Proposed 2014 Tour for George

[normy diploome]

As veteran elements of Drum Corps South have absconded with SCV's barricade to fortify the Mason-Dixon line, Crownies have secretly moved the last of their secret weapons from Fort Sumter to Ft. Mill where bands of purple pants zuoaves and their feeder corps cream team are joined daily by new recruits under the watchful eye of retired Major Mike Roche, once of SOUTH Brunswick. Meanwhile Spirit has reformatted their successful Whack-a-Hop fundraiser. Now for the same low price, they will burn George's effigy in your name while he is attired in the newest vesture from the Caesar collection of what Michael, Stan Berry, and Dee Mueller imagine that General Sherman would wear for 2013.

The dramah of this has been fuelled by the recent IRS Congressional probe for wire tapping which revealed that in certain Allentown office buildings, taps shaped as blue tiaras have been devilishly relaying George's defensive strategies at Nah! (his North American Headquarters.) Since it is obvious that he cannot return to the Swamp Tour for peanuts, peaches, and cotton, these leaks show that he is headed in a new direction for 2014. They may also explain his long range planning of his lumberjack beard and haircut for, what else?!? –DRUMS ACROSS THE ARCTIC!

Will this be good for drum corps and DCI ???

Having learned how his guru, clone, and godfather pulled strings in 2006, he has determined from that schedule that less is more, more or less. He now sets his 2014 tour building on his vast networking developed at the northern pole in 2012. With the idealistic goal that Canada will rise again as a viable DCI market as it was until the late '80's, he has hired a Commonwealth recognized design team of Dave Mieckle (guard), Jon Vanderkoff (visual), Doug Thower (brass), and Lee Beddis, the percussionist-in-residence at the Hockey Hall of Fame. George has even gotten Thower and Beddis to suspend their annual Habs-Leafs rivalry to commission a special tribute piece which he will premier on tour to honour the retirement of John Philips, the master judge after whom the famous bandmaster Sousa is named. This move will also allow George the opportunity to expand his band kingdom into the ten provinces and three territories from the East to the Pacific West. Since the corps of concord rarely takes a northern tour even out west, George senses no threats to his genius fantasy.

But what will it mean for DCI? To distract most DCP know-it-alls, the prime minister of drum corps will first sponsor a contest and reward the winner who first answers correctly what are the 5 U.S. States in which the Cadets have never performed in their 80 year history. Yea, Alaska and Hawaii are two, but in full disclosure, the other 3 are hinted within this report.

Sensing the important break through of George's mission for history, common wisdom is that he will name Cadet2000 as his Minister of Defense, Chris NCSU as his White House press spokesman to answer the daily statement: "I know you thought you knew you heard what he said, but what he really meant was…" To handle Plan9 and other difficult foreign entities, he will probably empower George Dixon as his Secretary of State and Mike Davis as his ambassador. Since GH is 'from away," he will designate to head the U.N. Mission Craiga to save him from calling Mainers Mariners or Maine-iacs. Already assembled as envoys for this team are Brasso, emc2, and Liahona who have a vast portfolio of dealing with Canadian red uniforms even in grey times.

With his C.I.A. (Cadets-in-Action) agents already embedded in New England offices for several seasons, George and they have scheduled Spring training along the shores of Lake Memphremagog where he can safely practice border crossings since regimental forces have been recently withdrawn. (Evidently Canada has a problem with anyone murdering the Queen and needs a second unit to star with Les Stentors in Sherbrooke in the made for CBC-TV filming of Louise Penny's latest mystery.)

After several weeks of protocol basics that "in a hospital" is not the correct answer to the customs officer who boards the bus at 3 a.m. and randomly asks some rookie, "Where were you born?" the reward will be a free day on the Plaines of Abraham and luncheon at the Frontenac. [Editor's note: We will now have a short intermission for a bathroom break and concession crash while the DCP Dinos regale us with the tales of their Montreal tours of '81 and '82.]

George and his team have set a spring roster of events, joining the Spartans at the annual LaKermasse Day in Biddeford/Saco for the feast of St. Jean Baptiste. From there his unit will move onto the Lobsterfest Parade in Portland (that's Maine, not Oregon; sorry Crusaders, OC, not BAC.) To end Spring training fittingly before the Cabot Cove Invitational and first contest of the season, he intends to return the corps again to Damariscotta of dynasty years' fame where there was the practice of the breakfast popovers served by white gloved waiters and period dressed maidens as the corps members descend from the sweaty coaches in typical bus tour apparel. He hopes he will belly laugh again as the members race to the Maine ocean seacoast like Barney and Fred Flintstone trying to reverse direction mid-air after jumping off the ocean front cliffs of the inviting North Atlantic. Rumor has it that is this Damriscotta polar bear plunge and evening concert which gave Tim Bartholomew his love of the Jersey surf.

