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(...) No, those asian polearms are Naginata. Shuriken are those little pointy metal stars everyone loved in the mid-80's. They can be seen painted on the torsos of most Lego ninja, tucked in their belts. As an aside, Naginata are often disparaginly (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) weapon", (...) Prior to the Edo period, the Naginata was a weapon used on the battlefields by samurai. The Edo period was relatively peaceful, and women of samurai families were trained with the Naginata. This is where the tradition of women (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) families (...) I've done some research and found some more information. I quote the following: Women, usually of high-rank, were allowed an education and training in martial arts. It was not considered unusual for clan princesses to be taught (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) To be clear, I didn't say *I* referred to the Naginata disparagingly as a "woman's weapon". I am quite aware of the damage one of these things can do in the wrong hands. For more information, play Kyoshiro in Samurai Showdown III on the Sony (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) shurikens...I could (...) those little pointy metal (...) painted on the torsos (...) That's right...throwing stars...I was pretty good with those...I couold almost play cricket or 301 with them) I stand corrected = ) (I just couldn't think of (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) As far I understood from my studies, the military history of medieval Japan is basically divided into two sections, divided by the development of the shogunate. The shoguns began to encourage sword-worship and a harsh division between the (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I seem to recall hearing of one diminutive warlord who greatly favored the use of a short-barrelled arquebus for controlling unruly crowds and was thereafter referred to as the Sawed-Off Shogun. Dave! (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) advantage (...) OOoooooOOoooo, hurl, puke, vomit. Just for that, I'll ruin the joke: it was called a blunderbus (if you want the shot-gun effect. A musketoon if you mean a short-barreled solid ball shooter. Nyahh. :-) Bruce (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) I thought a musketoon was one of those coconut-flavored cookies. Dave! (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) Naw, a musketoon is a kid that wears mouse ears and sings and dances on tv. (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) And in later years gets implants. Dave! (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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"Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:G069wt.GDI@lugnet.com... (...) tv. (...) I thought we were talking about Pikes not Spears. -Jon (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Let's give it up for Jon Palmer. That was one heck of a pun! Dave! (16 years ago, 26-Jul-08, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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