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Post by bandgeek101 on Oct 26, 2008 21:25:28 GMT -5
any1 have any good freshman pranks they do in band?we have a Taco bell eating contest that makes the puke. i was lucky to have a bro in band lol. also kinda off topic does any1 have any ideas to get ppl that suck (cough TRumpets) to come to practice?any dirty tricks?
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gimgak
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Post by gimgak on Oct 28, 2008 20:57:39 GMT -5
We always tell our freshman that there is a little red dot on our plumes that shows which way you put it on, and that if you put it on the wrong way the BDs will get really mad at you. But of course there is no dot, and it does'nt matter which way you put the plume in. I was actually fooled by this for like the first 3 games of my freshmen year.
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Post by Sforzando77 on Oct 28, 2008 22:55:34 GMT -5
There was some stuff like that in my high school (not so much at college, because any sort of hazing is a big no-no with our director). Mainly telling the sophomores that their plumes were on backwards and doing things like stealing the shields off their uniforms. It was never really a big problem or anything though. And now at college everyone is really close and seem much nicer to each other than they were at high school. Much closer "family-like" bonds within sections.
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Schoolspirit
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Post by Schoolspirit on Oct 29, 2008 21:17:41 GMT -5
Usually the upperclassmen just go up to freshmen and ask "Where's your plume?". Then they reach up to find it's still there. That's pretty much all we do.
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Post by hchswiregrasshorn on Oct 30, 2008 11:22:20 GMT -5
^That happened to me at the Alabama/Clemson game. I fell for it. Haha
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Post by let1troll on Oct 30, 2008 20:00:18 GMT -5
^^ someone tried the plume thing with me and I poked them in the belly with is. lol. No one pranks anyone but the BD at our school lol.
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Post by bariclaribob on Oct 30, 2008 20:07:46 GMT -5
I told a freshman who accidentally broke my bari that he owes me $100 for repairs... he doesn't need to know that the school contract covers the repairs for me...
Hmm... pranks... except for the occasional locking-a-freshie-into-a-band-locker, we're not big on pranks.
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Post by yummiebears on Nov 1, 2008 0:04:38 GMT -5
My school band (as far as I can tell) aren't really big on pranks, although they can be pretty funny. On the first day of band camp, we had a lot of clarinet players straighten their hair (normally they all have curly hair) so that it covers their face and wore super tight jeans and all black clothes. The finishing touch- eyeliner. It was pretty funny, but, alas, I never got to see the freshmen's reactions. I took summer school and missedthe first three hours of band camp last year. plume on backwards=classic. My band freshman year (before I transferred) did that ALL the time. They also told stories about upperclassmen believing it (they got this one guy to go to the band moms and he asked them to fix it. twice.). However, the school that I transferred to bends the plumes so that they stick straight up whle your instrument is in playing position so you CAN put it on backwards. I never got to get any fishes.  |
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Post by albinosaxgirl on Nov 2, 2008 20:12:11 GMT -5
We do the classic "backwards plume," but we also tell them that there are male/female plumes and they got the wrong one.
Friday was our last game/homecoming where the football band stands on the field and plays with the contest band. Football band never wears plumes, so I had several kids come up and ask me "How do I look?" And I either told them it was backwards or to switch with someone of the opposite gender.
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Post by TigerSnare11 on Nov 19, 2008 10:57:20 GMT -5
We do the classic "backwards plume," but we also tell them that there are male/female plumes and they got the wrong one. Friday was our last game/homecoming where the football band stands on the field and plays with the contest band. Football band never wears plumes, so I had several kids come up and ask me "How do I look?" And I either told them it was backwards or to switch with someone of the opposite gender. That's exactly what we do. They fooled one of my friends last year for about 4 games before he finally realized it. They tried to fool me this year, but it only worked for about one game. |
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Post by 1frodos1 on Nov 19, 2008 23:44:20 GMT -5
unfortunatlly we have a few slow/special/whatever word you use, kids in our band so the backword plume thing would realy freak them out and it would be crule.Although our special kids are some of the hardest workers.( maby a few more cases of brain injury/ADD/epelepsy would do our band good...)
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Post by chhsclarinet on Nov 20, 2008 22:16:39 GMT -5
at band camp, a good prank is to plastic wrap a door from the outside, touching the floor, and putting bouncy balls between the door and the plastic wrap. That way, if someone's inside and they open it, all hell breaks loose. If it's from the outside, they have to take out all the bouncy balls.
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Post by claribeth on Nov 21, 2008 18:33:32 GMT -5
There was some stuff like that in my high school (not so much at college, because any sort of hazing is a big no-no with our director). Mainly telling the sophomores that their plumes were on backwards and doing things like stealing the shields off their uniforms. It was never really a big problem or anything though. And now at college everyone is really close and seem much nicer to each other than they were at high school. Much closer "family-like" bonds within sections. -Sfz what is it with the plumes? i was a band manager this past season and ive been told a hundred times to not where my plumes backwards. apparently theyve been tricked. its pretty easy to tell if its the wrong way b/c of the way it will curve. if we(the band managers) ever have to put up the plumes we say "get the angel wings" since their white, well, atleast most of them anyways. oh how i wonder the pranks i will encounter next year, i could either get less since i know almost everybody b/c of being a band manager or get worse.. |
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Post by lws2mforlife on Mar 17, 2009 10:45:09 GMT -5
Haha, when I was a freshman i was pretty stupid, along with one of my senior friends.
One of our fellow section members, a low wind, had made me really upset so i was deciding what i wanted to do to his band locker.
haha, i found some super glue and glued his marching shoes to the top of his locker side by side lol. The look on his face was priceless.
Not very proud of it now though lol
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Post by altoclarinets on Mar 17, 2009 11:11:06 GMT -5
We do the backwards plume thing... Unfortunately since our plumes are 14 inches long there really is a forward/ backward sort of thing. We bend them forwards so that they still look straight up even though our hats tip back on our heads. It wouldn't be such a big deal if we had 6 inchers like the avg band, but no....
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