The 33rd in our 118-part series.
The stupid nicknames we make up that make no sense anywhere but inside our heads
We remember one time when an athlete for a pro team that we kind of liked, in a sport we kind of liked (read: not hockey), showed up for training camp one year announcing that he was ready to make up for his putrid previous season. He explained that he was leaner, in better shape than ever, and was mentally focused in a way he hadn’t been in the last year because, as it turns out, he’d been terribly distracted by personal issues. And those issues? Knocking up a Hooters waitress and the ensuing messy divorce from his socialite wife. In honor of that hilarious disclosure, we came up with the idea of “The Hooters Baby”. That when a player is slumping, and the TV announcers are tiptoeing around talking about it in really ominous, weighted tones, and the guy’s teammates are all making much more loaded “He’ll come around and break out of this” comments than the standard-issue “He’ll come around and break out of this” fare, and with each passing game the player looks more and more like he’s being eaten from the inside… we declare he’s having a Hooters Baby. Sure, he might be struggling with his parakeet dying. Or his home renovations getting on his nerves. Or he’s disappointed at how crappy the last Harry Potter book was. Or any number of serious, legitimate real-life tribulations that are distracting him. But whatever the reason — and it very well may be just a regular old slump — it feels like more than just a slump to the casual observer, and at stately IPB Manor, the blanket statement is applied: he is having a Hooters Baby.
In honor of today’s thrilling NHL news coming out of Minnesota regarding an unruly gang of Staal brothers drunkenly shouting at passing motorists (Scandal!), we will admit that, ever since his epic slump this past season, we’ve been calling Eric Staal “Hooters”. And because we once saw a little feature where Hooters and Mike Commodore went to the state fair with Tripp Tracy, we’ve decided the two of them are BFFs. And, naturally, any guy named Hooters should have a BFF named McCracken, so they can be the main characters in a buddy copshow called “Hooters and McCracken”, so that’s why we call Mikey C “McCracken”. It all makes perfect sense.
Inside our heads.
As does calling Colby Armstrong “CheeseTed”, or Peter Forsberg “Babar Feesberg”, or Brad Lukowich “Choco”, or Jason Pominville “Pommerdoodle”, or Brian Gionta “The Angry Truffle”, or Ryan Miller “Crunchy”, or… Well, you get the idea.
But everybody does this, don’t they? Inventing goofy nicknames that stick to a guy, so that when you’re trying to talk hockey seriously with another fan you have to stop yourself and say, “No, not everyone calls Slava Kozlov ‘The Little Goon.’” It’s just one of many things (dare we even say it’s one of 118 things?) that a person can really love about hockey.
My sister and her friends do this constantly, but with real-life people instead of hockey players. (They would probably do it with hockey players, too, if she weren’t the lone fan among them.) They call people by nicknames they will never know, like “Fat Ass Frank,” “Stayin’ Alive Nick,” “Biohazard Briefcase,” “Battle of Alia,” “Computer Art Boyfriend,” and the list goes on and on. Even if they know these people’s real names, they never call them anything else (except to their faces).
What I’m trying to say is, yes, everyone does do this. Although you guys are way more creative than I am. Before I came here, I’d been calling Ryan Miller plain old “Crooked Face.”
“Crooked Face”??? Gambler, I’m shocked! :P
I’m generally a lot less gifted with real-life people and their slightly insulting nicknames. Although I have a coworker I call “FTMM” (for “Flesh-Toned Mustache Man”). Kate The Great is much better at this, her most notable one being her ex-boyfriend “Backwoods Boy”.
Gambler is right, most people do this.
In the pre-Crunchy era my sister and I had named Ryan Miller “The Eyebrow”, and Hank Lundqvist was “Luscious Lundy” etcetcetc. And real life people suffer too.
Before I came here, I’d been calling Ryan Miller plain old “Crooked Face.”
Crooked Face! I love it! He sounds like a bad guy in a Dick Tracy comic! Our grandmother once described our other grandmother’s cat by saying, “It had those longs legs and that mean face…” I’m now going to think of Crunchy with his long legs and crooked face.
The best part of the Crooked Face nickname is how it sends my Crunchy-phile sister into paroxysms of rage whenever I use it and the accompanying facial expression. Let’s just say I do a mean impression of Crunchy’s roster photo.
Yeah, I’m totally the Pookie of that relationship.
I’m not sure I can approve whole-heartedly of so many people who make such merciless fun of my sweet, sweet Crunchy…
We taunt because we love Schnookie.
Yeah, I’m totally the Pookie of that relationship.
Rock on, sister, rock on. He’s just such an appealing target, you know?
We taunt because we love Schnookie.
Sometimes I’m not so sure of that… :P
Damn I forgot the comma there –;;
(repeat after me, “I love comma’s, I do, I do)
He’s just such an appealing target, you know?
He really is. I think it has to do with the fact that if he ever found out that he’s known as “Crooked Face” in some circles, it would make him incredibly cranky, and, well, even more crooked faced. It’s a circle of amusement that just keeps on giving.
But really, Schnookie, never fear. I always taunt because I love.
(repeat after me, “I love comma’s, I do, I do)
Eeeee! I love Mags, I do, I do!
Gambler, I thought you’d like that :D
I guess my nicknames are a little more name based, but most of the best Ducks nicknames are now departed.
Keith Carney instantly got a SoCal flavoring with the old “Carney Asada” tag.
Todd Simpson was “Homer J”–just so we could yell “D’oh!” anytime he was visible.
But good old Ruslan Salei–that guy had a nickname every month or so. “Cirque d’Salei” and “Salei of game” were clearly the best, but a good ol’ “Rusty” or “Belaroooooooooooos” always found its way in there.
There’s a guy in the local team named Slava Kovshov, I prefer him as Kozlov.
But everyone has great creativity. I suck at nicknames, it never comes to me. I want to be able to call people other than “Fucker” or “thatguyIlovesmuch”
I’m always wildly impressed by creative nicknames, mainly because I am so terrible at it.
Back when Brenden Morrow was a rookie, Pat Verbeek gave him the nickname of Mini-Mo. Mo was already Modano’s nickname (although I’m surprised it wasn’t Mikey or Modaner, since that’s about as creative as they usually get.)
Recently I found out that it has stuck all these years, except it’s been shortened further. Now everybody calls him Minnie.
I’m sure he gets asked why a lot.
And “Hooters and McCracken” would be the best show ever.
at my house this week it’s Jesus H. Potter! as in
Jesus H. Potter and the Gratuitously Dead Weasley ( owl, elf, werewolf, creevy…)
and Mario’s Pool Boy – i’ll bet i don’t have to explain that one.
I’m always slightly envious of people who are good with nicknames. I totally suck at it. I blame my parents (because hey, why not?)
hallo Pookie and Snookie and the rest of IPB
I found your lovely blog through h log and I’ve been lurking a bit to get caught up on your hilarious vibe.
Since I’ve read that you gals aren’t canucks fans I’ve tried to resist you in loyalty to “my” team…but I can’t do it anymore! you two and this blog are just too hysterical to stay away from any longer…I give in.
Plus this off season is just getting to me horribly. And Mags nice shoebox reference :) I luff it. Unfortunately I don’t have any good nick names at all…I’ll have to get more creative
And now I’m really embarassed cause I’ve left a rambling novel as my first comment…*slinks away in embarassment*
My husband referred to Jason Pominville as “Pommerdoodle” the other day and THEN asked, “Hey, why are we calling him that anyway?” The great thing was, when I asked him what he thought he actually came close with, “Because he looks kind of like a puppy?” Our nicknames are pretty lame and name-based too.
When we were without a car and both taking the bus everywhere, we had names for all the weirdos we came in regular contact with.
