Strange Rules of Drum Corps

[Michelle]

All females must be escorted by a male if walking around in uniform, including halves.

It goes along with the southern traditions. I was not used to it being from the yankee state stuck in the south.

[Walter]

Yes, but since you can't get him there by going through Floor 2, you have to either lift him by a crane into the window, or airlift him to the roof by helicopter and take him down the stairs. (Elevator is risky, because it might skip your floor ....).

Obviously no elevator in the building HUH ??? B)

[GGarrett]

All females must be escorted by a male if walking around in uniform, including halves.

It goes along with the southern traditions. I was not used to it being from the yankee state stuck in the south.

WAIT A MINUTE... REALLY??? Who's rule is/was that? I could have lived with that rule... (ulterior motive ... B) )

[Walter]

All females must be escorted by a male if walking around in uniform, including halves.

It goes along with the southern traditions. I was not used to it being from the yankee state stuck in the south.

WAIT A MINUTE... REALLY??? Who's rule is/was that? I could have lived with that rule... (ulterior motive ... B) )

You are a sly one GGarrett !!! :P

[WOOHOO]

I believe this was an unwritten rule back when I marched, but The Cadets did not talk to people when they were in uniform.

At Jersey Surf, along with the uniform rules previously mentioned, you were not allowed to talk with your shako on.

In the old days of the Crossmen, you could not wear your aussie like "Sally Star". More of a joke as rooks would put the head gear on with the brim pointing at the press box....not a good look.

Also in Crossmen you could not say the "M" word for any reason. The staff and members were very serious about this as it was a drum corps curse and would cause performance errors or bus catastrophy. I will not type the word....but here is a link. Example of "M" Word.

By the way, the staff would say the "M" word to other corps if you wanted to hex them. It was only used when really needed as you couldn't abuse the power of the word.

Another old Crossmen rule, no cussing in front of parents. The staff would just say "Ps", and that meant parents were around. The parents may have been clueless, as exercises and other various commands were being tossed around all the time, but just a matter of respect.

What, mojo? :P Pwn3d.

[Morgoth Bauglir]

What, mojo? :P Pwn3d.

LOL

[flashofthunder]

WAIT A MINUTE... REALLY??? Who's rule is/was that? I could have lived with that rule... (ulterior motive ... B) )

We had that where I marched.

Truly one of my favorite rules.

[Nyar]

It's cool to know other corps have the M rule too.

All I have to say is that there was a lot of it this year.

Oh, and we watched "Friday Night Lights" on the bus one night... that'll do you in.

[gbass598]

Little known fact, in 2002 Crown was beating Spirit fairly consistently until a few of the members decided to tempt fate and start saying the M word.

You think people would learn not to say "the word."

[dcpguy1111]

I think those 1 am basic blocks are against DCI regulations. That's just child abuse! One of my corps had something like that, those are horrible!

I hardly doubt getting better is against the rules