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[theviper.livejournal.com]

how about all the aleppo's at the parade today?

i missed large parts of the parade, but i really thought their stuff was the best part. :)

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[hrafn.livejournal.com]

They were like, 80% of the parade! It was mind-boggling! And they sure did have some neat toys :)

[theviper.livejournal.com]

yes indeed. i kept thinking that someone was going to have to peel the motorcycle guys off of the pavement if they kept it up :) but they did.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Did anyone take pictures? I didn't make it down for the parade. :-(

[theviper.livejournal.com]

i didn't bring a camera...hopefully someone else did. i would love to see some pictures as well.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I missed it--all the what at the parade?

[kissoflife.livejournal.com]

I was "all the what?" too- and am not quite sure I've got it now.

As you can't mean the city in Syria, nor the lemurs that hail therefrom...

You'd mean "aleppo shriners oriental marching band" ? Who are from Wilmington MA, so this could work... They must be quite something. DO tell about the toys...

I knew I shoulda stayed up on Highland to watch it. Almost got towed actually...

[aslant.livejournal.com]

i took a ton of pictures last year, the aleppos were there last year as well. i found them slightly creepy, they take up so much of the parade! who are they, exactly? what do they do besides the hospital stuff? they seem like a relic of a different era.

from my house it definitely looked like a smaller parade and a smaller turnout than last year.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I did a google image search for "aleppos" and got a lot of childlike drawings apparently created by someone while in a state mental hospital. I kid you not. Maybe it wasn't so bad that I missed the parade after all...

Whoah indeed!

[kissoflife.livejournal.com]

THAT is pretty darn funny... in less of a ha-ha kinda way, lol

btw, I wanna grab your icon to send to a cat-loving associate, if I may. It won't get used as their icon, promise... unless that's ok?
Where is it from, and am I missing that maybe it has sound in original form??

[theviper.livejournal.com]

the the shriners from wilmington...they had motorcycles, little motorized cars, and all sorts of other cool stuff.

[theviper.livejournal.com]

yes, from wilmington...motorcycles, little cars, clowns, all sorts of cool stuff.

[theviper.livejournal.com]

smaller parade? i wasn't there last year, but this year it was about 3 hours long...

The link, fwiw

[kissoflife.livejournal.com]

Here is a link (http://www.livejournal.com/users/aslant/273221.html#cutid1) to aslant's pics entry for last yr. They do got a lotta stuff- hook & ladder truck, antique cars, wheeled drums, darling shiek outfiture...
Not got time to find more pics...zzz...

(sp)

[kissoflife.livejournal.com]

sheik... whatevah

Re: The link, fwiw

[aslant.livejournal.com]

ah, thanks. was too lazy to go find them myself!

[aslant.livejournal.com]

this year there were maybe five or six marching bands, but last year there were maybe a dozen? plus the clydesdale horses were there last year (as you'll see in my photos). also, i think the city made a major effort to revive the parade last year (before that it was much smaller, i guess?), so i wonder if this year their efforts fizzled out a little bit.