SCHnookie…obviously I can’t type :p
I’ve never really given a nickname to any players. I either call them by their already given nickname or by an (or string of) expletive(s). I do call Thibault “Tivo” because that’s what it sounded like when the announcers first said his name. It’s not too far off consider it’s pronounced TEE boh, thanks ESPN! There was a substitution of a bilabial stop for a labiodental fricative, thanks Phonetics!
Alix, I’m a mini Canucks fan! I know I’m an evil Oilers fan but we can both band together and hate the Flames together!
Schnookie, the athlete with the Hooters baby sounds suspiciously like Chipper Jones.
The only athlete that I have a stupid nickname for is Ales Kotalik. And I can’t take credit for it. My grandfather misheard Kotalik’s name as “Go Take a Leak.” Ever since, that’s how our family has referred to him.
Schnookie, the athlete with the Hooters baby sounds suspiciously like Chipper Jones.
Hmmmm…. I wonder why? Heh heh heh.
Alix and AK, welcome to IPB! We’re always so glad to hear from new people!
Alix, we’re glad HLOG brought you to us. Sorry about the Canucks and all, but… Maybe it’s just a Brendan Morrison thing? :P
Oh, and Heather, I think that is SO AWESOME that your husband has picked up on the Poomerdoodle thing. Can you start calling him (Jason, not your husband) Poomerdoodle on your blog? Since it’s the preeminent Sabres blog, maybe it will catch on throughout all of Buffalo? How great would it be to hear Jim Lorentz call him that during a game?
Pookie, I’d probably fall off my chair if I heard Pommerdoodle referred to by that name on the air. That would definitely top Jeanneret’s Pomminville Planned Parenthood center call from last year.
Some housekeeping to catch up this morning:
Hey Alix and AK! How exciting to hear from some new people — welcome aboard! (And “Jesus H. Potter” — I love it. I used to, before I saw the light, refer to Sid as Sidney H. Christ.)
So I have to say, actual clever nicknames really impress me. I mean “Cirque d’Salei”? That’s GENIUS. And I would never in a zillion years think of that. More often than not I’m either calling a guy something ridiculous and convoluted (McCracken) or just falling back on “Butthead” or “Stupid”.
There was a substitution of a bilabial stop for a labiodental fricative
See, this is why I love the gang here at IPB. We are definitely the only hockey blog with that statement on it today!
Heather, my previous proudest moment as a blogger was seeing the name Crunchy catch on with our Gentle Readers. But that one came with an explanation attached. The fact that your husband was going on faith calling Pommer Pommerdoodle? It leaves me wiping away tears of joy. That’s awesome.
Schnookie, the athlete with the Hooters baby sounds suspiciously like Chipper Jones.
Well, I don’t want to be naming names because I don’t want to be one of those rumormongering fangirls, but, uh… heh.
Well, I don’t want to be naming names because I don’t want to be one of those rumormongering fangirls, but, uh… heh.
Heehee. Got it.
I’m actually really horrible with thinking up nicknames, but I love using them…especially the ones other people made up because they’re far more creative than I am.
By the way, how many painkillers is too many? I took two advils an hour ago but they clearly didn’t work.
Sherry, I don’t think taking another Advil will hurt you, but if you do and it does, don’t blame me, okay? (I was once told by a medical professional that it’s always safe to double the dosage recommended on OTC medicines, because they deliberately label them at half the safe dosage in anticipation of everyone doubling it. I think that sounds patently ridiculous, but that doesn’t stop me from loading up on Excedrin when I’m feeling achy…)
Uhh is it all right if I like mix the medication? Cause I took two advils but I’m sort of thinking I want to take a Tylenol instead.
Is Mags around? Maybe she can use her dentistry wisdom to tell me why my teeth are forming a mutiny against me and want me in so much pain.
It’s tooth pain? That’s awful! I’m so sorry!
The only athlete that I have a stupid nickname for is Ales Kotalik. And I can’t take credit for it. My grandfather misheard Kotalik’s name as “Go Take a Leak.”
Ha! My grandfather’s a big Yankees fan, and because of similar hearing problems, Matsui is known as Matusi in my household. He’s also known as Twitchy Shoulder, for somewhat more obvious reasons. Not that I, uh, watch the Yankees.
But speaking of Kotalik, it’s not exactly a nickname, but I regularly use the phrase “Hey, you can Kotalik my balls, okay?” in comeback situations. Also, when he has the puck I sometimes break out into a round of singing “He’s Kotalik! Kotalik! He’s Kotalik-y!” to the tune of “Super Freak.”
How great would it be to hear Jim Lorentz call him that during a game?
Well considering I actually pointed out in my latest game diary how adorable it is when Jim calls him “Jason,” if he called him Pommerdoodle? I would pommerdoodle.
Is Mags around? Maybe she can use her dentistry wisdom to tell me why my teeth are forming a mutiny against me and want me in so much pain.
Can I use my dream wisdom, and tell you it’s because your face is Russia? I’m sorry, Sherry, I’m not helping.
Oh, Sherry, tooth pain is the worst. I find that neither advil nor tylenol work. That sucks.
It’s okay Gambler, it’s a better explanation than I can come up with [I am part Russian anyways, so it's technically sort of true]
I’m thinking it might have something to do with my wisdom teeth, which I should really get removed but I’m terrified of doing so.
But speaking of Kotalik, it’s not exactly a nickname, but I regularly use the phrase “Hey, you can Kotalik my balls, okay?” in comeback situations.
Hee-hee! My friends and I like using the phrase “Is it me, or is it getting Dany Heatley in here?”
Gambler, we have a cat named Matsui. One day the NYT puzzle had “Batsuit” as one of the answers, and Pookie was stuck on that clue. I tried to give her a hint and realized “Batsuit” is “Batsui” with a “T” at the end. So we now call Matsui the cat and Matsui the baseball player “Batsuit”. That said, I’m going to try “Matusi” on the cat today.
Oh, and I’m now going to sing Kotalik’s name to “Super Freak” every time I see him!
I actually pointed out in my latest game diary how adorable it is when Jim calls him “Jason,”
Isn’t that weird how with some players it just seems unusually cute or intimate to hear them called by their first names? I mean, when Chico calls, say, Gomer “Scott” it’s like, “well, yeah, that’s his name.” But when he calls Paulie Martin “Paul”? I’m all titillated. (Although Chico calls everyone by their first names, so maybe it’s just that I get my thrills in really banal ways.)
Isn’t that weird how with some players it just seems unusually cute or intimate to hear them called by their first names?
True enough! Mostly everybody in the Canadian media and even the team personnel always call Spezza by his first name (also Jason). It’s like he’s everybody’s little brother!
Meg – Thanks for the sympathy. Sadly neither the advil or tylenol are currently working for me either. I’ve asked MamaScarlett to make a dentist appointment for me. Yes, I still run to mommy whenever I have a boo-boo :P
I’m thinking it might have something to do with my wisdom teeth, which I should really get removed but I’m terrified of doing so.
This is going to sound weird, but I loved getting my wisdom teeth removed. I’ve never done any kind of drugs or anything, so it was the most marvelous experience to get all doped up, and then the actual process of the wisdom tooth removal was just fascinating, and my convalescence was almost literally painless. I have actually thought at times that I would happily do it all over again. (But no. The painful oral surgery I get to revisit? Gum grafting. *Retching*)
This is going to sound weird, but I loved getting my wisdom teeth removed.
Not that strange, maybe, because I TOTALLY second this. It was awesome being put under, so much so that I regret that they decided to pull them all in one sitting.
Of course, this might differ a lot depending on how compacted those wisdom teeth are (mine were not complicated at all, apparently, and the puffing went down real fast), but sitting back in that chair, drugfully drifting off into hazyland… gimme back my wisdom teeth, dammit!
