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    Best fencing article I've ever read

    "Life is like a wheel, where everyone steals, but when we rise, it's like Strawberry Fields."

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    Why did they even waste money taking the fence down? They could have left it up and kept a few bucks.

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    Save a few bucks and a bit of doe.

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    "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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    It's like we keep on saying. Fencing is all in the mind.

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    Fencing. You're doing it wrong.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oiuyt View Post
    Save a few bucks and a bit of doe.

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    Nice points. Herd you loud and clear.

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    Oh deer, another pun thread.

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    better than I thought

    this thread is pretty good. I hope no one takes a fence.
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    Quote Originally Posted by theLuz View Post
    this thread is pretty good. I hope no one takes a fence.
    I was thinking of starting a picket line.

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    Argggg!

    Okay, everyone who posted an unfunny pun in here (which would be all of you), you each owe me reputation points!
    "Life is like a wheel, where everyone steals, but when we rise, it's like Strawberry Fields."

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    Quote Originally Posted by seven6ty View Post
    Argggg!

    Okay, everyone who posted an unfunny pun in here (which would be all of you), you each owe me reputation points!
    You just might split a rail after all the whitewashing that's going on here.
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    I'm still kind of on the fence about these pun threads, although I see the rest of you are taking to it with doe-eyed enthusiasm.
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    Off to the water cooler with this.

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    Oh wait... But a zombie's guide to fencing referees, or whatever other nonsense stays put? Niceeee unbiased moderating there.
    "Life is like a wheel, where everyone steals, but when we rise, it's like Strawberry Fields."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gav View Post
    Off to the water cooler with this.
    Have a hart.

    Fine, fine, we'll just turn (white)tail and stag-ger off to the cooler and may the Devil take the hind-most.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oiuyt View Post
    Have a hart.

    Fine, fine, we'll just turn (white)tail and stag-ger off to the cooler and may the Devil take the hind-most.

    -B
    I shake my fist at your puns!

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    Quote Originally Posted by seven6ty View Post
    Oh wait... But a zombie's guide to fencing referees, or whatever other nonsense stays put? Niceeee unbiased moderating there.
    To be fair Craig is the boss*.

    * Which makes me the lackey.

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    So then I guess we should wait to see which side of the fence Craig comes down on.
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    If he's a zombie, it's entirely possible that he could come down on both sides of the fence. Depending on how far decomposition has advanced.
    Use the Shift key, people! Keyboard manufacturers everywhere are ineffably saddened when you ignore what they made just for you!

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    Punniness. You haz it.

    I think this is the article the OP was intending to post:

    http://www.slate.com/id/2219878/

    Chess With Knives
    Can I master fencing, the sport for vicious brainiacs?
    By Emily Yoffe
    Posted Friday, June 5, 2009, at 2:57 PM ET

    "I stepped toward my opponent, aimed my sword at her heart, and lunged, causing to pour forth from deep in her chest a stream of giggles. She blocked my attack with a lateral parry quarte, and I tried to riposte to her high inside line. My riposte missed its mark, and my opponent easily hit my blade away, then struck me, provoking more hilarity from her. There's something about being laughed at from behind a disembodied fencer's mask that is particularly infuriating. I was now so flustered that I forgot to extend my arm before lunging, allowing her to hit me again. She said, "You just get worse and worse! A-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!"

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    Darling Emily Yoffe is at it again, this time whining about how haaaaaard fencing is. (She probably doesn't like it because she's terrible at it and clearly doesn't want to put in the work to get better.) She's got such a self-conscious and neurotic writing style she could probably describe the experience of receiving a long slow kiss from George Clooney or Nicole Kidman and make it sound unpleasant.

    I'm not sure where she's taking lessons where the other fencers are so ill-mannered, too -- that kind of open ridicule of a beginner would not fly with my coach at all. He's the sort who'd give the rude person about one second of the Taciturn Eastern European Hairy Eyeball -- the guy even glares in Romanian -- and then all mean-spirited jeering stops.

    But then, Emily Yoffe is the same writer who in her advice column chided a letter writer for not wanting to provide free babysitting on her lunch hour for a co-worker's (mulitiple, unruly) kids. I'm not sure what color the sky is in her world.

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