I Hate a Parade
 

Don't look now, but The Mummers are coming.

F) I only watch for the cheerleaders

I haven't watched the mummers since they ruined it and let women in. I'm not really fond of any other sorts of parades, either. The last such event I actually enjoyed as an adult was at a National Fire Convention and it was really all about the Antique Fire Apparatus.

I was in marching band through high school. I loved marching band, particularly the competitions. Parades were one of the necessary evils. Usually, we did two a year, The Miss America Parade in AC, and a local Christmas Parade. The Miss America Parade involved two miserable, long, hot miles in wool uniforms in high humidity.

We'd also occasionally have to do a parade during our Annual Band Trip ... the two most memorable being Walt Disney World and Niagara Falls, which involved marching to the Canadian side and back.

[sarcasm] I especially like to worship politicians in parades. Hitlery did the St. Pats parade in Binghamton recently...I can't believe I missed that, darn shame[/sarcasm]

Actually, I'm looking forward to this year's Mummers Parade...it's being moved back to S. Broad St. this year. We might go down and see it.

C'mon Griff, don't be slang-like with the Clinton references.

If slang and griff agree it must be righteous!

( slang nods yes........performs a bug and hidden camera scan of the room )

pardon my ignorance, but what is a mummers parade?

back when i was in middle school/high school (god i'm going to regret this) i was in a scottish band. yep, played the bagpipes, snare and tenor drums. we did the St. Patricks day parade every year as well as a couple of others too. worst part was the kilt........:rolleyes:

edit: oh, yeah, googled the parade, cool.

Here are a few links:

The Origins of the Mummers Parade

The Philadelphia Mummers Parade Web Site

looks like it'd be pretty cool. long lasting tradition, nothing wrong with that:)

they're drunk by 10 am, and stay that way until they pass out that night. they play banjos. they spend their free time making matching costumes out of sequins and ostrich feathers. did i mention that they play banjos? and squeaky clarinets, trombones, tubas, drums. ...... drunken band fags.

the only people that REALLY like the Mummers are the Mummers.

New years day is depressing enough without that shit. what a lame Holiday. so anticlimactic after Christmas.

Why is it depressing? A day off from work with no social pressures to have to do things with people you don't want to like Christmas dumps on us so often. Great!
Do you find it depressing the way birthdays can be to some people. You know, another year closer to your expiration date.:)

i like the day off and all, I think it has more to do with the christmas hangover, actually. i'm not old enough to be worried about "getting old". And sometimes it can remind me of unrealized goals. and i guess the main thing is that it just seems so irelevant a thing to celebrate. I'm not a partier, so i don't look forward to NYE, and I can't stand watching the fucking ball drop. stupid tradition, that one.

i say bah humbug to new years

but dont let me dampen your enthusiasm for it

Drunk by 10 am? That's just a long night for us Texas boys. And I play bongos, not banjo. And plthijinx is probably the best armed bagpipe fag in the world!

at least that pig squealing shit coming from my house is from the pipes and not animal husbandry!!

Your loss.:D

I think the social pressures are actually higher on New Years. Christmas, you spend primarily with family. New Years Eve is the day where you HAVE to have somewhere to go with someone in order not to be thought a social outcast.

That's what I do, Wolf. The dregs of society that wouldn't be allowed near the women, children or horses seem to end up at my house every year. No invitations or plans but I have learned to lay in extra victuals and grog because they show up every year. I just cover the mirrors and crucifixes and hope for the best.:blunt:

Sounds like one hell of a party. If I hadn't other plans already, I would sooo be there.

New Year's parades are for amatures. If you want a real parade, head for Mardi Gras!!:beer: :blunt: :band:

That's exactly the same as the Mummers, only the weather is better, and there are more tits and fewer banjos.

Someone could get elected President running on the "more tits and fewer banjos" platform.

President Clinton??:D

you should hear some of the farm animal noises coming from next door!!:D

Maybe it was only a sound track.;)

Bruce,

As said before; that's still the most disturbing thing I've seen. I know people have a 'thing' for live sheep, but I had always assumed that they fantasized about women when they were establishing their relationship with sheep.

This is proof that people are in fact fond of the sheep itself in a disturbingly inapropriate manner.

Having said that, why do you have this sheep?

You also mentioned that this specific sheep had not recieved any action. Is this still the case? If not, do you have pictures?

Well, like I said I told this story before but I've no idea where so...... Once upon a time, some smartass friends gave me this "Luv Ewe" as a Christmas or Birthday gift. I think it was the result of my telling them about one time I was working out in Illinois and on the way back to the motel from the power plant I commented on a flock of black faced sheep. I said they were pretty and the guys with me, ribbed me for the rest of the trip about the "pretty" sheep.
So anyway, I blow up this "Luv Ewe" and put it on a table in my living room to get a laugh out of people coming in. Every time these guys that gave it to me came over they would violate my sheep with their fingers so one time I loaded up the orifice with hand cream. I wish I had a picture of that guys face when he stuck his finger in that cold hand cream. The blood drained from his face and I thought he would puke. I just handed him a tissue. No explanations or apologies. Don't know if he ever figured out what it was but he never went near it again.
I'd bet that 99% of these things are bought as gag gifts and NEVER see "action". :)

I think the phrase you are looking for is "admitted to".

(I don't think the betty blow ups get much use either. Am I wrong here?)

HA MF"N HA !!!!!!
That would be a pic to have in deed !!!!:D :D :D :D