Yes, I still run to mommy whenever I have a boo-boo
Hee hee! Since moving Boomer in with us, I’ve become the least functional adult EVER. For example, last night Boomer noticed I had a new credit card that I hadn’t activated yet, and I was like, “Oh, yeah, I don’t use that account, but I’ll get around to activating that someday…” and then trailed off until she said, “Do you want me to call them for you?” Yes, Boomer, that was exactly what I wanted you to do! (I am so, so, so bad. But then again, before we moved Boomer back east, I just made Pookie do everything for me.)
Earl, I’m so relieved to hear you say that about your teeth! All these years I’ve wondered if I had some freaky tooth fetish or something… And it wasn’t just the drugs (although that made up a good 98% of the joy of the experience) — I also really enjoyed the sensation of the teeth being pulled out of their sockets. As I recall they had to smash up one of them, but the others just came out in big, suction-y wholes, and being able to feel that without feeling any pain was just wild. Um, sorry to overshare there.
I think I would like the getting drugged up part if I could just end up passing out afterwards. I don’t think I’d be very graceful while high. The biggest thing for me not wanting to get them pulled is my low pain threshold and the awkwardness that will follow. Plus I would have to time it for when I’m not on-air or have to do an oral presentation for class which I do an inordinate amount of. Stupid commerce program.
Since moving Boomer in with us, I’ve become the least functional adult EVER.
Hey, that’s what mommahs are for, that’s what I say. It’s more of a pre-emptive strike on my part because if I don’t call her to tell her what I’m doing or what’s going on in my life, she’ll call me and then nag at me as to why I never call and tell her what’s going on in my life.
Yes, I still run to mommy whenever I have a boo-boo :P
It’s ok, Sherry, so do I. Unfortunately, my mom lives as far away from me as it’s possible to live while still being in New York, so she can’t actually help much.
Schnookie, I actually wasn’t that fussed about my wisdom teeth either. Although it wasn’t enjoyable either. I got no fun drugs, really. My teeth were all impacted so I insisted on being entirely sedated, and then I was just given extra strong Motrin for the pain. Other than nausea from the anaesthesia, I really didn’t have a problem with the whole process. The pain was very manageable.
I think I would like the getting drugged up part if I could just end up passing out afterwards. I don’t think I’d be very graceful while high.
If I recall correctly, I just went home after my surgery and slept for about 18 hours. Waking up periodically to take another codeine. Good times! (And then when I woke up, Boomer spent the next three days getting me milkshakes whenever I was hungry. Seriously, those were some halcyon times.)
Since you guys are giving it such great reviews, I’m sort of looking forward to getting my wisdom teeth removed now! Especially if it means the pain will stop.
The painkillers are really not working and it’s sort of a waste of my cash since I can’t even swallow pills properly. Yes, I use a mortar and pestel so smash them and then cringe as I’m downing it.
Boomer spent the next three days getting me milkshakes whenever I was hungry.
That’s awesome! Although knowing MamaScarlett, she would make me drink the low-fat ones.
Oh, I did find the stitches disintegrating (as they were supposed to) a bit gross. Like little loose pieces of string at the back of your mouth.
Meg, Kate the Great’s wisdom teeth were all impacted, too. And then she got dry sockets (or whatever that is) and ended up in horrible, excruciating pain. I remember she was so bad, and totally unable to speak, that she just lay in bed pounding on the wall to get someone’s attention to come bring her more painkillers. Needless to say, I was a bit nervous when my turn came up for the wisdom tooth thing, but I guess I was just living right or something! (That’s what she gets for having been born with perfectly straight teeth. I wore braces for 4 years and she had a torturous wisdom tooth experience. Actually, that’s not a fair tradeoff at all — I got it way worse than she did!)
Oh, I did find the stitches disintegrating (as they were supposed to) a bit gross.
Ahh, the medical advances since my days of wisdom tooth removal. I had to go back in and get my stitches manually removed, which was BY FAR the most disgusting part of the process, in my opinion. I just can’t handle the concept of stitches at all, especially stitches in my gums. (Which is why gum grafting and I get along so well. I had to get two done this past Fall, and my periodontist told me he’d never once seen a patient as creeped out by stitches as I am. He almost had to anesthesize me to take them out.)
Oh, and I’m now going to sing Kotalik’s name to “Super Freak” every time I see him!
My sister actually wrote and recorded a whole song about Kotalik set to “Super Freak.” It’s hilarious!
I’m going to chime in and say that I, too, had a wonderful experience in getting my wisdom teeth pulled. The experience with the drugs was fun, as I only vaguely remember my mom and sister piling me into the car, but apparently I was pestering them the whole way home to go get me some yarn and knitting needles. Which I don’t remember at all. Wheeee! And I had literally no pain to speak of. Aside from the nausea that I get whenever I get general anesthetic (which isn’t terribly fun, but not unmanageable) I looked and felt perfectly fine. In fact, I stopped taking the huge ibuprofen pills prescribed to me, and saved it for a time when I actually had pain to manage. Those things were a magic five minute cure for a migraine.
Anyway, Sherry, I highly recommend it.
Haha thanks guys. I suppose my fear of the pain was for naught, but the nausea is a little unsettling. I also have delayed reaction, so I probably won’t start throwing up/screaming about the pain until about an hour after the whole thing is done.
And I bet this is what Zajac would look like as a bear.
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And then she got dry sockets (or whatever that is) and ended up in horrible, excruciating pain.
I was terrified that I was going to wind up with dry sockets, but thankfully didn’t.
I stopped taking the huge ibuprofen pills prescribed to me, and saved it for a time when I actually had pain to manage. Those things were a magic five minute cure for a migraine.
Same here…I had like half the bottle left after the pain from my wisdom teeth went away. It was brilliant.
I had to go back in and get my stitches manually removed, which was BY FAR the most disgusting part of the process, in my opinion.
The only time I’ve ever had to get stitches manually removed was from my head (my sister dropped a brick on it, long story), and my dad decided that since he’s a doctor he could do it himself, at home. Without Novocain. It was easily the most painful part of that whole experience. I would never want to have to get stitches taken out of my gums, though. Gross.
I suppose my fear of the pain was for naught, but the nausea is a little unsettling.
I wouldn’t worry about the nausea, Sherry, I think that was just me. I just have some sort of allergy to anesthetic, or something.
I hung on to my wisdom tooth tylenols with codeine and was very grateful for it later, too! And Sherry, just so you know, I didn’t have any nausea at all from my wisdom teeth, because they gave me, like, heroin instead of anesthesia. I think you’ll be fine.
Aw, Sherry! Little Travis Bear is so cute!
I had my top two wisdom teeth removed about three years ago. It was a surprisingly pleasant experience. It’s weird how you can hear the snapping and popping of the tooth coming out but not feel a thing. And the prescription painkillers are awesome! I was lucky and had them done in two seperate visits about two months apart.
It’s weird how you can hear the snapping and popping of the tooth coming out but not feel a thing.
YES! Cookest thing ever! (Okay, maybe not “ever”, but it’s up there in my opinion…)
I’m not that big into stuffed animals myself but the MLB bears are too cute
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I had two wisdom teeth pulled and it wasn’t that bad. I only had to take the painkillers for one day before switching to Tylenol.
The worst part was eating mashed potatoes and cottage cheese for dinner while my parents were eating burgers and fries. A burger never smelled so good before.
The worst part was eating mashed potatoes and cottage cheese for dinner while my parents were eating burgers and fries.
I suppose solid foods will be out of the question for awhile? Time to put MamaScarlett’s ultra-fancy-schmancy blender to good use.
The worst part was eating mashed potatoes and cottage cheese for dinner while my parents were eating burgers and fries. A burger never smelled so good before.
