fencing antics

[Iwant2bafencer]

It's not fencing, but this year during the region finals, the team my school was playing, whenever they scored they would all shout "You know!" Bring It On style. It was funny at first, then it got old. Also whenever they were out in the feild, the 3rd base would call "Left side!" Then shortstop and left field would reply 'Stronge side!", also got old, but good at first.

[Artisan]

As a Scot I...
If you would like to try some othe real tasty cuisine try and get your hands on Cullen Skink or Cranachan (yummy!!!!).

Onomatopoeticly speaking, Cullen Skink or Cranachan sound more like unsightly diseases of the skin than delicious tidbits.

[/cultural bbias mode: off]

[Inquartata]

Let me guess: they "taste like chicken"...

[Gav]

Cullen Skink is a tasty soup. What it was originally made of escapes me but at the moment it's made with fish.

Cranachan is dessert. It's made with Oats, Cream and whisky accompanied [usually] with a raspberry sauce. Believe me it's great!!!!!!

Don't forget that 'ch' is a sound made at the back of the throat and is not pronounced as a K [as in lock] or ch as in church.

Other recommendations for foodies:

Oat cakes [ I guess you guys know that one]
Shortbread [I know you guys will know that one]
Scotch Broth [another tasty soup made with Barley]
c0ck-a-leekie [a soup made with Chicken and Leeks]
Arbroath Smoakie [smoked fish speciality of Arbroath].

The first time I put the last one in, the profanity checker kicked in! Caused a lot of mirth around the office when I showed them it.

[Inquartata]

Cullen Skink is a tasty soup. What it was originally made of escapes me

skink
PRONUNCIATION: AUDIO: skngk KEY
NOUN: Any of numerous smooth shiny lizards of the family Scincidae, having a cylindrical body and small or rudimentary legs and living chiefly in temperate and tropical regions.
ETYMOLOGY: Latin scincus, from Greek skinkos.

[Gav]

skink
PRONUNCIATION: AUDIO: skngk KEY
NOUN: Any of numerous smooth shiny lizards of the family Scincidae, having a cylindrical body and small or rudimentary legs and living chiefly in temperate and tropical regions.
ETYMOLOGY: Latin scincus, from Greek skinkos.

ha ha

funny

Skink, Skynk, n. [MDu. schenke or MLG schinke shin, hough, ham. Also in the later dialect.]
1. A soup made from boiled shin of beef. To thair denner thay sal have … ane dische of bruise and ane uther of skink or kaill; 1602 Reg. Privy C. VI 452. The said Andro sall cover ane tabill in the hall of the said College and sall serve thame in broois skink sodden beif and muttoun; 1608 Glasg. Univ. Mun. III 520. Beef, six tailʒies, … viz. three to the high table, one to the second table, and two for skink; 1650 Kennedy Aberd. Ann. II 391. The godly officers … in their … sesquihoral graces upon a dish of skink and leg of mutton; Urquhart Jewel 279. And there will be meal-kail and castocks And skink to sup till you rive; a1700 Watson’s Coll. i 10. proverb. A spoonful of skitter spoils a pot full of skink; Ferg. Prov. (1706) 261.
b. attrib. His arschip guddis … except ane ox ane ko ane veddir and ane skynk pott; 1541–2 Linlithgow B. Ct. 8 March. Ane beif pot ane skink pot ane bruis pot of bras; 1574 Edinb. Test. III 34b. Ane skink-plait; Balfour Pract. 235.
2. Skink-hoche, shin of beef. For a skinke hoche; 1631 Buccleuch Household Bk. 25 Sept.

So I guess it used to be made from Shin of Beef.

[Almightynoitall]

Our collegiate club has considered showing up in full chainmail suits, carrying broadswords to check in...

We've also decided to bring boomboxes with theme music for a select few (I have the only 'classical' selection... 'Flight of the Valkyries') one of our freshman actually put together a full compilation CD with the theme songs and burned a copy for each car that travels to our tournaments.

In our personal vendetta against needless screaming upon the strip after sabre touches, we have a tape whereupon when one of our two sabre fencers scores a touch, instead of screaming ourselves, we dramatically point to one of our own off strip, who then plays on the boom box a pre-recorded scream-o-doom, followed by golf claps. It's quite hilarious.

After my car accident in April (see the thread 'Retinal Tears and Fencing') I wore an eyepatch over my bad eye to the first tournament I fenced... Upon my first trip to the strip, I had stashed a white gumball underneath the eyepatch, after saluting, I 'adjusted my eyepatch', allowing the gumball to fall out, and bounce and roll on the strip. I immediately apologised, muttered under my breath, and popped it in my mouth before the referee and my opponent could react. It garnered quite a few laughs, I assure you.

(Luckily we can get away with this at collegiate tournaments) over fencing socks, Valentines day red socks covered with pink and white hearts... it's humiliating when the guy who just beat you wears 'em. I personally think they go well with my pink sabre lame.

At the last collegiate tournament of the year, I was fencing a sabre bout, when I realized my opponent had the terrible habit of looking at our scorebox every time the one for the strip next to us went off... I kept lots of distance, and timed it perfecty... as I saw the sabreurs on the next strip advancing, I did a bolestra, and as I started the lunge, the box 'next door' went off. as my opponent looked to the side, the referee let out a guffaw as I performed a perfect 'Z' Zorro slash across his chest. (if only it had actually ripped the lame, how great it would have looked for everyone else that day...)

Finally, I purchased a small section of chain link fence (fencing, get it?) with two suppor poles and weighted stands to use as a 'weapon rack' for the school's club weapons and masks. Not only is it remarkably efficient, but it's just tacky enough that it can be appreciated by those with a penchant for the amusing.

[Phoenix]

A guy at my club had just returned from fencing in Turkey, and was teaching fencing at a girls theatre camp. So another friend and I got our coach to help us choreograph a duel with sabres (he used to choreograph stage fights) and we snuck into the school where the camp was being held and fought an approximately ten minute duel in the school courtyard, complete with kicking each other down stairs and similar antics (we had scoped the courtyard out the week before) right in the middle of the fencing class. There were about twenty or thirty cheering spectators by the time we had finished.

wow. I wish I was in that fencing class! I've always wanted to do that. My friend and I have yet to go against each other (she does Kendo) ^_^