Katebits wrote a fantastic piece over at The Willful Caboose about how she intends to just enjoy hockey, focusing on the bright and beautiful and not getting dragged down by the dull and dullardly. In that spirit we’d love to write a glowing post about the joy and wonder of watching the Devils play their third game of the season. So here’s a list of things that were joyful and wonderful about today’s game:
1. Zach Parise
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, there is no ceiling on this kid. There was a bit of fretting when he was taken off the top line, separated from Zajac and Gionta the minute things looked hairy for NJ. Even Zach looked a little perturbed by this — until it became clear that Sutter’s game plan was to skate him as many minutes as were humanly possible, banking on the idea that Parise’s hard work and tenacity would be infectious. They were, sparking Asham to score and Pando to get his best offensive chance in about, oh, ten years.
2. Just kidding! There is no two!
In the spirit of fairness, and in the interest of stating the obvious, here’s a list of things that sucked about today:
1. It was 93 degrees at 3 p.m., and there were crazy hot winds blowing all day.
Why can’t it feel like October already? It put us in really stinky moods by the time we got home from work, and the feeling was not enhanced by knowing it was a national holiday in Canada and that was why we didn’t get to see the Devils playing in real time. Gentle Reader, do you have any idea how odd it feels to be picking out your farmshare pumpkin while being buffeted by uncomfortably warm gales? Very odd. That’s how odd it feels.
2. The Devils didn’t win.
It’s hard to say, though, whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing that the Devils could stink up the building for over half the game and still be down just one goal in a scrambling final five minutes of the third period against the unanimously-ordained “Best Team In The East”. So is Ottawa really not as good as they seem to be? Or are the Devils better than their “we’re getting pinned incessantly in our own zone, for shift after shift after shift” defensive scheme suggests they are?
3. The Senators did win.
Because they’re not one of the teams we have to play 45 bazillion times a season, we find our hatred of the Senators is kind of a back-burner kind of hate. But don’t think for even a second that we’ve relented one bit on this team since last year’s playoffs. We still don’t like a single thing about them, and they’re not helping their case by making our boys look as bad as they did today.
4. Pando’s Unstoppable Penalty Spree
Pando took 8 minutes of penalties all last season. In three games he’s racked up three minors. Maybe this is his way of protesting being replaced on the PK by younger, prettier players like Parise and Zajac. Maybe he paid the officials to call him a lot so he wouldn’t get embarrassed by Lady Byng talk like he was last season. Maybe he offered a referee a donut. Who knows why it’s happening, but it needs to stop. There’s only so much change we can handle at one time. Forechecking ? We’ll figure out a way to deal with that. D-men playing behind the opposing goal with less than 2 minutes on the clock? Somehow we’ll get used to it. Pando in the sin-bin? Not a chance.
5. The Devils’ Inability to Play 60 Minutes
Midway through the first period the camera cut in close on Brent Sutter, who was rocking a look we’ve seen on many a Devils coach over the years. It was the look of a guy who’s recognized this team, this organization, has become a den of iniquitous underacheivement. It was at this point that Pookie composed an open phone call to Sutter:
Hi, Brent? This is Pookie. Listen, I’m a quitter. There have been many instances in my life where I’ve faced adversity and quit. And you know what? It made me happier in the long run. So really, buddy, no one will think any less of you if you decide this group of guys just isn’t worth it. Go on back to Red Deer and coach some guys who will listen to what you say and then apply what they’ve learned from you through an entire game. No one will blame you. (Not even if you come back to the NHL in a few years, coaching another less coach-killy team.) OK, bye now!
It was a few minutes later that Pookie grumbled, “Now that I’ve called Sutter, I wish he’d call me and tell me I could quit this team and no one would blame me.”
Hee! You totally fooled me. I was all, “Wow. They’re going for an entire post about all that was good about today’s game. Um, I saw today’s game….”
Pando’s crime spree was the hardest thing for me to keep quiet about before you guys watched the game. I really wanted to tell you about that one, but I was good.
