All I see is a vonage ad and no poll.

TROMBONES ARE NOT THE MEANEST!!!

I am NICE. FUCK ALL OF YOU.

I may have overreacted slightly. But seriously, flute players? Little bitches.

While Alison is overreacting a bit, the poll so far IS curious. Why the outpouring of hatred toward trombonists? Any theories, Blogtownies?

I just feel like they're hiding something in that big, um, spout thing. The horn?

Or whatever.

Personally, I think drummers are elitist jerks.

I don't know. I'm making all this up.

Strange. Alison's right about flute chicks (always chicks, somehow). Trumpet players are harmless egomaniacs. The low-brass crowd are harmless doofuses. Percussionists don't give a shit. Reed players are as close to human as the wind ensemble gets.

You want to get into the string section, let me know. And don't get me started about piano-performance majors. Jesus.

I was never in band, but in high school I thought those clarinet players (clarinetists? clarinistas?) always had something to hide. They just seemed so...boring. Therefore, obviously secretly mean.

I don't know if this was just my band, but the french horn section was for general misfits. Closeted homosexuals and pot dealers.

Yes, horn players are a bit freaky. It's a hard instrument -- you never quite know what's going to come out of the bell. That breeds strangeness. (Oboe players have the same problem, but somehow the oboe breeds a smug self-satisfaction, not perversity.)

And, of course, I mean "perversity" in the nicest possible way.

I like the rusty trombone

I love how he trips on the upbeat and hits the ground on the downbeat. It's almost... musical.

I'm a girl and played trombone - I can say with certainty that trombonists aren't the meanest, but we are the weirdest.

That said, Allison and Guffman's observations are hilariously accurate. I'd like to add, though, that I've hated every sax player I've ever known, although I couldn't put my finger on it.

I can't believe you've forgotten the flag girls...we carrying 5 ft. poles and swinging 'em around.... outta my way!

I think that the trombone section was one of the nicer sections. There was one d-bag for whom the instrument obviously DID have phallic connotations, but otherwise, a buncha nerds who liked Monty Python, and me, who liked nerds who liked Monty Python. Plus we had to be good sports about getting called "tromboners" all the time.