band jokes anyone
so I found two jokes/several facts that are true on this page dedicated to colorguard and colorguard humor called colorguard corner
check it out at http://colorguardcorner.tripod.com/colorguard/id12.html
this is just two
Guard Peeps New Years Resolutions
- I WILL NOT twirl my pen/pencil/mop or broom
- I WILL read a real book not just WGI yearbooks
- I WILL NOT watch guard videos for more than 4 hours a day
- I WILL remember that my equipment is inatament and does not need a name
- I WILL NOT fight with band members about which being more important (guard or band)
- I WILL buy real socks, lyrical shoes were not made for bumming around the house
- I WILL NOT make fun of cheerleaders especially during football games
- I WILL pay more attention to my grades and NOT to the height of my tosses
- I WILL NOT do show work with a hockey stick in gym class
- I WILL get over that one guard whos' show you can remember but name you cannot
- I WILL NOT question others for using the same music as a past guard as long as its not within a 2 year period
- I WILL get over my phase of talking to my equipment after all does it ever talk back?
- I WILL NOT use old work from past shows as my own in try outs
- I WILL talk my younger sibling(s) into joining guard, and living on the dream
- I WILL NOT stop using colorguard as my excuses out of gym
- I WILL find time to hang out with my 'non' guard friends
- I WILL NOT be prejudice after all once a guardie always a guardie right?
- I WILL try to get on with my life after all guard cannot lead you to a successful life after college (that's what they think)
- I WILL NOT relate everything to guard
- I WILL get a job to support my habit
120 ways to tell your in guard
- You spin anything you can get your hands on.
- You spin pens.
- You spin brooms/mops/etc.
- You spin broken parts of chairs.
- You go to attention when someone claps at you in the hallways.
- Five hours of practice is a blessing.
- There are all sorts of marks on the ceiling of your room from your equipment.
- Your light fixture in your room is permanently broken.
- You've replaced more light bulbs in your room than you can count.
- Every song you hear, you write guard work to.
- All your favorite songs have this one part that would be "perfect for a rifle feature."
- Your hands are permanently black and blue.
- You have had more injuries than you'd like to remember...or that you can remember.
- You dance down the hallways at school.
- You dance around your house.
- All the work your instructor writes, you've done before...they start recycling your work from other shows.
- You can't watch someone else spin next to you without spinning yourself.
- You protect your weapons like they are your children.
- You name your equipment.
- You name your drill spots.
- As soon as you step onto a football field, you put your head up and smile at the bleachers, whether or not anyone is there.
- You can't name all the shows you've done.
- You can't remember the work from the last show you did.
- The phrase, "free time" has lost all meaning to you.
- The band room is your second home.
- You leave a pillow and blanket in the guard room, just in case.
- You have a closet full of old guard uniforms, whether you wore them or not.
- You have a drawer full of guard tee-shirts.
- Flannel pants are you favorite piece of clothing.
- All your guard gloves have holes in the palms.
- You don't go one day without spinning.
- Doing only 200 drop spins at practice is a blessing.
- You've run more laps than the track team.
- You've done more push-ups than the football team.
- You practice more than the cheerleaders (and still get no credit for it)
- You're proud to be called a band fag.
- You've slept in the band room.
- You've gotten undressed in the band room.
- Your principal has seen you without pants on.
- The entire band has seen you without pants on.
- You'd be at practice, even if you have pneumonia. And you'd be smiling.
- When people on TV march, you cringe if they're out of step.
- You've been called a lesbian more than times than you can count.
- You have 7 different kinds of ace bandages, and you have 8 sizes of each kind.
- You know where everything is in the first aid kit.
- You have your own set of keys to the band room.
- You know that "one more time" never means one more time.
- After practice, you hang out in the band room to chat with your fellow guard members.
- You've spent more than 80 hours with the same people in one sitting.
- You've seen 3 in the morning.
- When you get home at 1 a.m., you are ecstatic.
- The waiters at the local diner know you by name.
- You've never been in the diner with less than 8 people.
- Your personal motto is "Guard is Life."
