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Re: Peasants and armies
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Date: 
Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:18:58 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Shiri Dori writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > 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! :)

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...  :)
> 
> > 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.")

Trial and Error.  Oops!  I wasn't supposed to say that, was I?  :)

> > > > 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?

New one for me, too...
> > 
> > About a buck eighty a jar, and messy. (rim shot)
> 
> Aaah...

And nasty tasting...  Especially when they're Uber-Garlic...  ;)
> 
> > > > (which I am convinced exists only in HS gym classes), and that most evil
> > > > of "sports", golf(1).

Which reminds me...  Our cable company just added a bunch of channels and
rearranged many of the old ones.  One that was added was...  The Golf Channel.
I imediately removed it from my channel listing.  ;)

> > 
> > 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!

lol...
> 
> I couldn't learn slower if I was reading a dictionary all day and night...

Hey, if you haven't tried it...  ;)  Actually, I was always more of the
encyclopedia reader myself...  :)

> 
> (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).

Aaahh!!  Outdoors!  Keep it away from me!!  ;)

Jeff
"Whoever invented air conditioning should be nominated for sainthood..."  :)



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  Re: Peasants and armies
 
(...) 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 (27 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
  Re: Peasants and armies
 
(...) 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 (...) (27 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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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 (...) (27 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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