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| | | (...) Well...I disagree with "any old peasant can shoot a bow". The rest is pretty accurate, but as for the first, well, there's an old English saying: "If you want to train an archer, start with his grandfather." During some periods in English (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Peasants and armies —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | (...) That's cool... let me add my fact: I'm taking archery in Phys Ed right now. It hurts. 'Nuff said. <grin> I've been pitying those archers'o'mine... that's why I only made four... (j/k) -Shiri (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Peasants and armies —Jeff Johnston
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| | | | | | (...) Archery and Swimming were the only PE sections I could ever get above a C in, at least until I hit college and got to do other interesting things (like yoga, horseback riding, tai chi, fencing, ballroom dance, juggling, rock climbing...) I (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Peasants and armies —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | | (FUT .o-t.fun) (...) Hmm.. I'm really awful at all sports but I always managed a B- minimum... why, you ask? Cause I had asthma... So if I did *anything* at all, my teachers would classify it as 'tried hard, nice efforts'... <grin> ... and here in (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Peasants and armies..the games —Dave Stiles
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| | | | | | | (...) Games from 500 to 1649 AD were of the following: Hoodman's Bluff; the same as blindmans bluff Hot Cockles:A Lady or GEntleman kneels and is blindfolded. The other participants take turns hititng the person over the head, trying to knock the (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Peasants and armies..the games —James Brown
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| | | | | | | | (...) agressors (...) Also common, in a more martial bent, for those of you with armies to entertain <grin>... Pells - knights and squires would ride at a dummy that simulates an opponent, and attempt to catch small rings (4 inch diameter, or so) on (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Peasants and armies —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | | | | (...) Hm, at my high school, the gym classes focus on one sport for a couple weeks, and then switch to another. There's basketball, weight lifting (aka conditioning), basketball, track, basketball, football, basketball, floor hockey, basketball, (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Peasants and armies —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | (...) I always got bad grades--ennui, mostly, but also really bad depth perception. (...) I keep trying to figure out how the shape of the shuttlecock (stop chuckling!) came to be--I'm sure there are histories of badminton, but I really don't want (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Peasants and armies —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | | | (...) Same here - except that I claimed to be after an asthma attack - just this morning, y'know! - and the teachers never knew... (shush! don't tell! :) (...) Well, this one coulda been the trail and error... errordynamics, that is ;-) (Check out (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Peasants and armies —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | | | (...) I always did poorly for one simple reason: I'm awful at sports. ;) And I really couldn't care less... :) As far as I'm concerned, sports are boring. Except for the Olympics... :) (...) Trial and Error. Oops! I wasn't supposed to say that, was (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Peasants and armies —Jeff Johnston
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| | | | | | | | | (...) It's kinda like tennis played with a wiffle ball and wooden wiffle raquets, except the rules are more like those of ping-pong. I think. But it's been a long time. Stupid game, and nobody's ever heard of it. (...) Garlic? Nasty? Never! J (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Peasants and armies —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Huh... (...) Obviously. ;) (...) I didn't say garlic was nasty, I said Uber Garlic *Pickles* were nasty. ;) Jeff (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Peasants and armies —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | | | | (...) perception. (...) Yah, I like the olympics. Other sports are really just out there, y'know? (...) Don't let Todd here ya say that! :-) (...) I used to read phone books. It was pretty amusing to see how many "Cohen" families were listed in the (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Peasants and armies —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | | | (...) That's for sure. I especially like the Winter Olympics. :) (...) lol!! I never did that much... :) (...) Hehe... The highlight of my school year was always the last day. ;) Umm, don't you mean "Astronomy" instead of "Astronaut"? :) If not, (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Peasants and armies —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | | | | (...) boring. (...) Well, I never got to see too many winter sports (seeing winter in Israel is, well, warm...) but I do like them. I always loved to see the vaulters and high- jumps, not to mention the gymnastics... and track too. (...) <grin> No, (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Peasants and armies —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | | (...) Ah, in the US, that would be "space cadet". (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Peasants and armies —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | (...) Or just 'spacey'. 'Dreamy' is something entirely different. Steve (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Peasants and armies —Ravi Mohan
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| | | | | | | (...) why, (...) the (...) Out here we get graded by aa annual test (2.4k run,shuttle run and stuff like that i flunked everything except sit ups-we fake our results..."i did 40 ok...i did 45 set "when we only did say 10 or 20" cause i couldn't be (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Peasants and armies —James Brown
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| | | | | | (...) Don't let the Scots hear you say that... ;) James (URL) getting paid for this --> alladvantage.com Sign up via me, the reference $$ go to fund Lugnet. (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: Peasants and armies —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | (...) Very true. In fact, Yew trees were planted on Church grounds so that the villagers always had the wood required to create longbows if they were called upon to defend the land. (...) Another fun fact: these weapons are the one of the few types (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Peasants and armies —James Brown
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| | | | (...) Oh well, if you want them to shoot *well*, then yeah. :) But battle archery was very different from target archery. In battle archery, there was no aiming, there is 'point in the air' and shoot. The only real reason combat archery was (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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