- After high school, you march in college, drum corps, winter guard...etc.
- You know how to get any kind of stain out of your uniform.
- Skin tight spandex doesn't faze you anymore.
- You go out in public wearing practice clothes, and wonder why people look at you funny.
- On your lunch break, when you go to get food, you don't bother to put on your shoes. And again, you wonder why people look at you funny.
- You've performed at 8 pep rallies, although you've never been a part of one.
- At the pep rallies, you and your friends are the only ones to cheer for the fencing team.
- You sing songs you've performed to every day of your life.
- Ballroom dancing amazes you.
- Anyone who can throw a piece of wood with a strap 100 feet in the air and catch it becomes your idol.
- When 98% of the guys you know are gay.
- You've dated/had a crush on a drummer.
- You've dated/had a crush on a trumpet player.
- You have so many inside jokes with members of your guard, that you laugh at almost anything that anyone says, because you have a joke about it. (And yet again, you wonder why people look at you funny.)
- You and your friends repeat the same phrases over and over.
- When one member gets sick, you all get sick.
- You all get your period at the same time.
- You remember jokes from years before you actually joined guard.
- You refuse to graduate.
- You could make one of these lists with little to no effort.
- You have a permanent sock tan.
- Your hair is 8 different colors.
- Your nails don't come past the ends of your fingers.
- Your toenails have been painted for as long as you can remember. (Because you're barefoot so much.)
- A half-hour lunch break is considered long.
- You start finishing sentences for fellow guard members.
- You're not a hooker, but your knees are so bruised, they look like you could be.
- You and the band members get into fights over who's colder on retreat...and YOU win.
- When you go out to diners in your uniform after a show, you wonder why the waiter looks at you funny.
- When you go out to diners with 30 pounds of glitter in your hair, you wonder why there's glitter in your food.
- You own at least 1 Broadway soundtrack, and could probably write a show to one or more songs on that soundtrack.
- When you learn to yell back at the football team.
- When you hear so much about people from drum corps, other color guards, etc., you feel like you know them, but have never actually held a conversation with them.
- You date a member of another marching band.
- ou go to competitions for the sole purpose of finding a date from another marching band.
- You get disappointed that all the guys you want to date from other marching bands are gay/have a girlfriend from yet another marching band.
- When you scream at the gym teachers "Color guard is a sport!!!", and they agree with you, thereby letting you sit out from running the mile.
- Your parents lock up all the brooms/pool cues/umbrellas/etc.
- You can do your hair and make-up anywhere.
- You can change into your uniform anywhere.
- You find yourself designing flags/uniforms/drill in your classes.
- You laugh like everyone else on your guard.
- You use two hands to tell your left from your right.
- You know how many people can be crammed into a minivan.
- You spend more time in the band hall than in your house
- Your guard has developed its own language.
- You went to every school football game but never paid for one.
- You can arm wrestle anyone and win.
- When you get teary-eyed when you have to put your rifle down so you can eat dinner.
- When you spend all your free time looking for guard-related websites.
- When people ask about bruises you didn't even notice you had
- When you look for guards in commercials and movies (in Never Been Kissed, they show a guard. When her car is in the football field!)
- When you insist that your crutches will not affect your marching ability, and what do you mean I can1t spin with broken arms?!
- When you catch yourself switching feet to get back on-step with the background music in the mall
- When you can never be 3fashionably late2, cauze you show up for everything at least 15 minutes early
- When vending machine food becomes gourmet.
- When you choose a college based on the guard programs nearby
- When you use guard tape to fix everything
- When five more minutes, Dad, turns into a midnight practice
- When you have seen the same WGI or DCI tape a thousand times and still enjoy it
- When you love the black stain from new gloves
- You take over guys bathroom when the girls bathroom is full
- When you love the black stain from new gloves
- You ride around in a school bus more than in your car
- You say the pledge of allegiance to YOUR flag
- While your non-guard friend sleep with teddy bears and other various stuffed animals, you sleep with your flag, rifle, and/or sabre (and see nothing unhealthy about it, thank you)
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