09-12-2005, 12:16 AM
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| - You care about how many rep points you have on the fencing forum. (hint hint  )
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09-12-2005, 01:12 AM
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#22 | | Boom!
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada
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| You lunge repeatedly at empty water bottles with a ruler.
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09-12-2005, 02:28 AM
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#23 | | Senior Member
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| If the widest point of your body is your quadriceps.... you might be a fencer.
If in a fist fight, you hit someone, then turn around, and scream to the air..... you might be a fencer.
If you spend $100 per month on shoes.... you might be a fencer.
If you're reading this.... you might be a fencer.
If you determine right of way for things other than people and drivers.... you might be a fencer.
If you've got red marks on your arm from something other than drugs.... you might be a fencer.
If you learn french so you can slave in a foreign country.... you might be a fencer.
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09-12-2005, 05:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Go? Fencing? You don't have a right and left foot, you have a front and a back foot.
You don't have a right and left hand, you have a weapon hand and an off hand. | I once told my non-fencing friend that I had hurt my back foot ankle in training. He had this desperate 'we-have-heard-enough-about-fencing' look
and said 'We NORMAL people speak about right and left foot' 
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09-12-2005, 09:37 AM
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#25 | | Senior Member
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| You are a fencing nerd when
!. you are trying to teach the b/f to finger fence, it turns into a tickle fest and the first thing you think of when you stop laughing is "I gotta post on the fencing nerd thread!"
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09-12-2005, 11:00 AM
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#26 | | Senior Member
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| You are a fencing nerd when:
It's going to be a beautiful weekend, there are so many fun things to do you can't count them, there are also so many chores to do at home you can't count them...
...and you choose to spend the two days driving/competing/driving again, possibly never seeing the light of day, putting off the fun and chores until next time. Which is when the process will repeat itself.
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09-12-2005, 12:39 PM
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#27 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Go? Fencing? You don't have a right and left foot, you have a front and a back foot.
You don't have a right and left hand, you have a weapon hand and an off hand. | When I went to the doctor about my achilles, when he asked "Which foot hurt worse". Without thinking I just said "My back foot", he then had to ask... "And which one would that be?"
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09-12-2005, 02:43 PM
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#28 | | Feline Groovy
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Originally Posted by Fencergrl When I went to the doctor about my achilles, when he asked "Which foot hurt worse". Without thinking I just said "My back foot", he then had to ask... "And which one would that be?" | I know I'm not the only one who's gone in for her annual exam, been questioned about the bruises, and without thinking, started naming the clubmates (usually men) responsible for each one... | |
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09-12-2005, 02:46 PM
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#29 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Cougar Country
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| I'm lucky, my regular doctor (not the specialist I saw regarding my achilles) has a niece who's a fencer... she just ignores my bruises or comments "Still fencing I see".
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09-12-2005, 02:56 PM
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#30 | | the dark one
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: MA/NH line
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| You're making an appointment to see a hand specialist, and the person on the phone asks which hand is the problem. You automatically respond "My weapon hand! Why else would I call?" (true story)
You look down when you're standing around talking to "normal" people, and realize your feet are perpendicular, shoulder-width apart, knees slightly bent... (I don't know that I EVER stand with both feet facing the same direction anymore!)
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09-12-2005, 03:50 PM
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#31 | | Senior Member
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| when you get 10 ims about how "REP IS GONE" one day while you are at school...and when you actually get upset about it (nor totally upset.. but it is kinda sad!!!).. | |
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09-12-2005, 06:20 PM
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#32 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by swordwench You look down when you're standing around talking to "normal" people, and realize your feet are perpendicular, shoulder-width apart, knees slightly bent... (I don't know that I EVER stand with both feet facing the same direction anymore!) | So you'd walk, stop, look down, and your feet won't be facinig the same direction? 
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09-13-2005, 11:23 AM
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#33 | | the dark one
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Originally Posted by akaiyuki So you'd walk, stop, look down, and your feet won't be facinig the same direction? | Nnnnnnnoooooo.... when I walk, they're *usually* facing the same way. (But sometimes I do walk sort of sideways with a little shuffle). However, when I'm standing *still* I tend to be in that stance - most definitely my feet.
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09-13-2005, 11:46 AM
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#34 | | Din Älskling
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Somewhere inside your head. Or am I?
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| OK. Last night, I made sushi with lots o' wasabi. I then fell asleep reading a book. There has been a little stress in my life right now. This all added up to a night of crazy dreams. I dreamt the whole night about a hurricane hitting and people trying to loot all my stuff. I woke up clutching my fencing medals.
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09-13-2005, 03:04 PM
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#35 | | Senior Member
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| You are a fencing nerd when:
You plan to buy a new house and tell your agent you won't look at anything farther than 5 miles from the salle.
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09-13-2005, 03:08 PM
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#36 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by esskreemr OK. Last night, I made sushi with lots o' wasabi. I then fell asleep reading a book. There has been a little stress in my life right now. This all added up to a night of crazy dreams. I dreamt the whole night about a hurricane hitting and people trying to loot all my stuff. I woke up clutching my fencing medals. | I think just keeping your fencing medals close to your bedside is proof enough you're a fencing nerd... What do you do? Snuggle them?
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09-13-2005, 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by needle You are a fencing nerd when:
You plan to buy a new house and tell your agent you won't look at anything farther than 5 miles from the salle. | You're a fencing nerd when:
You refuse to go to a college without a fencing club/team. (Yup I almost went to UCSD because they have a fencing team and UCLA only has a fencing club...) 
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09-13-2005, 03:44 PM
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#38 | | Din Älskling
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Originally Posted by Fencergrl I think just keeping your fencing medals close to your bedside is proof enough you're a fencing nerd... What do you do? Snuggle them? | No, they are hanging on the wall in my bedroom. I did have to get up and out of bed to reach them. Now I'm wondering why I didn't go for my masks first, they're currently above the doorway. 
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09-13-2005, 07:47 PM
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#39 | | Senior Member
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| I have mine hanging on the wall of my bedroom too... Cept two are lying around on the table cuz I'm too lazy to tag them up. High school league was great - loads of medals... now I don't get jack!
Anyway... you're a fencing nerd when you go to competitions that cost more than a year worth of USFA dues. 
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09-13-2005, 10:07 PM
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#40 | | Fencing Expert
Join Date: May 2000 Location: The valley of the -hot- sun, NorCal
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| You're a fencing nerd if it's impossible to walk straight without making a conscious effort about it.
You're a fencing nerd if you have a limb that's bigger than the opposite one, and you like it like that.
You're a fencing nerd if you nurse your calluses during the offseason so they won't dissapear, for fear of getting more blisters during the season.
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