Secret Fantasies
Lots of little inside jokes to explain in this one. In frame 1, Andy's t-shirt says "If you're a girl, run naked through the tuba section.". This was a quote from a humor article in the Northern Star on how to get into the police beat section or something like that. The tuba section had t-shirts of that quote made and they all wore them just about every day. In frame 2, Opus is fantasizing about being Brian Wis. Brian (see "The Screechers From Hell") was the main trumpet soloist with the Huskie Band in the mid and late eighties. He played really high and had the very fasionable spiked haircut that was popular in those days (I believe this is why Bart Simpson has spiked hair, it was cool in 1987 when he was created). Brian was also in the band Ninth Street, which was popular on campus at that time and was the official band stud. Every girl wanted him. He was dating a Silverette for a while, whom a friend of mine who had a crush on Brian refered to as "Twiggy Puffhead". But he ended up marrying a very nice lady who is an excellent choir director. In frame 3, Opus marries Andrea Wells. Andrea played mellophone in the band and I admit I had a crush on her. I even asked her out twice and she amazingly said yes. Unfortunately, on one of the dates I bought her a flower; I left it in my dorm room to give it to her when we returned from the date, and when I went to get it for her, it was completely dead. Nothing takes the air out of a date like giving a girl a dead flower. Here is another example of Opus sometimes representing me in a cartoon. Frame 4 has Opus beating Tom Rodman at the card game eucher. Tom was known for two things in the band. Playing eucher and drinking lots of diet coke. I personaly have never even played eucher. I guess I was too busy at band parties drinking diet coke myself. Opus as Bibb in the last frame is self-explanatory. I never personally wanted to be Bibb, but I somehow ended up as a band director anyways. I still don't like Scotch, tho.