Poll: How Old Are You?

[CoHmempho04]

23 and as of right now in the majority of people who took the poll.

[pito'evil]

30

[PhanFan]

Yeah, I'm too!

(wait for it................)

Edited August 5, 2009 by PhanFan

[Silver_King]

my age will grow by the end of the week

[acolli17]

Parent of a 25 year-old snowboarder. 80s Alumni of Drum Corps

Make him/her wear a helmet. Not to scare anyone, but there's a reason I'm not headed to Indy right now.

I'm 20, by the way.

[CorpsRelic]

I'm 58 years young, thanks for asking.

From 1965-72 I marched with the activities FIRST Corporately Sponsored Corps: The Simplex Minutemen of Gardner, MA was an all-age Corps and due to the sponsorship we were at that time restriced in being a parade/exhibition Corps.

Due to the sponsorship our corporate name "Simplex" was many a time deleted from PA/program announcements

(However, I do believe the Minutemen were sanctioned to "compete" later in the 70's and competed in the MassBay or

Mayflower Circuit).

We marched 65-75 members max. Traveled on two custom coach's, NEVER slept on a gym floor (until I became a BOD for the Arizona Sun 1991-93---no aerobeds back then either!) The Minutemen Corps usually stayed in college dorms

or bunked on cruise ships...yeh, it was a tough gig.

A few fun facts: If memory serves me correctly...and that's no guarantee, but here goes:

-Corps Colors: Red and Grey, Woolen military style uniforms with full tails

-Formal Military Guard: wore authentic Minutemen era uniforms

- Our Corps founded some time in the 40's featured seven baton twilers (man did the other corps give us heat on that!)

-In 1965 Minutemen released an LP/Feature Film Documentary called Simplex "Minutemen on the March."

-All expense paid International Convention Trips as Simplex's musical embasador were frequeunt including three week

tour of Great Britain were they filmed A BBC documentary and gave a command performance for the Queen. Other "tour of duty" included Trinidad/tobago, 9-day crusie of Nassau, Grand Bahamas & Paradise Island (in 1966 it only had one vendor cart selling coke and Hotdog for $5.00!!!!! OUCH

-Annual trips of Sherbrook, Canada to participate in Gold Cup Horse Race Festival---learned the hard way that you can't march a field show on a horse track! ( through Carolina Crown may have been able to pull it off)

-The Corps staff consited of: Corps Director who also served as Brass Instructor, a percussion instructor and Guard Coach. That's it!

-Rehearsals: Year Long, TWICE A WEEK Wednesday for Music, Sunday M&M (that's marching and manuvering for you

youngins)

-Practice Facilities; Four: 1) Simplex Cafeteria for Brass/Percussion lessons. 2) An entire huge factory floor for winter indoor rehearsal and M&M 3)our own private parking lot and a cordoned off city street for summer M&M this was a must since we were a major "parade corps".

-Big Time Parade Rivalry: The Nashua Spartans...others included Fitchburg Kingsmen, Joanettes, Jeanettes and a Corps that still exists to this day, perhaps you've heard, they "were" a Boston Area Corps known as

The Boston Crusaders.

OK, think I better turn off "Memory Lane", my head hurts.

[DcFr3aK]

I'm 46 and I'd appreciate it if you got off my lawn!

I'm 22 and will be holding my 23rd Birthday Party on LincolnV's front lawn! Who's coming?!

[Hrothgar15]

I'd be interested in hearing it.

... and this being DCP, I feel the need to add that I'm being genuine

Yup, I'm interesting in hearing the reason behind this double-spiked distribution as well.

[Jeff Ream]

question:

do you ant my mental age or physical age?

[Silver_King]

Yup, I'm interesting in hearing the reason behind this double-spiked distribution as well.

if only i payed attention in statistics instead of playing snake