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Edit: 'cause someone thought I should change the post title

http://www.nhl.com/

go PENS!

Pelting a little plastic puk around.

It's like AFL - kicking a ball back and forth across the field. The only thing NHL has going for it are the brawls.

are incredible...

Have you ever seen a hockey game live and up close and personal? Darryl, my brother Pat, his wife Cheryl, and I went to a Halifax Mooseheads http://www.halifaxmooseheads.ca/main/index game a few years ago (they bought us tickets for Christmas that year), it rocked! We were up close to the glass and when they would come into the boards along the walls, it would shake like crazy.

Oh, isn't that soccer? Around here, this is football http://www.nfl.com/

helmets required

edit for clarification

That's a really scary mascot. I mean, even the Ducks are scarier. At least they haven't been separated from their bodies.

but this isn't the NHL in Halifax, it's the major juniors league...we watched Brad Marchand from the Boston Bruins play one of his last junior games before he got drafted. And being a Nova Scotian, I've seen a moose up close and personal, be afraid if one of them comes charging after you.

http://www.halifaxmooseheads.ca/main/index

I don't understand why I keep you around sometimes.....geez.

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you need to read the post above dear

(TWO irresistible, apple-cheeked, cutesy faces go here)

thanks bergen we do like to amuse the masses hehe

Anyone here read the 'Zits' comic strip? These two are TR's answer to RichAndAmy.

i don't know what you mean

Frank, one of my roommates when I still lived in the barracks met his future wife, Vickie, and the two became inseparable away from work.

Yep, you guessed it. FrankenVickie. Frank had a sense of humor about it; Vickie, as I recall, didn't.

Is not soccer. In fact, I'd prefer to watch soccer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Football_League

i stand corrected

Just had the grand final, and it was a draw. So the plan is, instead of doing the clever thing and allowing overtime, they're scheduling a second grand final.
Talk about money pinching.

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AFL makes hockey look like a sport for Girl Guides.

Sure they wear some leather shoulder pads, but the game hardly stops, like rugby.

Football, North American Style, is a game of stops and starts, a few minutes on the field at a time and only seconds playing each play.

people's defenses are the giys are HUGE, they hit HARD, etc. Yeah, and so are Aussies rules guys, without the extra kevlar body armor, helmets etc.

If North America had Aussie rules football, what we deem football would be quickly called a game for sissies. but as NFL and CFL is all we have here, it is "the man's" game.

LOL, gotta love national pride resulting in such a defensive mentality.

I'd LOVE to see any NFL or CFL team drop the pads in the locker room and take on St, Kilda or Collingwood.

Differs with the demand. And AFL requires a higher cardio fitness whereas NFL/CFL seems to require ground to opponent strength. Short bursts of power.
I'd say that Soccer would also require a high cardio fotness as well. But seeing the players, they are hardly as built in the upper body, so perhaps the cardio demand is even higher.

Rugby and the NFL/CFL really are similar in their physical demands, as there are many stop/starts, but they throw the ball backward so it takes much longer to get the ball across the line.

I never was very good at sports, but I was unfit as a kid so it never suited me. Now, however, my fitness has increased somewhat, so I may enjoy it a little more.

Haha, I could imagine the difficulty in the NFL/CFL players trying to get their heads around the need to bounce the ball whilst moving!

Is both. Receivers have very high cardio, less bulk. Defensive lines, tackles etc. are generally enormous men (I mean MASSIVE) that are often grossly obese, live on 30 burgers a day and are strictly MASS TO BE MOVED by the opponent.

Sure they are all athletes that excel in specific areas, but as for tough guys? AFL players would walk all over most football players without their pads on.

Speaking of pads, what do crack ****** and a hockey goalies have in common?

Not tellin' ya THAT one online. LOL

Meow.

Don't you wish you just let it go? LOL Sorry, mate.

Is a joke and is to be laughed at.
Hence the laughter.
I have no boundaries, really.

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it sounds like I took your brother & my wife.

She's just ignoring her sister in-law.
No biggie.

but i could never do that...actually, my sister in law and i are quite close...she got me my last job too plus she's our little girl's favorite aunt

Is a dangerous game to play.

keep in mind that she still loves everyone, but my brother's wife is the one that spends the most time with her and spoils her just that little bit more...and she does that to all of them whenever she gets the chance; they don't have children nor do they plan on having any so they spoil the nieces and nephews whenever they get the chance

You may want to consider to duck;
Watch for a light of speed puck.
Hope for some luck
When you say it do suck,
Here it comes, "Watch out! Oh, (y)uck!"

