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Aug. 27th, 2004 09:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceebeegeeOn another message board, we've been discussing other possible Olympic sports.
zan: And, you know, since they do have fencing, why don't they have dueling? As long as we are defining 18th century ways of settling scores as sports, I think that dueling should find its way in.
nirbas: Hee. They could get sponsored by the NRA.
moppet: Lord, how do you define the winner? "Aaron Burr of the United States won gold over Alexander Hamilton of Nevis, who, um, died. But brought home the silver."
Guilty Pleasures: The tricky thing would be setting up the pairings. You can't just assign random duels. You have to insult a gentleman's honor first. They could make them all sit in a room until one guy turned to another and said, "You sir, are a scurillous brigand unfit for proper society," at which point the second guy could demand satisfaction at dawn and send their seconds off to make arrangements.
SpringBarb: I love the thought of dueling as part of the Olympics and everyone sitting in a room insulting each other, as long as they did it the proper way, i.e., entirely through written correspondence. I have images of everyone passing notes to each other and glaring.
Xinher: And they could get extra points if their letters were well written and scathing.
Daisy Duke: I can't believe they took points off that cute boy from Kazahkastan because he had a sentence fragment! It was for emphasis, dammit!
zan: And, you know, since they do have fencing, why don't they have dueling? As long as we are defining 18th century ways of settling scores as sports, I think that dueling should find its way in.
nirbas: Hee. They could get sponsored by the NRA.
moppet: Lord, how do you define the winner? "Aaron Burr of the United States won gold over Alexander Hamilton of Nevis, who, um, died. But brought home the silver."
Guilty Pleasures: The tricky thing would be setting up the pairings. You can't just assign random duels. You have to insult a gentleman's honor first. They could make them all sit in a room until one guy turned to another and said, "You sir, are a scurillous brigand unfit for proper society," at which point the second guy could demand satisfaction at dawn and send their seconds off to make arrangements.
SpringBarb: I love the thought of dueling as part of the Olympics and everyone sitting in a room insulting each other, as long as they did it the proper way, i.e., entirely through written correspondence. I have images of everyone passing notes to each other and glaring.
Xinher: And they could get extra points if their letters were well written and scathing.
Daisy Duke: I can't believe they took points off that cute boy from Kazahkastan because he had a sentence fragment! It was for emphasis, dammit!
