February 2008 BoD Board Meeting

[Mr Epee]

Originally Posted by DJ Apostrophe

I don't have anything to say other than... Holy crap... look who's back.

-w

I'm snowed in. Literally.
The night before involved a 20 minute hail storm complete with thunder and lightning. Thanks!!

I suspect these may be the end times.

Moving on.

Originally Posted by KDKDKDKD

Discussion on this forum informs discussion at the Board meetings. (I've been at BoD meetings where questions and issues raised by this forum were quoted not quite verbatim.) Moreover, in good principle all actions by the USFA are open for discussion wherever USFA members congregate. It's part of a healthy and involved membership.

Therefore, if a problem has been proposed, and even accepted as a problem (most people seem to be accepting that, I think), then identifying the cause is critical before deciding whether or not to do anything about it.

1. Thanks for such a refreshing reminder on the importance of the American Bill of Rights. Speech, Press, Assembly, Petition, thank you and double thank you.

2. Use of the the word moreover is inherently creepy.

3. Where elected officials stand on an issue is probably a good starting point for most discussion, as it generally squashes or creates most of the hullabaloo.

4. Which reminds me. It's been while since I read one of these agendas... but I miss the parts that start off with "Here comes the honorable Joseph Streb". Those were always good reading.

[KD5MDK]

1) I said nothing of petitions. I've seen no good come of them so far in the USFA.

2) :

3) Brad isn't really an elected official yet. While I like the USFA Congress, I think it's a little indirect.

4) I think we're safer without those proposals, even though they never passed.

[Mr Epee]

Originally Posted by NotIndPk

....I am new here - but is this the standard here? You disagree with someone's post then you go ahead and personally attack the poster instead of simply asking the question? ..

...and attacking oiuyt???? He is the most courteous, humorous poster on this site.....

...where is the Moderator when you need one......

heh - gets 'em every time.

NotIndPK, do you see that long line of green dots below my picture? It is the same length as his. Without wasting too much time on the subject, allow me to inform you that this signifies that we are equally courteous and humorous. I, however, have accomplished this feat with less than half the posts. I am simply a more efficient person. It is my deep rooted desire for efficiency that sparked such a needlessly caustic outburst.

Please stop misdirecting the thread.

[NotIndPk]

Originally Posted by Mr Epee

heh - gets 'em every time.

NotIndPK, do you see that long line of green dots below my picture? It is the same length as his. Without wasting too much time on the subject, allow me to inform you that this signifies that we are equally courteous and humorous. I, however, have accomplished this feat with less than half the posts. I am simply a more efficient person. It is my deep rooted desire for efficiency that sparked such a needlessly caustic outburst.

Please stop misdirecting the thread.

2).....Stopped.

..Bows, respectfully.

PS: Appreciate the acknowledgement that the outburst was needlessly caustic.....only place in the post, where you and I HAD parted company...

[oiuyt]

Originally Posted by KD5MDK

3) Brad isn't really an elected official yet. While I like the USFA Congress, I think it's a little indirect.

Indirect or not, I would argue that I'm absolutely an elected official.

The Electoral College is a little indirect, but W is still an elected official.

Originally Posted by Mr Epee

NotIndPK, do you see that long line of green dots below my picture? It is the same length as his. Without wasting too much time on the subject, allow me to inform you that this signifies that we are equally courteous and humorous.

Wow. Should I be most shocked that MrE deigns again to grace us with his presence, that he is claiming to believe that rep (or worse, rep dots!) have some meaning, or that he's willing to admit that I'm equally as hurmorous as he?

-B
*notes that NotIndPk has 8 dots to MrE's 11 in less than 1/40th of the post count*

edit: an hour or so later NotIndPk is up to 9 dots. I suspect s/he will match MrE and I by the end of the day.

[Mr Epee]

Originally Posted by oiuyt

He's willing to admit that I'm equally as hurmorous as he?

-B

Yes, equally funny.... just in different ways.

I have my appreciation for irreverence, and, well, you have your looks.

