B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for July 29, 2024

Yeah, they want to know how much you will pay for hot items.

I used to tell people I was fencing and they mistakenly imagined swords too. Many of those chain link fences are still in good shape.

So far, a lot of comments have bashed the style and form of the presentation and glitz. This definitely is a ‘different’ form of the games.

He put up a good de-fence.

In the 1976 Montreal Olympics, a soviet pentathlete during the fencing section surprisingly won every bout with impunity. Turned out that he had a button in his sword handle that would display a strike whenever he liked. His name was Boris Onischenko. Our afternoon paper led with the headline ’VERY DIS-ONISCHENKO"

Chain link makes pretty good armor while sword fighting!

“Sir, no offence, but…”

Touché!

Who knews Olympics woulda goofs up in A.D. too.

“Touché away!” Do you remember Touché Turtle and the sheepdog Dum Dum? … or, “what am I going to do with this ‘post hole digger?’

And now someone will picket.

Do you mean I have to build my fencing materials from scratch?

Give me land, lots of land, under starry skies above,

Don’t fence me in.

Nobody will laugh when he wins the gold

Good fences make good neighbors – especially when you want to buy something cheap.

He looks like Marcie.

I don’t think you should discount him. His opponent draws a Sword and states “En Garde!” Then the opponent gets hit over the head with a 6 foot 4" by 4". Fencing with a new twist! brings excitement to the Olympics. After all the Olympics are getting a little dull.

En Garde!

ha! :D

Maybe use it for the hurdles!!!!!!

Foiled!

Big city boy on the prairies, elevator is a different thing

Either that fence maker is incredibly fast, or the judge is slow as you know what. I would’ve checked him out when he walked is with a hammer.

I wonder why it’s called fencing and not simply “sword fighting” or “sword sparring”?

Blessed are the fencemakers, for they shall not be mocked in our opening ceremonies.

Foiled again.

Spent several days with my mom as a kid building and painting a picket fence, and digging post holes to create a pen for our dogs.

Within an hour after completion, the beagle tunneled under, the younger german shepherd jumped over and the older german shepherd knocked out a board and walked through

Not too bright then. . .

My cat is looking forward to the competitors on snow skis with rifles who fall to make snow-angles.

My cat does “fencing” by doing parkour on, along and over the neighborhood fences, which are like highways for cats, raccoons and opossums (which always have the right of way).

Wrong show. Try “Hard as Nails”.

Yesterday I had an epiphany! The beginning of the Olympic Fanfare and Theme song – written by THE John Williams of Star Wars and Spielberg movie soundtrack fame in 1984 – begins identically to “Oh Canada” written 100 years earlier :

Oh Canada bum bum pah

En garde.

Hey, construction work as an Olympic event … I’m into it! … :D

Why do I hear Marcie talking to Peppermint Patty?

I’ve done both. I prefer being foiled to being hammered.

To misquote Robert Frost: “Good fencing makes for careful neighbors.”