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From: Michael.P.Colburn@dartmouth.edu (Michael P. Colburn)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
Subject: Yet Another SB Trivia Quiz!!
Date: 27 Jan 93 00:57:25 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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Just when you thought you'd puke...here's another trivia quiz!!! ;-)

O.K...all of these question deal with SB record holders except for the
gimme bonus question at the end:

1.)  Who holds the SB record for most fumbles in a career?

2.)  Who holds the SB record for the most yards gained after recovering
a fumble? (hint:  he scored)

3.)  Whick kicker holds the SB record for most extra points in a
career?

4.)  Who kicked the longest FG in SB history?  How far?

5.)  Who has the longest pass reception in SB history?  How far?
     extra credit:  Who threw the pass?

The gimme bonus question:  Which stadium is the only stadium to host
both a SB and a World Series in the same year?

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Land of the Giants
From: bih@mowgli.East.Sun.COM (Bennet Ih - Sun BOS Hardware)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
Subject: Re: Where is Reggie White going..
Date: 26 Jan 1993 16:25:37 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc. - BDC
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In article 93Jan25173016@clyde.clearpoint.com, cpm@clyde.clearpoint.com (Chris Martel) writes:
>Does any Eagles fans know if Reggie White has had any serious injuries and
>how long he has been in the NFL? He has been one of the most dominant
>defensive players the last few years and I am wondering how long he can
>keep it up. I assume he is looking for 2-3 million a year contract for
>3+ years.
>

I don't think Reggie has had any serious injuries while in the NFL.
I believe he played in the USFL for a couple of years before being
picked up by the Eagles under Marion Campbell. That means he's been
playing pro ball for about 9 or 10 years (2 USFL, 1 under Campbell,
5 under Buddy Ryan, 2 under Kotite)

His best year was defintely during the last player's strike when he almost
broke the NFL sack record despite the shortened season. I don't remeber
how many he had but he was litterally in the QB's face on every passing down.

He's definitely slowed down since then but he still commands 
double team respect, as evidenced by the success of the other
Eagles DE Clyde Simmons. Simmons led the NFL in sacks this year
thanks to Reggie White getting all of the attention.

-Bennet


Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
From: marc@yogi.austin.ibm.com (Marc J. Stephenson)
Subject: Re: USENET All-Pro Team 92-93
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:53:44 GMT
Organization: IBM, Austin
Keywords: You Picked Them

In article <1993Jan22.214818.29159@seq.uncwil.edu> grissom@seq.uncwil.edu (grissom gregory scott) writes:
>
>This is the all-pro team chosen by usenet for the 92-93 
>football season.
....
>OG- Bruce Matthews
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Bruce Matthews was a center all year long.  I don't know if he took a single
snap at any other line position all year.  I agree that he had a great year,
but not at guard.

As far as Greg Montgomery was concerned, his hang time was pretty lousy.  He
looks a lot better in fantasy football than he does in real life.  Lots of
long returnable line drives.
-- 
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DISCLAIMER: The content of this posting is independent of official IBM position.
INTERNET->marc@austin.ibm.com      VNET: MARC at AUSVMQ        IBM T/L: 678-3189
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
From: athos@apple.com (Rick Eames)
Subject: Re: You're right, Young is a Great QB
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:41:56 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Followup-To: rec.sport.football.pro

In article <1993Jan21.221543.838@oracle.us.oracle.com>,
alaw@ap1seq.us.oracle.com (Alvin W. Law) wrote:

> I am a 49ers fan and I have never commented "Joe is god".  It's mostly the
> Bay Area media who is doing all the comparisons.  I actually favor trading
> Montana for draft picks.  Saint Joe's glory years are over and we
> have to accept that fact.

Ah, I see.  So, loyalty is nothing here in the Bay Area, eh?  I liked what
the Celtics did.  They let Larry Bird retire HIS way.  That is the mark of
a Class organization.  Launching people when you've bled them dry is not
the sign of a classy organization.  I think the Niners would taint
themselves by treating Montana that way.
 