That really is the worst! But since I’m the cook in my house, we all ate mashed potatoes until I was back onto solid food. Heh. I found the hardest thing was that my jaw muscles got really stiff from not being used much. Then one night we watched a “Gunsmoke” marathon on Nick at Nite when we were all really punchy and I ended up having one of those all-time-great laughing fits that totally loosened up my jaw. So that would be part of my post-op regimen if I was dispensing care advice to potential wisdom tooth patients: just laugh really, really hard.
It’s weird how you can hear the snapping and popping of the tooth coming out but not feel a thing.
YES! Cookest thing ever! (Okay, maybe not “ever”, but it’s up there in my opinion…)
At times I feel like I missed out here, but then I remember that they had to cut my gums open, break each tooth into 4 separate pieces, and then extract them, and I realize that I’m happy I was totally unconscious.
I think I was able to hear (and feel, kind of) them breaking up one of my teeth, Meg. Just so weird!
It seems logos are abounding in the blog world — we just got our first draft of IPB’s new logos from the graphic designer, and I’m pommerdoodling! But don’t worry, Boggle fans — they’re still very simple. (I think we’re lucky that we don’t have to encorporate three team logos…) (Although maybe we should build a new logo every season so random fans stumbling upon us during the season would be able to tell who our three secondary teams are.)
Hey! There are no Sabres Build-a-Bears! I call foul. C’mon, if any team is best represented by cuddly little teddy bears, it’s us.
Ooooh, when do we get to see the new logo, Schnookie? I’m pommerdoodling!
Maybe the league decided it was just redundant to represent the Sabres as bears? They looked at Pommerdoodle and were like, “Nope. That would just be superfluous.” (That, or they looked at Crunchy and were like, “Bears are really the last thing coming to mind right now…”)
I’m not sure when the logo rollout will be. Pookie and I haven’t had a chance yet to decide how much (if anything) we want tweaked on the ones he sent today. But soon, I hope!
New logos soon? Very exciting!
I’m also calling foul on the Build-a-Bear. The Sabres must think that there’s no demand for such a product. Sigh. I kind of want a Sabres Build-a-Bear, just so I could name it Brian Campbear or Adam Bear.
Yay on the new logos. You know you’re going to have us Pommerdoodling when we see them.
Oh, now I want to make a Zach Bearise! Or a Sergei Bearlin. Or a Jay Beardolfo. Or a John Madbear. Or a Jamie Beargenbrunner. Hm… The quality of these bear nicknames has trailed off considerably.
Oh, now I want to make a Zach Bearise! Or a Sergei Bearlin. Or a Jay Beardolfo. Or a John Madbear. Or a Jamie Beargenbrunner. Hm… The quality of these bear nicknames has trailed off considerably.
At $40 dollars each, Lou could stock up on some more D-men. Colin White out with a groin injury, in his place a….stuffed animal?
I really want to order one or just get the “uniform” since my old friends made me one when I was out sick from school and being homeschooled or that could have been the year when I had surgery and was out pre-surgery. Yea, I’ve been homeschooled quite a few times in my years, 4 times to be exact.
Meg, my wisdom teeth situation was kind of like yours. I don’t know about the whole breaking the tooth into four parts thing, but I was definitely knocked out with a ghetto IV hanging from the ceiling of the room that was typical foam-like office ceiling. My top wisdom teeth were impacted and my bottom ones probably were too, so they had to cut into my gums. I don’t remember a damn thing other than them putting the IV in and me coming to and asking if that was it? Oh, and I was semi-there cause they would talk at times and I somehow processed it to be able to respond with a ugh. Afterwards, I don’t remember the healing process to be extremely painful, but I think it hurt to move my jaw for awhile and I hated being able to suck blood out of the area and spit it out (like the feeling of drawing up the blood).
Maybe the league decided it was just redundant to represent the Sabres as bears? They looked at Pommerdoodle and were like, “Nope. That would just be superfluous.”
Or maybe they know something we don’t, like that we’re about to sign Peca for three years, which my painter just told me he has inside info on (please, please, please let him be lying). That would considerably lower our teddy bear status. I mean, you can’t make even a passable bear nickname out of Michael Peca. Michael Bearca? Please.
Zach Bearise is so cute! Do it!
Colin White out with a groin injury, in his place a….stuffed animal?
You know, the stuffed animal would be no less mobile, and would probably have fewer anger-management issues! (Actually, I’m kidding. Whitey really doesn’t take anywhere near as many stupid penalties as he used to.)
Zach Bearise is so cute! Do it!
As I was writing that out, I was like, “Oh my god, that actually is cute!” And he’s got little button eyes just like a teddy bear. Aww… Zach. So darling. And so not-signed-yet. Come on, Lou, what are you waiting for? Other RFAs to sign and arbitration awards to get handed out so you and Zach can get a better feel for the market? Because if that’s the reason this is taking so long, that’s stupid!
Now, as for this Peca thing, if it actually happens I’m going to look at the same way I’m looking at Sykora being a Penguin. First of all, clearly the Hockey Gods are testing my ability to love my secondary teams. (Or punishing me for having secondary teams in the first place.) And second, the Hockey Gods are offering me gifts to make my game diarizing much easier next season. (When we were diarizing the Red Wings during the playoffs we were frequently stuck with nothing to say, in part because we don’t know the West very well and in part because we hate the Wings. So I’d be like, “Pookie, I haven’t written anything in over two minutes!” and she’d just spot me a crack about how ugly Hasek is. I fully intend to fall back on countless lazy Sykora jokes during Pens diaries next year, and I’ll do the same with Peca if he joins the Sabres.)
Oh, I forgot to add that I’m a little bit better in coming up with nicknames for people I know…but not by much. I used to call the kid I liked London because of the Underground’s phrase “mind the gap”. I called him this because he had a gap between his two front teeth. What is really eerie is that unfortunately in about 10-12 years, he’ll look like Pronger. He’s not bad looking now, but his future cuteness does not seem promising. Pronger=Ugo.
London is much better than the nicknames Crazy Bitch and Vagina Earlobe Girl that I’ve assigned to people since those are just stating the obvious.
Ookies, have you ever seen Flight of the Conchords? I decided to check it out since it was listed under the HBO On Demand. I feel like you ookies might like it, if you haven’t scene it before. It has some Stella-esque flair.
I read some reviews of Flight of the Conchords and thought, “I bet we’d really like that!” and then completely forgot to mention it to Pookie. Of course, with Shark Week coming up, we don’t have a lot of room in our tv schedule in the immediate future! (How lame is that? That I’m reduced to being excited about Shark Week?) (And I can’t even express how big a bunch of Discovery Channel dorks we’ve become this summer.)
How lame is that? That I’m reduced to being excited about Shark Week?
My roommate and I are always excited for shark week. And while we kind of feel that they need some new shark week programming, it is, nevertheless, a fun week in television.
So my roommate in his utmost wisdom had driven home from his parents’ place with $40 of (mostly frozen) groceries in his car, and now does not have time to stop home before work, so I have to go save our ice cream.
But I had to pop in before I leave, and now I have to say those baseball bears are ridiculously adorable. I love how the shot of the Tigers one is even photoshopped to look like he’s actually throwing the ball (or, well, sort of juggling it, by the looks of things). Give him a really awkward batting stance and some high socks and awwww PitchyCrunchyBear.
I am appalled at the Red Wings bear though. I mean come on, get your uniforms right – you think we actually wear something that isn’t head to toe blinding red? I think not! (The black helmet – which we certainly do not actually have – sort of reminds me of that game I was at where my little rookie Hudler couldn’t figure out which helmet to wear, though.)
I’m a little late to the party here, but I also loved getting my wisdom teeth out. It was painless and fun and easy. You’ll love it, Sherry!
I was given some crazy painkilling pills after I had surgery a few years ago. I was convinced I was going to become addicted to them so I refused to take more than the first two. Man they were awesome. I wish I could go back in time and take the rest. I think I threw them out after I recovered. I’m such a moron!
