moi has learned a valuable lesson this week about what happens when moderator hats come [off]. Whoa. :eek:
Yes, I have fought duels. Yes, they are still illegal. No, honor forbids me to reveal any traceable details. Nobody died, though there was some blood.
Gary, I certainly will not challenge Gaudere. The use of profanity in my presence, while disgusting, cannot be construed as an insult in these uncouth times. Furthermore, there would be no justification in saying s/he(?) publicly insulted me, as none of you know who I am.
Is is still ok in GD to say “and your usual poopy-headed comment would be” ???
Hey, Mike! Look ovah there!
(Scurries past the cleverly-distracted MikeG in order to lay his own embroidered doublet in the kerbside mud and dung-puddle, allowing Gaudere’s dainty slipper-shod tootsies a safe passage)
Well, can you at least tell us the methodology?
Swords, guns? what?
I accept at your word, noble sir, that honor precludes you providing traceable details.
Still, surely you can tell us about these duels to some degree?
Only if they really happened. Which, in this day and age, I rather doubt.
:rolleyes:
Heh. You said “poopy-head”. 
Uke,you would make her walk?!? inconsiderate lout…
::carrying gaudere over the aforementioned effluence::
Oh, and screwy? Getting into a bar brawl cause someone dissed your girlfriends’ oral sex technique doesn’t count.
…neither does that incident with the chicken…
For fear that I would fail to return your courtesy by my failure to reply, I will say only: swords. Forgive me if I won’t reveal any more, but the promises made between the parties still hold.
Gaudere, I seem to be in need of clarification regarding acceptable vocabulary. You have instructed me that “liar” and “coward” are acceptable, while “waste of oxygen” is not.
Furthermore, I learn from Scylla that “chucklehead” is anathema as well. A quick return to the original thread reveals that I have since been called an “ass.”
Clearly we are all in need of a list of acceptable and non-acceptable terms. Might we expect such instruction from our Moderator?
What does “en sixte” mean?
What kind of swords?
Why do I get the feeling that someone has been playing too much D&D in his parents’ basement?
I’ll presume since you use the “en” you refer to the French style, with point weapons. Sixte is simply the position when your point is up and slightly outside with the wrist supinated.
So “en sixte” would be an engagement with your opponent, when a thrust by your opponent will pass harmlessly by your right shoulder. Again, presuming the French style, which I find of less merit than the Italian.
I’m guessing that “ennui” is a pun on “honi”, but surely it should be “soit” and not “soi” (or maybe “soie”, and it’s a reference to an uninterested QC)?
/PeeWee voice/ I know you are, but what am I? /end PeeWee/
Engarde, sir! /Bunny dressed like Catherine Zeta Jones in Zorro
Too bad Screwtape’s poster name isn’t “Joe.”
And too bad the person he challenged to the potentially deadly, chivalrous challenge wasn’t also a poster with some variant of “Joe” in his name.
And too bad Gaudere didn’t kick them both off the SDMB, either for their GD comments, or for taking part in an outmoded and illegal means of settling disputes.
For then, you see, we would have …
Wait for it …
Dueling, banned Joes
Hey! Get away from me with those swords!
You’re quite correct. It should be “soit.” My fault for not proofreading.
It is indeed a pun, and a not terribly grammatically correct one, at that. Intended to change “Shame on him who thinks this evil” to “Boredom to him…”
So what kind of swords?
I assume that you only duel with other dueling afficionados, and that the rest of the world (having matured,) is not subject to your rules of honor.
How do you reconcile maiming someone over a point of honor, when you do not hold yourself and others to the same standard outside your ring of duellists?
I would also guess that finding a duelling partner isn’t easy these days.
First, the subset of the population actively involved in fencing is quite small. Secondly, the subset of those willing to participate in deadly duels must be even smaller.
It must take quite an effort to find somebody within this subsubset with which to duel.
Then of course, you must deliberately provoke them to the point where a duel can be held.
I say deliberately because what are the chances that two fencers who subscribe to an identical and outdated mode of childish honor would find and slight each other simply by chance?
Why not drop the pretense?
Clearly you’re dueling because you want to. You’ve gone out of your way to put yourself in some pretty specialized circumstances that make it possible.
What purpose does pretending you are doing it for honor serve?
In fact, the simple truth is that because you would hide behind a pretense of “honor” in order to satisfy a sick little sodomasochistic perversion, you in fact have none.
No honor whatsoever. Just pretense and posing.
The alternative of course is that you’re lying. Actually, I’d prefer to beleive that as being a liar speaks much better of you, than had you actually followed through on this little delusion
You’ve a mind that works in deeply twisted ways. Well done indeed. We you present in person, I would award you the Pun Tribute (holding one’s nose and fleeing from the room.)
What a chucklehead.
By God Sir, satisfaction shall be mine! I believe choice of weapons is my privilege - hmmm, rocket launcher or BFG?
Hey, hang on - online duelling could work just fine. You could just have a one on one session on Quake - virtual honour restored, no pesky little laws broken, and the world can witness the restoration of honour.
Might take a while to recreate a field outside Paris in the map editor though.