I think that even though you are focusing on the negative here, I still like your angle. 1. No statbits 2. No “I told you so” 3. Still funny 4. Not pissy. (Except for that last bit about Pookie saying she wants to quit the team, but we know she didn’t mean it. Pookie, you can’t quit the Devils! You LOVE the Devils, :D) 5. Very kind letter to Sutter.
Nice post, and thanks for your sweet link!
I’m impressed you were able to call this post “still funny” and “not pissy”. It was NOT easy to think of anything to say that didn’t go like this: “I WAITED AN ENTIRE SUMMER FOR HOCKEY TO COME BACK AND THIS IS WHAT I GET????”
Oh, and I can’t talk about Pando’s crime spree. Can’t. It upsets me too much. I leave all the talking about Captain PIM to Pookie because I have no words for it. And I’m gnashing my teeth and pulling out my hair over the reports from Tom Gulitti that Pando just maybe has a broken wrist/hand. NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
(Except for that last bit about Pookie saying she wants to quit the team, but we know she didn’t mean it. Pookie, you can’t quit the Devils! You LOVE the Devils, :D)
I was totally joking! A few years ago, back when I was letting hockey be less than fun, when my uncle would try to make conversation at family gatherings by asking if I was still following the Devils, my answer was always a “yes” that was fully, and completely unintentionally, loaded with an added, “because they’re my cross to bear”. It was then that I realized, although I’ve shown distinct dilettantish tendencies in many areas of my life, I think the Devils are here to stay. I will not quit on them*.
*As long as Lou and Marty are part of the team. Once they’re gone, all bets are off!**
** Just kidding.
This whole Gulitti blog thing is tough. Very tough. I can’t not read it, but it’s shocking — SHOCKING! — to get actual reports of things that happen before and after games and at practice. SHOCKING!
Hilarious Number 2! Laughed out loud.
I’m glad someone’s laughing, Patty. :P
I vote for Ottawa really not being that good. If anyone figures out how to shut down that first line, they’re in trouble. I know Kelly scored today but Spezza/Heatley/Alfie have scored something like 95%of their goals so far. (I totally made that number up. But it’s a lot!)
I’m glad someone’s laughing, Patty. :P
Sorry about that. I immediately straightened up with the next part of the post. :D
You totally can quit being a Devils fan, and become a Wild fan. I would support that 100%.
I wonder who will coach Team Canada at the WJCs now that Sutter is coaching in the big show…
I got my friend to DVR the game for me since my cable isn’t coming fast enough (can’t it be Thursday already?) and after reading fan reviews of the game, told him to delete it. I was originally going to watch it regardless if they won or not, but in the end it didn’t seem like a game I needed to witness.
The TWC website is telling me that the early bird special ends tomorrow and I wasn’t allowed to sign up for CI until my cable is installed. I asked the person if it would be still the same price since I knew they had an early bird special and the guy said yes. I strongly believe I’m going to get screwed over and charged that extra 20 or so since my cable is going to get hooked up on the 11th. Bastard.
Does anyone have the NHL Network? If so, is it good? bad? so-so? Is it worth spending an extra $2 a month for the sports tier package (my guess is a yes since that’s really not that much)? Will they show any Devils games because they said that they will show games based on “greater interest of the fans” which I already know the answer to? Although, someone said that they showed the Devils win over the Flyers in the 2000 ECF.
Sorry for that bombardment of questions. You know I’ll end up paying the extra for CI and the 2 bucks for the NHL Network because I can’t deny my love for hockey and the Devils (even when they get poopy).
The Official Top Shelf BlingyBob Countdown is now under 10 days. Single digit days!
It was the look of a guy who’s recognized this team, this organization, has become a den of iniquitous underacheivement.
That’s not a good look to have in October. By February, Sutter may very well be curled up in the fetal position under his desk (assuming he has a desk).
By February, Sutter may very well be curled up in the fetal position under his desk (assuming he has a desk).
Lou doesn’t believe it desks. Everyone must stand at all times. If you’re not standing, it means you’re a quitter!
Genna, one of our many cable woes right now is that we were told NHL Network was added, but we can’t seem to get it to appear on the TV. I’m operating under the assumption it’s not worth $2, though.
Heather, under 10 days?! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
By February, Sutter may very well be curled up in the fetal position under his desk (assuming he has a desk).