If perfect weather continues to prevail, George will lead the corps to the heights of Arcadia Park to see the sunrise and compare the popovers before the Bah Hahbor Brassomania exhibition or rather the preferred term of "concert" since no one wants the performers in drum corps to be exhibitionists.

As all know of George's advocacy with bus companies, he will have an opportunity to simulate his bucket list dream of ferrying his unit across Lake Michigan from Luddington to Wisconsin by reviving the Cat ferries to Nova Scotia in time for the Halifax Hornfest, the first DCI show in the Atlantic time zone. However, government negotiations are still pending on the ferries about how many decks will be available for drill rehearsal. This trip will also allow George's handlers ample practice sessions for him to correct any tendency to say to Sid the Kid Crosby that Acadian bag piping is not real music and can't be in DCI yet.

He'll next lead his Iditarod-like caravan through new found land for drum corps, through Labrador, northern Quebec and Ontario to headline the new show at Drums Along Hudson Bay. Here the corps will reveal some dramatic design proposals for the new season. First, the field will be all white with yardlines and boundaries marked in LED light trails which will rotate colors during the performance. This will be an even greater effect than the 2013 color towers. The corps will don their 2012 uniforms which should hide any visual ticks against the new background now that they don't wear stripes. An added bonus will be the disappearing effect as the audience and those in the judging box will only be able to discern the musical instruments, crossbelt, buckle, cummerbund, drop sash, and shako. This puts the emphasis on the performer's face for a ghostly/ghastly affect,.

While the corps community weaves thread upon thread about whether this all requires new judging sheets, he will lead his corps, dare I say it, South, to Hamilton, Ontario in time for July first's Canada Day parade. For years his heroes, the Minnesota track bands have touted its merits when they joined George for the annual July Fourth festivities in Bristol. His good efforts may swing these bands into his kingdom too. Besides, hasn't drum corps been on the decline [editor's note: restricted from saying "headed South."] since they have stopped having contests at State Fairs like West Allis, Wisconsin and Syracuse, New York?

Under the shocking glare of fireworks, he'll substitute the St. Lawrence Seaway for the annual aqua practice under the Mt. Hope Bridge. This will motivate the corps to regain the Tim Horton's Cup at the Blue Saints' contest in Sudbury. Then on to the first regional at Drums Across the (Canadian) Rockies and a week later at the Calgary Stampede to confront the Alberta Girls, Red Deer Royals, Regina Lions, and Cadet alum Jay Michalak's Calgary Showband. Depending on the first snows of the season, he hopes to cross back on the border to new vistas for the corps. Whether they perform or practice there, I am sure it will be a beaut.

They will not have far to go. The rest he will leave to the roll of the dice. But this will all help them come into Indy with a blizzard like energy.

As George is known as the Pharoh of Fundraising, he will need plenty of cold cash to fuel this amazing tour. He's already thinking of how many souvenirs will be sold in layers in these new climates. (You can always put another hoodie on; you can't always take them off.) He has already gotten his brass staff to look into fracking practices for this budget. But even with the Canadian exchange rate how will he pay for this?

Thank God, Canadians have loonies. Perhaps appropriately, eh?

Now did you figure out the clues? Sorry, 'state of confusion," state of denial," and "state of depression" are not the correct answers. But hurry as DCP moderators are noting the pursuit of a Canadian Mounties' husky sped dog sled after George "borrowed" a polar bear for the all-access bearskin rug shot he wants to use for the annual DCI yearbook photo. Imagine the numbers of copies to be sold. Sure to be a drum corps collectors item, eh?

Edited July 25, 2013 by normy diploome

[BRASSO]

As veteran elements of Drum Corps South have absconded with SCV's barricade to fortify the Mason-Dixon line, Crownies have secretly moved the last of their secret weapons from Fort Sumter to Ft. Mill where bands of purple pants zuoaves and their feeder corps cream team are joined daily by new recruits under the watchful eye of retired Major Mike Roche, once of SOUTH Brunswick. Meanwhile Spirit has reformatted their successful Whack-a-Hop fundraiser. Now for the same low price, they will burn George's effigy in your name while he is attired in the newest vesture from the Caesar collection of what Michael, Stan Berry, and Dee Mueller imagine that General Sherman would wear for 2013.

