fourouttheforty Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Laundry day stories/adventures: discuss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAC91 Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Laundry day near Little Rock, Arkansas - A group of us were sitting out front of the laundrymat. A local came up and asked "Where ya'll from." I answered, "We are based in Boston." The local replied, "I could tell by the accents." The group was made up of Anya (from Denmark), Jim D.(from Tennessee), Jim M. (from Minnesota), and myself (from western Massachusetts where we sound more like New Yorkers). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A27Lancer Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Heard on second tour, 1977 - "Elvis is Dead". Turned out not to be a rumor. George Zingali announced it to the corps. :angel: :angel: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Scott Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 2nd Tour, 1991. Hulk Hogan was power-lifting and burst his jugular. Dead before he hit the ground. Laundry day stories/adventures: discuss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Krackin' Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 1994, somewhere in northern Michigan... Heard that over 1,500 people had died over the weekend in the US from eating potato chips made with a new fat free oil, Olestra. 1995 in Buffalo, found out that Jerry Garcia had died. We played the one Dead cd on the jukebox several times in a row and ate 33 cent tacos (olestra-free) for a few hours at a bar across the street from Rich Stadium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madalumni Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 (edited) Last week of tour - August of 1990. We heard rumors of an impending war with Saddam that could lead to a draft being implemented....and Bob Barker died. Edited April 11, 2007 by madalumni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommytimp Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 (edited) Bob Barker played snare with us for two seasons, then with Star, back to us, then aged out with SCV. you could look it up. His dad bought us our Yamaha snares in 1985. We were only the second corps in the Midwest to have them. In 85...Day after Drum Beauty in Stillwater...rumor comes down BD's cook truck blew up. We all snorted and said "Yeah right." Not a rumor at all. Edited April 11, 2007 by tommytimp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mingusmonk Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 1990 ... Bob Barker died. At Bluecoats, Sly Sybilski actually pretended like he was reading it right from the paper. Nobody pressed to read the "article." Just took the info and ran. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2CoolVK Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Last week of tour - August of 1990. We heard rumors of an impending war with Saddamthat could lead to a draft being implemented....and Bob Barker died. Heard the same thing about the draft. One of our staff members had everyone panicked that we'd be drafted once we got back home. He told us it didn't matter that we were full-time college students. EVERYONE was going. About pooped our pants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schickmeister Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Not gonna lie...I called home in 2004 asking about how the pope died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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