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Re: Peasants and armies
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Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:55:41 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Jeff Johnston writes:
Archery and Swimming were the only PE sections I could ever get above a C in,

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 the
US, my PE classes are on a A, Pass, Fail scale. You get an A if you come to
every class with outfit, participate, etc... (yuck :-)

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...)

Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm having so much fun in my current Lifetime
class. We did badminton, it was excellent! (Badminton, as are Baseball and
American football, is literally nonexistent in Israel.)

I actually took more PE classes than I was required to, because it was so nice
to be able to *choose* things I was interested in - instead of tennis, flag
football, basketball, "pickleball"

Huh?!? What the heck is pickleball?

(which I am convinced exists only in HS gym
classes), and that most evil of "sports", golf(1).

:-)

I seem to be increasingly off-topic. 8) Maybe I should make a football (that
is, American football) game between the Royal Knights and the Cowpack...

Football, IMHO, is the dumbest sports game alive. I see no point in it except
for machoistic (sp?!) egotistic guys who want the cheerleaders ranking for
them.
(Don't let me start about cheerleaders, unless you're willing to tell me about
golf :)

unfortunately I can't tell you offhand what sort of games the Castle folk
would have played, need to do a bit of research on that.  They probably all
dance a lot, though.  Dancing was a great social activity for all classes.

Yeah... I really need a castle ballroom... And if they wanna dance in the
tavern, they can move all the tables... :-)

-Shiri



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  Re: Peasants and armies..the games
 
(...) 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)
  Re: Peasants and armies
 
(...) 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)
  Re: Peasants and armies
 
(...) 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
 
(...) 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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