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Re: Peasants and armies
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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.
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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! :)
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... :)
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> > 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)
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> Aaah...
And nasty tasting... Especially when they're Uber-Garlic... ;)
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> > > > (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. ;)
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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.
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> I concour!
lol...
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> 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... :)
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> (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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| (...) 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 (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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