I suspect Lou doesn’t bother furnishing his head coaches with chairs. He looks at the top-notch coach-killers on his roster and then says to the new coach, “No, you’re really just going to want to curl up under the desk. No need for a chair.”
In all seriousness, though, we kid the Devils because we love! In the 30 minutes or so that they were actually skating yesterday, they looked good. Apparently one of the Ottawa newspaper writers had been bitching in yesterday morning’s column about how boring and trapping the Devils are, and how the game was going to be a total yawn-a-thon, and we kept doing mock spit takes every time Jersey forced a turnover or had two guys in deep on the forecheck, imagining that writer up in the pressbox being all like, “Wha-HUH???” And for the other 30 minutes of the game, as the Devils were pinned deep in their own zone and panicking, we kept shouting, “Oh God! THE TRAP! It’s so BORING!”
Lou doesn’t believe it desks. Everyone must stand at all times. If you’re not standing, it means you’re a quitter!
I bet if Lou had his way, there would be none of this sitting on the bench in-between shifts nonsense, for the players as well.
Genna, one of our many cable woes right now is that we were told NHL Network was added, but we can’t seem to get it to appear on the TV
I’ve been reading that TWC Buffalo has told people that there’s no room for the NHL Network right now. That’s not a bright thing to say in what is the NHL’s #1 or #2 TV market right now.
The NHL Network has been added to our satellite lineup, but I can’t say we’ve bothered looking at it yet.
And you’re so right — no sitting on benches! Lou’s probably like, “If there were no benches, Robbie Ftorek never would have thrown that one in Detroit, and I’d never have had to fire him and I’d not have my current trigger-happy reputation… Damn benches!”
The NHL Network has been added to our satellite lineup, but I can’t say we’ve bothered looking at it yet.
What channel is it on?
“I WAITED AN ENTIRE SUMMER FOR HOCKEY TO COME BACK AND THIS IS WHAT I GET????”
I can’t believe this. I did everything I was supposed to yesterday. I avoided all contact with anything that could hint at the score. I even stayed at work an extra half an hour to make sure I didn’t get home too early (as in, before the game was completely over). That was how they repaid me for my loyalty? And Clarkson, while he did everything else right, couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn. He loses 3 points in the Frisby system (however still remains +5).
I just read that Chico is releasing a book?!?
Is this accurate?
Despite the second Islanders-Sabres game being close, I thought it was pretty boring. I know it’s not illegal but 10 guys crowding around the goalie just isn’t much fun to watch. Nothing even gets through to the goalie anymore!
Patty, it’s on, like, channel 276 or something. I could be making that up, though.
Stalky, from what I could glean from Tom Gulitti this morning, it seems Chico has “written” a sort of “my life with the Devils” memoir. To be honest, I can’t really decide whether I’m intrigued by this or not. On the one hand, it’s Chico. But on the other hand… it’s Chico.
Frisby, I had this terrible sense of foreboding all day yesterday, to the point where I was thisclose to just zapping through the whole game because I was convinced someone was going to have died in it. So all things considered, it wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be. And while I wholeheartedly support your docking Clarkson 3 FrisbyPoints, I don’t think I have enough SchnookiePoints to be docking any of our offensive players (except Patty for not shooting on that 1-on-1 he had with Gerber. Patty — you’re fired!) when I’m doing so much demeriting on the defensive play. I remarked to Pookie in the first period last night that it was like the Devils were picking up where they left off with the Sens last Spring, but actually, they were much worse in their own zone.
But don’t think for even a second that we’ve relented one bit on this team since last year’s playoffs. We still don’t like a single thing about them
I like Wade Redden’s eyebrows. That’s about it.
Hilarious Number 2! Laughed out loud
Me too!
Great analysis!
Thanks, Pam/Shorty! I have to say, we started blogging last March, so this is our first experience trying to write about early-season hockey, and it’s hard! What are you supposed to say about a team that looks great on some shifts and awful on others, and is 1-2 after three games? It’s very nice to hear that, at least for some, our analysis is okay. :D
I like Wade Redden’s eyebrows. That’s about it.
