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Re: Peasants and armies
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Fri, 17 Mar 2000 06:14:17 GMT
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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 :-)
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 bothered)
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.")
They send every fugu chief who killec someone overseas-eventually only the
decent ones were left 8-)
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