Okay, so I don't do limericks. Sue me. Is it a crime to have A=B?

i thought it was cute none the less

if you can't be clever be ...

(irresistible, apple-cheeked, cutesy face goes here)

I was a goalie....not allowed to "duck"

Gotta hope to High Hell that your groin guard is strapped in correctly!

I was a goaltender for a few years....

That's not a "little plastic puk" (us Canadians spell it "puck"....it's made of very hard rubber....when it hits you in the head you see a few stars (back when I played it wasn't wire masks....we had the hard plastic ones)).

As for football...I was a guard on the offense line...I got beat up pretty bad.....it wasn't like kicking a little white & black ball around

My lack of terminology proves I know very little of the sport. But, as with all sport, it's far more interesting playing it than watching it.

Canadian football is a bit similar to the american gridiron isn't it?
Perhaps you'd have enjoyed playing Rugby with the New Zealanders... They're bigger and rougher than the footballers... and wear no pads, except for their massive necks!

I still prefer my full-contact Karate, any time of the week!

They are pretty close > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_American_and_Canadian_football Darryl has a better idea than I do, but he's logged off for the night. That link should show you the differences

Think that rugby makes them look like boys in padded suits.

Much the way I think of Tae Kwon Do...

I've seen a couple rugby games...they're nasty...rougher than football without any gear...ouch!

I was one of the yearbook phtographers, so I went to many high school football games. The occasional hard hit but never more than a minute on the field, and then a walk it off. Our school played rugby against the other shools in the district but it was pretty tame too.

Then we had a exchange with a school in Wales, and the rugby teams met up. Four of our players lost consciousness, and one had a broken collarbone. And this was with a team that was staying in our players homes for the duration of their stay. Imagine if they were archrivals.

And imagine lining up against of a team of Maoris as they're doing the hakka in front of you. Scary stuff.

(I guess I have to face it, EVERYTHING reminds me of some Monty Pythons skit or a cartoon! LOL )

Life's a farce, what can I say?

The rugby scene in Monty Python's the Meaning of Life really sums that one up for ya!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzeeaEsIFLs

BRILLIANT!!!

It's fairly popular with rugby players and those who dislike American football.

"Men play football. Real men play rugby."

The footballers, of course, dislike it intensely. {big gap-toothed rugby grin smiley goes here)

And send it to TR. There's plenty of times it could be used.

Football is a gentleman?s game played by hooligans, and Rugby is a hooligans? game played by gentlemen.

Or so the saying goes. That, of course, refers to football as defined by the Known World excluding the USA.

I thought they merged with the NFL decades ago.



People who think hockey is only about the fights are the same ones who think auto racing is only about the wrecks. I'd much rather watch hockey or 'soccer / football' than basketball, and I'd much rather watch golf than baseball. Baseball is for insomniacs.

Call me back when NASCAR season is over; I've got a fantasy team to run into the ground.

you crack me up!

Clarification: AFL - Australian Football League > http://www.afl.com.au/

I don't think that hockey games are all about the fights but they are a bit of a bonus, I just like hockey. Fights do tend to wind up the fans though, you often hear the commentators saying so during a good scrap!

I'm guilty.
Wrecks and brawls are the only reasons I'd watch them.
Otherwise, especially with auto racing, I'd end up denting the wall with my forehead.

How's that website of yours? Did you get it sorted?

I've started an off-line overhaul that I'll use next season. I can reduce the abundance of color and some of the overly "busy" issues, but the basic information being conveyed requires keeping some of the features that annoyed TR respondents.

A busy page, a page that requires a college degree to navigate, then far be it from me to disturb your comfort.

I guess it all depends on the core objective of the page. If that's what is needed, then go for it.

It can't be that difficult; after all, the audience is NASCAR fans and they don't have any problem.

Most of the feedback I got was about the conflicting colors. I don't remember any about the navigation. There are only eight or nine pages on the site.

In all fairness, I played ice hockey and LOVED it. In Nova Scotia, any kid sitting inside at night and not playing street hockey must be in an iron lung. We even spent hours at night freezing over our backyard with 4" of well groomed ice and played ice hockey/curled.

