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 see…

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.