Before we start tonight’s diary, we’d like to take a moment to direct your attention to a worthy cause. Our wonderful friend Jean Lea, owner of the most magnificent stitching shop in the world, The Attic Needlework in Mesa, Arizona, hosts an annual silent auction of handmade Christmas tree ornaments to raise funds for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The auction is happening this Saturday (Nov. 21), and we are feeling very triumphant here at stately IPB Manor because Boomer’s contribution, a collection of little Christmas houses stitched in silk on linen, are the ornaments with the highest set minimum opening bid. Um, not that it’s a competition, but still. Boomer’s a superstar. Heh. If you’re in the market for handmade Christmas tree ornaments and other decorative items, and would like to learn more about the auction (they do take bids over the phone and email), check out the Attic’s website.
Meanwhile, on the ice, the Devils are sporting a fancy new look, one that’s got 100% more Dean McAmmond and Tyler Eckford. Apparently Doc would like the Devils’ new look to be 100% more orange, though, because during the pregame, in talking about the Predators’ two big ex-Devils, he waxes poetic about the good old days when Steve Sullivan and Jason Arnott were Flyers. See? We’re not the only ones!
FIRST PERIOD
16:17 We kind of get caught off guard at the start of the game thanks to finishing off dinner, and when we turn our attention to the game, we are surprised to discover McAmmond is wearing 11. Sentimentality, thy name is Lou.
15:16 Wha? The Devils appear to be ready to clear the puck, with Rolston dawdling along while gaining possession in front of the net, and suddenly Arnott pokes the puck through his slow-poke feet and beats a completely startled Marty to make it 1-0 Predators. When Chico wonders how that play even happened, Pookie explains the obvious, two-part answer: Marty loves giving up goals to ex-Devils, and Rolston is the worst hockey player on Earth.
13:42 The Devils get the opportunity now to get a power play goal and be right back in it, as Chico would say.
11:42 The Devils do not get a power play goal to find themselves right back in it.
11:25 WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Colin White is a goal-scoring machine! Or at least Colin White shots are goal-scoring machines. Zach and Travis combine, after a failed attempt at a goal-mouth feed, to retrieve a rebound, feed it out to Whitey at the point, and then set up enough traffic in front to allow Whitey’s shot to beat Rinne (or maybe deflect the shot past him). It’s a 1-1 game, and Chico tells us that Whitey has switched to fancy sticks, on Zach’s recommendation. We are surprisingly charmed by the thought of Zach pressuring Whitey into buying sticks that have fancier features than the workmanlike variety he would normally choose. Pookie: “Zach probably gets kick-backs from Easton. He’s like Bob Vila.”
9:00 Doc is confident that the goal is going to be credited to Zach eventually, and tells us that’s a six-game goal-scoring streak for him now. Schnookie: “You know what? I think Parise’s for real.”
8:41 Tootoo is on the ice, and with him comes those annoying “toot” train whistles from the crowd. If Frisby is participating in that at this game tonight, he’s banned. And we’ll know, Frisby.
6:29 Oh dear. Chico is now trying to tell us about the Finnish version of baseball, as related to him by Pekka Rinne this morning. Or rather, Chico is threatening to tell us about it later, to which Doc says, “I’m looking forward to this.” Pookie: “That makes one of us, Doc.”
5:36 We come back from commercial to Chico telling us about this Finnish baseball, and this is what he ends up telestrating:
The game is called “pesapallo”, and Pookie cracks that Finns everywhere would look at Chico’s illustration and be like, “That guy’s insane. Our game is just like baseball. Where is he getting these ideas?” Then she looks it up online and reports, stunned, “Either Chico’s actually right, or he’s constructed an elaborate Wikipedia ruse.”
0:52 Oh god. The tooting. Make it stop!
0:22 Sometimes Zach’s the gong-er, and sometimes he’s the gong-ee. He gets a mini-break here, but only has time for a midrange slapshot that Rinne stops and deflects out of play with his head. After the whistle, Patty and Tootoo take coincidental minor penalties. Probably because Patty can’t stand listening to that stupid tooting anymore.
FIRST INTERMISSION
The break in action here is a great opportunity to check out this really cool video of what is essentially a human keyboard that we saw on Mental Floss today.
SECOND PERIOD
19:00 Zach starts his second period by cranking a giant shot at Rinne. Pookie: “Zach looks like he wants to score a real goal tonight.”