When I worked for the Pacific Coliseum, the Canucks old home, I was behind the bench for almost every game for 7 years, AWESOME!!

These days, well I just don't fit in when it comes to hockey though. a Vancouverite who doesn't watch hockey? Blasphemy!

I am a guy who will play sports, go to sporting events and be all in it but on TV, no thanks!

I would rather watch 2 hours of commercials than 1hr of a hockey game on TV, or football, or golf, or any other sport.

I get free tickets to Vancouver Giants games all the time, Coliseum of course, and find them fun with friends and a few beers but haven't watched them on TV once.

Football? spare me! CFL game is fun live, again beers, cute girls and free admission to Empire Field (on PNE grounds where I roam free) but NFL or watching CFL on TV (beside GreyCup when we are in it) BOOOOOOOORING!

Then again, I'm not REALLY Canadian, so hockey isn't in my blood anyway.

I remember when I lived in the U.P. for a few years. Our elementary school had a rectangular pit in the school yard. They'd fill it with water once the weather got cold enough to freeze it (August?), and we'd carry out skates to school. Nowadays you'd be thrown off the bus for having a weapon...

he taught kids how to stab with a hockey skate!

We'd skate on the school pond at lunch too, we did it here in Vancouver a couple of times in the 80's but it hasn't been cold enough since, you'd need a life jacket to skate on the ponds here these days, in southern BC anyway, still gets pretty freakin' cold up north (yes we actually have our OWN Great White North).

Damn global warming!

i'm envious...we don't have near that kind of venue here. The closest we can get is either to Halifax for the Mooseheads or Cape Breton for the Screaming Eagles, and they are good live.

Sounds pretty cool out there on the west coast though

time to pull the plug on the television if you own one.
there will NOT be anything worth watching for the next 8 - 9 months.

I'm apalled!! You're a Canadian afterall!!! We OWN hockey !

I'm Canadian, and have zero interest in ANY sport, including hockey.

fair enough

and I don't drink anything but coffee.
I only smoke tobacco

and don't really do crowded events / places.
[ I tend to get stressed from controlling the urges to kill everyone in the crowd for stupidity. ]

You know I have to buy her the "Super Sports Channel Package" for the Winter....

Yup....I'm with ya....yank the cord!!

In for a penny in for a pound (its dime and dollar out here I guess).

Get on your toque, don your local hockey jersey, fry up that back bacon and sing the Twelve Days of Christmas Bob & Doug style in between commercials.

Yous guys should noo better, eh?

(I just LOVE the Atlantic provinces, stereotype heaven )!

the Molson's Canadian eh.


good day, ya hoser.

like I said, I'm "pseudo Canadian".

Gawd, gotta get back across the pond real soon, next thing you know I'll be buying a Canucks toque and getting Canadian citizenship, gadzooks!!

Naw, Canadians aren't that bad, the world loves Canadians. It just isn't in my blood nor my future plans but I have to say, I am pretty well traveled and still think BC is the most stunning place I've laid eyes on anywhere in the world. There have been many gorgeous places but the jaw always hits the chest when you fly over the Rockies into BC again.

I know you're not ourdoorsy, but you are well aware of what the backyard looks like still.

http://www.execulink.com/~bobnet/hoser/12days.html anyone else out there remember SCTV? "May the good Lord take a likin' to you and blow y'all up real soon"

Of course I do, that's where all the great comedians came from!

John Candy, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Joe Flaherty (LOL), Bob & Doug?
Who can forget SCTV network?

It was just SOOOOOO scary, aren't you scared, boys and girls?

Grass is too wet...

See, this sport involves everyone. There's no such thing as a "spectator" when you have a bunch of rednecks "likkered up" on booze, and armed with compound bows and/or guns. At that point, you become an involuntary participant. It's every man or woman for themselves, because these guys will shoot at anything that moves.

Nothing like driving down the road and seeing someone with a dead deer or three strapped to their vehicle.

isn't deer season here yet...but soon I would think. Although I do not partake myself, I do indeed enjoy a good piece of deer steak or a nice roast...mmmmm...speaking of which, have you ever tried moose? It's sooo good, it's better than deer. Happy hunting!

Edit: for horrid spelling

it seems like duck season has begun.....no need to set the alarm as the shooting starts about 6:15 AM lately.

Duck season!
Rabbit season!