[dekko]

Originally Posted by oiuyt

*notes that NotIndPk has 8 dots to MrE's 11 in less than 1/40th of the post count*

Now that's efficiency.

Dots rule!!

[Capt. Slo-mo]

Originally Posted by NotIndPk

....I am new here - but is this the standard here? You (Mr. Epee) disagree with someone's post then you go ahead and personally attack the poster instead of simply asking the question? ..

...and attacking oiuyt???? He is the most courteous, humorous poster on this site.....

...where is the Moderator when you need one......

I think there is a connection between his snowed-in situation, the inability of PetMeds.com to deliver his current dosage of horse tranquilizers that has kept him content and absent from the board, and his sudden re-emergence rife with irritability.

That being said, nice to see you again, Mr. E...and play nice with the newbies until they get toughened up a bit.

[NotIndPk]

Originally Posted by Capt. Slo-mo

...snip** until they get toughened up a bit.

....I have my weapon........er....ahhhh...epee?. NO, NO, NO...ehhhmmmm. Sabre?

Naahhhh.....oh here it is:

Foil

[Mr Epee]

Foil, huh?

Well, isn't that like bringing a pencil sharpener to a gunfight.

And here I was worried that you planned to kill me slowly with an excessive use of ellipses.
Damn you and your abuse of punctuation.

[chefencer]

welcum bak... mr e...











Hahahahahahahahahaha!

[Mr Epee]

I hate you

[NotIndPk]

Originally Posted by Mr Epee

Foil, huh?

Well, isn't that like bringing a pencil sharpener to a gunfight.

And here I was worried that you planned to kill me slowly with an excessive use of ellipses. Damn you and your abuse of punctuation.

...than bringing an "edgeless" epee to the same gunfight, eh?.......

and by the way,
.....


PS: Please damn my use or as you see it abuse of punctuation - but try and stay away from damning me, lest....you know......God hears you or......

something...

oh, sorry, I forgot...

you are an epeeist.........

[trafl926]

Originally Posted by Mr Epee

"Here comes the honorable Joseph Streb". Those were always good reading.

Is that like..a bear..in a suit..with a briefcase?

[Fencergrl]

Originally Posted by Mr Epee

I'm snowed in. Literally.

I vote gather up all our snow and send it to Mr. E. F-net has been sorely lacking irreverence and good nudie pics since he left us.

I also like how he unnerves the newbies.

[Fencergrl]

Originally Posted by NotIndPk

...than bringing an "edgeless" epee to the same gunfight, eh?.......

M'dear his wit is sharp enough. I suggest you neither fence words nor blades with Mr. E, as you will surely lose.

[NotIndPk]

Originally Posted by Mr Epee

then please f'ing get to it... this self-pleasuring drivel is nearly as obnoxious as it is long. It is ultimately pointless. .snip*

Originally Posted by Mr Epee

needlessly caustic remark

Originally Posted by Fencergrl

I also like how he unnerves the newbies.

...sure 'unnerves me'...

Now, as MrE suggested correctly can we get this thread back on track?

I hope to attend my first USFA Board meeting and it should be interesting for this newbie.....

[sheck]

Originally Posted by oiuyt

Womens Epee added a "for fun" team event to a D1 NAC a few years ago (Pittsburgh?). I remember having a couple/few of the Temple fencers enter into it. IIRC correctly it included the National Team members, plus others who signed up. 4 teams total? 6? Teams were built on an ad hoc basis (Nat Team stayed as a unit?).

It was organized by Andrea Lagan as an experimental program, but wasn't repeated subsequently.

-B

Nazlymov did something similar in men's sabre at a NAC in KC. This was back in the mid 1990s. IMO a very good idea but it also wasn't continued.

[teacup]

There might be more team participation in April if compilation teams, sectional or divisional or regional teams, were allowed and if all of the team events for each sex/weapon were scheduled the day after the individual DIV I events.

There could be some really good teams if compilation teams were allowed.

WE, Texas vs California vs Oregon

ME, NY vs CA vs TX
etc.