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TripletDaddy · 09-12-2008, 12:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Solon

Maybe "Anatolian"? I was just busting your chops. I've seen the guy on the horse wearing Roman gear.

I (along with Mormon Red Death and a few of our less desirable acquaintances) watched Utah play USC in the Freedom Bowl in 1994, and the Trojan Band just kept pouring into the stadium. It was pretty cool, to tell the truth.

LOL. Actually, I am laughing because you are right...the band is massive and i know they annoy everyone.

I came across this youtube clip and laughed again. Someone touring in Rome and who do they come across?....these guys are everywhere!

Solon · 09-12-2008, 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

LOL. Actually, I am laughing because you are right...the band is massive and i know they annoy everyone.

I came across this youtube clip and laughed again. Someone touring in Rome and who do they come across?....these guys are everywhere!

Awesome place to hear the song.

That doesn't surprise me. After falling for the Trojan Horse, while the Greeks were raping and looting everything in sight, a Trojan hero named Aeneas took the surviving Trojans to Italy, where they were ancestors of the Romans.

Come to Classics, TD - it is your destiny.

Solon · 09-12-2008, 12:23 AM

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Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

Recognize.

I'm sorry. That video is no longer available.

BECAUSE IT WAS A FAKE! We all know that the band only knows one song.

TripletDaddy · 09-12-2008, 12:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Solon

Awesome place to hear the song.

That doesn't surprise me. After falling for the Trojan Horse, while the Greeks were raping and looting everything in sight, a Trojan hero named Aeneas took the surviving Trojans to Italy, where they were ancestors of the Romans.

Come to Classics, TD - it is your destiny.

Solon, I think you have converted me. All this Trojan talk is awesome!

BarbaraGordon · 09-12-2008, 12:36 AM

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All this Trojan talk is awesome!

We can't help it. We all secretly wish we could be SC fans.

Solon · 09-12-2008, 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

Solon, I think you have converted me. All this Trojan talk is awesome!

Sweet.

I've always thought it was kind of bad-ass to have a nickname that is historically most famous for losing, not winning, a mythical war.

But the more I dissect the Iliad, the more I realize that Homer intended the ancient Greeks to identify much more easily with the heroes of Troy than the heroes of Greece. Aside from Paris, The Trojans were better role models for ordinary mortals.

Plus, I love the shiny horse-hair helmets on the USC band.

TripletDaddy · 09-12-2008, 12:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Solon

I'm sorry. That video is no longer available.

BECAUSE IT WAS A FAKE! We all know that the band only knows one song.

try this one. no music, just a neverending onslaught of band geeks.

ute4ever · 09-12-2008, 02:18 AM

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For those whose team have never reached a championship BCS bowl game, you should go to all the events because they are really fun!

I am curious how exactly USC became "your" team. Do you pay them alumni association dollars? Do you have immediate family who attended? Did you work on campus during your youth?

PaloAltoCougar · 09-12-2008, 02:41 AM

The only time I recall actually enjoying the USC Marching Band ("This is the only song we know.... It's boring and it's slow....") was when it marched over the Naked Gun villain who, after getting hit with a poison dart, fell from Angel Stadium and got steamrolled before being marched over. As I recall, Leslie Nielsen looked down on the gruesome spectacle, shook his head, and said, "My father died that way."

BarbaraGordon · 09-12-2008, 02:44 AM

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I am curious how exactly USC became "your" team. Do you pay them alumni association dollars? Do you have immediate family who attended? Did you work on campus during your youth?

It's amazing how many Trojan fans there are these days. I know one guy, huge fan, he's never been west of the Mississippi.

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The only time I recall actually enjoying the USC Marching Band ("This is the only song we know.... It's boring and it's slow....") was when it marched over the Naked Gun villain who, after getting hit with a poison dart, fell from Angel Stadium and got steamrolled before being marched over. As I recall, Leslie Nielsen looked down on the gruesome spectacle, shook his head, and said, "My father died that way."

I love that movie.

09-12-2008, 02:41 AM	#99
PaloAltoCougar Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 580	The only time I recall actually enjoying the USC Marching Band ("This is the only song we know.... It's boring and it's slow....") was when it marched over the Naked Gun villain who, after getting hit with a poison dart, fell from Angel Stadium and got steamrolled before being marched over. As I recall, Leslie Nielsen looked down on the gruesome spectacle, shook his head, and said, "My father died that way."