18:52 Zubrus starts his second period off with a bang by blocking a shot that leaves him hobbling sadly to the bench.
17:13 Clarkson tangles with Tootoo, probably just to silent those dumb whistles, and ends up getting a penalty for holding.
16:03 Two of the Devils PKers lose their sticks, so the Preds are, as Doc exclaims, playing a 5-on-2, but before anything horrible can happen, Patty coolly breaks up the attack and clears the zone. Good penalty killing is so foxy.
13:36 It is a shooting gallery in the Devils zone right now, but the Predators keep failing to register actual shots thanks to lots of missing the net and shockingly smart play by Eckford.
12:35 The Devils put on a clinic of terrible defensive-zone turnovers and generally looking completely hapless in their own end, and Schnookie finally shouts in exasperation at the TV, “You guys are all fired!” Just then, a tic-tac-toe passing play down low by the Preds gets broken up by some an extremely calm, deft Devils d-man. Pookie: “Whoa. Who was that? That wasn’t—no, he got sent down…” Schnookie: “That was Mottau.” Pookie, shocked: “Applesauce??”
10:50 Before an offensive-zone draw for the Devils, MSG+ gives us a close-up shot of Peters and Tootoo yapping sort of lamely at each other. We spend a few moments making up a series of not-very-funny conversations they could be having, and Pookie finally breaks through with: “Peters says ‘Give a hoot. Bench me!’” It’s hard work, people.
3:15 Yikes. This period is almost over. It seems like the Predators have been the better team so far.
1:54 Pookie: “The one thing I’m getting vibes about is Zach scoring a real goal, and it seems like he’s not going to. And the Devils are playing like crap. I can’t believe my vibes could be wrong.”
0:16 The one Devil not playing like crap? Marty, who makes an amazing kick save on a point-blank shot by Tootoo after Marty had missed a sweeping stick check around the side of the net.
0:10 Eckford takes a penalty on the rebound after Marty’s huge save.
0:00 Doc tells us as the teams head to the dressing rooms that the Devils had 12 shots in that period. We don’t believe it. As we wait for Gel-O to appear with our intermission interview, Doc reads a promo for the Devils game on Wednesday the 25th, at which fans 18 or older will receive a compact fluorescent lightbulb. Which is a nice idea, but we’ve already switched to CFLs. If we go to that game, can we have, like, game-used equipment or something cool instead?
THIRD PERIOD
Before the puck drop, Doc suddenly starts talking over some flavoring shots of Nashville, “It’s Nashville. There are lots of places here for a duck.” Sure enough, we then see Chuck the Duck perched in the foreground of a shot of a local act performing, and he seems to have a garbage can tucked under his wing. Doc is puzzled by the garbage can. We can only assume that Chuck is a heavy drinker.
In other news, Zubrus will not return to this game.
18:51 Stupid Jason Arnott. He scores after some good puck movement by the Predators PK. It’s 2-1 Nashville.
16:06 This game blows.
15:21 WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! This game doesn’t blow anymore! Of all the crazy things, Dean McAmmond — Dean McAmmond — carries the puck around behind the Nashville net, hanging on to it until Zach starts crashing the net, then tosses it out in front for Zach to tap through Rinne. 2-2 game, and Schnookie asks Pookie, “Does that count as a real goal for Zach?” Pookie: “No.”
11:00 When asked by Doc, Chico informs us that no, Zach does not ever get tired.
5:56 Not more tooting!
5:12 MSG+ gives us a photo tour of the various Devils fans in attendance in the lower bowl, but neglect to show Frisby. Did he wear a Predators sweater tonight? To be better attired for using his tootoo whistle?
4:48 The official announcement comes down that the scorers have credited, at long last, the first Devils goal to Zach. Chico wonders why it took so long, and Pookie posits, “The smoke finally turned black.”
4:01 We are puzzled. A timeout has been called, out of the blue, and we hope aloud that it’s one of those terrible McTavish-type timeouts that cause the other team to lose to the Devils. But then we find out it was Lemaire who called it. Crap. Now the Devils are never going to win!
0:00 Okay, so the timeout wasn’t the Devils’ undoing. They get to the end of regulation tied at two. We’ll take it!
OVERTIME
3:22 A pair of Predators run into each other while trying to gain the Devils zone and cough up the puck. Rolston pounces on it, darts up the ice, and tries to blast a shot through Rinne, but alas, even when he’s being good, there’s still too much “worst hockey player on earth” in him to make a play like that work.