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them."  - Lincoln

"You just can't promise something like that just to get elected if you
 know there's a good chance that circumstances may overtake you."
	- Bill Clinton, East Lansing MI debate, Mon Oct 19 1992
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From: satish@a.chem.upenn.edu (Satish Nair)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
Subject: Re: NYG/Reeves NOT pass oriented coach??
Date: 26 Jan 93 02:39:57 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1k26e6INNg5@laurel.cis.ohio-state.edu> martens@cis.ohio-state.edu 
(Jeff Martens) writes:
>
>
>Why are all the Giant fans talking about Reeves?  I just read that
>Handley signed a new four year contract.
>-- 
>     

This is true but the contract is with the Cowboys.  Ray will be taking over
for Jimmy Johnson whose parents were so upset about not being invited to
the Super Bowl that they ground JJ (without supper) leading to the Cowboys'
buy out of the rest of JJs contract.  Among Ray's plans for the future are
trading back all those draft picks and players to the Vikings for Roger
Craig and the installment of Nate Newton as the world's biggest cornerback.

satish nair
giants
Newsgroups: rec.sport.fencing
Subject: Transporting weapons. (Was: Re: Weapon carrying laws)
From: scasterg@waltham.columbus.oh.us
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 05:56:03 -0500
X-Mailer: rnMac Buggy, I mean Beta, Test Version

> I called ahead to United before trying just this trick.  They were
> quite adamant about my NOT carrying my foil and sabre on the
> airplane.  I dismounted the blades and put them in PVC tubes to
> protect them, sealed the ends of the tubes and put them in one of my
> checked bags, works just fine and the tubes can be re-used. The
> handles and guards got wrapped and packed too.

For carrying large numbers of weapons still asembled I came up with a good,  
solution. That PVC tubing comes in some monster huge sizes. It looks like it's 
for municipal sewage systems or something! Anyway, I bought a length of PVC pipe 
of large diameter (um, 12" I think) plus endcaps. I can store dozens of blades 
plus several assembled foils in the tube. The thing is incredibly strong. The 
Samsonite gorilla couldn't break it (old US TV commercial reference). Ideal for 
bus or plane transport of weapons.

From: casc@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Cas Caswell)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:31:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Transporting weapons. (Was: Re: Weapon carrying laws)
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
Newsgroups: rec.sport.fencing

 stephas@dgp.toronto.edu (Tamara Stephas) writes:

 << description of technique to avoid concealed carry problems deleted>>

>A dumber story of "oh, you mean I can't do that?" is my own.  On a vacation
>to the US, I picked up a new foil which a friend had ordered for me, and flew
>back to Canada with it.  I'm used to carrying sport equipment when I fly, 
>especially other long pointy things like kites.  And fencing is just a sport,
>right?  I mean, a baseball bat is just as deadly.

 Yup a baseball bat is just as deadly... and they won't let you carry it on
 the plane either.

 I had the opportunity to watch security stop someone who had a boxed, 
 wrapped christmas present that just happened to be a bat in their carry-on.
 They were most polite... but the bat had to go under the aircraft....

 Exactly why I was hanging around security is a long embarassing story 
 involving my wife realizing she'd just cleared security with a no-no
 and trying to make it right.... 

 San Francisco Security was having a rough day this past Christmas....

 cas

 (casc@cup.hp.com)

 BTW... I speak only for myself...

Newsgroups: rec.sport.fencing
From: jamys@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (David Godley)
Subject: Epee Wire was Re: Foil Wire
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:22:33 GMT

In <1993Jan25.190057.18595@kestrel.edu> king@reasoning.com (Dick King) writes:

>In article <1993Jan22.175507.25740@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> smburke@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sean M Burke) writes:
>>Does anyone know why the insulator on foil wire is cotton?  I found some 
>>plastic coated wire of the proper gauge, and have rewired 3 blades with it.
>>So far this wire has proved to be far superior to the standard cotton 
>>insulated wire.

>In what way?

>>
>>Is there any reason that foil wires sold as such are cotton insulated, or is 
>>it just because it's cheaper?
>>
>>

>  When i used to reuse epee contacts with wire-wrap wire i discovered some
>  problems.