Duck season!
Rabbit season!

Duck season!
Rabbit season!

Rabbit season!
Duck season, SHOOT!

LOL Talk about a classic!

That waskilly wabbit....I love Looney Tunes!

I download a whole bunch of old Tom & Jerry's (the real violent ones that will harm our children) the ones where Tom is into Jazz and courting his lady cat friend are my favs.

I have probably 100GB of cartoons on my drive at home, nothing better than a good old 'toon for a giggle in the evening.

okay, I admit it, CARTOONS RULE! (the old ones anyway)

if you turn on Bugs Bunny eh... with Wile Coyote blowing stuff up and dropping anvils on himself all the time...

I'm with you though, i just love the oldies

watch all that "old" stuff we used to watch....

but.....

with all the crazy regulations & laws about that in "today's world"....well....you just mght find yourself in a heap of trouble.....pretty sad.

if you can't give the little buggers a smack round the ear once in a while they grow up soft and whiny, expecting the government to save them every step of their lives.

I remember telling my dad I would call "Zenith 1234" (not because he hit me but because I though it was abused when he wouldn't let me have my way).

He just laughed and told me to call an ambulance first.

When I was too tired hiking one weekend, he told me he hoped I had a good pair of gloves. I asked why. he said because he wasn't about to carry me so I'd have to crawl home if I couldn't make it(and people wonder where I get my warped sense of humour from?)

In all fairness my dad was fantastic, incredibly talented and very hard working, which is where I grew to learn multiple skills and work at all kinds of things all the time. He didn't take flac though and by today's standards probably would be frowned on by most pansy parents of the new millenium. I have a damn tough skin though and not much gets past me, as I grew sharp minded and aware.

I didn't need special protection and curfews, I was allowed to play well into the evening and go out with friends all over the city, movies, long bike rides (including ferry to Vancouver Island etc). We knew that the world wasn't a place full of happy helpful strangers and to watch who we spoke to and what we said. We checked in with home and were left to be kids and have fun without the constantly monitored play that kids face today.

Needless to say, my son grew up the exact same way.

When we were kids, the only reason you'd rat someone out to a teacher or 'public servant' about was if you were sexually abused, even then I think most people kept quiet and still do no matter how well they think micromanaging children works, it's the same world with the same dangers as before, just more people freaked out over it.

We had brutal cartoons, but played pong instead of brutal video games, if we were ever inside long enough to play video games that is.

has some of the original T&J episodes, including the first, in which his name is Jasper.

They make a remark at the beginning that the attitudes and stereotypes displayed reflected the values of the times..."they are wrong now and they were wrong then"...but the value of the experience would be lost if those scenes were cut.

The whole 'Tom' Cat and 'Jerry' mouse was a take on the war, Germans vs Allies of course.

Then there was the "momma" who screamed THOMAS! In that southern, Afro-American accent, as she padded around. The old aunt Jemima thing doesn't go over too well today, for some reason. Everyone has their stereotypes that we are able to giggle at. People from the south don't get upset when others joke "y'all" (with a drawl), I don't care when people laugh about the common "spot of tea" (pompous Brit thing) or the "Canadian, EH?" I mean if we can't laugh at our subtle difference that way, there's something personally wrong with us as individuals, it doesn't require suck politically correct 'rules' applied.

We can laugh at each others stereotypes but not if the subject is black? Doesn't that single out a specific race even more?

The violence? Seriously, if your kid is stupid enough to run around the lawn and purposely step on a rake to have it smack him in the face while his friend takes a frying pan to the head, you need to wear a condom.

In several of the WB toons, Daffy refers to himself as the "little black duck." There have been complaints about that expression.

I mean, wtf? Daffy is a black duck!

I really love the old Popeyes, back when they had really intricately drawn backdrops - the Aladin one is great. But there are a few racial stereotypes portrayed.

And of course I saw "Song of the South" in theatres (mid 60s rerelease NOT original run) and enjoyed it.

It would be "Why does the duck have to be white? What's wrong with black ducks? We can be daffy too. Don't people think we have a sense of humour?"

Yeah, politically correct run amok. That's why I was so glad to see that whole mentality come and go in Canada, real fast. There's a bit more cautious respect these days because of it, but nobody is walking on eggshells anymore, we all pretty much see eye to eye and laugh at each other as much a we do ourselves.

