Here's Your Sign

[Joe biebel]

I had an amusing incident happen while reffing, where a fencer (not me for once) asked a funny question. During the third, 3 minute period, of a DE match, down by one touch, at a halt for an off-target (foil obviously) the "down" fencer asked "How much time is on the clock?". I looked at the clock and responded "a minute and a half." He then asked, "Is that time left or time remaining?" After a short pause while I tried to think of something funny to say, several people chuckled and he realized what he had said. My response was "The clock is half full."

Any of you had any "here's your sign" moments or stories?

[epeemike81]

I had an amusing incident happen while reffing, where a fencer (not me for once) asked a funny question. During the third, 3 minute period, of a DE match, down by one touch, at a halt for an off-target (foil obviously) the "down" fencer asked "How much time is on the clock?". I looked at the clock and responded "a minute and a half." He then asked, "Is that time left or time remaining?" After a short pause while I tried to think of something funny to say, several people chuckled and he realized what he had said. My response was "The clock is half full."

Any of you had any "here's your sign" moments or stories?

Was the scoring machine broken?? why did he have to ask for time remaining at all???

-m

[counterattack]

Was the scoring machine broken?? why did he have to ask for time remaining at all???

-m

Those of us in the less luxurious divisions sometimes have to deal with scoring machines that :gasp: do not have the time. Also, the hot towels they pass out between bouts are merely warm and the post event champagne is not Korbel.

[seven6ty]

Hahaha, yeah, I was going to point out that some of us can even remember a time before clocks were put on the machines, oh no!

[KD5MDK]

Was the scoring machine broken?? why did he have to ask for time remaining at all???

-m

We have deaf fencers, why not blind ones?

[Purple Fencer]

We have deaf fencers, why not blind ones?

Those are called referees.... *ducks and runs*

[Rabid Monk]

We have deaf fencers, why not blind ones?

Fencing for the blind

[Inquartata]

Forgetting to remove the ankle weights I'd been wearing during warm-up...until halfway through my first pool bout at Nationals one year.

[academe]

Hahaha, yeah, I was going to point out that some of us can even remember a time before clocks were put on the machines, oh no!

Yeah, I remember those days. Those sand dials made it really hard to read when you had a few seconds left. My trouble now is I can't tell how much time is left 'cause there's no hands on them modern dig-i-a-tal clocks!

[Inquartata]

Sand-dials? LUXURY! In my day we had to stand around counting our pulses from sunup to sunset in order to establish the divisions of time! And we were bloody glad to be able to do it! Our grandfathers couldn't even count!

[tkexi991]

Sand-dials? LUXURY! In my day we had to stand around counting our pulses from sunup to sunset in order to establish the divisions of time! And we were bloody glad to be able to do it! Our grandfathers couldn't even count!

Is that back when the center line of all pistes in the country was the border with Canada? And you wouldn't dare retreat because you were defending America?

[piste off]

Our grandfathers couldn't even count!

You had grandfathers? LUXURY! In my day, people were not around long enough for them to exist!!!

Adam Jr.

[piste off]

Forgetting to remove the ankle weights I'd been wearing during warm-up...until halfway through my first pool bout at Nationals one year.

Are you sure they were ankle weights, or were they some sort of tracking device?

Rick

[epeemike81]

Those of us in the less luxurious divisions sometimes have to deal with scoring machines that :gasp: do not have the time. Also, the hot towels they pass out between bouts are merely warm and the post event champagne is not Korbel.

To paraphrase Lewis Black "If your [division] doesn't have the ****in' common sense to have a bake sale and buy a couple of 'em..."

seriously, though, can you think of another sport where people have organized competitions without a scoreboard at ANY LEVEL?

-m

[academe]

Those of us in the less luxurious divisions sometimes have to deal with scoring machines that :gasp: do not have the time. Also, the hot towels they pass out between bouts are merely warm and the post event champagne is not Korbel.

Gawd, someone else whining about the need for leveling in different divisions/sections.

[RITFencing]

My very first jacket was a back zip, and I took it to a local sports place to have my name put on the back. Lo and behold, they thought the zipper went in the front, and when I picked it up the next day (right before a competition) I had my last name emblazoned across the front of my chest. I was a crappy fencer at the time, and this didn't do wonders for my morale, so people were more or less using the O as a bullseye.

[remise]

I was at a Maryland event once when a fencer showed off a lame he had taken to the tailor to have it patched. The tailor sewed the new patch on inside out right in the middle of the lame. Everyone had a laugh about that one.

[wahrman]

pffft...at a recent, well discussed event here, we didn't even have electricity.

To paraphrase Lewis Black "If your [division] doesn't have the ****in' common sense to have a bake sale and buy a couple of 'em..."

seriously, though, can you think of another sport where people have organized competitions without a scoreboard at ANY LEVEL?

-m

[fencerbill]

I was at a Maryland event once when a fencer showed off a lame he had taken to the tailor to have it patched. The tailor sewed the new patch on inside out right in the middle of the lame. Everyone had a laugh about that one.

If it was stainless, or many other types of Lame fabric, it didn't make any difference. I was taking a Lame apart to salvage some of the fabric when I realized the whitish front was actually the same material as the rest of it, just inside out.

[HDG]

To paraphrase Lewis Black "If your [division] doesn't have the ****in' common sense to have a bake sale and buy a couple of 'em..."

seriously, though, can you think of another sport where people have organized competitions without a scoreboard at ANY LEVEL?

-m

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