06-12-2018, 09:33 AM
yup. that's so stro.
i wuz captain of dat squad for a bit.
another superfluous title of mine.
i wuz captain of dat squad for a bit.
another superfluous title of mine.
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06-12-2018, 09:37 AM
He did win a silver individual medal and a gold team medal at the 1959 Pan Am games in Epee.
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06-12-2018, 09:48 AM
Yes, I remember. And he didn't really fence epee. Which just fueled his disregard for the weapon. Yeah, that kinda sucked, but I was happy. I wouldn't have made the foil or saber squad. I made the epee squad as a freshman and had my best competitive year ever until my pneumothorax episode. Sadly, I was a vodka drinker back then and had yet to discover the wisdom of whiskey.
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06-12-2018, 09:53 AM
Peter Schiffrin talks a lot about not being able to do the things Stro could do effortlessly with an epee.
Do you still hold that grudge against your mother for snipping your lungs with the scissors?
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06-12-2018, 03:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-12-2018, 03:51 PM by Drunk Monk.)
There was a story I didn't share related to that. I'm short for an epee fencer. Stro, who was actually much taller than he seemed, or at least much longer, used to always yell at me to 'get on top' meaning that I should come over the top of my opponent's arm instead of from underneath. I was short so it wasn't always like I had that choice. But he was insistent that you could force your opponent to drop their arm and Peter was giving a lesson right next to our lesson. So he stops my lesson and yells at Peter to fence him. Peter, who was also giving a lesson to someone else at the moment, gives me this "WTF Gene, did you get me in trouble? look" look and the two of them start banging it out. Peter was smart though, and didn't quite fall for Stro's hand lowering tricks. So Stro got into his zone and started thrashing him in epee. Never quite understood what he did but he walked away with the touches, leaving both me and Peter like 'wha happened?'
I don't hold my mom at all responsible for my lung. In fact, she probably saved my life, recognizing that I was going into shock and getting me to the ER. I blame GOD. GOD has always had it out for me, especially after I broke with the church. Dammit.
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06-12-2018, 04:00 PM
Someone used to tell the story that his mother clipped his lung before he went off to the JO's and caused it to collapse.
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06-12-2018, 06:43 PM
Memory is a funny thing. Are you sure your mother issues aren't tainting memories of our mother tales?
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06-14-2018, 01:07 PM
I'm building this massive jigsaw puzzle. I've finally got a few pieces to line up. I see some shapes starting to come together.
I just looked in the box and found a few thousand more pieces.
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06-14-2018, 11:42 PM
Throw thos pieces out, put DM and PPFY back in, and — voila! Oscar!
In the Tudor Period, Fencing Masters were classified in the Vagrancy Laws along with Actors, Gypsys, Vagabonds, Sturdy Rogues, and the owners of performing bears.
06-15-2018, 05:43 AM
Never mind Oscar.
Melbourne film festival!!! too soon?
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06-15-2018, 10:48 AM
If I wuz rotten, ur hounds wud luv me even more
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06-15-2018, 10:57 AM
They don't love you. Unless you gots the chicken in your pockets.
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06-15-2018, 11:12 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-15-2018, 11:12 AM by Drunk Monk.)
I eat more chicken any man ever seen
Actually I don’t anymore Unless it’s veggie mock chicken I just quote Jim Morrison a lot At least the hounds didn’t eat me.
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