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Old 10-29-2002, 08:02 AM   #26
Kevin Wilbanks
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"I am and expert and I know" [sic]

...that's one of the most distastefully arrogant expressions I've ever read, assuming it was stated without irony. Why not just replace 'expert' with 'God'? I don't think you'll find many here who will accept such a bald argument from authority. Also, if you're going to say something that grandiose, I recommend proofreading it first.
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Old 10-29-2002, 08:31 AM   #27
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Quote:
Why not just replace 'expert' with 'God'?
As you like.
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Old 10-29-2002, 01:03 PM   #28
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In regard to this man taking two blows to the back of the head with a hatchet, it's completely conceivable that it was the sharp size. Look at it this way, the guy comes out of the camper, is relaxed, not totally tense. Is moving forward, maybe even leaned forward, and a blow is struck from behind. Blending becomes key. Chances are, whatever side of the hatchet struck him, he yeilded some ground to the blow rather than just stood there and tried to stop all it's momentum.

You CAN take hits from an axe and live, and probably more often than you'd expect, but definitely not if you stand there and take the full force of it.

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares plow for those who keep their's" -Ben Franklin
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Old 10-29-2002, 07:19 PM   #29
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When I go to the link it says the page is not found? What was the article?

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Old 10-30-2002, 07:24 AM   #30
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Sorry about that, Edward; that was my mistake. The link was to a daily news article; I forgot that the link would (of course) be negated by the end of the day.

Essentially, the story is thus:

A German man who has studied Judo for 15 years was vacationing in Calgary (Alberta, Canada) when he was attacked by a man with a hatchet. He was in his camper, the man knocked on the door and told him something was leaking. He went out to look and when he bent to see where the man was pointing, the man hit him twice in the back of the head with the hatchet. The judoka somehow killed him in self defence.

(BTW - update: the judoka has returned to Germany. He was not charged for killing the man.)

Hope that helps.

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