>There are two subtle advantages of cotton.

[advantages deleted]

At least with Epee, and I don't know if this is true with foil but it is
possible, there is one other important factor.

Despite any advantage that can be gained in duralbility or whatnot using
plastic coated wires is against the rules (FIE).  I think it is in with
the one that bars the wrapping of the two wires into one "unit". The
exception is the "spaghetti" used to protect the _cotton insulated_ wires
underneath between the bell and the plug. Even there they are meant to be
two separate untaped wires. 

The reason is that at a weapon inspection it is much harder to detect
"fixing" of the wires so as to gain an advantage.

If I remember correctly the rule was introduced after  the detection of a
"switch" made by the scoring of the plastic insulation on both wires.  It
was activated by pressing the two wires together......

David



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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.fencing
Subject: Re: Weapon carrying laws
Date: 22 Jan 93 22:24:52 GMT
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

stephas@dgp.toronto.edu (Tamara Stephas) writes:
>I didn't want my blade to get bent in checked luggage.  So, not thinking 
>anything about it ... Well, I got as far as the carry-on x-ray.  To their 
>credit, the airline security people didn't treat me like an attempting 
>hijacker.  But they sure did LAUGH at that shape in their x-ray screen.
>"Hey, Joe, come and take a look at THIS !!!  Lady wants to carry a SWORD
>on the plane !!!"

	Actually, you can come to arrangements with them (at least sometimes)
regarding real swords - for example the stewardress takes it onto the plane
and stores it somewhere you can't get to it until the end of the flight.  The
other option is to use something like a gun case and insure the hell out of it
(I'm talking japanese swords here).  In fact, if I go to the Shinsa in 
California this spring I'll have to do something like this.  ("Shinsa" is
basically a authentication meeting where experts will examine a blade, grade
and authenticate it (if possible) and if so issue you a formal certificate
with the findings.  They occur about every other year or so in the US.)

	A number of localities have laws against blades, hidden or not, or
laws against certain types of blades (double-edged, etc).  The legal premise
is, I suspect, similar to the no-automatic-weapons laws, no switchblade laws,
etc.  Regarding the 2nd amendment article (1916 decision), are you sure about
that?  I'd think that if "weapons of war" are allowed, then certainly the
automatic weapons laws wouldn't stand.

	BTW, just because something is legal doesn't mean they won't run you
in for it.  If they think they need to, they will figure out something
(disturbing the public, endangerment, etc).  However, I wouldn't worry about
it for fencing weapons, since they have no edge or point.

-- 
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 - Doug Mohney, in comp.arch

Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com  BIX: rjesup  
Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.fencing
Subject: Re: Weapon carrying laws
Date: 22 Jan 93 02:32:34 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

>But since he didn't arrest me or fine me, I
>assume that it is legal to carry a sword in public. BUT! If you were to conceal
>it (like in a trench coat a la the movie "Highlander"), you could be charged
>with carrying a concealed weapon. 

I can attest that carrying a claymore while waiting for RTD
(Los Angeles public transit) is something that WILL get you
arrested.  A friend of mine was waiting for the bus to take
him to Renaissance Faire, where he had a gig with the Scottish
group.  He was wearing his Scottish outfit, with his claymore
strapped to his back.  A cop cruised past, stopped, backed up,
and pulled over.  "Nice sword," he said.  "May I look at it?"
Sure, said Rorey.  Pulls it out of sheath, hands to cop.
"Thank you," says the cop.  "You're under arrest."  He was
charged with carrying a concealed broadsword!  The cop claimed
that it was partially hidden by the drape from his great kilt.

Anyway, Rorey was taken down to the main police station, where
he used his one phone call to call his director at the
Fairesite, who proceeded to come down and chew the hell out of
everyone at the police station for being a bunch of blithering
idiots (which he could probably get away with, since he used
to belong to the Texas highway patrol).  The upshot was that
Rorey got released and got his sword back, but spent several
hours in jail.  And that might not have happened if his
director hadn't been a very forceful personality who had been
in law enforcement, himself.

