When a certain sabre fencer appealed the seeding in an Olympic-year point event and brought everything to a halt, a visitor from another sport commented to a USFA honcho, "Your fencers must have excellent lawyers."
"My fencers ARE lawyers," was the reply.
"Arm yourself, Watson, there is an evil hand afoot ahead." -- Dennis Pierce, 2010 Bulwer-Lytton contest, detective fiction category runner-up.