Andy░Jag░Keller
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« on: July 08, 2008, 09:21:49 PM » |
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I was perusing www.Infiltration.org 's dictionary and noticed 'Parkour' was in it: parkour n. French sport involving climbing up, jumping onto and falling off of manmade structures; often described as skateboarding without a skateboard. Pretty much a big ol' FAIL... They got the French part right.  Found here: http://www.infiltration.org/resources-infilspk.html |
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« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2008, 09:36:21 PM » |
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OUCH.  Oh man they got it right. I gotta rethink all my knowledge now. Call all the people from teh media who interviewed us and apologize for giving such fake info. shame on me. 
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Derik DaSilva
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« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2008, 10:10:21 PM » |
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Not gonna lie, sometimes when people just don't get it, I like to say "Skateboarding without a skateboard..." fail on me..  |
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Parkour - causing clinical depression, one rainy day at a time.
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Zachary Cohn
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« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2008, 12:56:29 AM » |
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I sent them an email proposing a change. I'll keep people informed about the progress.
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Eugene Shen
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« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2008, 06:58:41 PM » |
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falling off of manmade structures Oh, this is great! From now on, I'm going to describe Parkour as: "Falling off of man-made structures -- like bungee jumping, but without the cord".  |
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Andy░Jag░Keller
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« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2008, 08:45:12 PM » |
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like bungee jumping, but without the cord". Hahahahahaha!!! T-shirt worthy? |
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« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2008, 09:14:32 PM » |
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yes, t-shirt design would be a plain square one-color 2 dimensional obstacle with a simplified human form (as typical of roadsigns) falling off of the obstacle onto head, with the word Parkour in large block letters at the top. yes.
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« Reply #7 on: July 09, 2008, 09:57:21 PM » |
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I'd buy it.
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« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2008, 08:09:43 PM » |
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Y'know, what about a t-shirt with a list of BAD definitions of Parkour? Like:
Top 10 WRONG Definitions of Parkour:
10. Skateboarding without a skateboard.
9. Doing stunts in the street.
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1. Jumping onto and falling off of man-made structures.
Ideally, it would also have small icons / pictures of stick figures dying horrible deaths when actually attempting to do what the definition states. It can be both funny and (somewhat) educational at the same time! I'll buy a few if someone is willing to design it...
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Zachary Cohn
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« Reply #11 on: July 11, 2008, 10:49:34 PM » |
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Having some trouble with the email. It keeps bouncing... I'm still working on it though.
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« Reply #12 on: July 12, 2008, 07:38:43 AM » |
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Thanks for doing this, man. I was going to, but you beat me to it.
What definition did you suggest?
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