Why I Hate Fencing

[Galen of Bristol]

dennis grace wrote:
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> Well struck, Your Excellency.  Unfortunately, 'tis my week for typos (I also
> shrunk myself by almost a foot in another posting).  Let's try "the result
> that fencers with peerages FOR FENCING are about as common as three-headed
> sheep." Well, maybe TWO-headed sheep.

I believe that Atenveldt gave a Laurel for fencing a year or so ago,
and I can make a good case for Tivar's Pelican being for fencing.

... never saw a multi-headed sheep.

> Yours in Syntactically Negligent Service
> 
> Sir Lyonel Oliver Grace
> Dennis G. Grace
> Postmodern Medievalist
> Division of Rhetoric and Composition
> Department of English
> University of Texas at Austin
> amazing at mail.utexas.edu
> ___________________
> 
> Baro, metetz en guatge                    |  Lords, pawn your castles,
> Chastels e vilas e ciutatz                |  your towns and cities.
> Enanz qu'usquecs no'us guerreiatz         |  Before you're beat to the draw,
>                                                     draw your swords.
> 
>                    -- Bertran de Born (a really fun Viscount)

Viscounts are often really fun guys.  Rarely trustworthy, but often
fun.

- Galen
-- 
Viscount Galen of Bristol, KSCA, CSM, etc. (now upgraded with ASTA!)
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