A good friend/neighbour, moved here from Alabama and he is always dumbfounded at how he is treated equally to everyone else.

When we walk through a mall he still nods at any black people he sees, as if he finally found a common brother. Most just look at him strangely like "Do I know you?".

He goes straight into his Harlem strut (that's what I call his 'street gait' anyway)and smiles proudly to himself as if to think "yeah, I'm not the only black guy here!" It's hilarious to watch really, amazing what an upbringing across the border can do to a person's mindset. He's been here nearly 15 years now too.

We went to the Jamaican festival a while back and he was nodding and high fiving people that were looking at him like he was mental. (er, we don't need to do that brotherhood crap up here). He said it was the most black people he'd seen in one place since leaving Alabama. I honestly wouldn't have noticed, I certainly didn't feel like the odd man out, for being white.

He still doesn't get it, nobody gives a damn is you are black, brown or whatever here.

Sure there's racism, there is everywhere in the world, but the black/white neighbourhoods and segregation just don't exist as much as in the US, especially Alabama.

Ramble on, is it 5PM yet? Not quite, anyway.... gawd I hate these F/T day gigs!

That had little black Sambo in it? Talk about racism!

the UK had to ditch GollyWog Jam.

Then there was "It ain't 'alf hot here mum" a UK show set during the UK's occupation in Africa. They had Indian men who would sit on the barrack's porch operating the fans and another who was the tea (char) man.

All this stuff is so taboo these days.

Seriously, it was intended as a play on the racism that once was. Much like Archie Bunker was an icon of the old codger that was set in his ways against commies etc. Even his daughter and son in law didn't play along, poor old Edith hated to follow along but she was your typically loyal wife who wouldn't question her husband.

It wasn't a matter of laughing at racism, it was a matter of laughing at an old, ignorant mindset that was rapidly becoming a thing of the past. As always, the humourless just don't get the focus of such comedy and only see it at face value.

I don't think it was black people that started the whole 'african-American' crap either, white politically correct people did that. If I refer to my buddy as African American and he says, "Hey, I'm not African, I'm 3rd or 4th generation American, I'm just black!" Then again, being black or brown is not a big deal here, so nobody cares.

Deer season opens on 10/1 for bows. My idea of hunting is driving to the grocery store and hunting up a nice package of beef. Outdoorsy, I'm not.

Never tried moose. I've had deer, squirrel, rabbit, dove, and quail.

Sort of like Beef but less fat.....doesn't have the "gamey" taste deer has....mooseburger is really good.....if you ever make it to Newfoundland, you really have to give it a try....perferbably as you're being "screeched in" LOL !!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_Screech

I bought a cookbook our hospital compiled and just got in from the publisher. The proceeds go to charity, and I found out why our cafeteria food is so bad.

Our director of food services put in a recipe for baked Racoon. Now I know what some of that mystery meat in brown sauce was.

Does the other team know when you're playing or when they are supposed to defend?

If people want to actually deem hunting a sport, let them try to bag a deer without the gun, that'd be worth watching on TV!

16 redknecks killed by pi$$ed off buck in local arena.

'Men' they call themselves? I suppose gangstas who do drive by shootings are men too.

Tom Lehrer had it right. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iATzgXyhYRs

"You just stand there looking cute, and when something moves, you shoot."

We were close enough to NYC to get the "Great White Hunters" coming in to our area. When they showed up, anybody with any sense whatever stayed out of the woods.

Nor, can I dispute what may soon come to pass.

There is a trial going on right now in Newfoundland. Group of people went bear hunting, it was getting late, light was bad, woman shoots at a shape coming out of the woods. She says she thought it was a bear, turns out it was her husband. Some suggestions that they were not happy.

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Get up too early, put on unwashed clothes, sit in the woods with a weapon, try to be quiet and stay awake. In the Army we called it "guard duty" and got paid for it.

We called it "entry control", but it was pretty much the same thing. The major differences were that only rarely was it pulled in foxholes and the Army couldn't believe the Air Force actually knew how to set up a perimeter.

one would never think so considering how frikkin' warm it is outside today...ugg... http://davesweather.net/ the humidity is zapping me out

So, what's with the guy on the organ? Dah dah dah dah, dah dah dah dah...

It would drive me NUTS!
If I watched hockey...
Which I don't...

Not very big over here although we do have some teams, I believe.