AN: This page is dedicated to my fellow band members.
Chapter 3:
To Senior GC Bandies '08
It is having a two year long debate on why he should buy the band a sopranino clarinet
It is telling and enforcing the idea that the pit should wear bandanas, and not plumes
It is playing hacky sack during break
It is finding out that getting the band to ride over to the local stadium on a flat bed trailer while playing is a BAD idea.
It is trying to shove all of the band people in a little booth at lunch and then giving up and claiming a whole row of tables
It is being called a hummingbird on crack, and the poster child for valium
It is duct taping your friends to trees
It is running around with your pants to your knees, with shorts on underneath and a person on your back, because you had an especially great contest result...
It is then tripping over a cinder block while running around with your pants to your knees, with shorts on underneath and a person on your back, because of the especially great contest result.
It is then running into the band room screaming with a profusely bleeding knee that you got by tripping over a cinder block while running around with your pants to your knees, with shorts on underneath and a person on your back, because of the especially great contest result.
It is consequently being scolded by the band parents and praised by the band kids!
It is having the best senior prank, because you started planning your freshman year.
It is sitting around on a random Thursday night pondering how to pull off the best senior prank ever, and realizing that it will never be beaten.
It is trying to explain to the percussionist how to break down words to help them spell them, and in return teaching the teacher how to spell "percussion" (she tried to spell it percution)
It is learning how to spell the instrument names and then forgetting them...
It is getting to practice 2 hours early, and then realizing that the director isn't there.
It is helping each other with your tryout music (in your section) and making consecutive chairs.
It is "Seth!..." (In a snarly whispery voice)
It is "...in my pants!"
It is knowing what "BAMF" means
It is Hamster Porn
It is Tacos and Kiwis
It is synthetic reeds and crystal mouthpieces
It is playing on a POS Marimba
It is "under the marimba"
It is the drumline breaking all of the pit mallets
It is refusing to initially share deodorant, and then realizing, "We're all band people, and don't care." or "OMG, It stinks."
It is the whole band getting mono at the same time.
It is yelling "Matt Jones" whenever he comes to the school then hissing
It is also saying hey because someone thinks he's the coolest.
It is donating an entire afternoon to paint yard and hash lines
It is energy drink marathons, and the sickness following.
It is cell phone tag
It is not being able to play sports because sports hurt you, due to the anger of the music Gods.
It is the lime in the Coke, you nut
It is randomly breaking out in song while walking down the hall
It is being in step and walking at the correct tempo while doing so
It is the hamster dance and the badger song
It is the Barbie Girl video
It is karaoke night
It is bubbles and bubble wrap
It is DDR
It is funny pictures
It is not being the last person back to your spot after break
It is locking the girl that you despise in a tuba locker
It is believing EVERYTHING that your band director tells you, though everyone around you assures you that it is false. EVERYTHING!
It is the girls having to turn around while you do jumping-jacks
It is a huge debate on whether or not girls should be able to wear tanks
It is all of the girls going bra-less the first day of band camp and wearing tank tops!
It is cowboy hats
It is entertaining yourself at restaurants by mixing nasty food and daring people to eat it
It is smacking people in the bum with a mallet
It is being up two hours early before band camp, much like a child before his first day of school
It is realizing that most everything on your Christmas list can be purchased at Music Zone
It is going to Music Zone to wallow in your social sorrows, and everyone in the store dropping whatever they're doing at the time to come consol and comfort you
It is drooling over the R13 at Music Zone and the one in Mango's Woodwind catalogue.