1:49 Marty gets completely hung out to dry when Andy Greene and the Iron Boar spend about a month waiting to invent the perfect play when they have full possession of the puck behind the net before finally coughing it up to the Predators in front. Marty is, however, up to the challenge.
0:00 Well, it wasn’t the Devils’ best game ever, but it also wasn’t their worst. We’re not too upset with a tie, all things considered.
SHOOTOUT
We don’t normally have anything to say about the shootout, but tonight Doc makes a point of telling us that ZZ Pops is taking the shootout, going in Zach/Langer/Travis order. Pookie sniffs, “It’s more Z Pops Z in this case.” It should be noted that one of the little house ornaments that Boomer made for the silent auction we mentioned at the start of the game had an error in the pattern. When the panels were all assembled into the little house shape, instead of saying “Home Sweet Home Christmas”, it says “Home Home Sweet Christmas.” Pookie dubs this shootout order the “Home Home ZZ Pops”.
Zach fails to score on his shot attempt, and then this Santorelli kid beats Marty by skating at full steam directly at Marty and then lasering a shot right through him. We crack up. It’s the Lord Nelson move – never mind the maneuvers, just go straight at him. And then what the hell???? Travis, needing to score to keep the shootout alive, loses the puck when it bobbles over his stick, but manages to keep his forward momentum while reaching behind himself to backhand what one presumes is meant as a face-saving lame-assed shot attempt… that catches Rinne completely by surprise and skitters into the net. Of course, the next shooter for the Preds scores on Marty, so it’s all for naught, but that might be the funniest shootout goal we’ve ever seen. We can now all let go of that first time Scott Gomez scored by totally whiffing on his shot (which was charming the first time, then cheeky when he did it next on purpose, then became proof of what a complete dick he is every time after), because there’s a new “adorable shootout goal by mistake” sheriff in town.
Thanks NJ. Give up a goal to Arnott and now have to hear Doc and Chico talk about goal to beat the Stars for the Cup.
Heh. Heh heh heh. I mean, er, sorry! (It was a really, really great goal.)
And WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
I’m getting the game on MSG+ HD. I didn’t even know I had this channel!
Colin White is a scoring machine **maybe not**
I go shopping for 10 minutes and it’s one all. What the farooq.
Woo-hoo for getting MSG+ HD!
Yeah, Whitey’s a total scoring machine. If you want a scoring machine to get 2 goals a year. :D
What the farooq, indeed!
I really don’t appreciate that the Preds’ goal is probably not going to be awarded to Weber.
I really don’t appreciate that the Preds’ goal is probably not going to be awarded to Weber.
Word.
Amy, I was telling my friend how I can now get Rangers, Islanders, Devils, AND Maple Leafs games in BLo. His response: “Wow. Lucky. You.” But I say if I get to see Chuck the Duck in HD, it’s all worth while.
The Bobby McFerrin thing is giving me chills.
I’m glad you enjoyed, it mcguggs! I watched it at work and got chills from it, and was raving about it all evening to Boomer and Pookie. We actually missed the first couple of minutes of the first period because we were all watching it.
The Bobby McFerrin thing is giving me chills.
Isn’t it the coolest thing?! (I actually missed that today, so it’s a good thing Schnookie noticed it!)
Mental Floss is the bombdiggety. They also had a post today about a clip from Nova in which a neurologist who likes Bach but not Beethoven agreed to have his brain scanned while listening to them. Even when he didn’t know the pieces being played and didn’t know who composed which, his brain still lit up for the Bach and was blank for the Beethoven. How awesome is that?
Even when he didn’t not the pieces being played and didn’t know who composed which, his brain still lit up for the Bach and was blank for the Beethoven. How awesome is that?
I love stuff like that! I really wish I had looked into Neuroscience in undergrad, but alas, I spent my time writing papers about books I did not read.
We actually missed the first couple of minutes of the first period because we were all watching it.
I missed the first few minutes because I was watching some show on E! about celebrity slimdowns. Clearly we know who the thinkers are here. :)
Oh, and seriously? “Tootoo, playing like he’s not wearing one.” Honestly Doc. Honestly.
Hee, “Pareesee”
I missed the first few minutes picking up ingredients for stuffed shells. Did anyone see the first few minutes of this game?
I missed the first few minutes because I was watching some show on E! about celebrity slimdowns. Clearly we know who the thinkers are here. :)
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Oh, and seriously? “Tootoo, playing like he’s not wearing one.” Honestly Doc. Honestly.