Oh my, I can’t believe I typed scene instead of seen (which I originally typed and then deleted to type scene). Yea, I’ve never said I was amazing at grammar or spelling or even logical thoughts.
I believe I watched something about Ants on either the Discovery Channel or Animal Planet and was absolutely amazed. I like stuff like that, but it’s usually a last resort there’s nothing else on tv at 4 in the morning option. I did want to watch that series of that guy living with wolves on National Geographic, but sadly I don’t have that. Man vs. Wild is pretty entertaining too. What wouldn’t Bear do?
thanks for the warm welcome :)
And Pookie I gotta say I’m really glad we got Brendan Morrison from you he’s one of my faves hehehe. Jordi that’s awesome you’re a mini canucks fan…they are quite adorable aren’t they? oh and we should most definitely band together to hate the flames…I hate them with a “firey” passion…man that was a really lame sorta pun :p
And while we kind of feel that they need some new shark week programming, it is, nevertheless, a fun week in television.
Don’t tell me you’re getting tired of the same footage of Great White Sharks jumping out of the water to eat seals, Meg! (I have to admit I’m kind of late to the Shark Week party. My first Shark Week was the one where they build RoboShark, and that was just fucking hilarious. We almost named a cat RoboShark.)
Genna, I adore Man vs. Wild. I would very much like to see a behind-the-scenes for that, though. First of all to find out how thoroughly they vet the areas Bear parachutes into, and second of all to see how much the camera crew taunts him. Like, “Yeah, it looks pretty rainy and cold inside that ‘shelter’ you just built, dude. We’re going to go catch a few Z’s in the trailer — see you later!”
Also, I’ve never had my wisdom teeth pulled (I probably don’t have them; four of my back teeth are still baby teeth even – I seem to have gotten the short straw on the tooth thing), but I had one that was coming in wrong and had to be pulled and for the record hearing that tooth break and crack while they ripped it out was probably the most disgusting thing I have ever experienced. Ew ew ew. You people who liked it are crazy :P
Oh, and one other thing I’d like to see in the Man vs Wild Behind-The-Scenes Special would be the producers telling Bear to keep his pants on. Is it just us, or is his solution to just about everything when it comes to survivalist adventure to strip? Pookie loves shouting at the TV, “Oh no! Here comes the Bear Cub again!” (Seriously, has there ever been another man so eager to pee on television as Bear is?)
Apparently there’s some controversy over Man vs. Wild’s authenticity. As in, he might stay in motels with some regularity.
Seeing as how the Extra Strength Tylenol is full of lies and the pain still hasn’t gone away, I’m ready to manually rip out my wisdom teeth here and now. Which might be premature since I don’t even know if that’s what’s causing the pain.
I’m actually one of those people that can’t stand nature documentaries or shows about animals. I don’t hate nature or anything, I promise.
Sherry, me too actually – I’ll half-watch them if they’re on in the background or something, but to actively seek them out or get excited about them, not so much.
Ookies, have you ever seen Flight of the Conchords? I decided to check it out since it was listed under the HBO On Demand. I feel like you ookies might like it, if you haven’t scene it before. It has some Stella-esque flair.
Genna, I just watched the first 4 or 5 episodes of this On Demand last week, and while it certainly has a lot of fun, I’d probably leave it as “moderately good”. It’s a nice way to fill a hockeyless day, but it’s not anything to kill anybody over.
On the other hand, if you do want to see a good 2-man HBO comedy show (er, from the late 90s), put Mr. Show into your Netflix. Aside from the A-Team, my favorite show ev-ar!
Apparently there’s some controversy over Man vs. Wild’s authenticity. As in, he might stay in motels with some regularity.
I actually probably wouldn’t care that much about this, to tell the truth. The show is plenty entertaining, and I’m all in favor of lying to the public to increase a show’s watchability.
You know I would probably rarely say this about him but Mike…you can do better.
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I have no doubt that Bear stays in motels, but I still love the show. There’s something so earnest about him that makes me so happy. And who doesn’t love laughing at the word “disorientated”?
I’m not usually a big fan of nature documentaries. The actual programming on Shark Week (other than RoboShark and Dirty Jobs) is actually pretty dull, I think. I love it because Shark Week means it’s almost August. And August means it’s almost September. Getting excited for Shark Week is like getting excited for the NFL Hall of Fame game. It always sucks, but come on! It’s football! The first tolerable team sport on the air since June!
Apparently there’s some controversy over Man vs. Wild’s authenticity. As in, he might stay in motels with some regularity.
I’m shocked — SHOCKED! (My favorite thing to laugh at on that show [and mind you, I really, really love Man vs. Wild without any irony] is the way Bear will suddenly find animals to eat. Like, he’ll set some shoelace snares, and warn the viewer that they rarely work, and then the next morning he’ll have all manner of delicious animals in his snares. And you just wonder which intern had to go to the exotic pet store to find a couple of ptarmigans for him to eat. Boomer supplied an hilarious voice over for one episode where she imagined Bear saying, “I’m now going to stand here with a stick to hit the rabbits that my camera crew is flushing out of the field toward me.” Hee hee!) But I also agree with Earl — it’s a pretty damn tight and entertaining show, so who cares about it’s authenticity?
I’m pretty choked the build a bears don’t have a canucks uniform. I mean flyers AND Rangers? At least my team didn’t totally blow this year. I was all excited to get one and make a a greasy wig for it to look like bobby lu(luongo) I love our goalie really I do.
Ah well going with the mummy relying maybe I’ll beg her to sew me a little baby canucks sweater.
I’ve never seen shark week but it sounds like I’m missing out! Would I get it on a channel that I can get in canada?
Apparently there’s some controversy over Man vs. Wild’s authenticity. As in, he might stay in motels with some regularity.
I actually probably wouldn’t care that much about this, to tell the truth. The show is plenty entertaining, and I’m all in favor of lying to the public to increase a show’s watchability.
I don’t care either (although I also don’t watch the show) but some people seem very bothered by it. I dunno…I would certainly be staying in hotels.
The actual programming on Shark Week (other than RoboShark and Dirty Jobs) is actually pretty dull
Pookie, are you saying you don’t even find it entertaining to watch me get over-excited about the shark footage? I’m going to have to work harder on that.
Earl, we netflixed Mr. Show a few years ago, and I remember finding it really hilarious, but for some reason we stopped watching. I think our attention spans might be really short…
Would I get it on a channel that I can get in canada?
You don’t get the Discover Channel? For some reason I thought they broadcast in Canada as well.
Earl, “Mr. Show” is awesome! I also don’t remember why we stopped watching it… laziness, I think.
Schnookie, yes, please get more worked up over the sharks, please!
There is the Discovery Channel in Canada. Cleverly called ‘Discovery Canada’ but I think it’s part of an extended cable package here.
“Is it just us, or is his solution to just about everything when it comes to survivalist adventure to strip?”
I have to agree with you. The episode when he was maybe in Alaska and jumped into freezing cold water to show how to get out and then preceded to strip and do pushups naked on the snow, wow. I was just thinking, this must be so awkward for the cameraman so so so awkward. It made me feel awkward just watching it while his British flag boxers were dying on a stick while his Bear Cub gets blurred out.
It made me feel awkward just watching it while his British flag boxers were dying on a stick while his Bear Cub gets blurred out.
That was like the squirmiest, most nekkidest episode ever! Hee hee! The nekkid pushups were really the funniest. Sometimes we like to think that Bear is going to kill edible animals in the wilderness just on the sheer force of his imagined man-musk. (He also, according to Discovery’s website, has a kid named Marmaduke, which, needless to say, has us reciting the line from “Monk”, “He’s just such a big dog!” constantly.)
