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Post by hewhowaits on Dec 29, 2022 10:37:04 GMT -6
Congratulations to paddy , our 11th member to reach 1000 posts. paddy marched in high school and for four years in college where he met his wife. They have three kids who all marched with a competitive Indiana band with success in ISSMA, BOA, and WGI. One of the kids marched with a DCI top-6 corps. paddy is a long-time band booster officer and has worked in/around public schools for most of his career. He clearly hasn’t outgrown his sarcastic/snarky phase with occasional bouts of sophomoric humor but this is more than offset by his philosophy of the responsibility of adults in the marching arts: 1 – kids first, always, and without question. 2 – leave the activity better than we found it. |
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Post by paddy on Dec 29, 2022 10:48:16 GMT -6
Thank you all for providing this place to share our love of marching band and the pageantry arts. In keeping with my bouts of sophomoric humor, I originally wanted to submit this as my bio...(kudos if you know the movie this is from)
The details of my life are quite inconsequential. Where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really. At the age of 12 I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking, I suggest you try it.
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Post by thewho on Dec 29, 2022 12:25:55 GMT -6
Congrats! Well-deserved honor!
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Post by WoodlandsMom4ever on Dec 30, 2022 16:21:10 GMT -6
Congrats Paddy!  |
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Post by Allohak on Jan 17, 2023 7:52:50 GMT -6
I'm way behind, but congrats paddy ! |
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Post by N.E. Brigand on Jan 31, 2023 23:11:33 GMT -6
A belated congratulations, Dr. E-- uh, paddy!
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Post by N.E. Brigand on Jan 31, 2023 23:18:54 GMT -6
Thank you all for providing this place to share our love of marching band and the pageantry arts. Thank you all for your kind words. As I said to Allohak when he alerted me to this news, my tunnel vision is such that I didn't even realize this subforum existed. Rather than reply belatedly to each of the nine previous thousand-post threads that I overlooked, let me now issue congratulations in arrears to LeanderMomma, Allohak, yayband914, hewhowaits, marimba11, statechamp1239, ilikeguard, boahistorybuff, and bigtrombone for having previously reached this milestone and echo others' thanks for their contributions to this most congenial forum. According to Wikipedia, it would have been from my dorm room on the second floor of Stuart Hall that I saw the 1990 episode in which Saturday Night Live launched its Five Timers Club, and I guess this is HornRank's equivalent. The nine of you can decide between yourselves who is most like Buck Henry, Steve Martin, Elliot Gould, Paul Simon, Chevy Chase, Candice Bergen, Tom Hanks, Danny DeVito, and John Goodman ... but while it's no longer possible to make tasteful jokes about the tenth such honoree, I guess that makes me (sigh) the Alec Baldwin of the forums. But consider this as incentive to someone else to post a lot now: you get to be HornRank's Bill Murray!Perhaps you should have delayed your 1000th post until Groundhog Day! |
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