I like Vermette’s hair. That’s about it for me…
The only thing I liked was Gerber’s mask.
Schnookie, that’s the best analysis of the game I’ve read so far. It was funny and true. And I like the honesty, I’m glad to see that you guys are not “homers”.
The only thing I liked was Gerber’s mask.
The only think I liked was that we only have to play them three more times this season.
Aw, thanks for the kind words, Pam/Shorty! Were you watching the FSNY feed last night when Doc responded to a particularly hard-working play by Clarkson (I think, it might have been Zubie) by saying, “Looks like he’s been taking his Parise Lessons”?
Yes I was! I rushed home to catch the game. (stupid 3:00 start) I saw it from Ottawa’s second goal to the end.
When Doc said that, I was thinking: “I wish there were more Zachs on the team.”
I’m hoping Parise Lessons are going to become a standard part of all the Devils’ curricula this season.
I’m hoping Parise Lessons are going to become a standard part of all the Devils’ curricula this season.
The rest of the team isn’t. Parise Lessons involve more than just diving for pucks. They have to learn to get up at 3 am to Zamboni the rink for their pre-pre-practice work-outs. They have to learn how to clean a white-board for the coach so he can see himself in it. They have to learn how to properly spike their hair so it most resembles a hedgehog figurehead on a ship’s brow.
Okay, I know I keep promising not to read him anymore, but I’m going to the doctor soon to find out what’s wrong with my liver (probably too much Devils sucking in their own zone), so to distract myself I read Bucci today. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Look at him using the Heatley contract extension to take another dig at the Sabres (disregarding that signing Drury and Briere would have meant slowing the development of younger players)! Look at him saying both players would have signed for less to stay in Buffalo, despite Briere jerking the team around by going to arbitration! And look at him backing off his “the Rangers are so great to have signed Drury and Gomez” stance already! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! My liver and I feel so much better now.
Oh, and Heather, I think Bucci may have read your letter, because he didn’t say, “The Sabres didn’t sign those two guys and now they’re consigned to an eternity of RELENTLESS SUCKTITUDE!” No, he said they’re still good, but not as great as the Senators, who smartly SIGN THEIR IMPENDING FREE AGENTS.
Bucci should seek medical attention for that Drury/Briere case of priaprism that he has. Good grief.
I just can’t believe that, after two games, Bucci is saying the Gomez/Drury signings smacked of the bad old days of the Rangers randomly chasing free agents, regardless of the needs of the team. I mean, on the one hand, of course they smack of those kinds of signings. But on the other hand, way to stick to your convictions, Bucci. Two games (one of which they won) is by no means too small a sample size to be the basis for revising your predictions for the season.
Hey east coast team watchers, how have the “new” Flyers been looking? The Canucks play them on wednesday, and I don’t think I’ve ever watched them.
Hee. Bucci! I don’t think I am going to read his article (I’m a little fragile today), but it makes me SO HAPPY that he is already doubting the Rangers! What an idiot!
Alix, I haven’t watched the Flyers yet, but I’m assuming they’re better than last year. Does that help? :)
They have ugly sweaters that look like shrugs. Right, -ookies?
Yes, yes they do, Katebits. They look worse than you could every imagine.
Well, that’s something. I’ll take it.
Or even “could ever imagine”. I had to teach a computer class this morning and for some reason, these classes always drain me for the whole day. It was really, really hard to describe RSS feeds to someone who didn’t grasp that the information has to be published in the first place, let alone formatted as a feed, in order for you to get the information sent to you.
The concepts of RSS feeds have always baffled me, actually! Someday I’ll come to Jersey and take your class, Pookie.
The concepts of RSS feeds have always baffled me, actually! Someday I’ll come to Jersey and take your class, Pookie.
OK! RSS makes no sense until you actually subscribe to a few feeds and see how they work. This particular person was just driving me nuts because she’d say, “I want the information I read about mutual funds everyday sent to me. How do I do that?” and I’d say, “Find the website that’s offering the information you’re looking for and look for the RSS feed button.” And she’d say, “Great idea! So… how do I find the information?” And I’m like, “You just told me you read this information everyday. How are you finding it then?” Gah!
