Fencing slogans

[bunnykilla]

Hi Guys

I'm compiling a list of fencing/swordsmanship slogans, i'm busy googling
but coming up with a lot of rubbish to trawl through.

Anyone got any suggestions or good one liners or common phrases used in
the sport.

Phil

[lefty_monster]

"Aw, come on, the machine won't go off! I TOUCHED HIM!!!"
"I have to salute THAT GUY?"

I'm just kidding.

Uhhh... besides "Move your feet!" and "Extend your arm!", i got nothing.

[Zebee Johnstone]

In rec.sport.fencing on Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:43:52 GMT
bunnykilla <justask@askagain.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Anyone got any suggestions or good one liners or common phrases used in
> the sport.

"Turn your knee out!"

"Relax!"

Zebee

[Harold Buck]

In article <Y9cue.54500$G8.49317@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk >,
bunnykilla <justask@askagain.co.uk> wrote:

>
> Anyone got any suggestions or good one liners or common phrases used in
> the sport.
>


The pleasures of the fleche.

--Harold Buck


"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson

[Phil Fites]

bunnykilla wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> I'm compiling a list of fencing/swordsmanship slogans, i'm busy googling
> but coming up with a lot of rubbish to trawl through.
>
> Anyone got any suggestions or good one liners or common phrases used in
> the sport.
>
> Phil

Old fencers never die, they just don't get the point any more?

[William Black]

"bunnykilla" <justask@askagain.co.uk> wrote in message
news:Y9cue.54500$G8.49317@text.news.blueyonder.co. uk...
> Hi Guys
>
> I'm compiling a list of fencing/swordsmanship slogans, i'm busy googling
> but coming up with a lot of rubbish to trawl through.
>
> Anyone got any suggestions or good one liners or common phrases used in
> the sport.

A seventeenth century one for you:

Fight like the devil, die like a gentleman.

--
William Black

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe
Barbeques on fire by chalets past the headland
I've watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off Newborough
All this will pass like ice-cream on the beach
Time for tea

[Juan C. Gil]

Googlin for it, I find:

"Eat Fencing, Sleep Fencing, Drink Beer"
http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~vuu96..._28_11_99.html

"They play Soccer"
"They play Bastketball"
"They play Football"
"WE FENCE!!!"
http://www.livejournal.com/users/nasaman02/

And quite a few at
http://www.fencing101.com/vb/history...p/17320-1.html

Juan Carlos---

[Patrick from Guard Up]

My college favorite:

"Warning for Brutality, Win by Default!"



Patrick Hagerty
Director of Fencing Programs
Guard Up! Inc.

[Martin J. Green]

"bunnykilla" <justask@askagain.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi Guys
>
> I'm compiling a list of fencing/swordsmanship slogans, i'm busy googling
> but coming up with a lot of rubbish to trawl through.

<snip>

Fencers do it with masks on

[Colin B.]

bunnykilla <justask@askagain.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> I'm compiling a list of fencing/swordsmanship slogans, i'm busy googling
> but coming up with a lot of rubbish to trawl through.
>
> Anyone got any suggestions or good one liners or common phrases used in
> the sport.

Hmm. Not at all common, but we could invent some.

"Stab someone today!"
"Hot sweat and cold steel."

This would only appeal to a small group, most of whom probably already
fence:
"So, you think you're Inigo Montoya, eh?"

Of course, the REALLY common one liners are usually uttered in anger and
frustration. Such classics as, "this #@&( tip is sticky." :-)

Colin

[William Black]

"Colin B." <cbigam@somewhereelse.nucleus.com> wrote in message
news:42ba2762@news.nucleus.com...
> bunnykilla <justask@askagain.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi Guys
> >
> > I'm compiling a list of fencing/swordsmanship slogans, i'm busy googling
> > but coming up with a lot of rubbish to trawl through.
> >
> > Anyone got any suggestions or good one liners or common phrases used in
> > the sport.
>
> Hmm. Not at all common, but we could invent some.
>
> "Stab someone today!"
> "Hot sweat and cold steel."
>
> This would only appeal to a small group, most of whom probably already
> fence:
> "So, you think you're Inigo Montoya, eh?"

'Have at you varlet' is one that they seem to like in bad fiction and old
movies, and 'You have come to Nottingham once too often Robin Hood' is one
I've heard used in historical fencing once or twice.

--
William Black

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe
Barbeques on fire by chalets past the headland
I've watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off Newborough
All this will pass like ice-cream on the beach
Time for tea

[Dirk Goldgar]

"bunnykilla" <justask@askagain.co.uk> wrote in message
news:Y9cue.54500$G8.49317@text.news.blueyonder.co. uk
> Hi Guys
>
> I'm compiling a list of fencing/swordsmanship slogans, i'm busy
> googling but coming up with a lot of rubbish to trawl through.
>
> Anyone got any suggestions or good one liners or common phrases used
> in the sport.
>
> Phil

"HIT SOMETHING!!!"

--

Dirk Goldgar

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[Joseph Kormann]

bunnykilla wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> I'm compiling a list of fencing/swordsmanship slogans, i'm busy googling
> but coming up with a lot of rubbish to trawl through.
>
> Anyone got any suggestions or good one liners or common phrases used in
> the sport.
>
> Phil

Dregging up from memory:
"Can't touch this, nah-ya-ya" after the MC Hammer song
"Atain peace of mind, beat someone with a metal stick" - always
remembered this .sig
"Foil is always right-of-way"
"When in trouble, when in doubt, fence in circles, scream and shout"
from SCA
"It's not the length of the blade, it's how you use it"
"Fencing: Reach out and touch someone"
"It's 36 inches, long and stiff. What do you have?"

[Harold Buck]

In article <W72ve.1111$J12.1012@trnddc05>,
Joseph Kormann <ajkormann@verizon.net> wrote:

> "It's 36 inches, long and stiff

and about a quarter of an inch thick.

>. What do you have?"




--Harold Buck


"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson

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