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.

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

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. :lol:

Do demos count?

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.

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.

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.

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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Wait a minute. UG was a PG County cop?

Or just in the pipe band.

Do Identity Parades count?

http://truestorieslaworder.com/blog/...l-suspects.jpg



(police line-up to you trans-Atlanticans)

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

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.

Step Crew really doesn't have the same double entendre potential..... :( still, I'll do my best..... ;)

Can I have Gabriel Byrne?

PUH-LEEEESE??? *pant/pant*