Anyway, I skimmed Bucci and discovered that he’s doing a new feature where he’s asking us, his Not-So-Gentle Readers, to email him questions that he will then ask his upcoming interviewee. He says, “Email me your questions for Erik Johnson!” Here’s my submission.
Dear Bucci, please ask Erik the following question:
Erik, why is Jon Buccigross such a moron? Love, Pookie
Dear Bucci, please ask Erik the following question:
Erik, why is Jon Buccigross such a moron? Love, Pookie
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Seriously, though. Why is he such a moron?
Why is he such a moron?
Hmmmmm… I’m going to guess one part genetics, one part upbringing.
Okay, I just read the article. Bucci is officially so retarded that I am impervious to his insanity. He can’t hurt me anymore.
Bucci is officially so retarded that I am impervious to his insanity.
He really is so ridiculously awful that you can’t get mad at him. He’s too dumb to know better. My problem is that I tend to hate myself for taking time out of my life to read his columns. But it’s just so hard to resist! It’s a lot like watching “Deal or No Deal” without TiVo. The show is ridiculous, the contestants unappealing, the host smarmy, and more often than not, it’s painful to see people not knowing the slightest thing about probability. But, if it’s on, and nothing else is, I won’t turn off the TV. I’ll watch “Deal or No Deal”. If Bucci’s “writing” about hockey, and no one else is, I won’t not read him. And I’ll regret it, just the way when I turn on “Deal or No Deal”, I’d really be better off turning off the TV and reading a book.
The only thing I liked was that we only have to play them three more times this season.
The only thing I liked was Jason Spezza’s entirety.
*ducks tomatoes*
The only thing I liked was Jason Spezza’s entirety.
*ducks tomatoes*
I’ll give you the Spezza thing. I just don’t care to have my team face him. Ever again. (The best thing about Spezza? The opportunity to spend a whole game talking like Aflie from that Knob Hockey vid: “Yaaay-son! Yaaay-son!” Makes me laugh every time.)
I’ll give you the Spezza thing. I just don’t care to have my team face him.
It does help that we never play them…
It does help that we never play them…
No shit.
1. It was 93 degrees at 3 p.m., and there were crazy hot winds blowing all day.
I missed this before, but wow. That’s crazy! It’s October for chrissakes. I’ll trade you… 54 and fog.
1. It was 93 degrees at 3 p.m., and there were crazy hot winds blowing all day.
I missed this before, but wow. That’s crazy! It’s October for chrissakes. I’ll trade you… 54 and fog.
DEAL!
I’m with you, Patty! I’ll take 54 and foggy anytime. The worst part about today is that it looks like a nice gray Autumn day, but step outside and it’s NJ in August. It’s terrible.
DEAL!
I AM! (it’s just… the heat doesn’t work. And I whine a lot. I should probably stop that)
Is it bad that I’m tempted to email Bucci again? I should just quit, right? What’s his deal? The Sens re-signed Heatley because they thought he was important and they’re okay with putting a lot of money in him even if it means letting someone go down the line. They let Chara and Havlat go the year before because they didn’t think they were worth the money which is partly what the Sabres did with Briere and Drury. What is he not understanding here? He’s really starting to bug me and not in that somewhat enjoyable, “hey look at the dancing monkey!” way.
And Drury is a young and energetic champion? IN HIS ROOKIE YEAR WHEN HE WAS PLAYING WITH THREE HALL OF FAMERS! God, can we STOP with this?!
I think it’s time to let it go, Heather. Just, let it go. Bucci isn’t worth it! He has no idea what he’s talking about. We need to be each other’s Bucci Support Group. Repeat after me: Bucci is a doucherocket (douchebucci?), he is not worth getting angry about; he is only worth my pity (at best).
Pookie, you’re right. I felt better after just posting the above comments. That seems to have helped get the emotion out.
I’m glad I was able to help. I suspect the tables will turn at some point this season, and then I’ll need you to act as my Bucci Support Group consilor. (I have no idea how to spell that word and while I’m surrounded by reference books like dictionaries and what-not, I’m not going to look it up.)
Counselor. I think.
