It's a parade! - Page 2

Crimson Ghost · 11-28-2009, 01:25 AM

I've been in about a dozen.
UG is right, they're made for bands.

ZenGum · 11-28-2009, 03:51 AM

I went in a local Christmas parade as a kid. Think firetrucks, school band, business sponsors, a hundred or so local kids on bikes, including me.
All the kids treated it like a race and dashed off, passing all the other floats.

DanaC · 11-28-2009, 05:40 AM

Do demos count?

CzinZumerzet · 11-28-2009, 06:41 AM

Took the thought out of my head! We don't seem to do parading here except for the demos. Anti-war, CND, Reclaim the Night/Streets. Trade Union stuff with our wonderful banners, 'Save the NHS', Anti-BNP, Anti-Apartheid, and my most recent one 'Troops Out'.

London has it's truly sumptious New Year and Lord Mayor parades which I used to watch but even they are very militaristic.

'Thatcher Out!' 'Thatcher Out!' 'Blair's a Liar!' 'Blair's a Liar!' Happy days.

DanaC · 11-28-2009, 07:06 AM

lol

Maggie Thatcher, Milk Snatcher!

And the always popular "Maggie, Maggie, Maggie.....out, out out!"

Bizarrely the first one despite being from my very early childhood, still occasionally could be heard on demos when I was in my teens.

TheMercenary · 11-28-2009, 07:30 AM

Our St. Pat's day parade is huge, one of the largest in the nation. About 4 hours long. We enjoy it. I have had an opportunity to be in it each year but I would rather watch it.

Crimson Ghost · 11-29-2009, 01:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CzinZumerzet

Took the thought out of my head! We don't seem to do parading here except for the demos. Anti-war, CND, Reclaim the Night/Streets. Trade Union stuff with our wonderful banners, 'Save the NHS', Anti-BNP, Anti-Apartheid, and my most recent one 'Troops Out'.

London has it's truly sumptious New Year and Lord Mayor parades which I used to watch but even they are very militaristic.

'Thatcher Out!' 'Thatcher Out!' 'Blair's a Liar!' 'Blair's a Liar!' Happy days.

Trade Union?
Do people still wear salmon-colored linings in the suits to garner sympathy?

/Way, way obscure
//Explanation on request.....
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glatt · 11-29-2009, 11:56 AM

Wait a minute. UG was a PG County cop?

TheMercenary · 11-29-2009, 12:00 PM

Or just in the pipe band.

monster · 11-29-2009, 08:04 PM

Do Identity Parades count?

(police line-up to you trans-Atlanticans)

Crimson Ghost · 11-30-2009, 12:01 AM

They look like the kind of people who'd bury you in a cave near the beach...

wolf · 11-30-2009, 12:22 AM

Marched in many. I was a genuine Band Geek. Played Clarinet and Xylophone. The Clarinet was easier to carry. Marched in The Miss America Parade three times, across some bridge linking the US and Canada at Niagara Falls, assorted local parades (Memorial Day and Christmas), couple of Phillies Games, and at DisneyWorld, back when it was relatively new (1978).

I did most of my early growing up in the Midwest, so the Village's 4th of July Parade was a very big deal, either was there watching with my family, or marching with my Brownie Troop, which was a very big deal, as I got to carry the U.S. Flag. dadwolf worked at an office building on Wacker Drive in Chicago, so he'd take us into his office to watch the big parades, including Saint Pat's.

A cousin took siswolf and I to the Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade one year, sometime in the 70s. I remember being fascinated by what were then called Drill Teams and are now referred to as Step Crews.

monster · 11-30-2009, 07:43 AM

Step Crew really doesn't have the same double entendre potential.....

still, I'll do my best.....

Trilby · 11-30-2009, 08:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster

Do Identity Parades count?

(police line-up to you trans-Atlanticans)

Can I have Gabriel Byrne?

PUH-LEEEESE??? *pant/pant*

Queen of the Ryche · 11-30-2009, 12:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

I've been in several, a couple as exhibition/float personnel, couple-three marching in the Prince George's County Police Pipe Band. Years ago -- some of them many years ago. Parades -- they're made for bands, and in particular (bias alert!) for pipe bands.

Bias strongly agreed with! Went to the Rocky Mountain Highlands Festival this year - the opening parade was presenting of the clans, pipe bands, and not much else. Absolutely magical.

11-28-2009, 01:25 AM	#16
Crimson Ghost Larger than life and twice as ugly. Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 5,264	I've been in about a dozen. UG is right, they're made for bands. __________________ We must all go through a rite of passage. It must be physical, it must be painful, and it must leave a mark. I have no knowledge of the events which you are describing, and if I did have knowledge of them, I would be unable to discuss them with you now or at any future period. Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years

11-28-2009, 03:51 AM	#17
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	I went in a local Christmas parade as a kid. Think firetrucks, school band, business sponsors, a hundred or so local kids on bikes, including me. All the kids treated it like a race and dashed off, passing all the other floats. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

11-28-2009, 06:41 AM	#19
CzinZumerzet .....short for Caz Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The West Coast of England Posts: 358	Took the thought out of my head! We don't seem to do parading here except for the demos. Anti-war, CND, Reclaim the Night/Streets. Trade Union stuff with our wonderful banners, 'Save the NHS', Anti-BNP, Anti-Apartheid, and my most recent one 'Troops Out'. London has it's truly sumptious New Year and Lord Mayor parades which I used to watch but even they are very militaristic. 'Thatcher Out!' 'Thatcher Out!' 'Blair's a Liar!' 'Blair's a Liar!' Happy days. __________________ ..down by the zea zippin' zider

11-28-2009, 07:30 AM	#21
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Our St. Pat's day parade is huge, one of the largest in the nation. About 4 hours long. We enjoy it. I have had an opportunity to be in it each year but I would rather watch it. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

11-29-2009, 12:00 PM	#24
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Or just in the pipe band. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

11-29-2009, 11:56 AM	#23
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Wait a minute. UG was a PG County cop?

11-29-2009, 08:04 PM	#25
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Do Identity Parades count? (police line-up to you trans-Atlanticans) __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-30-2009, 12:01 AM	#26
Crimson Ghost Larger than life and twice as ugly. Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 5,264	They look like the kind of people who'd bury you in a cave near the beach... __________________ We must all go through a rite of passage. It must be physical, it must be painful, and it must leave a mark. I have no knowledge of the events which you are describing, and if I did have knowledge of them, I would be unable to discuss them with you now or at any future period. Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years

11-30-2009, 12:22 AM	#27
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Marched in many. I was a genuine Band Geek. Played Clarinet and Xylophone. The Clarinet was easier to carry. Marched in The Miss America Parade three times, across some bridge linking the US and Canada at Niagara Falls, assorted local parades (Memorial Day and Christmas), couple of Phillies Games, and at DisneyWorld, back when it was relatively new (1978). I did most of my early growing up in the Midwest, so the Village's 4th of July Parade was a very big deal, either was there watching with my family, or marching with my Brownie Troop, which was a very big deal, as I got to carry the U.S. Flag. dadwolf worked at an office building on Wacker Drive in Chicago, so he'd take us into his office to watch the big parades, including Saint Pat's. A cousin took siswolf and I to the Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade one year, sometime in the 70s. I remember being fascinated by what were then called Drill Teams and are now referred to as Step Crews. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

11-30-2009, 07:43 AM	#28
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Step Crew really doesn't have the same double entendre potential..... still, I'll do my best..... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

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