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Post by webrunner on Apr 29, 2009 7:29:05 GMT -7
Please, It was cymbals not the triangle and we weren't simply a band, we were a vanguard. Yes, I only did that my freshman year, but that very year we competed in a national competition in Orlando. We won 7 out of 10 marching band awards, so put that in your juice box and suck on it. ;D
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Post by rosa on Apr 29, 2009 7:52:38 GMT -7
only 7? at that school? what happened? ;D the cymbals....forgot about them and I do apologize, credit where credit is due! At our school the cymbals were a step up from the triangle, well when they knew their place anyway... ...which was a step up from the flag girls... we were the last school in town to go with a flag corps....sigh...then we got the new band director who had to do what everybody else was doing....sigh...sigh..... but even he had his limits, alas, no "vanguard". we were the real thing: a marching band ;D and most of us could even march and play at the same time ;D
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Post by rosa on Apr 29, 2009 19:55:09 GMT -7
How could I resist a story like this? Of the AP ;D
Girl Beats Off Muggers With Marching Band Baton Posted: 7:05 pm MDT April 29, 2009 Updated: 7:10 pm MDT April 29, 2009
QUARTZ HILL, Calif. -- Don't mess with a marching band girl, especially one armed with a baton. A 17-year-old high school marching band student beat up two assailants who tried to mug her as she walked to school in this high desert community about 40 miles north of Los Angeles, sheriff's officials said Tuesday.
The girl punched one of the men in the nose, kicked the other in the groin and beat both with her large baton before she ran away on Friday morning, officials said.
"The moral to this story is don't mess with the marching band girls, or you just might get what you deserve," said Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Michael Rust.
He said two men approached the girl from behind, grabbed her coat and demanded money. Deputies searched near Quartz Hill High School for the muggers, looking for a man who was holding his bloodied nose and the other limping.
No arrests have been made, but Rust said it appears the girl made her point to her assailants.
"Final score: Marching band 2, thugs 0," Rust quipped.
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Post by webrunner on Apr 29, 2009 21:27:25 GMT -7
;D
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Post by matthew on May 6, 2009 6:15:57 GMT -7
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Post by Tim Collins on May 6, 2009 6:21:06 GMT -7
Matthew You should post that on The Strelz related to national health care.
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Post by rosa on May 6, 2009 6:31:11 GMT -7
and maybe the value of this one too? Come on, Web wasn't diagnosing anybody, neither was I if we say we think it's unhealthy, we are entitled to our opinions
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Post by rosa on May 6, 2009 6:32:07 GMT -7
Matthew You should post that on The Strelz related to national health care. Forget that, send it to Senator Shapleigh and tell him to get to a plastic surgeon quickly ;D
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Post by webrunner on May 6, 2009 7:23:53 GMT -7
Screw it. If I'm going to get tagged for it anyway, I'll say it. I think the lady has an eating disorder (sorry Rosa, I know that kind of blows your defense of me, which I do appreciate BTW). Sometimes things are exactly what they appear to be. I know starvation when I see it. Oh, and Matthew, you should regard anything with great suspicion that pegs me for being liberal anything.
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Post by matthew on May 6, 2009 7:33:39 GMT -7
Rosa: Entitled to your opinions, sure. And the Pentagon is entitled to its opinion that women are too frail for combat and men can not be expected to behave appropriately if women are in combat. But that one is entitled to their opinion doesn't mean they are entitled to have everyone agree.
Web: Great suspicion, that was the point. Boggs' distant diagnosis has no value; just like yours.
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Post by rosa on May 6, 2009 7:49:48 GMT -7
nobody said anyone had to agree, Matthew. The truth of the matter is that this woman, to us, looks sick. Her appearance is comparable to others who are depicted as starving, and to other people, she may look perfectly fine what you were saying is that Web was diagnosing her. Unless Web, who I believe is a teacher, is qualified to do so, that's not what Web is doing. This isn't to say that Web isn't allowed to say he thinks she looks like she has an eating disorder think of it this way: I can jump into hot water with the two of you in one fell swoop I think she looks sick, AND I think it's sick and inappropriate to hit kids as a means of discipline and I fully expect that nobody will agree with me. Nonetheless, I won't allow folks to hit my kids, not even to swat them, and I won't allow my kids to idolize a woman who is skin and bones as a means of identifying or quantifying "beauty" there. now, if you please, I will go to the corner myself. And contemplate how crazy you guys are ;D
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Post by webrunner on May 6, 2009 7:54:52 GMT -7
Rosa: Entitled to your opinions, sure. And the Pentagon is entitled to its opinion that women are too frail for combat and men can not be expected to behave appropriately if women are in combat. But that one is entitled to their opinion doesn't mean they are entitled to have everyone agree. Web: Great suspicion, that was the point. Boggs' distant diagnosis has no value; just like yours. What has no value, now? My opinion? Because that's what I was rendering.
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Post by webrunner on May 6, 2009 9:51:02 GMT -7
Besides Matthew, I'm really confused as to why would you say Boggs' diagnosis has no value (besides it wasn't her that "diagnosed" me, it was you.)? She's saying in her article that it's wrong to draw conclusions about a person's health by their size. Hasn't that been your argument this whole time?
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Post by matthew on May 6, 2009 9:55:58 GMT -7
He not she; irrelevant in my opinion but he probably does care.
I disagree with him to the extent that he argues that drawing conclusions about health based on size stems from liberal thought, just as I disagree with you that her size necessarily stems from an eating disorder.
And I regularly argue the other side of this (i.e. fat isn't in and of itself unhealthy) so I'm a little troubled by the "I'm officially fat too, but it's OK because I'm athletic" and it totally ruins his argument. BMI is BS whether the subject can lift a VW or not.
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Post by webrunner on May 6, 2009 10:08:04 GMT -7
He not she; irrelevant in my opinion but he probably does care. Oh, sorry (although I doubt he'll read this). I'll give you that one. I don't have a liberal thought in my head and I think the lady is too skinny and looks sickly to me. 108 pound is just to light for a 5'11" frame. What if it comes out later that I'm right on this one?
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