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Friday, May 9, 2008

Poll Friday Poll: Who is the Meanest Bandmember?

Posted by Wm. Steven Humphrey on Fri, May 9 at 3:05 PM

Check out this video of a tuba player tripping a kid.

Now, wouldn’t you agree that tuba players are the MEANEST (or funniest, depending on how you look at it) of all marching band members? OR WOULDN’T YOU? To find out, take this very important Friday poll, and we’ll announce the results this coming Monday at noon! (And as always, feel free to discuss in the comments below the merits and demerits of each band sectional, for example, those bitches, the flutes.)

WHO IS THE MEANEST MARCHING BAND MEMBER?

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All I see is a vonage ad and no poll.

Posted by Michelle | May 9, 2008 3:37 PM

TROMBONES ARE NOT THE MEANEST!!!

I am NICE. FUCK ALL OF YOU.

Posted by Alison Hallett | May 9, 2008 3:45 PM

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

Posted by Alison Hallett | May 9, 2008 3:53 PM

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

Posted by Wm. Steven Humphrey | May 9, 2008 4:31 PM

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.

Posted by Kiala | May 9, 2008 4:40 PM

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.

Posted by Guffman | May 9, 2008 4:41 PM

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.

Posted by Nora | May 9, 2008 5:01 PM

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

Posted by Alison Hallett | May 9, 2008 5:19 PM

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.)

Posted by Guffman | May 9, 2008 5:47 PM

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

Posted by Guffman | May 9, 2008 5:50 PM

I like the rusty trombone

Posted by gl | May 10, 2008 12:27 AM

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

Posted by no one in particular | May 10, 2008 12:30 AM

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.

Posted by Stolia | May 10, 2008 3:17 PM

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

Posted by divebarwife | May 10, 2008 5:36 PM

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.

Posted by Alison Hallett | May 10, 2008 6:45 PM

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