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Re: Peasants and armies
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Fri, 17 Mar 2000 06:08:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> Shiri Dori wrote:
> I always got bad grades--ennui, mostly, but also really bad depth perception.
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! :)
> > 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.)
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> 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.
Well, this one coulda been the trail and error... errordynamics, that is ;-)
(Check out the Anguish Language thingie Bram posted in .pun :)
> 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.")
LOL! Sounds like one of the theories we make up in my (previous) school on
them 4-day field trips (1). One time, a few kids in my class managed to
explain how come forward is left from down, and also why tourists from Israel
always get lost (it's because our right is everybody else's left; So when
someone says "take a left", we actually take a right ;-).
> > > 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?
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> About a buck eighty a jar, and messy. (rim shot)
Aaah...
> > > (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 concour!
<snip>
> > for machoistic (sp?!) egotistic guys who want the cheerleaders ranking for
> > them
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> Masochistic or Macho?
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!).
I think I meant rooting for them...
OK, this is about the fifth/sixth new word I'm learning today... Damn, I
couldn't learn slower if I was reading a dictionary all day and night...
> > > 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... :-)
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> Hey, I've got enough yellow 1x1 cones to make a chandelier! :)
Cool!
-Shiri
(1) Yes, that's right. 4-day field trips are quite common in Israeli high-
schools, you usually have one once a year. My school has real camping,
cooking, hiking trips... not the wimpy "visit old Jerusalem and sleep in a
youth motel" field trips ;-) (j/k, those are fun too... but the hiking trips
are SO much better).
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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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| (...) 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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