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Re: fencing! by Zseni 08/31/2004, 11:51am PDT
FABIO wrote:

Zseni wrote:


Say what you like about those dudes, but you can't accuse them of never getting out of the house. General critics of dorkiness so seldom have such an active social life.


Or maybe they just can't stand the smell?

I took a D&D DM from work out to dinner the other night; when I got to his place he was still in the middle of fencing practice, in the middle of the apartment complex parking lot, with a couple of his buddies. This balding, reclusive, antisocial dork has buddies. And fencing practice! Fucking A, I'm taking co-workers out to dinner and interrupting the DM's appointment schedule. His buddies were cool guys, too. :(


Fencers are the worst parts of preppies mixed with the worst parts of D&D fanatics. Show me a single fencer who does not constantly quote Monty Python & the Holy Grail. When they're not busy shouting "ni" and braiding each other's ponytails, they're getting into a huff whenever someone doesn't use the proper fencing term for something, whether it's calling the director a "ref", or "fighting" instead of bouting. And whatever you do, don't commit the most unforgiveable of faux pas and say "sword" instead of weapon (seriously, show up at any fencing practice and try this).

That's not even getting into what are some of the most convoluted and arbitrary rules in all of sports. No wonder D&D people love it. It's for the Society of Creative Anachronisms people and "boffer combat" club members who are trying to cling to a shred of legitimacy.


The morale here is that people who still play with swords past puberty are to be rightfully shunned.


He's never seen any Monty Python, at all. Nor, with the exception of his D&D books, does he partake of non-fiction works. No ponytail either. Neither did his fencing buddy. Nor the buddy spectator. Nor were they terminology fags. They were good guys.

You = wrong.

The gang you described might hang at the Rocky Horror Picture Show theatre showings, but only on the sidelines, snickering about the other people.
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Finally! by mark 08/30/2004, 1:35pm PDT NEW
    Re: Finally! by laudablepuss 08/30/2004, 1:48pm PDT NEW
        Re: Finally! by FABIO 08/30/2004, 4:58pm PDT NEW
            Re: Finally! by Zseni 08/30/2004, 5:43pm PDT NEW
                I just moved and my neighbors have a Segway. :( NT by I need clarification 08/30/2004, 11:09pm PDT NEW
                fencing! by FABIO 08/30/2004, 11:54pm PDT NEW
                    Re: fencing! by laudablepuss 08/31/2004, 11:45am PDT NEW
                        Re: fencing! by FABIO 08/31/2004, 1:15pm PDT NEW
                    Re: fencing! by Zseni 08/31/2004, 11:51am PDT NEW
                        *bonks you with nerf fencing sword* NT by FABIO 08/31/2004, 1:09pm PDT NEW
                    Re: fencing! by Entropy Stew 08/31/2004, 12:40pm PDT NEW
                        Hobbies. Any hobbies. by Fussbett 08/31/2004, 1:19pm PDT NEW
                            Here I go avoiding his posts, only to get snooped in the end NT by Entropy Stew 08/31/2004, 1:31pm PDT NEW
                        Re: fencing! by FABIO 08/31/2004, 1:41pm PDT NEW
                            Re: fencing! by Fullofkittens 08/31/2004, 5:09pm PDT NEW
                                Re: fencing! by FABIO 08/31/2004, 10:10pm PDT NEW
                            yeahbut by Worm 08/31/2004, 5:29pm PDT NEW
                                Re: yeahbut by FABIO 08/31/2004, 10:40pm PDT NEW
    Can't be any more retarded than DOOM: the book series NT by Masked Man 08/30/2004, 3:15pm PDT NEW
        I really liked those books. NT by Worm 08/30/2004, 3:38pm PDT NEW
 
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