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Re: Peasants and armies
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Mon, 20 Mar 2000 02:53:25 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Shiri Dori writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeff Stembel writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Shiri Dori writes:
> > > In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > 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...  :)
> 
> Yah, I like the olympics. Other sports are really just out there, y'know?

That's for sure.  I especially like the Winter Olympics.  :)

> I used to read phone books. It was pretty amusing to see how many "Cohen"
> families were listed in the Tel-Aviv directory... (I'm not kidding, I really
> did that for a while :) there are about ten pages worth of Cohens as of 1994
> ;)

lol!!  I never did that much...  :)
> 
> > > (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!!  ;)
> 
> I'm serious on this one. Those trips were the highlight of the year, not only
> do we miss school for a week (after the four days, we get Thursday and Friday
> off ;) but we had so much fun. I got to know people much better during those
> trips than during the full school year. We'd always leave the trip with twenty
> thousand private jokes, fifteen rolls of film each, and a bunch of hilarious
> memories... (like the time I fell off a 2 meter rock slide, or the time we
> lost our astronaut teacher, or the time that... you get the picture ;)

Hehe...  The highlight of my school year was always the last day.  ;)

Umm, don't you mean "Astronomy" instead of "Astronaut"?  :)  If not, what kind
of cool school did you go to??  :)

Jeff



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  Re: Peasants and armies
 
(...) boring. (...) Well, I never got to see too many winter sports (seeing winter in Israel is, well, warm...) but I do like them. I always loved to see the vaulters and high- jumps, not to mention the gymnastics... and track too. (...) <grin> No, (...) (27 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 (...) (27 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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