The episode when he was maybe in Alaska and jumped into freezing cold water to show how to get out and then preceded to strip and do pushups naked on the snow, wow.
We made our sister, Kate the Great, watch “Man vs. Wild” a few weekends ago. One of the episodes was “The Alps” where we leaps into freezing cold water to show you how to get out of a jam. Kate the Great snorted, “Well, that’s a really stupid thing to do!” Um, hello, television show? It’s like he’s in a survival situation and thinking, “I know! I’ll jump in that pool just to prove to myself I can do it!” The other funny thing about watching with KtG was that she is brilliant and tends to use her brilliance to comment on how stupid tv is while she’s watching it. So there she is watching “Man vs. Wild” and when Bear was faced with, say, a steep hill KtG would say, derivsely, “Why doesn’t he just do a glissade?” And the instant she finished her thought, Bear narrated, “In this situation, the best solution is a glissade.” Or if he went to eat a fern KtG would say, “That’s surely poisonous.” Cue Bear saying, “Because this fern is poisonous, I’m going to boil it thoroughly.” Seriously. We watched all the episodes in a row and everytime she questioned something (which was often) Bear immediately answered it. It was like he was reading her mind. Freaky!
The Devils have a slide-show of pictures up of the concrete for the ice at the Prudential Center being poured. It’s made me, somehow, even more antsy for hockey. This has been the worst off-season ever! Sorry, it just had to be said.
So I just went to the Devils’ website to see these concrete pictures, and this is my first time there since, well, March or so. And their intro page blares, “New Home Same Goal”! I’m so relieved to see that there won’t be a drop-off in coach-killing just because they have a swanky new arena.
Those concrete pictures are fascinating! The arena looks so sunny, without its walls and all.
KtG should clearly have a spin-off show Woman vs. Wild. How does she know all of that? I don’t even know what poison ivy looks like! I know it’s a 3 pointed leaf, but that’s about it.
KtG did NOLS. So she’s quite the outdoorsy smarty-pants. (As for poison ivy, I just try not to ever touch any plants, just to be safe. A friend of ours recently tried to remember the little rhyming jingle you should use to identify poison ivy, but the best he could come up with was “Leaves of three… uh… get it out of your yard.”)
Hey, check it out…Lowe feels bad that the offseason has gotten boring and wants to entertain us:
http://tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=214708&hubname=nhl
Are you KIDDING me?
Earl, what should those of us who know not a whit about Penner be thinking of this?
Penner, eh? I think Sleek was hoping that the offer sheet would be coming Corey Perry’s way.
(I am taking this to mean that Bearise wasn’t amenable to signing an offer sheet, since I can’t imagine the Oilers went straight from Vanek to Penner. Unless Lowe’s terrified of Lou. Or Lowe figured he’d save Zach for last, assuming the third time would be the charm…)
To further show my taste (lack thereof), I can’t get into Man vs Wild. I do enjoy Dirty Jobs and Mythbusters though. One of my favorite episodes of Dirty Jobs was when they were out in a swamp catch crawfish. Mike asks the guy if he’s worried about somebody stealing his traps. The old guy just smiles and says, “You don’t want to do that down here.”
I just really wish they would bring back Junkyard Wars. I never got a chance to compete.
Penner, eh? I think Sleek was hoping that the offer sheet would be coming Corey Perry’s way.
Ugh. I gotta get back to work, but I posted briefly on it. I would MUCH rather have Perry than Penner, though. I’m of the school of thought so far to let Lowe have his Penner–but then again, I’m a Niedermayer optimist too.
It’s interesting that none of the Devils RFAs elected for arbitration. Too much fear for the wrath of Lou?
Anyhoos, I’m still in pain and nobody’s here to stop me from going home and pumping myself full of Tylenol, so I will see you guys later!
those poor oilers they’re just getting more and more desperate(no offence a oil/jordi :p)although I would get to see Penner play more if he was an oiler and he was kinda catching my eye after my canucks were eliminated.
Bye Sherry! Feel better soon!
I don’t like this offer sheet business one bit… I can only assume fear of Lou outweighs the potential goodness of Zach, right?
21.5 million? Is that all? What’s the matter Lowe, losing your nerve? You didn’t have another 50 mil sitting around to throw at Penner? He’s chickening out, man.
Uh, and Darcy? Please sign Derek Roy, like, yesterday. Kthanksbye.
Bye Sherry! Hope your pain subsides once your in the comfort of your own home!
I hope Brian Burke is peeved. He’s so much more entertaining when annoyed than Darcy is.
I can only assume fear of Lou outweighs the potential goodness of Zach, right?
Either that, or Bearise’s a transsexual.
Gambler, I was also shocked at the $21.5 million. I mean, yeah, that’s a stupid amount of money for a Penner type, but such a low figure for an RFA offer sheet. I mean, I always expect them to be mind-blowingly stupid figures, like A-Rod money. How disappointing. :P
(And again, this totally means Zach isn’t open to signing anyone else’s offer sheets, right? Right?)
Either that, or Bearise’s a transsexual.
Well, DUH! How could I have forgotten?
Meg, you are so right — I can’t wait to see how Burke responds!
mean, yeah, that’s a stupid amount of money for a Penner type, but such a low figure for an RFA offer sheet.
If I were Burke I might be awfully tempted by the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd round picks in a strong draft next year.
Either that, or Bearise’s a transsexual.
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I’m not a Ducks expert, but geez, you gotta think Burke should take the draft picks. Of course, I’m still operating on the Devils payscale from about five years ago. $4 mil per, to me, is like Scotts Stevens money.
After reading Earl’s and Mike Chen’s responses, I’d also agree that Burke should take the picks.
Although Brian Burke doesn’t exactly have the world’s most brilliant drafting record, does he?
haha I think we’re going to be getting a lot of profanity from burkie. While I don’t miss him leaving us absolutely zero prospects in our farm system in vancouver, I do miss his reactions to the media and other gms excetera. He’s a funny funny man.
This is 20 comments or so ago, but I’m really upset that there’s no Sabres Build-a-Bear. Don’t they know Sabres fans will buy anything? My brother gave me an Astros bear a couple of Christmases ago and told me it was named “Lance Bearkman” after Lance Berkman.
And why the hell did WE get the 7 billion dollar offer sheet? 4.3 seems pretty darn reasonable in comparison.
On my way home from Tim Horton’s today I saw a guy riding a recumbent bicycle. I looked REALLY closely just to make sure…
On my way home from Tim Horton’s today I saw a guy riding a recumbent bicycle. I looked REALLY closely just to make sure…
Awesome! If there had been a little trail of yogurt-covered raisin peels behind the bike, you’d know it was Crunchy.
And why the hell did WE get the 7 billion dollar offer sheet? 4.3 seems pretty darn reasonable in comparison.
Yeah, why don’t all players get the same contracts?
Sure young players are always a gamble, but I think I’d feel better paying Vanek 7 than Penner 4.3. I’ll probably regret that statement at some point, though.
I dunno, I don’t really expect a tirade out of Burke. It seems he’s known this was a possibility for quite some time now–I don’t see him going off the handle here.
And why the hell did WE get the 7 billion dollar offer sheet? 4.3 seems pretty darn reasonable in comparison.
It might be because Vanek is twice the player Penner is. (BURN!) But seriously, I think $4.3M for Penner sticks even worse in the craw than whatever Vanek’s contract averaged to be. Just relatively speaking.
On my way home from Tim Horton’s today I saw a guy riding a recumbent bicycle. I looked REALLY closely just to make sure…
I would probably have driven off the road.
I like Mike Chen’s theory that Kevin Lowe is actually a mole for the NHLPA. It’s about the only thing that makes sense.
what exactly is a recumbent bicycle? is one of those ones that are really close to the ground and the person is lying back? But I can totally see crunchy driving one with a little sidecar for pommerdoodle.