I’m glad your on the road to letting it go Heather. Really, he’ll only like whatever email you send him, mostly because he probably won’t understand what you’re saying and will assume it is praise. Let’s not praise Bucci shall we.
I think Bucci’s also overlooking that the Senators, in locking up Heatley, signed a 27-year-old to a long-term deal. In locking up Drury and Briere, the Sabres would have been committing to 31- and 30-year-olds, respectively. Sure, they’d probably have loved to have had those guys for two or three more years, but five or six? Come on.
Well, Heather, Drury once was a young and energetic champion. And if you put him in a group with Gomez, the title, as a blanket statement for both of them, can almost, kind of still be applied to him.
Guess what, everyone? I’m back from the doctor’s office and I’ve not needed to be put on the organ-donor recipient list for a new liver yet. Huzzah!
I suspect the tables will turn at some point this season, and then I’ll need you to act as my Bucci Support Group consilor.
I’m always here for you, Pookie. We’re too good to let Bucci get us down.
Oh, and a Bucci Support Group is a great idea. We’ll have meetings in a church basement, and we’ll eat cookies and crackers and drink juice, and help each other through our issues with him. It’s going to be so fun!
I still think you guys should “live blog” his column. You might not survive for too long but man, it would be entertaining for me.
That’s great news Schnookie! Congrats to you and your liver.
Guess what, everyone? I’m back from the doctor’s office and I’ve not needed to be put on the organ-donor recipient list for a new liver yet. Huzzah!
Hey, now there’s some good news! I would give you my liver if you needed it, but the daily workout I put my liver through probably has rendered it useless a donor organ.
And guess what else? I just moved into a new office. It has windows and everything. I can see sun light!
In locking up Drury and Briere, the Sabres would have been committing to 31- and 30-year-olds, respectively.
A 30 year old whose potentially rapid decline he examined in detail in his own column!
Yeah, he’s a putz.
I would give you my liver if you needed it, but the daily workout I put my liver through probably has rendered it useless a donor organ.
Yeah… while I appreciate the offer, I probably wouldn’t have accepted it! :P
And a new office? With windows? And sunlight? You must be doing something right, Frisby, for life to be treating you so well!
That’s great news Schnookie! Congrats to you and your liver.
Probably your liver is just pining for your gall bladder. :D
Probably your liver is just pining for your gall bladder. :D
Actually, I think the problem was that they didn’t get along. Now that the gall bladder’s gone, my liver functions are all normal again. Geez, liver! Could you be a bit more obvious about how much you didn’t like gall bladder? Sheesh. Some social niceties wouldn’t have killed you, would they?
Healthy livers, window offices, news from Tom Gulitti that Pando practiced today and thus doesn’t have a broken hand/wrist! The universe is trying to atone for yesterday’s Devils game!
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The universe is trying to atone for yesterday’s Devils game!
Plus, it’s 25 degrees cooler out now than it was at this time yesterday! AND it looks like it might rain for the first time in months! Everything’s falling into place!
Oh, and for anyone getting totally excited for the big Toronto-Hurricanes matchup tonight on VS, we’ll be game diarizing it. It should be AWESOME.
And if it isn’t AWESOME, I’ll demand VS show a different game instead.
Good news about your liver Schnookie. They can be cranky bastards when not running well.
Tomorrow night, I will be able determine whose k/crazy regins supreme as I travel to Nassau to see the Isles/ Rangers. Outside of getting to take my 4y.o. to another hockey game, yesterday’s disussion added an entirely new dimension to this event.
I will try to make sense of it on Thursday and present my findings in a coherent manner.
Although I might be suffering from a k/crazy hangover and prattle on incomprehensibly…
for anyone getting totally excited for the big Toronto-Hurricanes matchup tonight on VS, we’ll be game diarizing it. It should be AWESOME.
Yay!
Apologies, reigns
oh no…the k/crazifying has begun…
Tomorrow night, I will be able determine whose k/crazy regins supreme as I travel to Nassau to see the Isles/ Rangers.
Good luck Stalky. I hope you come out ok.
I will try to make sense of it on Thursday and present my findings in a coherent manner.