It is knowing what an R13 is, and informing everyone who doesn't on what it is
It is math, peanut butter, and bunnies
It is not being able to hold a job due to lessons every day
It is Clarinet/Flute "relations"
It is the band director being able to make you cry
It is collecting foil in Jazz class
It is beeping and kidneys
It is smelly socks
It is missing smelly socks during the off-season
It is keeping smelly clothes in the band locker, and then getting yelled at by the director
It is phobias and hypochondria
It is Asmar
It is Spiders
It is shiny
It is going to see Phantom of the Opera, watching the pit through binoculars, and then stalking them after the show
It is going down to the pit, gawking at the instruments, and then quickly looking away whenever the players glance at you
It is having an entire neighborhood dedicated to the band kids on the Sims
It is (in real life) living in a neighborhood with the majority of the band kids
It is recruiting those in your neighborhood who aren't in band
It is having better recruitment techniques than the Army
It is entertaining yourself by seeing how many funyuns you can shove in a guy's mouth before he wakes up.
It is making up names for your instrument.
It is discussing what would happen if your instrument mated with an instrument of a different "species"
It is attending an assembly and finding other band kids to hang with instead of paying attention.
It is being unable to listen to any song without figuring out the notes just to be able to finger it on your instrument
It is having a whole lunch table full of the band kids, and threatening intruders
It is sticking your bassoon bocal into a trombone and playing it, then realizing that it sounds like a late-80's/early-90's car-racing game.
It is absolutely covering your favorite ex-student teacher's car in post-it notes... ABSOLUTELY COVERING...
It is Weid... and Diew
It is cheating on your boyfriend with three girls
It is buying your director Chucks in hopes of normalizing him...
It is having your best friend repetitively stroke your bell during rests and concerts.
It is having your bassoon teacher telling you not to play flute anymore :(
It is having your clarinet teacher scold you for playing Tenor Sax...
It is worshiping "The Locke"
It is Oh Happy Day
It is having your friend explain "awkward turtle"
It is starting rumors about yourself
It is the things we think of at weird times of the night
It is the German exchange Trumpet Player that points out how lazy we Americans are
It is about the "violent Americans"
It is getting shaky after having an energy drink three hours ago
It is going across the road and getting a clown to come to the restaurant just to scare your friend
It is finding out that Red Bull does NOT give you wings...
It is going to band camp on happy drugs from your dentist... and singing... and chasing the butterflies that only you can seeā¦
It is singing Rent songs on EVERY band trip...
It is screaming MARCO POLO...PONCE DE LEON... across Wal-Mart and various other public venues.
It is acting like a pirate during the English Folk Songs
It is going to Wal-Mart late at night dressed in black, and wondering why you get funny looks...
It is not like buying pudding, silly-string, spray-paint, post-it notes, marshmallows, toilet paper, pumpkins, plastic spoons is ODD, is it?
It is the Leopluradon
It is jumping rope in your testing group
It is a little sheet of paper with the single word, "crabs" on it, and passing it around saying "Ha, I gave you crabs!"
It is saying "Your boobs got in my way!" to the woodwind section
It is hoping that you're not miked when you say such things!
It is "Skank, skank, skank!" "Hermione!" in math class, or meth class
It is the skankasaurus rex
It is P
It is writing your senior will when you're freshmen, then realizing that you can't technically leave fellow seniors anything, but leaving them things anyway.
It is realizing "The Staff" is in the hotel and having the urge to hunt them down and scream a flat note in their ear.
It is having to fix your flute/pic with scotch tape
It is hitting someone every time someone kills you in Halo 3
It is sharing one chapstick with five people.
It is toasting mini marshmallows with a cigarette lighter and acting like meth addicts.
It is having someone tap out a song on anything, and then laughing when you realize what it is
It is painting the band tower hot pink and yellow in hopes of pissing his mighty evilness off, and then being disappointed and relieved, at the same time that he laughs.
It is being ready to claim that you were drunk on lack of sleep and Red Bull...
It is about drinking fake (or real) daiquiris on the way to the Bahamas
It is having a fit on Senior Night because your mike fell down your unitard.
It is doing your solo toss and hitting an annoying sax player in the face (cough Letcher cough) and bounce back into your hands for a PERFECT SOLO FINISH.