Oh, I agree that Vanek will probably be worth the 7 million eventually, especially if salaries keep going the way they are. As a member of the Buffalo hockey community however, I am obligated to moan and groan atleast briefly.
what exactly is a recumbent bicycle? is one of those ones that are really close to the ground and the person is lying back?
It most certainly is!
I’m sorry, okay! I didn’t know my moaning and groaning would bring everything to a screeching halt.
Yeah, Heather, could you just leave already? You’re totally dragging us down! :P
(I guess what this has proved is that a Dustin Penner offer sheet isn’t the exciting news we all hoped it would be…)
As a member of the Buffalo hockey community however, I am obligated to moan and groan atleast briefly.
I’m with you, Heather. I know that Vanek and Penner are hardly comparable players, and that $21.5 mil is still a hell of a lot of money, but I took one look at that offer sheet and went “No fair!” (And then I went, “Penner? What happened to the tranny?”)
(I guess what this has proved is that a Dustin Penner offer sheet isn’t the exciting news we all hoped it would be…)
The first is always the best. And while I’m over the difference in amounts, Penner’s offer doesn’t have the “Great googly moogly!” effect that Vanek’s did. So yeah… I was briefly excited and am now back to thinking about Derek Roy.
I think, when you get down to the nitty-gritty, that it’s less fair to the Ducks than the Vanek offer was to the Sabres. In that the amount Lowe’s offering Penner is just a far huger percentage above what the Ducks probably wanted to pay him than the one offered to Vanek was. Of course, Penner’s a far more replacable player, so it’s not like the Oilers are forcing their hands quite as much… But yeah, this news is totally lacking in the “great googly moogly” sex appeal of the Vanek offer sheet.
(And then I went, “Penner? What happened to the tranny?”)
Gambler, that just KILLED me.
Hey guys, finally getting to my computer today. Holy crap! Lowe is killing me with these offers! I love it!
Hi andrew! Your timing is fantastic — we were just running out of things to say about this latest Lowe-scepade, so you need to pick up the conversational slack, okay?
Oh, now you show up, andrew! I have to pick up the hubby and run to the comic shop so I’m out. Maybe something interesting will have happened in the hockey world by the time I get back? Probably not?
Hi, Andrew! Aw, not so perfect timing. I’m outta here for awhile. So pick up the conversational slack, but make it not so interesting that I’ll regret leaving, alright?
Will do! Although I’ve been driving through the mountains of northern CA all morning, so I just heard about this when I got back to the office.
I don’t have a coherent thought formulated yet…so you get treated to my half-cocked anaylsis. I say that the Oilers’ Salary Cap Accountant probably had sex with Kevin Lowe’s old lady. Now Lowe’s exacting his revenge the only way he sees fit. Any thoughts?
well I’m off to walk the dog and then do some time…err get minimum wage at my lovely bakery workplace. Don’t be too hilarious while I’m gone. have a nice evening.
I say that the Oilers’ Salary Cap Accountant probably had sex with Kevin Lowe’s old lady. Now Lowe’s exacting his revenge the only way he sees fit. Any thoughts?
That’s the only explanation that makes any sense!
And I, too, am on my way out the door. After tangling with what I can only surmise was a tainted whoopie pie, I’m just not feeling so hot. I need a nap. Among other things. (I knew to stay away from the oysters, but really — the whoopie pies?)
I think that it just boggles my mind that Lowe still has his job. I feel like he must be sitting there thinking, “what can I do to get fired?” at this point.
Oh, I see how it is…I show up and by miraculous coincidence Pookie, Schnookie, Heather B, and alix all just haaaave to leave. Hmph. Fine!
andrew, have you considered showering?
“andrew, have you considered showering?”
Absolutely not. I and never shall!
Hi andrew, I’ll keep you company. I always get online right after people leave. :/
Thanks zot. Haven’t seen you around in a while. How are things?
And oh goodness, did everyone see the front page of nhl.com today? Slide #3 just killed me. soo funny. Devils fans (Sorry Schnookie…I meant, Debbies fans), if you haven’t already, check that one out.
HA! Today I found out that Bobby Boswell (DC United soccer player) call Alex Ovechkin “Love Chicken”. Forever more, I will have to refer to Ovie as Love Chicken.
Love Chicken…that’s fabulous!
And it’s after five so I’m heading home. Have a nice evening all!
Things are good. And you’re right about slide three. :) And not to be terribly nosy or off-topic, but where in Norcal are you? I used to go to school up there.
Love chicken could be the greatest name ever.
see ya Meg!
I live in Sacramento. But, like I was saying earlier, I was driving around up near Placerville/Camino, in the mountains today.
Where’d you go to school?
Hey zot–I need to hear another Duck fan’s take: Penner–keep him or let the big guy walk?
I went to school in Santa Cruz. For some reason, I thought I remembered you mentioning bay area one time, but maybe I was wrong.
Today I found out that Bobby Boswell (DC United soccer player) call Alex Ovechkin “Love Chicken”.
That’s hilarious! I remember when the Caps came to Buffalo back in December, my sister misread a sign calling him “OveCHICKEN” as “OvenChicken.” Since then he’s been Oven Chicken in my house, but Love Chicken is ten times cooker!
“I thought I remembered you mentioning bay area one time…”
I probably did, my territory for work covers everything from SF pretty much up to the Oregon border. So, I’m kind of all over the place.
I love Santa Cruz! I almost went to school there. Ended up at Davis though.
Hey, Sleek. I wouldn’t mind letting him walk, especially if he wants to be paid that much, but I’ll miss those stupid Aaaaam 830 intros. :P
I saw Love Chicken and thought Robot Chicken, but wait, Sidbits is the robot. I think the heat has fried my mind. Which is why I loved Santa Cruz. All those nice shady trees….
“All those nice shady trees…”
I know, I love going out to the bay or up to the north coast, just to get out of this oppresive heat.
I think the two of us have managed to kill the thread quite nicely, andrew. :P
Bah…we don’t need them, zot! We’ll press on!
sooo….anywho….
yeah….um…. :D
I guess this would be a good time to rehash old topics. Let’s see, nicknames and teeth pulling…
Well, I remember getting all my wisdom teeth pulled at once and falling asleep without the help of drugs since I pulled an all-nighter. As for nicknames, nothing interesting…
I got all my wisdom teeth yanked when I was 13. It was a nightmare becuase they weren’t even above the skin yet. I’ll never have dental surgery again, i swear.
Nicknames….hmmm. Well I guess I’ve given out my share. My roommates and I nicknamed our beer bong ‘Lucille’ in college. “Lucy” for short. She was a harsh mistress.
My roommates and I nicknamed our beer bong ‘Lucille’ in college. “Lucy” for short.
Very nice, Andrew. At first I wondered, when would you ever use the proper name? But then I realized if it were me, I’d probably use it all the effing time. “Shall we have another go-round with Lucille?”
Under the skin…ouch. Why Lucille? Because you couldn’t handle vitawheatavegemin? (I admit it. That was extremely lame. )
I’ve never really named appliances or things in general, except for stuffed animals (some of which have fairly long names) and friends’ cars. One was named the “Rumble Frog” and the other was “Winona the Raspberry Rider”.
“when would you ever use the proper name?”
All the time. In fact….yeah, all.the.time.
“Why Lucille?”
Don’t know, just felt right. I also named my .45 “Charlene”, but I can’t claim that I made up that one. That was more of an homage to “Full Metal Jacket”.
and oh yeah, “Winona the Raspberry Rider” is Effing hilarious. My best friend in high school drove a serious beater, it was a grey Ford Tempo. We nicknamed it “the silver bullet” because it couldn’t go over 50 mph without smoking and sputtering. Highly unoriginal, I know, but hey…we were in high school.
