Slacker - someone not pulling their weight, can apply to drill, music or work

Plug - something you do to a poor player's mouthpiece just before walking on the field at finals, drop to tubu;ar en of the mouthpiece into mud or potato.

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Spleeah - cracked brass note

BYFBO - blow your f'n balls off

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"That fence/leaf/tree/field over there" - Universal measure of how far you'll be running.

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From the 80s 90s:

Blower = hornplayer

Hitter = drummer

Tuba = something you called a contra that messed up....same with trumpet.

Roofer Head = too much sun from not wearing a hat, start to forget things and screw up on the field

"P's" = code for "Parents"...if someone said "P's" we knew that parents were around and we should act like nice young adults (no cussing)

M word = don't say the M word or bad things happen

Chachie = crotch rash for guys

Joanie = crotch rash for gals

Few more:

Dry Run = horns sing or don't play

Bus Wars = usually intrabus, not interbus

Rookie Talent = make the rookies perform for entertainment

Bug Juice, Show Day, Floor Time

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