I am eagerly awaiting the Stalky Report: Crazy or Krazy, an In-Depth Journey to into the Seedy Underbelly of Nassau Collisseum!
It will be a Conradian affair to say the least.
Marlow or Kurtz, I’m just not sure how it’ll turn out…
Stalky, I can’t wait to hear all about your k/crazy findings! I have no doubt your report will be brilliant! (I am also now totally interested in watching this game, which I had otherwise been planning to ignore. I hadn’t even considered the k/crazy implications involved.)
It will be a Conradian affair to say the least.
As in, Joseph Conrad? Heart of Darkness Marlow? The Kurtz reference, I do not know.
Nvm, I do. Colonel Kurtz. My bad.
Kurtz utters the oft cited “The horror, the horror…”
He is the company man of such promise who spits the bit and engages in some questionable ivory gathering practices in the Congo jungle.
Marlow is sent upriver to retrieve Kurtz and his ivory.
DEAL!
I AM! (it’s just… the heat doesn’t work. And I whine a lot. I should probably stop that)
No, Mags! I didn’t mean you should deal with it! I meant, it’s a deal! I’ll trade ya!
(It took me a while to figure out what you thought I meant. Sorry if I sounded all bitchy. I just meant that you made yourself a deal and I’ll trade our 95 and humid for your 54 and foggy.) (Like, any DAY I’d make that trade.)
Wow! IPB is too smart for me today.
No, Mags! I didn’t mean you should deal with it! I meant, it’s a deal! I’ll trade ya!
My bad.
Gosh, Mags. I feel terrible. You probably thought I was really mean.
Now, if you were whining about how hot it was, then I might have snapped at you. Since I’m the one that has the hardest life! ;P
Patty, don’t feel bad. I have a terrible view of myself and naturally assume everyone else feels the same way about me. Totally my mistake.
You’d have been right to snap at me if I’d been whining about the heat. Because not only would I have been uber-whiny, I’d also have been a liar.
I hate PPV. Might have to cough up $200 for center ice online.
Make sure they don’t black out the PPVs.
Boo! The Canucks/Flyers game is PPV. I hate PPV. Might have to cough up $200 for center ice online.
(I’m psychic!)
How did those comments end up in the reverse order o.O
That was weird. Clearly the Rangers krazy is even messing with IPB. Do they black out PPVS? How ass clowney!
Shut up! I’m psychic! :P
Do they black out PPVS?
I don’t know. I would check, though. We don’t have PPV games here. They can barely get people to watch them when they’re free. Although I wouldn’t put it past them.
Shut up! I’m psychic! :P
Of course you are.
You totally are Patty. But I wanna see our D smush the slag faced hobbit!!!! *whiny voice,stomping feet*
But I wanna see our D smush the slag faced hobbit!!!!
You know what you could do to sub this? But a copy of THN and step on it. I hear tell the hobbit is on the cover.
That might come a close second Mags. Thanks.
They might not be blacked out. I’m just saying before you pay for CI Online to get it, just make sure you can. From what I hear from people who have tried it, they have a fairly random way of deciding what’s blacked out.
Thanks for the heads up, Patty. I knew they randomly blacked out local games but I didn’t know about PPV. I should really go study. Talk to you ladies later.
The day I understand Center Ice’s blackout rules is the day I know I’ve krossed over into krazy myself.
The day I understand Center Ice’s blackout rules is the day I know I’ve krossed over into krazy myself.
I’m psychic, not Krazy. :D
Sadly, so often the psychics are considered krazy!
Sadly, so often the psychics are considered krazy!
I knew you were going to say that! *Ba DUM chee*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Man, there is nothing like corny jokes!
Okay. Off to make some buttermilk biscuits. It’s suddenly autumn here after all my whining, so we’re having chicken barley soup and biscuits for dinner. I’m so excited!
Yummy! See ya later, Schookie!
Oh my gosh. SchNookie! Sheesh!
Bad spelling killed the thread…
It did! BOOOO, bad spelling!
Oh good God is Blake crying?
Oh good God is Blake crying?
Considering he was discussing his recent cancer diagnosis, yeah, he was crying. Understandable, no?
I certainly would be.
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