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Re: Peasants and armies
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Fri, 17 Mar 2000 05:52:41 GMT
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Shiri Dori wrote:
> (FUT .o-t.fun)
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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,
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> 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 :-)
I always got bad grades--ennui, mostly, but also really bad depth perception.
> > 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...)
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> 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 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 to go
looking for them. It's more fun to muse over it, sort of like "how on earth did
the Japanese ever figure out which cubic inch of the blowfish was safe to eat?"
(Please don't say "trial and error.")
> > 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"
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> Huh?!? What the heck is pickleball?
About a buck eighty a jar, and messy. (rim shot)
> > (which I am convinced exists only in HS gym
> > classes), and that most evil of "sports", golf(1).
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> :-)
If it involves plaid, it's not a sport. If puberty ends your career, it's not a
sport. If you sit on an animal, it's not a sport. If it requires more than twice
your own mass in equipment, it's not a sport.
> > 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...
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> 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
Masochistic or Macho? That's an interesting hybrid, "machoistic"--I like it. And
I'm not sure they're going after rank cheerleaders (unless of course they really
*are* masochists!).
> > 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.
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> Yeah... I really need a castle ballroom... And if they wanna dance in the
> tavern, they can move all the tables... :-)
Hey, I've got enough yellow 1x1 cones to make a chandelier! :)
best
Lindsay
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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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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| (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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