10-07-2004, 09:31 AM
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#21 | | Senior Member
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| If my kids didnt like fencing, I'd shoot them.
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10-07-2004, 10:19 AM
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#22 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Wilmington NC
Posts: 431
| We just purchased a 0 foil for my daughter (age 5) after about 2 months of persistent "daddy I want to fence too" She comes up to club with us twice a week and has started doing the legwork (in her own way) and mom is giving her some lessons. It is all essentially play right now and we don't push it at all. Time will tell if she catches the fencing bug. I never want to be that parent making their kid cry on the strip from pressure. | |
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10-07-2004, 12:32 PM
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#23 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Savannah, Ga
Posts: 6,116
| Mercutio is absolutely my favorite Shakespeare character. Well maybe not my all time favorite, but I really can't think of anyone I like better at the moment.
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10-07-2004, 12:50 PM
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#24 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004 Location: Neverland.
Posts: 483
| Yeah, you need some Art History classes. I spent so much time studying, imitating, and trying to understand this guy, I've obviously started to look like him. Complex and troubled, but helped coax the world into looking at things in a new way. A MAJOR heavy dude without a lot of excess vanity. We connected across Time and Space, so I took him home with me. | |
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10-07-2004, 01:18 PM
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#25 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004 Location: U.S. of F-ing A.
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| geezer: what instruments do your kiddies play?
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10-07-2004, 02:38 PM
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#26 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004 Location: Neverland.
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| Trombone, bass trombome, 6-string bass guitar, stand-up bass (+/-),....
Piano, keyboard, synthesizer, harmonica, 6-string acoustic (+/-),....
I doubt the list will stop here, not with more of my money to be spent!  | |
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10-07-2004, 03:05 PM
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#27 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Posts: 2,993
| I came back to fencing during my youngest's 2nd year of High School, after having left it before any of my children were born. Thus, I had no "fencing influence" during their formative years.
The two who were at home thought it was neat when I took it up again, and tried it for a few months. They even got some of their friends to come along.
Sadly, the friends decided it wasn't their thing, and when the friends left, so did my sons. A pity, since one is now finishing at Temple U where they have an excellent fencing program. (Oiuyt on this board is affiliated with Temple, BTW.)
However, they both have a much better understanding of what fencing is really all about, rather than the movie version. And they either one or both may come back to it later in life. I hope they do, but I won't be shattered if they don't.
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10-07-2004, 10:18 PM
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#28 | | No, your mom's a lemur
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: None of your Damn buisiness! Or California.
Posts: 2,830
| I won't force him to fence, but at the age of 18 I'm fencing him to the death with no protection. If he lives, he is my son.....  If not, I have lost no son of mine! | |
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10-07-2004, 10:22 PM
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#29 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: My happy place!
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Originally Posted by Westley I won't force him to fence, but at the age of 18 I'm fencing him to the death with no protection. If he lives, he is my son..... If not, I have lost no son of mine! | wow, remind me not to marry you.
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10-07-2004, 10:24 PM
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#30 | | No, your mom's a lemur
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| oh don't worry. By that time I'd long after had the to-the death battle with my wife. | |
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10-07-2004, 10:25 PM
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#31 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: My happy place!
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| ok, yeah. I'm definitely not marrying you. *crosses off list of possible suitors* Millions left to go...
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10-08-2004, 07:28 AM
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#32 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Zealand
Posts: 185
| Well with me it was not so much being born with a silver spoon in my mouth so much as a fencing foil. I had my first full fencing kit- New Zealand tracksuit included by the time i was 6 weeks old it was great, still have it and the fencing bag i broke the foil on my sister though. I didnt start fencing until I was nearly 13. Myself IF I have kids i would love them to fence i wouldnt force them to but... 3rd generation national rep sounds pretty cool... think of all the free gear! second hand but hey! 
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10-10-2004, 12:00 AM
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#33 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Alberta, Canada
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Originally Posted by ebonylevin Well with me it was not so much being born with a silver spoon in my mouth so much as a fencing foil. | You were born with a foil in your mouth? What use is a foil if it in your mouth?
*Vears back toward topic* I'm not going to force my kids to fence. I'll just take them with me to the club, and if they want to be board, well that is their problem! (Seriously, I don't intend to force my kids to take up any sport after they have learned to avoid drowning.)
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10-10-2004, 01:07 AM
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#34 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Point_Left You were born with a foil in your mouth? What use is a foil if it in your mouth? | Lol hmmmm it leaves my hands free for punching people, no i was just trying to make a point that I have been around fencing my whole life basically.
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"The pen may be mightier than the sword - except for in a duel."
"I had to get up in the morning at 10 o'clock at night 1/2 an hour before i had to go to bed, drink a cup of sulfuric acid, work 29 hours a day down down mill unpaid and have to pay for permission to come to work and when we came home our dad and our mum would kill us and dance around on our grave singing hallelujah!"
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10-10-2004, 02:24 AM
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#35 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: My happy place!
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| That's kind of cool... I've been a free-lancer my whole life, just floating whithersoever the wind takes me. hehehe...
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10-10-2004, 07:30 PM
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#36 | | No, your mom's a lemur
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: None of your Damn buisiness! Or California.
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| Wow. "Floating withersoever the wind takes me?" You must be light. I don't like anorexic chicks. | |
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10-10-2004, 08:10 PM
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#37 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: My happy place!
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| oh yes, I'm quite light... you know, my soul, that is. I don't like anorexic people either... it's unhealthy, and I don't like fat people... it's unhealthy. (I don't judge against them, I just find that to be highly unhealthy..) I'm at a normal weight, and I'm happy about it. whoa.. crazy how you have me talking about my weight, eh?
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10-10-2004, 08:34 PM
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#38 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: DC & Vancouver
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| I saw an anorexic tranny the other day at the dollar store. Probably buying some 75 cent nylons and cheap condoms.
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My loverboy asked (in American Sign Language) what I was looking at on the computer:
Me: A fencing forum.
LB: A fisting forum?!
Me: God, NO! FENCING!
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10-10-2004, 08:37 PM
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#39 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: My happy place!
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| not sure how to respond so... hehehe
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