The dramah of this has been fuelled by the recent IRS Congressional probe for wire tapping which revealed that in certain Allentown office buildings, taps shaped as blue tiaras have been devilishly relaying George's defensive strategies at Nah! (his North American Headquarters.) Since it is obvious that he cannot return to the Swamp Tour for peanuts, peaches, and cotton, these leaks show that he is headed in a new direction for 2014. They may also explain his long range planning of his lumberjack beard and haircut for, what else?!? –DRUMS ACROSS THE ARCTIC!

Will this be good for drum corps and DCI ???

Having learned how his guru, clone, and godfather pulled strings in 2006, he has determined from that schedule that less is more, more or less. He now sets his 2014 tour building on his vast networking developed at the northern pole in 2012. With the idealistic goal that Canada will rise again as a viable DCI market as it was until the late '80's, he has hired a Commonwealth recognized design team of Dave Mieckle (guard), Jon Vanderkoff (visual), Doug Thower (brass), and Lee Beddis, the percussionist-in-residence at the Hockey Hall of Fame. George has even gotten Thower and Beddis to suspend their annual Habs-Leafs rivalry to commission a special tribute piece which he will premier on tour to honour the retirement of John Philips, the master judge after whom the famous bandmaster Sousa is named. This move will also allow George the opportunity to expand his band kingdom into the ten provinces and three territories from the East to the Pacific West. Since the corps of concord rarely takes a northern tour even out west, George senses no threats to his genius fantasy.

But what will it mean for DCI? To distract most DCP know-it-alls, the prime minister of drum corps will first sponsor a contest and reward the winner who first answers correctly what are the 5 U.S. States in which the Cadets have never performed in their 80 year history. Yea, Alaska and Hawaii are two, but in full disclosure, the other 3 are hinted within this report.

Sensing the important break through of George's mission for history, common wisdom is that he will name Cadet2000 as his Minister of Defense, Chris NCSU as his White House press spokesman to answer the daily statement: "I know you thought you knew you heard what he said, but what he really meant was…" To handle Plan9 and other difficult foreign entities, he will probably empower George Dixon as his Secretary of State and Mike Davis as his ambassador. Since George is 'from away," he will designate to head the U.N. Mission Craiga to save him from calling Mainers Mariners or Maine-iacs. Already assembled as envoys for this team are Brasso, emc2, and Liahona who have a vast portfolio of dealing with Canadian red uniforms even in grey times.

With his C.I.A. (Cadets-in-Action) agents already embedded in New England offices for several seasons, George and they have scheduled Spring training along the shores of Lake Memphremagog where he can safely practice border crossings since regimental forces have been recently withdrawn. (Evidently Canada has a problem with anyone murdering the Queen and needs a second unit to star with Les Stentors in Sherbrooke in the made for CBC-TV filming of Louise Penny's latest mystery.

After sever weeks of protocol basics that "in a hospital" is not the correct answer to the customs officer who boards the bus at 3 a.m. and randomly asks some rookie, "Where were you born?" the reward will be a free day on the Plaines of Abraham and luncheon at the Frontenac. [Editor's note: We will now have a short intermission for a bathroom break and concession crash while the DCP Dinos regale us with the tales of their Montreal tours of '81 and '82.]

George and his team have set a spring roster of events, joining the Spartans at the annual LaKermasse Day in Biddeford/Saco for the feast of St. Jean Baptiste. From there his unit will move onto the Lobsterfest Parade in Portland (that's Maine, not Oregon; sorry Crusaders, OC, not BAC.) To end Spring training fittingly before the Cabot Cove Invitational and first contest of the season, he intends to return the corps again to Damariscotta of dynasty years' fame where there was the practice of the breakfast popovers served by white gloved waiters and period dressed maidens as the corps members descend from the sweaty coaches in typical bus tour apparel. He hopes he will belly laugh again as the members race to the Maine ocean seacoast like Barney and Fred Flintstone trying to reverse direction mid-air after jumping off the ocean front cliffs of the inviting North Atlantic. Rumor has it that is this Damriscotta polar bear plunge and evening concert which gave Tim Bartholomew his love of the Jersey surf.

If perfect weather continues to prevail, George will lead the corps to the heights of Arcadia Park to see the sunrise and compare the popovers before the Bah Hahbor Brassomania exhibition or rather the preferred term of "concert" since no one wants the performers in drum corps to be exhibitionists.

As all know of George's advocacy with bus companies, he will have an opportunity to simulate his bucket list dream of ferrying his unit across Lake Michigan from Luddington to Wisconsin by reviving the Cat ferries to Nova Scotia in time for the Halifax Hornfest, the first DCI show in the Atlantic time zone. However, government negotiations are still pending on the ferries about how many decks will be available for drill rehearsal. This trip will also allow George's handlers ample practice sessions for him to correct any tendency to say to Sid the Kid Crosby that Acadian bag piping is not real music and can't be in DCI yet.