Moral of the story: put your swords into neutral bags, and
don't wait for the bus dressed in funny clothes.

--
  Jilara   [jane@swdc.stratus.com]

"Every now and then, a big rock falls out of the sky, and everyone has 
a *very bad* day."  --from the PBS "Dinosaurs" special.
Organization: Sophomore, H&SS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.sport.fencing
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:01:50 -0500 
From: Randy M Bruno <rb6b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Foil Wire

Yes, small electronic stores (like Radio Shack for example) carry wire
of the proper gauge for wiring foils and epees. I've wired literally
dozens of blades with this plastic-insulated type. My experience,
however, has been that the cotton-insulated wire sold by most fencing
suppliers is superior to the more easily obtainable plastic-insulated
wire: The conductor is more durable than what I've seen in way of
plastic-insulated wire, and, unsurprisingly, cotton seems to be a more
reliable insulator.

Organization: Sophomore, H&SS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.sport.fencing
From: stephas@dgp.toronto.edu (Tamara Stephas)
Subject: Re: Weapon carrying laws
Date: 21 Jan 93 22:07:21 GMT

conaway@cis.ohio-state.edu (jason william conaway) writes:

>assume that it is legal to carry a sword in public. BUT! If you were to conceal
>it (like in a trench coat a la the movie "Highlander"), you could be charged
>with carrying a concealed weapon.

I'm sure it varies from state to state in the U.S (what doesn't!), but this
seems to be common.  A friend of mine who fenced in university in Oregon was
stopped and reprimanded by a policeman for the way he carried his foil.  My
friend had found the easiest way to carry a foil while bicycling was to slide
it, point down, down his back under his coat.  Hands free, no obstructions
to riding, no lashing onto racks.  Unfortunately, the police seem not to
like the looks of shiny pointy things carried in people's clothing.  They
did not mind if he carried it out in plain sight, so he ended up later sewing
loops for it onto his backpack.

A dumber story of "oh, you mean I can't do that?" is my own.  On a vacation
to the US, I picked up a new foil which a friend had ordered for me, and flew
back to Canada with it.  I'm used to carrying sport equipment when I fly, 
especially other long pointy things like kites.  And fencing is just a sport,
right?  I mean, a baseball bat is just as deadly.

I didn't want my blade to get bent in checked luggage.  So, not thinking 
anything about it ... Well, I got as far as the carry-on x-ray.  To their 
credit, the airline security people didn't treat me like an attempting 
hijacker.  But they sure did LAUGH at that shape in their x-ray screen.
"Hey, Joe, come and take a look at THIS !!!  Lady wants to carry a SWORD
on the plane !!!"

- Tamara
  stephas@dgp.toronto.edu
From: king@reasoning.com (Dick King)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.fencing
Subject: Re: Foil Wire
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:00:57 GMT
Organization: Reasoning Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA

In article <1993Jan22.175507.25740@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> smburke@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sean M Burke) writes:
>Does anyone know why the insulator on foil wire is cotton?  I found some 
>plastic coated wire of the proper gauge, and have rewired 3 blades with it.
>So far this wire has proved to be far superior to the standard cotton 
>insulated wire.

In what way?

>
>Is there any reason that foil wires sold as such are cotton insulated, or is 
>it just because it's cheaper?
>
>

When i used to fence foil i used wire wrap wire to recycle contact points.  It
did work satisfactorily, but when i went to epee i found myself using the
commercial product.  With the commercial contact point / wire assemblies, my
usual failure mode is Extreme Lack of Point Control.  When the point and feeble
go skittering into the next strip while i'm left holding the stub, the director
often invites me to switch weapons (##().  When i used to reuse epee contacts
with wire-wrap wire i discovered some problems.


There are two subtle advantages of cotton.


Advantage 1:

 When you deinsulate a thin plastic-coated wire you stretch the insulation just
 before it breaks.  How much?  Depends on the wire cutter, but it would be
 extremely difficult to make one that was actually perfect enough to not
 stretch the insulation at all.

