12-21-2007, 05:07 PM
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| It's the epee fencers we want to stop reproducing. Epee referees are relatively harmless creatures.
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12-21-2007, 05:26 PM
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| They are still actively* involved in the weakest branch of fencing.
*I know it's not the right word to use, but for the life of me, I can't think of what the appropriate one would be...
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12-21-2007, 05:29 PM
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| I have no time to reproduce...
...but in a recent DE, as we tested bell guards, my opponent said in a certain tone of voice, "Let's see how you've progressed since I fenced you last."
I was flabbergasted. Lost 15-4.
Someday, when I write the book....
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12-21-2007, 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Dev  Why would an epee referee need blood to the brain? | To reverse the process they use to help them understand the mentality of foilists and sabreurs.
Rick
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12-21-2007, 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata It's the epee fencers we want to stop reproducing. | I know you guys are jealous that we are the most popular weapon, but Jeez. Soon you'll be marching Der Stechschritt down the strip. It is enough to give me goose-fleche.
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12-22-2007, 07:52 PM
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#46 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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Originally Posted by D'Art They are still actively* involved in the weakest branch of fencing.
*I know it's not the right word to use, but for the life of me, I can't think of what the appropriate one would be... | Well, if we're talking about reproduction, I might suggest "intimately". ( Especially with MP talking about the legions of referees who have seen her naked... 
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12-22-2007, 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by piste off To reverse the process they use to help them understand the mentality of foilists and sabreurs.
Rick | Have you ever thought about writing fantasy novels for a living?
Blood or no blood, it would be like asking a terrier to understand microeconomic theory... 
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12-23-2007, 12:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Blood or no blood, it would be like asking a terrier to understand microeconomic theory... | Dear Inquartata,
My owner Rick showed me your post and I was delighted in your interest of terriers and microeconomic theory. Too many of your fellow humans underestimate the contribution of our breeds to modern economic thought.
I'd love to meet you sometime and discuss my latest thesis, which covers some new ideas on measuring price elasticity and their integration with game theory and Pareto efficiency concepts that can be applied to both consumer and B2B markets. It has major implications in demonstrating a firm's strategic and economic trade-offs in establishing optimal price points that maximize the profits of both the company and its distribution partners within the market system. Either that or I could just hump your leg.
Regards,
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12-23-2007, 04:01 PM
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| Hah, "Fluffy", indeed. You are transparent, Wishbone!
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12-23-2007, 04:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Remise-o-matic
Once, at a NAC and before a bout against an opponent I did not know, with a ref I had never met, as my opponent was putting his mask on and revving himself into combat mode, I went up to the ref and said, "I'm going to start talking to you so my opponent will think you and I are friends."
The ref laughed loudly, as I had hoped he would. My opponent looked worried, as I knew he would, and the ground was suitably prepared.
| omg this is genius and so being done. Quote:
Originally Posted by piste off Either that or I could just hump your leg. | mmhmmm....interesting pyscholigical tactic
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12-23-2007, 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Well, if we're talking about reproduction, I might suggest "intimately". ( Especially with MP talking about the legions of referees who have seen her naked... | Legions?
Of the currently active rated refs who have seen me naked........ There's maybe one.
Certain reports have been wildly exaggerated. By me. 
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12-23-2007, 06:18 PM
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| Given the separation of 4 and 5 implied a distinction, you do a good job of exaggerating. | 
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12-23-2007, 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by KD5MDK Given the separation of 4 and 5 implied a distinction, you do a good job of exaggerating. | In case my boyfriend bothers to get a rating, and he and I break up.
I like to think ahead.
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12-23-2007, 10:38 PM
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| Once I go down by more than 1 touch as we reset I ask them if they have had enough. In the club the old "Shoe's untied" is a good one.
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12-23-2007, 11:17 PM
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#55 | | Posting Hound
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| shoe tying makes the other team laugh at you after every touch...
"your shoes slightly untied, you might want to stop the bout and tie it right about now"
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| [quote=Inquartata;646813]
it would be like asking a terrier to understand microeconomic theory/QUOTE]
Card for unsportsmanlike conduct, regardless of sport or species.
"I could just hump your leg."
Before "fence", delay of bout card in F/E/S. After "fence", "corps-a-corps" card in F/S. In epee, halt but no card.
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12-27-2007, 10:52 AM
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| I also had some success, when a ref once called a halt, in pointing at my opponent and remonstrating, "But he was trying to hit me!" If nothing else, I got five seconds of befuddlement (on the other side of the piste) from it.
Your mileage may vary, but as Aristotle, or Socrates, or Plato -- or maybe it was Pee Wee Herman -- once said, "The unexamined life is not worth living."
Remise-O-Matic once said, "The unlived life is not worth examining."
He also said -- or maybe it was Kehlog Albran -- "The unexamined bout is not worth fencing." | |
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