Drugs in my leadpipe

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 6:56 pm

Anybody make mouthpieces out of meerschaum?

pierso20 · Post by **pierso20** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 7:41 pm

when I was in highschool, 2 guys got suspended and then expelled. They were caught using tuba mouthpieces as bongs in the practice rooms...gha

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 8:22 pm

Hmm. Boy, am I behind -- and I thought the "unfinished" mouthpieces that show up from time to time on eBay, you know, with the bowl finished, but not cut from the base stock, would make a good shot glass.

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 8:52 pm

It's the weirdest thing...I practice for a couple hours, all of a sudden I get this craving for Cheetos...

andrew the tuba player · Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:11 pm

Cheetos?? i like Mountain dew....whuch is pretty hard on horns....but oh well. does caffine count as a drug?

DaTubaKid · Post by **DaTubaKid** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:03 am

pierso20 wrote:when I was in highschool, 2 guys got suspended and then expelled. They were caught using tuba mouthpieces as bongs in the practice rooms...gha

You don't suppose they got band credit for spending time in the practices rooms, do you?

Oh wait...expelled, I suppose it wouldn't matter

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:09 am

Why mess with the small stuff. Fill a sousa bell with grass and huff right through the mouthpipe. Sounds like something out of a Cheece and Chong movie!

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:49 am

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 4:51 pm

Neptune wrote:Lucky it was not being shipped from overseas.

Image the consequences if customs found the dope

I have heard of things like this that happened in Singapore and Malaysia where drug possession means a summary execution--no questions asked...

The poor recipients got punished!

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 11:45 pm

Beats the hell out of the tennis ball/dead rat/old sock/forgotten lunch in the souzy stories!

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:34 am

Want some whiskey in your water, sugar in your tea?
What's all these crazy stuff I'm findin' in the Souzey?
This is the craziest stuff that could ever be
Don't turn on the lights, 'cause I don't want to see!

Mama told me not to come
Mama told me not to come
That ain't the way to have fun, no
Uh-uh

Casey Tucker · Post by **Casey Tucker** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:06 am

when i was in high school our marching band dresses up for rehearsal on halloween and he did the dole banana lady. he put fruit in his bell and it turned out really funny. well, we had a rather large water break and he sat his horn down. he took out most of the fruit but when he try to play it was really muffled. so he shook the horn and a squirrel jumped out. funniest thing ive ever seen.

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:06 am

ringnebula wrote:... really, if you can't get high on the contents of a trumpet mouthpiece.....

... then you're sure not a "one-hit wonder" ...

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:26 am

I remember a sousaphone in my junior high school band room back when I was in the seventh grade (1969-70). The band director wanted someone to help him get some old instruments taken apart so they could be sold to one of the music stores. There was one sousaphone that the band director thought had been stolen in 1963, but it was in a big closet, hidden by stacks of old clarinet cases--something like a brick wall.

Anyway, this was an old King Eb sousaphone (had I been older and known what this was, I would have bought the instrument from Mr. Schmidt myself!) in almost brand new condition, completely assembled with the bell, gooseneck, and tuning bits all in their proper places. It even had the mouthpiece still in it.

I tried to play it, but it seemed a little stuffy. How could a perfect looking sousaphone sound stuffy? Maybe it's why they hid it like this in the closet six years earlier. The director and I carefully took the bell off the tuba and saw a white McDonald's bag stuffed down as far as it would go. But it didn't look like it was trash. It was folded neatly, as if someone were trying to save something. So I (rather stupidly) opened the bag...

It had a complete meal... cheeseburger, fries, and what had been a Coke. There was nothing in the Coke cup. I didn't unwrap the burger (but it felt like a rock). And the fries almost looked good enough to eat (this was back in the days when McDonald's didn't use frozen potatoes). There was also a receipt (written out by hand, except for the totals and tax):
-1 Cheeseburger.$ .18
-1 French Fries....$ .15
-1 Regular Coke..$ .10
SubTotal----------$ .43
Tax (4%)---------$ .02
Total========$ .45

Even in 1969, the receipt sounded too cheap to be true!

andrew the tuba player · Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:11 am

this isnt a souzy story, but along the lines of some others. I brought an old 20J home from the band storage room. i noticed t had a weird...'vibration' in the tone.
i figured that it was just a loose bracket or something. So, later on that night i washed it. i came in and the water was bright red. turnes out. some one had left a bag full of red sharpies in the old thing....too bad to. I like sharpies

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 2:29 pm

LoyalTubist wrote:The director and I carefully took the bell off the tuba and saw a white McDonald's bag stuffed down as far as it would go. But it didn't look like it was trash. It was folded neatly, as if someone were trying to save something. So I (rather stupidly) opened the bag...

It had a complete meal... cheeseburger, fries, and what had been a Coke. There was nothing in the Coke cup. I didn't unwrap the burger (but it felt like a rock). And the fries almost looked good enough to eat (this was back in the days when McDonald's didn't use frozen potatoes). There was also a receipt (written out by hand, except for the totals and tax):
-1 Cheeseburger.$ .18
-1 French Fries....$ .15
-1 Regular Coke..$ .10
SubTotal----------$ .43
Tax (4%)---------$ .02
Total========$ .45

Even in 1969, the receipt sounded too cheap to be true!

However, when you've got the munchies really, REALLY badly; any port in a hurricane, y'know...

Rick F · Post by **Rick F** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 4:19 pm

LoyalTubist wrote:It had a complete meal... cheeseburger, fries, and what had been a Coke. There was nothing in the Coke cup. I didn't unwrap the burger (but it felt like a rock). And the fries almost looked good enough to eat (this was back in the days when McDonald's didn't use frozen potatoes). There was also a receipt (written out by hand, except for the totals and tax):
-1 Cheeseburger.$ .18
-1 French Fries....$ .15
-1 Regular Coke..$ .10
SubTotal----------$ .43
Tax (4%)---------$ .02
Total========$ .45

Even in 1969, the receipt sounded too cheap to be true!

Nope, that sounds right Bill. I worked at Mickey-D's in 66 part-time when I was in HS. A hamburger, fries & coke (called an 'All American' by the kids back then) was $.39 in 1966.
hamburger: .15
fries: .12
sm coke: .10
tax: .02

If you wanted a milk shake instead of a coke, it cost you $.49. For Cheeseburger instead of hamburger, it was either 17 or 18 cents... I forget. Of course I only made $.85 / hour in '66.

Side note: As an employee, you could eat whatever you wanted for lunch or supper but just had to make out a ticket so they could track it. Interestingly, after about 2 weeks, I was turning bun halves back-to-back with cheese to make a grilled cheese sandwich... couldn't stand their hamburgers after awhile. It was the employees BTW, that invented the double cheeseburger / hamburger.