Goyum Need Not Apply

[finnfence]

Originally Posted by noodle

while we're at it, the USFA should open up women's events so that men can fence in them too. i, for one, would like to have a national women's championship medal under my belt.

Welcome! If you think you can beat the top women athletes...

[jeff]

Originally Posted by edew

How about the Judean People's Liberation Front Games? Or maybe the People's Front of Judea Games? (I think that one might have only one athlete/official/tournament organizer.)

Bout committee, organizer, and sole participant - John Cleese

[fencerbill]

Originally Posted by finnfence

Welcome! If you think you can beat the top women athletes...

Who could stand entering and then not winning? Oh, the inhumanity of it all.

[Soberin]

You all should be commended for your responses. I am quite pleased that no one took the bait from the original poster who was obviously looking for more emotional replies. Bravo.

[Fencergrl]

Originally Posted by rdg

Warm American Paranoid Mensches: now that sounds like a cougar call. Oh fencer girl where are you?

Sam

You called?

WAPM? Ah... Warm Appetizing P**** for Me??

[epeemike81]

Originally Posted by Mr.MightyMouse

Am I the only one puzzled by the abbreviation?
Warm
American
Paranoid
Mensches????????????


Weekly
Amelia Eahart seeking
Parasitic
Mosquitoes???????

according to abbreviations.com:
World Association of Perinatal Medicine
Wireless Access Point Module
Wide Area Pollution Monitoring
Western Academy of Pipe Music

don't think it's any of those...

would the OP care to shed any light?

-m

[epeemike81]

Originally Posted by rdg

Slightly bitter old guys. That would be a good tournament, and probably the best beer.

Another Veterans event???

-m

[Fencergrl]

Originally Posted by epeemike81

Another Veterans event???

-m

Yes they want to split the slightly bitter from the really bitter.

[TooLoftheDeviL]

Originally Posted by epeemike81

according to abbreviations.com:
World Association of Perinatal Medicine
Wireless Access Point Module
Wide Area Pollution Monitoring
Western Academy of Pipe Music

don't think it's any of those...

would the OP care to shed any light?

-m

I believe he strayed from WASP. I took it to mean white anglo-saxon protestant male.

[epeemike81]

Originally Posted by TooLoftheDeviL

I believe he strayed from WASP. I took it to mean white anglo-saxon protestant male.

That's quite the typo...

-m

[counterattack]

Originally Posted by epeemike81

That's quite the typo...

-m

It took it to mean the same thing, and it wasn't a typo. It was a new acronym meant to add "male" to the mix. So maybe he would have been more clear with WASPM or WASP males.

-ph

[rdg]

Originally Posted by counterattack

It took it to mean the same thing, and it wasn't a typo. It was a new acronym meant to add "male" to the mix. So maybe he would have been more clear with WASPM or WASP males.

-ph

OK,OK, I fixed it on the original; although the discussion above is much more clever.

Sam

[oiuyt]

Interestingly (to me anyway), AF frequently has had ads looking for Americans with Mexican ancestry for the Mexican JO's. Haven't seen any objections here to those ads.

-B

[telkanuru]

Heh. Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T?

[rdg]

Originally Posted by oiuyt

Interestingly (to me anyway), AF frequently has had ads looking for Americans with Mexican ancestry for the Mexican JO's. Haven't seen any objections here to those ads.

-B

I didn't see it, or I would have commented. I am certainly not trying to pick on Jewish fencers, of whom there are more than a few who can whip me.

Just wait until they are all healthy, and then it will be worse. I understand that one of the best vets right now is suffering mightly from a bad back.

I wish him the best, of course, but not until after SN. Get better my friend, soon. I wish to see you fence at your best.

There can only be one!

Sam

[skate615]

Originally Posted by jessicasimpson

I feel that white men have never gotten a fair shake any time in history. More must be done to include white men, as they have never had anything they can call their own.

I recall something about owning slaves, land, women, children, etc. I guess one does not miss these "amenities" until they're gone!!

[skate615]

Originally Posted by jeff

Bout committee, organizer, and sole participant - John Cleese

How Jewish do you have to be? My goddaughter's father is Jewish. However, she did not come from a Jewish womb, would she qualify? This whole thing starts a very uncomfortable slippery slope that leaves NO ONE safe. atrocious acts have been justified all through history based upon perceived difference which eventually transforms into an inferiority that justifies hate.

[whtouche]

Originally Posted by skate615

How Jewish do you have to be? My goddaughter's father is Jewish. However, she did not come from a Jewish womb, would she qualify? This whole thing starts a very uncomfortable slippery slope that leaves NO ONE safe. atrocious acts have been justified all through history based upon perceived difference which eventually transforms into an inferiority that justifies hate.

Yeah you're right.
We should protest the Maccabiah games on the basis that it is a hate-fostering organization.

Are you serious?

Is the OP serious? How can you possibly take offense to this?

The point of the Maccabiah games (I imagine, I have no real direct knowledge of them) is not to find the best fencer in the world, or the best whatever sportsman or sportswoman in the world. It's a specific people and culture coming together to celebrate through sports.

In this world of overactive and ignorant hyper-political correctness we're finding it easier and easier to be offended by things which should not do so. I think this climate is more dangerous than a sport festival for a certain minority. Are you offended by the NAACP? Ok, maybe I am sometimes but they exist to tug at the opposite end of the extreme which is already out there.

There is no eloquent way to continue saying what I'm trying to say, so I guess I will end by saying don't be ignorant. It's the year 2008 sure, but that does not mean that inequality does not still exist. Hyper-PC freaks who like to pretend that everyone is skipping through a field of daisies holding hands are the only ones pretending that minority advancement or celebration organizations (such as the Maccabiah games, the NAACP, and any other one of the unlimited examples) are offensive. In actuality, until the reality of the whole world matches the ignorant perception of these hyper-pc crazy people, such organizations are necessary.

Apologies for the righteous attitude, it's early and ignorance (there's that word again) tugs at me the wrong way, especially when it's masqueraded as an assault on the same.

[jjefferies]

Originally Posted by skate615

I recall something about owning slaves, land, women, children, etc. I guess one does not miss these "amenities" until they're gone!!

I think that if you check your history of mankind you'll find that overall there are no such limitations on race or sex as to owning anything. At one time or another all combinations have been present.

[piste off]

Originally Posted by rdg

Well this bugs me.

I am sure that they would be willing to accept your application to participate. I have a rabbi friend that could help. He works for free... only takes tips.

R-