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- From: ALI00BAW@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU
- Subject: Re: Happenstance Weapons
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- References: <1ijifiINNj88@mirror.digex.com> <1993Jan14.193444.477@pages.com> <1993Jan18.185815.1701@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:19:15 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan18.185815.1701@netcom.com>
- dsmythe@netcom.com (Dave Smythe) writes:
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- >
- >In article <1993Jan14.193444.477@pages.com> kevin@pages.com (Kevin Sven Berg) writes:
- >>I was wondering what other common objects might be interesting to practice
- >>with, and in what manner.
- >
- >I was just thinking the other day that a properly-held car-key would add
- >some real pain to certain Praying Mantis techniques. We do 2-finger
- >push-ups to strengthen the fingers for the point-strikes, but a key seems
- >to give you a nice extra advantage. Maybe I'll try some car-key push-ups...
- >
- >D
- >
- >--
- >========================================================================
- >Dave Smythe N6XLP dsmythe@netcom.com (also dsmythe@cs.stanford.edu)
- I have seen a --fairly advanced, don't try this at home-- manoever in which
- a woman went into a sort of somersault (sp?) and came up with her high-heeled
- shoes in her hand, held in such a way that each shoe-heel became a spike.
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- On a more mundane level, there are interesting possiblilities in an umbrella.
- Does anyone remember the old British TV show "The Avengers"? Remember Patrick
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- Another Rust-Belt Yankee Exile in Charlotte!
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- Any opinions expressed are mine, not those of the Atkins Library.
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- Bruce Alan Wilson ali00baw@unccvm.uncc.edu
- McNee's character "Mr. Steed"? Granted, the show was TELEVISION, e.g.
- FANTASY, my teacher and I have done some interesting experaments which
- show that not all of it was as farfetched as one might think.
-