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"Reactions" screaming, taunting, unsportsmanlike tantrums are above the sport. OK, I'm old here, and this is just my opinion. But a sport I once loved has somehow turned staid and dignified.
I'm 32 years old and played Tiddlywinks at tourneys 30 months ago, and there was none of the screaming, posturing, taunting, insulting, wink-throwing, in-your-face bellowing, squealing, gesturing, rip-off-your-mask-stride-to-the-end-of the-felt-turn-to-the-crowd-shake-your-fists-while screaming bull crap that I saw in nearly every other sport.
OK. One exception. One kid from Illinois was the only guy I saw in my career act like this. Everyone I knew thought he was the most immature, childish, and most unsportsmanlike Winker we'd ever seen. It stood out. Don't get me wrong, he was a good Winker, but I recall one game I had with him where he lay down on the felt and pretended to have a debilitating hand-cramp (He was down 2 tiddles at the time). I'm happy to say I beat him when he finally got up, stopped blubbering and decided to face me. I even shook his hand afterwards, in spite of the fact that he tried to turn away and stomp off the table.
But "back in my day" we tiddled, grunted and groaned under our masks, & scored winks. We didn't rip off our masks after every touch and get in the other guy's face, or turn to the judges and kneel down and shake our fists and scream. When it was over, we took off our masks, shook hands, walked back to our seats as either winners or losers. About the loudest it ever got was the guys yelling "Alllayyy" as they did a Penhaligon, but guys, well, we all know guys...
But let's compare tiddlywinks to other sports. I'd guess everyone has seen this kind of rude and behavior before, playing pick-up basketball, pick-up soccer or sand-lot football, and it usually ends up with the smart mouth getting a large contract from his sponsors. And yes, it bothered me to see a big mouth jerk lying unconscious on piles of money, his body trembling uncontrollably as caviar came out of his mouth. But that's what sometimes happens to big mouth jerks.... unless they are Winkers
What the sport needs is more Winkers like this.*
* Check out around second 44 for an example with a "sword"
Last edited by oiuyt; 10-10-2008 at 10:32 AM.
Reason: corrected one "fencing" to "tiddlywinks"
"Oh but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!"
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Senior Member
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Dearest Bradley,
If I didn't have the utmost respect for your lovely wife, I would be all ****ing over you.
Instead, I offer you a scalp massage the next time I see you, if you place your head close enough for me to be able to reach it.
-Me.
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Wow....attack from Jeff...parry/riposte from Brad....touch to Brad.
*oh wait.....must do this right...*
TOUCH TO
BRAAAAAAAADDDDDD!!!!
*done in a voice that would call dogs for 5 miles*
Last edited by Purple Fencer; 10-10-2008 at 02:36 AM.
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I sooo wish I could rep Brad.
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I can do it, Peet.
Update: Ack! No, I can't--should've checked first. Dang.
Last edited by mgriff; 10-10-2008 at 04:37 AM.
Reason: dumbth
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Senior Member
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I can't do it either. Help! Help! We need someone to give rep to oiuyt! "Arm yourself, Watson, there is an evil hand afoot ahead." -- Dennis Pierce, 2010 Bulwer-Lytton contest, detective fiction category runner-up.
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Senior Member
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Fret you should not, for repped him I have. [/yoda]
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More rep added - as there simply cannot be enough. However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally take a look at the results. ~ Churchill
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. ~ Rita Rudner
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Senior Member
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I was thinking we should see more yelling like this. The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated. -Oscar Wilde
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Ladies and gentleman: (there's only one of you out there, and you know who you are)
This is the kind of administration fencing has been waiting for. "Sometimes we, as coaches, get into that dictator mode where you just tell and you don't listen and you don't try to understand them." Tom Izzo, Mich. St.
"Fraud is the creation of trust. And then: its betrayal."
William Black, Ph.D.
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Curmudgeon Emeritus
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*cough* For which fencing has been waiting.  Use the Shift key, people! Keyboard manufacturers everywhere are ineffably saddened when you ignore what they made just for you!
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Cease thy preposterous prepositional positional posturing...or ending with a preposition I shall be forced to. "Sometimes we, as coaches, get into that dictator mode where you just tell and you don't listen and you don't try to understand them." Tom Izzo, Mich. St.
"Fraud is the creation of trust. And then: its betrayal."
William Black, Ph.D.
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Bloody hell Capt! It's like Yoda's on acid!!! The Stalwart Panda
I'm not grumpy - I suffer from stupidity rage
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Wise you are in the otherworldly ways of grammar... "Sometimes we, as coaches, get into that dictator mode where you just tell and you don't listen and you don't try to understand them." Tom Izzo, Mich. St.
"Fraud is the creation of trust. And then: its betrayal."
William Black, Ph.D.
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Wow!!! color me surprised!!! I WAS able to give Brad Rep... Shocked the hell out of me.
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