Trademarks

One of the kids in my section in Marching Band this year, Nathan, always said a few, random phrases in the middle of practice, and everybody either was really annoyed or thought it was hilarious; most of us switched sides quite often. I'd hear him yell "SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS!!" at the top of his lungs when he was excited, have never approached that amount of US currency the same way, and probably never will. Every time I think of a broken laptop screen, I just start to laugh. It costs $600.
He also tended to tell Mr. Gregory that "you look like a rockstar up there!" every time he'd see him up on the Band Tower at practice. Every time. It was great, but Mr. G eventually got fed up with it and just stopped putting up with it. "YEEE-HAAWW, ride' em COWBOY!!!" was ejected rather often, too, when everybody was excited or cheering. I hate to talk about it, because I don't want to seem like I'm making fun of him (he was autistic, limiting him to several repeated phrases of excitement), but I always think of him when I hear any of those words involved. Trademarks of Nathan Burkes.