It is about the woodwind guy's lackadaisical eye... 'Cause it's funny and sad at the same time...
It is Carlton...
It is throwing rocks at Trepan
It is Japanese pop songs
It is smoking Smartest
It's Papa Joel, and Nonna Paul, and Sister Scooter
It is realizing that your section-leader-ness actually doesn't give you power over them... Because you're a sucker, and they know how to play you...
It is the horrible sight of your Co-captain naked.
It is faxing mental images PLEASE GOD TAKE IT.
It is explaining to your guard instructor why your Co-Captain needs to cover up his (Area) because he forgot his jock strap and was wearing spandex.
It is actually nicknaming someone 'Cap'n Blondebeard'
It
is someone, whom I won't name, Sarah, woops, actually and truly
saying without discretion or concern to her own reputation and
wellbeing, and then regretting, sadly and woefully, "Wow. That's
so tiny, and I would choke on it..."
And Holly
agreeing...
And Lauren growling and salivating at the same item
aforementioned
And Chrissy letting all know proudly, that she SO
wouldn't choke on it, and was too experienced with said item
And
said item being the world's tiniest jawbreaker
It is the stupid freaking underscore...
It is "Pikachu!"
It is at 4 in the morning and your best friend wanting a donut and you hearing "I want to die." Then her continuing I want a CHOCOLATE donut and you hearing, "I want to commit suicide."
It is blasting someone with your amplitude.
It is being glad that there isn't someone else adding to this list with the initial M
It is someone sitting on the mouse and erasing half of what we've typed
It is actually knowing that "..." is called an ellipse.
It is things being WAY funnier than they actually are...
It is being the only door in the motel that hasn't been taped...
It is that noise...
It is band kids being interested by looking at Chrissy eat blue rock candy.
It's hearing Chrissy for an entire night.
It is hearing Chrissy snort at Holly's misfortunes.
It's trading names and being someone else for a day (or at least a few minutes)
It's polygamy and having (at least) 7 lesbian lovers your sophomore year.
It's "I'm not that flexible... in my pants... so get naked..."
It's "Hey mister, she's my sister."
It is Chrissy getting over being mad at you in a record three seconds.
It's screaming "I want to have your babies!" to the Cavaliers
It's at the senior meeting saying that you want to have Paul Lawrence Dunbar's and Lafayette's babies to all the under classmen to make a SUPER BAND
It's attempting to be grammatically correct at 1 AM
It's having Lauren stroke your hair... (awkward turtle!)
It's knowing WHY the awkward turtle is awkward
It's lactose and tolerant, which is apparently an animal sex noise
It's the moob, chesticle, and that other one that I can't recall
It's proclaiming, "To reading is makeses my spellillilling gooder."
It's taking the computer away from Smallz because he can't spell at all
It's having you senior trumpet leader not know what irony meant.
It's trying to figure out Laurens boyfriends name. "It's HEATHER??" Your dating Heather Johnson...ew "Tyler?"... NOPE Kyler...dang we suck
It's realizing that you can play upside down... if it weren't for the blood rush to your brain
Lauwen ish wetawded
It's Lauren's random quotes that shock, thrill, and make you go, "Ugh..."
It's "RELEASE THE PENGUINS!"
It's always 420
It's watching movies, and then realizing which friend is a certain character in the movie.
It's "like, totally, oh my gosh, Sha."
It's nearly mauling the clarinet boy who stepped on your flute
It's buttspell
It's the Schrodenator, who'll, sadly, be back
It's eck, squee, fwee, and fwah.
It's going back and adding twenty more things to this list when you think you're finally done.
It's bulldozing Lauren
It's having snorting contest... and Sarah being the only one who isn't snorting
It's being killed... and then coming back to life to tell the tale
It's noticing that being bi is the latest trend, and realizing that you're happy to be straight.
Lemur
AN: This will be the final chapter you guys. It will also signify that as of 12/19/2008, that there may not be anymore updates on the submitted geekisms.
