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Dog tags What if they printed your USFA card on a dog tag? Have the number, name, age, and expiration date, as well as ranking. Thats my idea. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. And from this side only! The flight of a half-man, half-bird. Dinosaurs nuzzling their young in pastures where strip malls should be. Cookies on dowels. All those moment, lost in time. Gone, like eggs off a hooker's stomach. Time to die" -Phil Ken Sebben
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What, so if you're killed in combat they can identify your remains with your USFA ranking? What's wrong with a simple card?
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 Originally Posted by Epee_Pox What, so if you're killed in combat they can identify your remains with your USFA ranking? What's wrong with a simple card? They are easy to lose, flimsy, and not very original. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. And from this side only! The flight of a half-man, half-bird. Dinosaurs nuzzling their young in pastures where strip malls should be. Cookies on dowels. All those moment, lost in time. Gone, like eggs off a hooker's stomach. Time to die" -Phil Ken Sebben
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Originally Posted by D+F+P=Hadouken! They are easy to lose, flimsy, and not very original.
Solution: LAMINATE !
...or put it in a card holder (ID-holdin' type). Then you can get one of those reel clips - flash the card at events, let go and listen to the satisfying ZIP as it powers back into place.  I'm a lumberjack and I'm O.K. I sleep all night and I work all day.
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Originally Posted by D+F+P=Hadouken! What if they printed your USFA card on a dog tag? Have the number, name, age, and expiration date, as well as ranking. Thats my idea. What if they printed your dog's vaccination information on your USFA card? That way, you'd have a backup for when you need to check whether it's time to get your pet its shots. That's my idea. 
Seriously, if you are card-retention impaired, do this:
1. Upon receipt of said card from our benevolent masters at the USFA, make several photocopies immediately and file them away.
2. Laminate said card to protect it from its inherent flimsiness.
3. Immediately place newly laminated card in the zip pocket of your fencing bag. This will insure that it travels with you to any meet that is likely to require that you produce it.
4. Don't become obsessed with minor problems. Save your angst for important issues...like why Adidas replaced a perfectly acceptable asymmetric shoe with a model that feels like a bowling shoe. Or Avian flu, and why it's picked this decade to jump the species barrier. "Sometimes we, as coaches, get into that dictator mode where you just tell and you don't listen and you don't try to understand them." Tom Izzo, Mich. St.
"Fraud is the creation of trust. And then: its betrayal."
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Originally Posted by D+F+P=Hadouken! They are easy to lose, flimsy, and not very original. and fit easily into one's wallet.
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Originally Posted by D+F+P=Hadouken! What if they printed your USFA card on a dog tag? Have the number, name, age, and expiration date, as well as ranking. Thats my idea. Please, your ridiculous posts are clogging this message board with stupidity. When I come to this message board I like to read useful opinions and ideas about fencing. USFA dog tags is totally unuseful. Although I am not a moderator, I am a member of this board kindly asking you to refrain from unproductive posts.
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Originally Posted by Epee Scherma Please, your ridiculous posts are clogging this message board with stupidity. When I come to this message board I like to read useful opinions and ideas about fencing. USFA dog tags is totally unuseful. Although I am not a moderator, I am a member of this board kindly asking you to refrain from unproductive posts. Huzzah???? "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. And from this side only! The flight of a half-man, half-bird. Dinosaurs nuzzling their young in pastures where strip malls should be. Cookies on dowels. All those moment, lost in time. Gone, like eggs off a hooker's stomach. Time to die" -Phil Ken Sebben
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USFA Cards (1) Laminate. $1.50 and 5 minutes at Office Depot.
(2) Luggage tag. Insert laminated card; attach tag to equipment bag.