I forgot this, but when naming stuffed animals, we named some of them after hockey-related things. Like, I have this bear with a blue shirt, so he’s Butterscotch Blueliner and then there’s Arrowhead Mountain Spring Water the Otter as a strange homage to the Pond, and Catcher the Mitty Duck (he’s one of those bathmitt thingys).
alright, i’m leaving for the day. You all behave yourselves, I’ll talk to everyone tomorrow!
Shoot. Missed everybody again.
I never had any wisdom teeth. Until today, I only thought I was lucky I didn’t have to go through the pain and annoyance. Now, I know that I’m extremely lucky to have avoided the HORROR of listening to my teeth being cracked and pulled out of their sucking holes.
Oh. My. Gosh. I’m so gonna have bad dreams now.
Oh. My. Gosh. I’m so gonna have bad dreams now.
Your teeth are going to be Russia?
I have huge issues with medical… well, anything. I was going to say proceedures, but it goes so far beyond that. I get weak-stomached when I consider that my cats have, like, lungs. Let alone that I have teeth that can be pulled. I feel like all living things are atomic units. I am a person with no elements smaller than “person size”. But even I liked getting my wisdom teeth out. It’s like the world’s most perfect medical proceedure.
Hello! Hello… hello… hello… Echo! Echo… echo… echo…
All pre-ordained
A prisoner in chains
A victim of venomous fate
Kicked in the face
You can pray for a place
In heaven’s unearthly estate
How cryptic, Mr. Frisby! I have to claim ignorance here and reply with a giant “Huh?”
WHAT! You don’t don’t “Freewill” by Rush when you read it?
I am sooo disappointed.
I’m sorry to disappoint, Frisby. I don’t think I’ve ever consciously heard Rush.
By the way, count yourself lucky you missed the latest Game to Remember. It’s brutal.
Your echos made me think of “Test for echo”by Rush and I guess all the teeth pulling stuff made me think of the ‘kicked in the face”‘part of the “Freewill”.
Wait, I thought you were my age. And you have never listened to Rush?
*drops head, sticks hand in pockets, kicks dirt*
Brutalness is not the point! It’s hockey and those bastards are blacking me out of a prerecorded game! I pay an extra $12 a month for all of the FSN’s and MSG and they black me out!
I know, I know, it totally sucks that they blacked you out for no good reason. I was just trying to make you feel better.
Nope, no Rush for me. I was a bit of a music nincompoop growing up. I listened to George Michael waaaaay longer than any sane person should. I seriously think I listened to the CD “Faith” for almost 4 months without ever once listening to anything else.
Hehe, s’ok, I went through an REO Speedwagon phase so I can’t knock on George Michael.
Hehe, s’ok, I went through an REO Speedwagon phase so I can’t knock on George Michael.
Oh no, you can mock George Michael. You can most definitely mock George Michael. (I, uh, haven’t ever heard REO Speedwagon, either.)
I can not believe you have not heard REO Speedwagon. They were the originators of the power ballad.
I pay an extra $12 a month for all of the FSN’s and MSG and they black me out!
Same here! I’m tempted to get rid of that package, but I’m afraid Versus might be part of it. There’s never anything on except Best Damn Sports Show and that is SUCH a bad title. I hate that show.
The thing I look forward to every year is seeing the local coverage of the Stanley Cup win and this year, the Ducks must have been on something other than their FSN because I got nothing.
Remember how I said I was going to go to bed at 11 all week? It appears to be 12, and I appear to still be up. This must be remedied. Good night, IPB!
Good night, Pookie!
I am trying to not have to admit my age, but one big hint might be that I used to be a big REO Speedwagon fan. Not to the point of buying any of it, but, you know, beltin’ it when it played on the jukebox.
We keep the stupid “sports channel” package because we get various teams’ pregame shows on them. We’d be without Devils GameNight without it. (Of course, now that the Devils will be starting at 7 instead of 7:30 the dinner chef at IPB Manor won’t be watching GameNight one way or the other.) Also, “Inside Penguins Hockey” totally made this $12/mo. thing pay for itself! (But seriously, someone needs to explain to me why they’re blacking out out-of-market months-old edited replays of games on it. We get the Rangers replays this summer, but not the Sabres. That makes no sense to me at all.)
Okay Patty, now I’m curious — how old are you? Don’t be ashamed — not all of us are wee little bairns like Sherry, Steph, Vinny, Mags, et al.
We get the Rangers replays this summer, but not the Sabres. That makes no sense to me at all.
And judging by the most recent Game to Remember, it seems you’re getting the Rangers replays disguised as Devils replays. I’m really sorry you’re not able to get the Sabres 12 to Remember, because, honestly, is there anything more therapeutic than watching the Flyers get thrashed 9-1? I think watching that game made my summer.
Watching that 9-1 game made my October last year! (The Devils “stumbled out of the blocks”, to put it politely. The Sabres’ early-season success really helped keep us afloat during that wretched, wretched time.)
And yes, they are definitely disguising Rangers games as our 15 To Remember. I would not be at all surprised to show up for the three Tampa playoff games they’re including in this series (for reals. You’d think, based on this selection of games, that the Devils did nothing but give away points to division rivals and then play one round of the playoffs last year. I mean, yes, it’s a fair assessment of the season, but dudes, throw me a bone. I’m probably going to get to see that all again next year, so for at least the summer can we see a little straight-up Devils winning?) and find instead that they’re airing the Rangers beating the Thrashers.
honestly, is there anything more therapeutic than watching the Flyers get thrashed 9-1?
Now that would be sweet. The only thing that would be better is watching it at my brothers house. (He’s a Flyers fan, but he was born in Philly so I can forgive him.)
That wasn’t just any old 9-1 defeat, though — that was the 9-1 defeat that brought down Bobby Clarke’s reign of terror. Which, at the time, was delightful, but in hindsight I kind of regret it a little. I mean, as long as Clarkie was at the helm, we didn’t ever have to fear the Flyers, but now that he’s gone, who knows what they’re capable of?
I actually got at least one of the Devils’ games. Then, inexplicably, they stopped. Did get to see the Islanders-Stars game, but we didn’t win that one. Still, better than nothing, I guess.
I mean, as long as Clarkie was at the helm, we didn’t ever have to fear the Flyers, but now that he’s gone, who knows what they’re capable of?
Uh, giving hobbits $10 million and delusions of grandeur? We can only hope!
Guess WHAT?!!! They put wireless internet into the woods! Woooo-ooooo!
Not that I’ll have much time out here, what with all off the music making, and the imparting-wisdom-onto-the-youth I’ve got going on. But I wanted to check in so you don’t all forget about me.
Heather, I love, love, LOVE that Mark called Pommerdoodle, Pommerdoodle, no questions asked. That is adorable.
Katebits! I can’t believe they wired the woods just for you! How thoughtful of them! (And as for imparting wisdom onto the youth, just make sure they’re spelling “slag-faced whore” right before they leave.)
This is a great post. I love nicknames, and as someone who has been saddled with many nicknames I can speak with authority on this issue.
Hi Schnookie! Not only will they be spelling “slag-faced whore” correctly, by the time they go home, my students will be able to identify the five early signs of impending SPWitude. (Signs include: lackluster playoff performance, half hearted playoff beard, increasing reliance on LLWS video footage….)
Kate! Hello! I missed you! Glad the woods decided you should have internets. That’s very nice of them.
Hiya, Mags! I know, the woods really hooked me up!
I feel obliged to tell you that Eric Staal and Mike Commodore were never BFFs. Mike Commodore and Chad “Sharpie” LaRose were BFFs here in Carolina.
All of Staalsy’s BFFs keep getting traded to the Blackhawks. First Craig “Hands of Feet” Adams, then Andrew Ladd.
I’m not sure who Staal’s new BFF is, but I it might be Matt Cullen.
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