From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V4 #100 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Saturday, April 10 2004 Volume 04 : Number 100 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Fw: Re: [chakram-refugees] Re: The Debt [HJJH ] Re: [chakram-refugees] The upraised swords of season three [Lee Daley Subject: Re: Fw: Re: [chakram-refugees] Re: The Debt CherylA wrote-- >War is afterall the ulimate expression of hate. \Not/ necessarily. Those gypsies and homosexuals (and Jews) in the Nazi concentration camps would not consider the war itself, in all its heinousness, as ultimate an expression of hatred as what was done to them. TEXena ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 14:44:57 -0400 From: Lee Daley Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] The upraised swords of season three At 08:49 AM 4/7/2004 -0500, you wrote: >cr wrote: >>On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 16:09, IfeRae@aol.com wrote: > >>I think tactically holding a sword like that was probably a bad move. >>Leaves you wide open and makes it hard to parry a thrust from below if >>the person on the ground is quick enough to get one in. > >I tend to think that Athena would back you up on this. > >Mark Also not being much of a swordsperson, I tend to agree. It certainly isn't a very wise move with a knife for the same reasons. But then again a lot of the "dramatic moves" are ill advised in real life. Putting a firearm anywhere in reach of an opponent is asking for trouble, but you see it all the time in the media; the principal advantage of a firearm is range, no reason to give that up. Twirling a sword around doesn't make much sense either. To some extent it might dazzle your opponent, but there's also the chance of dropping it (or slashing yourself), yet it's done all the time. Having a conversation with someone you are about to kill is also a typical scene. Don't the villains realize this allows to hero to come to the rescue. Throwing a spear (unless you are carrying several, as the roman soldiers did) leaves you unarmed, as Gabrielle did, poking is much better. But real life slashing, stabling, shooting, not to mention dismembering, disemboweling, and decapitating (I got some good alliteration going there) don't make good drama. LeeD Warrior Jester (Ret.) ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 18:51:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "Daniel T. Miller" Subject: [chakram-refugees] OT: Just testing to see how slow this mailing list is moving. - -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V4 #100 **************************************