There ya go, DFP=H!, another major life problem solved free of charge. "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never . . . never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense." Churchill, 1941
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Originally Posted by Epee Scherma Please, your ridiculous posts are clogging this message board with stupidity. When I come to this message board I like to read useful opinions and ideas about fencing. USFA dog tags is totally unuseful. Although I am not a moderator, I am a member of this board kindly asking you to refrain from unproductive posts. Oh PLEASE. DFP was merely making a suggestion and asking for others' opinions. A post about putting USFA membership thingy on dog tags was actually very original and creative. I've got to give him points for that. It may not fit into a wallet, but it's a very hip idea. You may not be a moderator (thank God, for I only have one thing to say to you - SIEG HIEL! HERR KOMMANDANT!), but you can't tell us what sort of posts we can or can not post, if it's not even slightly offensive, discriminatory, racist (unlike ReverseLunge's), or rude, while any kind of opinions on DFP's idea would be perfectly acceptable (ie. "the dog tag idea is ****") because DFP asked for it. BUT, did he ask for you to criticize the fact that he put up the post, trying to offer an INNOCENT suggestion? I mean... GOD, I bet you're actually just jealous you didn't think of it yourself first! :P
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Oh yeah and I think the dog tag idea is actually very cool, but it does have it's cons though (ie. where would you put it if not around your neck?).
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Originally Posted by cornflower Oh PLEASE. DFP was merely making a suggestion and asking for others' opinions. A post about putting USFA membership thingy on dog tags was actually very original and creative. I've got to give him points for that. It may not fit into a wallet, but it's a very hip idea. You may not be a moderator (thank God, for I only have one thing to say to you - SIEG HIEL! HERR KOMMANDANT!), but you can't tell us what sort of posts we can or can not post, if it's not even slightly offensive, discriminatory, racist (unlike ReverseLunge's), or rude, while any kind of opinions on DFP's idea would be perfectly acceptable (ie. "the dog tag idea is ****") because DFP asked for it. BUT, did he ask for you to criticize the fact that he put up the post, trying to offer an INNOCENT suggestion? I mean... GOD, I bet you're actually just jealous you didn't think of it yourself first! :P Woah, wheres the fire? Actually, I kinda did ask for criticism, merely by posting on this board. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. And from this side only! The flight of a half-man, half-bird. Dinosaurs nuzzling their young in pastures where strip malls should be. Cookies on dowels. All those moment, lost in time. Gone, like eggs off a hooker's stomach. Time to die" -Phil Ken Sebben
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Originally Posted by D+F+P=Hadouken! Woah, wheres the fire? Actually, I kinda did ask for criticism, merely by posting on this board. That's my point... criticism on your IDEA... and plus everybody criticizes you just for being HERE... anyhoo, why even criticize you for making a post that was a genuine attempt at being serious (or at least sounded like it)?
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What USFA should do is send each fencer a "permanent" (but replaceable) credit-card type card. Has magnetic strip down back. Has USFA membership number where the credit card ID number is.
All hosts will have to have access to a card reader and access to the USFA database. Fencers come in, scan their cards through the card reader, bam! all their current information is then logged in. Fencers who have expired memberships are then requested to pay at that moment. But their results and history are permanently stored in USFA, so if a fencer retires and then chooses to return 20 years later, that information is still there (and the card, if not lost, can be re-used...unless there's a better technology 20 years from now).
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Originally Posted by cornflower SIEG HIEL! HERR KOMMANDANT!
Goodwin's Law was it?
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Originally Posted by J.Harris Goodwin's Law was it? Hahhahahah! Oh god, I didn't realize!
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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
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I'd rather have a bracelet...dog tags clash with my fencing outfits. 
And please Scherma, with your big 15 posts I don't think you have any right to criticize someone who's been here far longer than you for offering a simple suggesion. If you think the topic is dumb than don't read it. Problem solved! RebelFencer's Awesome Quote of the Week:
"Encouraging the average age of first intercourse to go below 16?"
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Originally Posted by D+F+P=Hadouken! What if they printed your USFA card on a dog tag? Have the number, name, age, and expiration date, as well as ranking. Thats my idea. why not have the information tattooed on your forehead as a bar code?
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Originally Posted by keith why not have the information tattooed on your forehead as a bar code? Ouch! That'd get uncomfortable  as you added weapons, changed ranks, or otherwise had to update your data. "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never . . . never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense." Churchill, 1941
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