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!!