Humor

Quotes

    2005

  • "A M E R I C K! America! America!" - Nikki

    2004

  • "We're easy and cheap!" - Nikki
  • "The beginning of this piece is all about attitude, and I need more attitude from the trumpets... I can't believe I just said that." - Diem
  • Anna - "So how's Alison-be-nice-Thursday going?"
    Alison, in an extremely angry tone - "Freaking Great!!!"
  • Aicce'q (at the picnic) - "I want your pop tabs."
    Anna     - "So you can put them in your box?!?"
  • Luckhardt - "Make sure to crescendo when I give you the fist!"
  • Anna - "I sound like a 40 year old chain smoking hooker"
    Aicce'q - "I'd pay for you"
  • Molly - I've got to stretch out my hoochie
  • Anna - It's all about the booty!"
  • Everyone - "Mello Survey!"
  • Diem - "Tuba line, you got some nasty stuff!"
  • Aicce'q (describing how she will meet her future husband, Ryan Potulny) - "And then he'll say, 'you look familiar, haven't I seen you at all my games?' and I'll say, 'yeah I'm in the pep band, I play the mellophone' and then he'll say 'The mellophone? I love the mellophone!' and then I'll say 'you know what a mellophone is?' and then he'll say, 'yeah, of course! I played the mellophone in high school.'"
Old quotes.

Best & Worst

    2003

    Best

  • Alison's face when she heard about the friendly meeting with the Wisconsin Band (streetfight).
  • Stooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooge Week!
  • Pirate Kittens. Need I say more?
  • Historical facts of the day. It's great to be the most historically oriented section.
  • Stephanie going through photos at Northrop, an inspection, plaza and pregame with NO ONE noticing she didn't have a left wing. Where was it? In her locker. (Most smrtest!)
  • The fans at the michigan game. SERIOUSLY! So exciting. When the place erupts when we hit the block M. Coolest feeling EVER!

    • Worst

  • The Homecoming Parade... 55 minutes and 4 school song sets (5 songs each set) to march less than a mile...damn police escorts
  • The michigan game. That's all I'm gonna say. Yes, Stephanie, it was a dream.

    2002

    Best

  • Going to the State Fair, buying a bucket of cookies and then planting yourself next to the all you can drink milk stand. Followed by eating all the cookies and drinking milk until you can't move. Mmm, cookies.
  • According to Luckhardt, This year's band will be, "The best band EVER!"
  • Anna, the baby expert, has proclaimed Billy Diem (Prof. Diem's baby) the cutest baby EVER!
  • Diagonal line of the week goes to the best diag EVER! (You know, that one diag that's really good...)
  • Les Mis during post-game of the Michigan game was the loudest band EVER!
  • Stephanie has been proclaimed by Bob as Jill as the best EVER when she cleaned their horns for a game.
  • Ben (bass drum) almost busting through his drum head at the Michigan was the coolest EVER!
  • March around the Mall of America concourse... Awwww yeah!
  • The whole band getting to travel to the bowl game is the best EVER!
  • Bus 4... Supersection and tubas... what bus could possibly be better than that! It's just not possible to beat that level of coolness.
  • 32 hours of good quality bonding time on the bus trip to and from Nashville was the best EVER! That's a lot of time with the family.

    • Worst

  • Luckhardt's plaid shorts he wore at Spat Camp. Green, blue and pink plaid...ouch.
  • Gameday Thursdays...yeah, it's just not right...
  • Continuous cadences throughout the Michigan game...seriously...there is a limit to how much cadences we can handle without going insane.
  • The tone of Ben's bas drum when he almost broke through the head was the worst EVER!
  • The happenings after the Iowa game by far wins as the worst thing EVER.
  • Trying to play our state hymn and alma mater with ANOTHER BAND PLAYING OVER THE TOP is the most horrible worst thing EVER!!!!!!
  • Having canned music played over the top of the band playing over the top of "Hail! Minnesota" was the most heart wrenching worst thing EVER. (we hate iowa)

Mello-what?

It never fails...

  • "You are in Marching Band, right?"
  • "Yeah."
  • "What do you play?"
  • "Mellophone."
  • "Mello...what? What the f#$% is a Mellophone?"

Every year without fail, someone will ask a horn player what they play. Every time, the poor kid must give some long, drawn out explanation of their instrument.

"Well, a Mello is like a trumpet, only bigger. But it's not as big as a Baritone. It has trumpet fingerings, but it's in a different key. You see, it's somewhat equivalent to a French Horn, but we don't march French Horns cause that would suck."

Then, if they ask:

"What's a French Horn... Is that the curly one?"

Faced with an idiotic question like this, the horn player has a few options:

  1. Calmly drone on about the exact history and dimensions of the French Horn until the idiot drifts into a catatonic state.
  2. Run away quickly because talking with this punk will cause your brain cells to die or
  3. the easiest option; bitch smack the bastard (Number 3 seems to be the most popular approach)

The truth is, the U of MN Mellos do NOT use actual Mellophones. I know it's shocking. We actually use a more compact version with a smaller bell called an Alto Horn. So, I suppose we should be the U of MN Altos Horns, but that just doesn't sound as cool. Plus, we've already got one set of Altos in the band, there is no need for two...

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