Fencish for Good Luck

[Bout ender]

lmao, I'm using this one next tournament!

I agree...except for the Pat part, no?

[Greybeard]

As I was heading off to a tournament my college age son sent me away with the wisdom of Coach Red Forman, "Don't fence like a dumba**."

Red is good in so many situations.

My wife says, "Have fun." To which I respond, "Winning is fun."

[formerfencer]

"happy hitting" or "go to work"
or my coach's personal favorite "just don't do anything stupid" --- i should have taken his advice more often.

[RITFencing]

"Good hunting."

"Keep moving your feet."

"Don't stop your feet."

"Why did you stop your feet?"

(noticing a pattern?)

"Don't just win... kick the @#$% out of him."

[bunbury]

"Pick him up, and wipe his ass all over the strip."

There's a club around town that has a shirt that says "[Clubname] Fencing: 99% Athlete, 1% Kid With Pointy Stick." I want to print a shirt that says "CFC Fencing: 100% Athlete. That's why we win."

[die Fechterin]

My dad stole this from football: "Hit him in the right knee! Hit him the in left knee! Hit him in the ...(and you can take it from there). It works for me as an Epeeist.

[fatfencer]

You: "Me, Silverback!!!"

Opponent: "You, Dian Fossey!!"

I've used this on the strip and gotten a yellow card AFTER the ref stopped laughing. I think the call was disorderly fencing....

Fatfencer

[RITFencing]

Oh, I haven't used it, but I've been waiting for a good occasion:

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.

I have a weakness for great literature.

[bunbury]

Oh, I haven't used it, but I've been waiting for a good occasion:

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.

I have a weakness for great literature.

Nothing like an overused, misused, and not understood cliche to raise morale in the troops.

[Greybeard]

I was down 7-3 in my Vet's DE in Epee to the number 1 seed in the tournament when he hit me with touch 8 I backed to the en guarde line and asked him if he had had enough.

We had to wait a few minutes for the director to stop laughing. I then ran three touches and ended up losing 10-7. But it worked and seemed so absurd I avoided the yellow.

[Peach]

Nothing like an overused, misused, and not understood cliche to raise moral in the troops.

Raise moral? You mean make them more ethical? I love it when errors are criticized in erring language. It's one of the joys of being an English teacher.

morale.

[a Natural 20]

I was down 7-3 in my Vet's DE in Epee to the number 1 seed in the tournament when he hit me with touch 8 I backed to the en guarde line and asked him if he had had enough.

We had to wait a few minutes for the director to stop laughing. I then ran three touches and ended up losing 10-7. But it worked and seemed so absurd I avoided the yellow.

In one of my first tournaments ever (way back in 92') I was fencing a B ranked fencer (me with my U!) and we stepped up to test our foil lames, so I said to the guy "Enjoy that, cuz its the LAST touch your gonna get."

Much laughter followed by the small crowd, and the bout began. I scored the first touch. More laughter. I scored the second touch. A bit less laughter. Some sidelong glances at my opponent.

Said B ranked fencer then made me his B#$%&!

[fatfencer]

Oh, I haven't used it, but I've been waiting for a good occasion:

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.

I have a weakness for great literature.

" Once more unto the breach" is my obligatory saying when fencing someone in DE's that I whupped on in the pools.

Brian Blessed does a great "cry havoc!"