11-06-2006, 08:11 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 8,891
| You know you referee too much when...
You stop by the cleaners to get your blazer cleaned and they don't even ask your name, just "how many pieces today?". Or when they retrieve your clothes on previous visits as soon as you walk in the door, rather than taking your ticket. And this is all before the season hits full swing.
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11-06-2006, 08:27 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Seattle
Posts: 1,350
| You get your blazer cleaned?
Oh. I knew I was doing something wrong all this time....  | 
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11-06-2006, 08:29 PM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Austin, TX
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| You hair probably protects it from stains and the like. | |
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11-06-2006, 08:33 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Austin, TX
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11-06-2006, 08:49 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 311
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Originally Posted by FencingKitten  | THAT is funny!!!  | |
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11-06-2006, 11:16 PM
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Epeeton, USA
Posts: 3,568
| You know you referee too much when...
you notice that Choi has already left.
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11-06-2006, 11:18 PM
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#7 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 18
| too much reffing
...when in your dream somebody pulls you aside to ref "just one more DE". | |
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11-06-2006, 11:18 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: CT
Posts: 7,026
| You're at a funeral and realize that your cards and bend measuring block are in your pockets.
And I don't even ref that much. | |
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11-06-2006, 11:26 PM
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#9 | | Friend of Fencing
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Being helpful in Breeland
Posts: 854
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Originally Posted by mrbiggs You're at a funeral and realize that your cards and bend measuring block are in your pockets. | Along with the timer. When it goes off in the middle of whatever the function (funeral, weddiing, sermon, subway ride, etc), instinctively you declare, "Halt. Time has expired." This one doesn't go too well on a funeral, btw.....
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11-06-2006, 11:27 PM
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#10 | | Friend of Fencing
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Being helpful in Breeland
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Originally Posted by HerrKleinerFencer ...when in your dream somebody pulls you aside to ref "just one more DE". | ... or in your dream, you ask if you can stay and side judge.... pretty please?
.... and in reality, an FOC wakes you and asks you if you can side judge? 
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"Presidente of the Jury must consider the artistry and finesse of a foilist's attaque. He must also make it a pointe to deteste the hideousness of unwashed heathen who insists upon marching forwarde with his arm bent in a grotesque manner."
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11-06-2006, 11:29 PM
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#11 | | Friend of Fencing
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Being helpful in Breeland
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Originally Posted by FencingKitten | Yeah, I tend to be much more interested in a fencing bout/event from referee's perspective.
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"Presidente of the Jury must consider the artistry and finesse of a foilist's attaque. He must also make it a pointe to deteste the hideousness of unwashed heathen who insists upon marching forwarde with his arm bent in a grotesque manner."
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11-06-2006, 11:58 PM
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#12 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Philadelphia
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Originally Posted by mrbiggs You're at a funeral and realize that your cards and bend measuring block are in your pockets.
And I don't even ref that much. | You choose your blue blazer for a stupid court date, on the theory that having the putting on the uniform might make you more confident. And you smile to yourself when you reach into your pocket and find your cards and imagine that you could use them on the idiot who has the balls to sue you after he ran into your car while turning right on red. | |
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11-07-2006, 12:39 AM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Austin, TX
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| ...there are referees who do card their fellow drivers...
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11-07-2006, 02:48 AM
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#14 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: West Lafayette, IN
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| along the same lines...
or how about when you accuratly can diagnose an equipment failure behind you on the other strip? maybe some of that comes from the armory work I do too.
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11-07-2006, 01:28 PM
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#15 | | Epee fencing addict
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Glenwood, ny
Posts: 2,146
| You know you referee too much when...
You're sitting at the dinner table with your family and both your son and daughter reach for the mashed potatoes at the same time and you stop them saying, "Simultaneous attack. Nothing done. En Guarde."
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11-07-2006, 01:36 PM
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#16 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: 40D 34' 7.046" N by 74D 26' 23.503" W
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| You know you referee too much when your hand signals don't feel right.
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11-07-2006, 01:37 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: 40D 34' 7.046" N by 74D 26' 23.503" W
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Originally Posted by FencingKitten | LMAO!!!!!
Seriously though...I asked the same question.
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11-08-2006, 11:49 AM
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#18 | | Bitter young coach
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Bay Area
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| Your USFA membership card says "Jay Choi."
When at a NAC you start avoiding the FOC just so that they can't tell you to go back to your room.
The first thing that pops into your head when you see two dogs fighting is "Attack from the left is parried, riposte arrives."
You yellow card someone for being late to dinner on the grounds of a "delay of meal."
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