 Then, inside your barrel, the insulation is slowly retracting.

 Dan DeChane suggested a drop of cyanurate adhesive ["SuperGlue"] in each cut
 end.


 Cotton does not have this problem.  It doesn't stretch.  Therefore it doesn't
 retract.  It seems to me that foil would have this problem, although it seemed
 to work for me.  I did the glue thing.




Advantage 2:

 Teflon, the usual plastic insulation, is very slippery.  That means that if
 the wire is ever under compression, then it will tend to slide into the point
 where the curvature is maximal.  Thus, any bulge where the wire is starting to
 try to escape will tend to get larger.

 Cotton, on the other hand, offers a porous surface, so glue will help hold it
 in even from beneath the wire.  Teflon is not wetted by glue and is only held
 in by the glue over the wire.  This is especially bad in epee, where the
 groove is broad and there is often at least one gap in the "ceiling" that the
 glue makes over the wire.

 Also, i suspect but cannot prove that the glue reaches the wire surface and
 therefore provides a backup if the insulation is chafed away.


 In foil, the groove is narrow and deep, and the wire is mostly held in by the
 bridge of glue above the wire.  Still...

-dk

PS: While we're on The Armory Thing i'm gonna publicy contradict two big pieces
    of Triplette armory advice.

     * Don't burn pressure springs.  Cut them.  A burned spring is not stable.
    
     * Before screwing on the barrel use blue LocTite, not automotive
       automative transmission fluid, on the weapon tip threads.
From: davidg@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: rec.sport.fencing
Subject: Fencing around Washington DC
Date: 28 Jan 93 14:25:30 +1100
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia


Fellow fencers,

	There is the slim possiblity of my moving to the Washington D.C.
area for the Northern Summer.   Does anyone have anything to say about
the fencing scene in and around DC?  Any comments would be much appreciated

			Yours in Fencing,
				David
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                Clayton, 3168 AUSTRALIA
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From: grot@acs.bu.edu (Henry Nadig)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.fencing
Subject: Mail Order Houses
Date: 25 Jan 93 21:39:32 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: grot@acs.bu.edu

Sorry to take up bandwidth with this....

Could someone e-mail me the phone numbers of a few
mail order fencing supply houses.  I am ordering a foil
jacket, gloves, mask, etc....

Dave Nadig

Grot@acs.bu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.fencing
From: smburke@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sean M Burke)
Subject: Foil Wire
Followup-To: rec.sport.fencing
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:55:07 GMT

Does anyone know why the insulator on foil wire is cotton?  I found some 
plastic coated wire of the proper gauge, and have rewired 3 blades with it.
So far this wire has proved to be far superior to the standard cotton 
insulated wire.

Is there any reason that foil wires sold as such are cotton insulated, or is 
it just because it's cheaper?


-- 
Sean M. Burke   \ "Love is what goes on while you're NOT horny. . ."
Burke.63@osu.edu \_________ "You live and learn.  Or you don't live long."
bf274@cleveland.freenet.edu\______ "While we live, let us LIVE!"
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From: OGI9@MUSICT.MCGILL.CA (OGI9000)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.fencing
Subject: Re: Sabre regulations
Date: 24 Jan 93 02:00:13 GMT
Organization: McGill University

>A naive question: what happened, in general, after the second warning
>for simultaneous actions?  More fleches?  Didn't anyone try anything
>different, just for the sake of a bit of variety?
>--
It is sometimes desirable to get a simultaneous call after the
warning.  The reason is that many people have one standard action
when they have priority and a second for when their opponent has
priority.  If you can figure out what those are one boring
simultaneous call can be good for two well planned, nicely executed
touches.

Dave S.
From: jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.fencing
Subject: Good salle in NYC?
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:55:46 GMT
Organization: Bear, Stearns & Co. - FAST


Greetings:

After a long hiatus (several years) I am looking to get
back to fencing.  I now live in New York City, but have no
idea of where to go to fence.  Any suggestions?


			Thanks in advance...

				Spidey!!!
				AKA Josh Diamond




--
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