Facts About SCV You Probably Did Not Know

Below is a video of SCV this past year during warm-ups. It is by far one of the best videos from last year. So at the risk of totally trumping today’s comic post, here is the video:

Now if only we could get Andre Feagin to get that hornline to communicate.

For your added pleasure, here is a wallpaper edition of this comic so you can gaze and gaze at it all you want right on your very own computer. The wallpaper comes in three aspect ratios:

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Also, there will be more drum corps-related comics in the following 4 weeks so please check back in to read more!

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Transcript: English

Facts about Santa Clara Vanguard You probably Did Not Know

Text Box 1: Whenever the corps played Send In The Clowns, Ralph Hardimon used to dress up as Pennywise and scare the bejesus out of the hornline at the chorus.

Text Box 2: Gail Royer's last name is actually pronounced like the french pronunciation of foyer.

Text Box 3: Up until 1977 the age-outs would perform finals night with a green feather in a sombrero.

Text Box 4: They are the only corps to make finals every single year, although they would have gladly missed 1993 in Jackson, Mississippi.

Text Box 5: In 1985, originally the members went in the tunnel with green pants and came out with none.

Text Box 6: Criticized for being too bright, the Miss Saigon show originally concluded with a rousing rendition of "Let's Get Together" from The Parent Trap.

Text Box 7: In 1995 the original title was "Not the Nutcracker, But Really It Is...But Sort Of Not, But It Really Kind Of Is."

Text Box 8: SCV stopped accepting sponsors after the Viagra debacle of 2004.

Text Box 9: In 1998 Jim Casella originally had the cymbal line marching gongs the whole show, until they all ended up in the ER after only four hours.

Text Box 10: In 1981, amidst much irony and internal debate over the matter, SCV decides to change their original spelling of Trudition.

Text Box 11: Recently, Key Poulan was putting together a puzzle. As he got closer to the end he noticed it was a picture of himself putting together the puzzle. Trembling, he put the last piece in place only to realize that it showed Mr. Moto at his window. The last thing he heard was a crash and the swishing of polyester.

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