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Old 05-07-2008, 05:50 PM
 
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This patch looks like something one might win for a "Paper Scissors Rock" competition.
This is speculation on my part, but you actually may be right on with this observation, SB. Part of the philosophical side of martial arts is a reminder that no matter how good you are you're not invincible. There's always someone out there who can beat you if you're foolish enough to go around looking for trouble. The idea that any one of rock, paper, and scissors defeats one of the others, but is also defeated by one of the others would fit very well as a reminder of that truth. This also may represent the variety of techniques in the martial art taught at this school, again with a nod to the reality that any technique when properly executed can both counter and be countered by other thechniques, so that it's useful to be skilled in a variety of techniques.

 
Old 05-07-2008, 07:26 PM
 
Location: In My Own Little World. . .
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I found out later that they were easier to impress
when I was a rock musician... That hurt a lot less.

1980:
CG, that is such a cool photo.
 
Old 05-07-2008, 07:29 PM
 
Location: Duncan, OK
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We get to vote more than once?
The first round was to establish the finalists... this round is for the win!

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Is the photo contest something on CD where members here can vote? Or is this a local happening in OK? If it's here on CD, how do you check out the pics, and how do you vote?
Yes, anyone can go vote... the pictures are in the thread and this round you can only pick ONE image as your favorite. The subject for this round was "Architecture"

As MK mentioned earlier the thread is here: //www.city-data.com/forum/photo...april-may.html
 
Old 05-07-2008, 07:40 PM
 
Location: Somewhere! :)
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Voted in the finals...
GO PEGGY!
 
Old 05-07-2008, 07:53 PM
 
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Thanks for the link, folks. Great shot, Peggy. Very interesting combination of architecture and countryside, and captured nicely in the photo.
 
Old 05-07-2008, 07:54 PM
 
Location: Oklahoma(formerly SoCalif) Originally Mich,
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When I was a kid, I was almost at the top of a tall pine tree when I slipped and fell. I landed stomach first acouple branches down. My body wrapped around the branch and my knees hit me in the eyes. My eyes were swollen shut and I had 2 black eyes for weeks after that
So it can be done
{quote} I was a kid then.
 
Old 05-07-2008, 07:56 PM
 
Location: Somewhere! :)
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CG, that is such a cool photo.
Seems like another lifetime ago....
(The photo was taken at Mr. C.'s Rock Palace in Lowell, MA in 1980. I was 16.)
Far cry from the computer geek I am today huh?

Kinda looks like Marc doesn't it?
I still have that axxe.
 
Old 05-07-2008, 07:56 PM
 
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I found out later that they were easier to impress
when I was a rock musician... That hurt a lot less.

1980:
Geez CG, how long did it take you to figure that out? My 19-year-old nephew had the rock band effect on a guy's love life figured out about three years ago!

Addendum: So now I go back through the posts and see that you were about the same age. Maybe you weren't so dumb after all! Still dunno about that knee to the face, though . . .
 
Old 05-07-2008, 07:57 PM
 
Location: Somewhere! :)
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When I was a kid, I was almost at the top of a tall pine tree when I slipped and fell. I landed stomach first acouple branches down. My body wrapped around the branch and my knees hit me in the eyes. My eyes were swollen shut and I had 2 black eyes for weeks after that
So it can be done
{quote} I was a kid then.
Sounds like your experience was worse than mine...
I just suffered a hurt ego and a sore nose.
 
Old 05-07-2008, 08:03 PM
 
Location: Somewhere! :)
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Geez CG, how long did it take you to figure that out? My 19-year-old nephew had the rock band effect on a guy's love life figured out about three years ago!

Addendum: So now I go back through the posts and see that you were about the same age. Maybe you weren't so dumb after all! Still dunno about that knee to the face, though . . .
I was 16 in the photo....
By 19, I had almost retired...

My wife (who I met shortly after that pic) was the only one
who wasn't swayed by the music stuff...
Go figure?

Yeah, the knee to the face was pretty goofy...
I didn't know it was possible yet....
I'm much more careful these days.

I'd show you my scorpion, but I don't wanna show off.
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