"Wait until dark" -- On August 20, 1977, a junior corps contest was held in Milford, CT. There was no lighting at the stadium, and the lighting contractor failed to show up, so the fire department and area civil defense agencies sent their rescue trucks to ring the field with vehicle lights. One truck was so noisy that the Colonades All-Girls Corps couldn't even be heard, so the truck was moved and the girls did their show over.
"Quite an improvement" -- When the Chatelaines of Laval, QUE won the 1983 DCI Class 'A' Championship in Miami, they won each and every caption at finals. That was an improvement over their prelim performance, which had them fourth in Marching and Maneuvering execution, fourth in brass and fifth in percussion.
"Kissing up to the audience" -- Alliance junior corps from Boston made lots of friends with the crowd at the August 10, 1983 contest in Abingdon, VA. Just as their drum majors were ready to begin the show, they took of their cummerbunds and turned them inside out, revealing bumper stickers which read, "Virginia is for Lovers."
"The sabre's edge" -- There was a drum and bugle corps from Brantford, ONT back in the 1960's called the Sabres, which had a director by the name of Gerald Edge.
