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- From: ftit@ob.engin.umich.edu (Sergej Roytman)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Beating S*** out of Celts (long)
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 22:43:40 GMT
- Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
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- In article <1993Jan20.013415.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca>, comptec92024@camins.camosun.bc.ca writes:
- |In article <1993Jan14.220014.28300@massey.ac.nz>, M.J.Wright@massey.ac.nz (M.J. Wright) writes:
- |>
- |> Sorry to rain on your parade of the mightly Celts, but.......
- |>
- |> bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
- |>
- |
- |Even from a military point of view the celts were nothing to sneeze at. In
- |279 BC Celtic tribes pillaged Thrace and Macedonia killing the heir of Alexander
- |the Great, the king of Macedonia. This group of Celtics later beat the Greeks
- |at a battle in the pass of Thermopylae,
-
- ... but were beaten out by the Detroit Pistons in the quarter-finals as
- I recall. That was the year that the Pistons won the NBA championship
- for the second year in a row.
-
- | the same place where the Greeks had
- |defeated the Persians.
-
- The NBA sure has gotten bigger since I went away to school -- I don't
- remember *any* of these teams! Of course, even the NHL has added some
- new teams that I've never seen before, and I follow hockey a lot more
- closely than basketball.
-
- | In 390 BC Celtic tribes extracted tribute from Rome
- |herself. Note that Caesar himself used Gallic (celtic) cavalry, in the conquest
- |of Gaul. So I don't think that you can make any argument if Celtic people
-
- We prefer to call them Bostoners.
-
- | were
- |or were not good martial artists. You can only say that that they were beaten
- |by the Romans then later used by the same Romans.
- |
-
- Well, it certainly can be argued that one of the Celtics' strong-points
- in the '70s and '80s was the use of Greenoch, but as most Greenoch
- techniques (e.g., heart-pulz) are considered fouls under NBA rules, I
- don't think that that was all there was to it. Good coaching probably
- helped a lot, as did strong players such as Larry O'Bird.
-
- |Mackenzie
-
- Sorry, couldn't resist. Please ask someone on the net for the complete
- history of Greenoch. This really should be a FAQ!
-
- Oh oh, someone's knocking on my door. Be back in a minute. Ugh!
- scufflescuffle *crash!* YAH! muttermutter AIIIIIIIII
- IIIIIIII
- iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii..........
- thud
-
- THE 'AGGIES O' DEATH HAE SPAEKEN!
-
- ^[:wq
- NO CARRIER
-