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I have been tagged<\/a> by the mighty General of the Hordes<\/a>. So be it!<\/p>\n Here are the rules:<\/p>\n 1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog. Here are the facts:<\/p>\n 1. I own an authentic, WWII era Gunto sword as well as a Red Army cavalry sabre, an Indonesian katar, an Arab, possibly Yemeni dagger and a fair number of replicas of various edged weapons. The katar could easily be used to punch through a car door and the sabre, while too heavy for sword fighting, was cast to slash through unarmed crowds. The flat would be an effective bludgeon. Nice guys, those Soviets.<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0 I played golf on and off through my twenties, never playing particularly well despite lessons, dedication and endless buckets emptied at the driving range. Then, in my early-mid thirties I was on a trip to California and played\u00a018 with a borrowed set of clubs that were too long for me on a fairly tough course. I shot an 82 that day and handily beat several much better golfers. I have not played a round of golf\u00a0since.<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0 I save a great deal of time not caring a whit about professional sports. Most sportswriters and TV commentators come across to me as undersized, ill-informed louts who vastly underestimate how\u00a0physically talented\u00a0even the mediocre players are at that level. Or how hard most of them worked to get there. I keep hoping that one of the ex-athlete, color commentators will just go postal someday and strangle one of them on live television. I’d also settle for George Foreman punching out Larry Merchant.<\/p>\n 4. I find that sipping excellent liquor, smoking a good cigar and having intelligent company is a high\u00a0point of civilization.<\/p>\n 5. I met my wife on Match.com.<\/p>\n 6. My two educational regrets\u00a0are not opting to study Russian in college and not taking at least a\u00a0minor in physics. I did not take Russian because I needed a language program that could be done in a year ( I should have just gone straight through to the MA or PhD but that’s a different issue) and my interest in physics did not begin until later.<\/p>\n 7.\u00a0 I’ve wandered through the halls of the Capitol building and enjoyed a Diet Coke outside the office door of Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.).<\/p>\n I herby and irrevocably tag the following unfortunates:<\/p>\n Dan of tdaxp<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n HistoryGuy99<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Jeremy Young<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Michael Tanji<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Dave Schuler<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
\n3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
\n4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
\n5. Present an image of martial discord from whatever period or situation you’d like.<\/p>\n