@sven: "What is the American obsession with guns? They even start a sport where they 
shoot each other with paint. Is this considered a real sport?
Is paintball played outside the USA?"
    @d_beaumont: "news:<email_address>
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they
It's played over here in the UK as well and yep it's a sport as defined by
the dictionary definition of sport :
"an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or
team competes against another or others"
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Regards
Deker"
    @dariche: ""Sven Helgsen" <email_address> wrote in
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I am german and we play Paintball too (because it is fun), also do the 
French. And I know it is played in some Parts of the "New Europe" like 
Czechia (I dont know the Englisch Word, sorry) and Poland.
Why it should be no sport? Do not let take me out the old comparisons 
like "Boxing is also sport and it is more brutal" or stuff like this.
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"Never surrender, never give up ! (just bunker)""
    @ddeering: "news:<email_address>
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they
I am in Canada and it is very big here. It certainly has nothing to do with
an obsession of guns, or culture of guns. It is fun to get out in the woods
or on the speedball field and play. If you have not played please go out and
try it, see how fun it can be and how non gun obsessive a sport it is."
    @cphillipo: "says...
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It's probably more popular in Britian where they are gun deprived.
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Chris Phillipo - Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
<url>"
    @stevedr: "Americans don't have an obsession with guns, they have an obsession with
freedom and if playing paintball is what we want to do, so be it. As far as
being a sport, you can call it what you want. I call it FUN!!!
news:<email_address>
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they"
    @whoo: "news:g6L0c.40014$%<email_address>
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****DANGER DANGER DANGER****
DANGER WILL ROBINSON
****DANGER DANGER DANGER****"
    @hwburton: "news:2_S0c.19847$<email_address>
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Mainly they wear pull on boots and would have to borrow a pair of city boy
shoes
to practice shoelace tying.
Harold Burton
(Collum Puniceus)"
    @jcerff: "<quote>
You can get guns over here in the UK, it's just not legal.  It's getting to
be a bit of a problem in places like Birmingham, but it's apparently
'gang-related'
:/
J"
    @z: ""Sven Helgsen" <email_address> wrote in
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is fencing a sport? its like long distance sword fighting."
    @autockr: "news:ZpT0c.26823$<email_address>
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What are texians?  Are they from the texia nebula or something?
Jeff Goslin - MCSD - <url>
It's not a god complex when you're always right"
    @hwburton: "news:<email_address>
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Depending on region and time you'll find natives of Texas being called
Texians, texicans, and Texans. Probably there are even other variations
we moderns just aren't familiar with.
HWB"
    @autockr: "news:<email_address>
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Texicans?  Surely those would be mexican texans, right?  (Not joking)
Texans is the only collective term I've ever heard, but as has been pointed
out many times in the past, I have been apparently sheltered from the world,
so what do I know.
A quick google search for "texians" finds ~4500 references, not comparably
large to what could have been found("sex" returns about 12 billion or so...
*grin* just kidding)(or not, I dunno, I didn't search it).  Texicans returns
~2500, and texans returns ~1.2M, but that might be artificially increased by
references to the football team(removing football and NFL from the search
criteria returns ~450K).  I guess while "texican" and "texian" might well be
"in use", it seems to me that the more common usage is "texan", at least by
the qfrazier@example.org.
Jeff Goslin - MCSD - <url>
It's not a god complex when you're always right"
    @cphillipo: "<email_address> says...
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Ya I saw that movie "Ali G in Da House".
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Chris Phillipo - Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
<url>"
    @smilin_4NO_SPAMawhile: ""Steve" <email_address> wrote in news:<email_address>:
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Amen, brother!
- - Share what you know, learn what you don't - -
                               IceMan"
    @smilin_4NO_SPAMawhile: ""Jeff Goslin" <email_address> wrote in
news:<email_address>: 
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I do admire a man who actually does his research...
- - Share what you know, learn what you don't - -
                               IceMan"
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