07-05-2005, 06:09 PM
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#1 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Posts: 4
| Greetings and Salutations...emmm...Hi!
Greetings All,
I fence in Tennesee and am active at the Club at the University of Tennessee, as well as the Oak Ridge Fencers Club in Oak ridge (of all places...) A friend and fellow fencer recommanded this site to me and so I thought to register as to be official and whatnot. I fear other than that I have little else to say.
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07-05-2005, 09:03 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 139
| Greetings! Righty or Lefty? | |
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07-05-2005, 11:34 PM
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#3 | | Member
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 39
| welcome to the forum. 
what is your weapon of choice? | |
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07-06-2005, 12:14 AM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2005
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| Says foil in the profile | |
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07-06-2005, 01:40 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Over there -->
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| Welcome!
I got nothing else to say since someone took my question! | |
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07-06-2005, 04:34 PM
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: USA
Posts: 455
| hey!
Welcome to the Forum Atreidai!
(L_M our question was stolen!!  )
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07-06-2005, 09:24 PM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2005
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Originally Posted by Lefty1
(L_M our question was stolen!! ) | By a righty too! | |
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07-06-2005, 10:02 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Mass/ct
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| Welcome!!! Hope you enjoy it here! Feel free to talk to any of us! Most of the people who post in the watercooler expecially, really enjoy talking! | |
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07-07-2005, 01:37 AM
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#9 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
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Dear Heavans I had no idea that there would be such interest in another boring individual signing on to a world class site like this! I am flattered!
and in answer to a few peoples question i am a right handed fencer because I believe in such things as fair play and the divine correctness of right handed fencing....and I am certain a few other highly winded and overtly exaggerated holier than thou reasons...but likely as not the best of which being genetics and a lack of aptitude or training elsewise...think nature/ nurture...that sort of thing.
Cheers,
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mênin aeide thea Pêlêïadeô Achilêos
oulomenên, hê muri' Achaiois alge' ethêke,
pollas d' iphthimous psuchas Aïdi proïapsen
hêrôôn, autous de helôria teuche kunessin
oiônoisi te pasi, Dios d' eteleieto boulê,
ex hou dê ta prôta diastêtên erisante
Atreïdês te anax andrôn kai dios Achilleus.
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07-08-2005, 01:05 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: FENCING!
Posts: 336
| Hi there Atreidai welcome to the forum! 
Tennessee huh? Do you guys really say, yall?  (I've said it before and I'll say it again, I don't get out much.  )
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Minute help entrusting which it knows it gives. -- Translated by Google from a Vietnamese post.
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07-09-2005, 12:34 AM
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#11 | | Member
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 51
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Originally Posted by Atreidai and in answer to a few peoples question i am a right handed fencer because I believe in such things as fair play and the divine correctness of right handed fencing....and I am certain a few other highly winded and overtly exaggerated holier than thou reasons...but likely as not the best of which being genetics and a lack of aptitude or training elsewise...think nature/ nurture...that sort of thing.
Cheers, | ...I think there may be a problem - they fence out on the old nuclear trigger site there in Oak Ridge - it's not genetics......They don't need lights to fence at night...
(I live uprange from Rocky Flats) WELCOME, Atreidai
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07-09-2005, 01:26 AM
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#12 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
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| CANUCK: Yes I fear that the term is used here quite often although I will confess that I have the nasty "Yankee" habit of addressing any group of any size or gender as "you guys..." instead....I have been practicing long and hard to stop the accent encroaching.
And as for the relative genetics or other bonus material from living less than 20 minutes from the world's largest repository of weapons grade uranium...yes it does seem that we fence at night with less trouble...and we never have to worry about plugging in the boxes! ::chuckle::
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mênin aeide thea Pêlêïadeô Achilêos
oulomenên, hê muri' Achaiois alge' ethêke,
pollas d' iphthimous psuchas Aïdi proïapsen
hêrôôn, autous de helôria teuche kunessin
oiônoisi te pasi, Dios d' eteleieto boulê,
ex hou dê ta prôta diastêtên erisante
Atreïdês te anax andrôn kai dios Achilleus.
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07-09-2005, 08:07 AM
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#13 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Sweden
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| Welcome to the forum!
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07-09-2005, 09:29 PM
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#14 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Somewhere in your nightmares!
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Originally Posted by Atreidai Dear Heavans I had no idea that there would be such interest in another boring individual signing on to a world class site like this! I am flattered!
| That's how we suck you in.
Welcome aboard. | |
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07-10-2005, 12:31 AM
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#15 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Texas
Posts: 324
| Atredai,
Hop on board and fear not! You will find plenty of topics, debates, silliness and fencing help right here. Welcome!
CdG
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07-10-2005, 01:37 PM
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#16 | | Boom!
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada
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| Hello and welcome aboard!
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07-11-2005, 10:11 AM
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#17 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: FENCING!
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Originally Posted by Atreidai CANUCK: Yes I fear that the term is used here quite often although I will confess that I have the nasty "Yankee" habit of addressing any group of any size or gender as "you guys..." instead....I have been practicing long and hard to stop the accent encroaching. | Don't loose the accent! I love accents.
A friend and I were in France a long time ago and we met some people from England. After talking to them for some length of time one of the fellas (obviously from Scotland) said, "So you're from the states then?"
My friend replied with a chuckle. "No we're from Canada."
"Oh right." Says the Scotsman, "I should have known from your accent."
Without missing a beat my friend replied, "Or lack of one."
This is something I will not forget to this day. Never try to rid your self of something that is distinctive. 
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Minute help entrusting which it knows it gives. -- Translated by Google from a Vietnamese post.
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07-13-2005, 03:25 PM
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#18 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Knoxville, TN or Philadelphia, PA
Posts: 738
| Hah! I never said "Ya'll" until I left the south! Though I do have a slight tennessee accent when I get upset....
I don't have anything clever to say about fencing in Oak Ridge.
And what is it with classics majors and the phrase "Greetings and Salutations"? The classics people I know at Bryn Mawr say that too...
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07-13-2005, 05:59 PM
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#19 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 74
| Just wanted to say hi and let you know I noticed you joined the forums. It's going to be nice to have someone at practice who's knows what I'm talking about. | |
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07-17-2005, 04:44 PM
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#20 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Singapore
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| XAIPE, Atreidai!
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