He'll next lead his Iditarod-like caravan through new found land for drum corps, through Labrador, northern Quebec and Ontario to headline the new show at Drums Along Hudson Bay. Here the corps will reveal some dramatic design proposals for the new season. First, the field will be all white with yardlines and boundaries marked in LED light trails which will rotate colors during the performance. This will be an even greater effect than the 2013 color towers. The corps will don their 2012 uniforms which should hide any visual ticks against the new background now that they don't wear stripes. An added bonus will be the disappearing effect as the audience and those in the judging box will only be able to discern the musical instruments, crossbelt, buckle, cummerbund, drop sash, and shako. This puts the emphasis on the performer's face for a ghostly/ghastly affect,.

While the corps community weaves thread upon thread about whether this all requires new judging sheets, he will lead his corps, dare I say it, South, to Hamilton, Ontario in time for July first's Canada Day parade. For years his heroes, the Minnesota track bands have touted its merits when they joined George for the annual July Fourth festivities in Bristol. His good efforts may swing these bands into his kingdom too. Besides, hasn't drum corps been on the decline [editor's note: restricted from saying "headed South."] since they have stopped having contests at State Fairs like West Allis, Wisconsin and Syracuse, New York?

Under the shocking glare of fireworks, he'll substitute the St. Lawrence Seaway for the annual aqua practice under the Mt. Hope Bridge. This will motivate the corps to regain the Tim Horton's Cup at the Blue Saints' contest in Sudbury. Then on to the first regional at Drums Across the (Canadian) Rockies and a week later at the Calgary Stampede to confront the Alberta Girls, Red Deer Royals, Regina Lions, and Cadet alum Jay Michalak's Calgary Showband. Depending on the first snows of the season, he hopes to cross back on the border to new vistas for the corps. Whether they perform or practice there, I am sure it will be a beaut.

They will not have far to go. The rest he will leave to the roll of the dice. But this will all help them come into Indy with a blizzard like energy.

As George is known as the Pharoh of Fundraising, he will need plenty of cold cash to fuel this amazing tour. He's already thinking of how many souvenirs will be sold in layers in these new climates. (You can always put another hoodie on; you can't always take them off.) He has already gotten his brass staff to look into fracking practices for this budget. But even with the Canadian exchange rate how will he pay for this?

Thank God, Canadians have loonies. Perhaps appropriately, eh?

Now did you figure out the clues? Sorry, 'state of confusion," state of denial," and "state of depression" are not the correct answers. But hurry as DCP moderators are noting the pursuit of a Canadian Mounties' husky sped dog sled after George "borrowed" a polar bear for the all-access bearskin rug shot he wants to use for the annual DCI yearbook photo. Imagine the numbers of copies to be sold. Sure to be a drum corps collectors item, eh?

This is DCP's version of Tolstoy's " War and Peace ". But even in college, I wimped out and got the Cliff's Notes version to get me through.

[drilltech1]

tweets are for twits. This is nicely done.

Maybe White Dawn for Attorney General???

[jwillis35]

Nice!...and creative as all heck.

[boxingfred]

I gave it a +

[BRASSO]

I gave it a +

Oh Jezz.. I wish I had you for my prof for my English Lit. college class. Where were you then when I really needed you ?

OH sure, now you show up here on DCP. Figures.

Edited July 25, 2013 by BRASSO

[Ghost]

But what will it mean for DCI? To distract most DCP know-it-alls, the prime minister of drum corps will first sponsor a contest and reward the winner who first answers correctly what are the 5 U.S. States in which the Cadets have never performed in their 80 year history. Yea, Alaska and Hawaii are two, but in full disclosure, the other 3 are hinted within this report.

VT, MT, HI, ND, and AK

[normy diploome]

VT, MT, HI, ND, and AK

Vermont is not correct. The corps had competed in its history in a contest that used to be annually held at White River Junction in Vermont on the New Hampshire border.

Roll the dice again.

[BRASSO]

Vermont is not correct. The corps had competed in its history in a contest that used to be annually held at White River Junction in Vermont on the New Hampshire border.

Roll the dice again.

Aruba, Jamaica, Bermuda, Bahama,

Key Largo, Montego.... The Cadets have never been to Kokomo.

Edited July 25, 2013 by BRASSO

[normy diploome]

Aruba, Jamaica, Bermuda, Bahama,

Key Largo, Montego.... The Cadets have never been to Kokomo.

Kokomo, Indiana?

Didn't we drive through there at 3 am in the morning on the way to our housing site back on the tour in...?