I decided not to dignify that with a response in our game diary. Heh.
And as for Neuroscience, I work with a group of Neuroscience PhDs, as well as groups of other therapeutic areas (Oncology, CV/Met, etc). So one day the director of the NS group was joking about how he feels so safe with all the cardiologists and oncologists we have around. And I was all, “And it’s good to know that you guys are here in case I have any brain problems.” And he looked at me like I was crazy, then explained, “You don’t want me coming anywhere near your brain. The first thing I do is liquidize brains.”
Did anyone see the first few minutes of this game?
My god! ANYTHING could have happened, and none of us would know! I bet both teams started full lineups of trained circus bears.
“Tootoo, playing like he’s not wearing one.” Honestly Doc. Honestly.
To be fair, Doc had to see a lot of Peter Forsberg during his Fox announcing days, and as alix so delicately put it a few years ago, Forsberg often looked like a ballerina shot out of a fucking (fuckin?) cannon. :D
Did anyone see the first few minutes of this game?
Nope, no one. It’s almost as if it never existed…
“You don’t want me coming anywhere near your brain. The first thing I do is liquidize brains.”
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Forsberg often looked like a ballerina shot out of a fucking (fuckin?) cannon.
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I bet Cool would like that!
Does Arnott still think he is still a Devil
Maybe Cool is Peter Forsberg? I’ve never seen them in the same place at the same time…
Does Arnott still think he is still a Devil
If he does, we don’t want him!
I bet both teams started full lineups of trained circus bears.
I heard the starting line for the Devils was Bearise, Bearjac and Langenbearnner. With Bearduer playing in net.
Maybe Cool is Peter Forsberg? I’ve never seen them in the same place at the same time…
That makes perfect sense!! Peter Forsberg would totally think the blog fuckin sucks!
You work with Staffy?
You know, I haven’t ever seen Staffy and my coworker in the same place…
I heard the starting line for the Devils was Bearise, Bearjac and Langenbearnner. With Bearduer playing in net.
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Peter Forsberg would totally think the blog fuckin sucks!
Then I feel like we’re doing something right!
For all we know, Staffy, your coworker, Forsberg, and circus bears could have started this game.
Whoa, wtf happened to the Penguins tonight? Surely Jay McKee’s finger can’t be that crucial to their lineup
For all we know, Staffy, your coworker, Forsberg, and circus bears could have started this game.
I suspect they did!
Surely Jay McKee’s finger can’t be that crucial to their lineup
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I would have thought it wasn’t, but I guess I would be wrong! :P
For all we know, Staffy, your coworker, Forsberg, and circus bears could have started this game.
And Chuck.
Is Chuck the Duck carrying around his own personal boot and rally garbage can for his Nashville bar crawl? If so, the duck is hardcore.
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Also, poop. What the fuck is with all this fuckin Arnott?!
And Chuck.
And Jay McKee’s finger.
I’ll go ahead and bitch that not only did Shea Weber not get the goal or an assist, but since it was a PP, he doesn’t even get a +1 to negate his -1.
I should have started that off with Not only did the Preds score and Shea Weber did not blah blah blah. Just take for granted that I do want the Devils to win. (it would just be nice for Weber to get something out of it…)
Is Chuck the Duck carrying around his own personal boot and rally garbage can for his Nashville bar crawl? If so, the duck is hardcore.
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but also, ew
Just take for granted that I do want the Devils to win.
:^::::::::::::::::::::::: Don’t feel obligated to want the Devils to win on our behalf! :P
Just take for granted that I do want the Devils to win. (it would just be nice for Weber to get something out of it…)
Word. :D
Man, my co-workers better make this the best frickin pot-luck ever tomorrow. I’ve missed 2 Devils goals getting ready for it.
Man, my co-workers better make this the best frickin pot-luck ever tomorrow. I’ve missed 2 Devils goals getting ready for it.
That sucks! Your coworkers totally owe you. At the very least, one of them better bring some liquidized brains.
At the very least, one of them better bring some liquidized brains.
And they better not put marshmallows in it! I hate when they do that.
Is Chuck the Duck carrying around his own personal boot and rally garbage can for his Nashville bar crawl? If so, the duck is hardcore.
You know, I’ve never seen Chuck the Duck and Roy-z in the same place…
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I hope to see Chuck passed out on Chippewa in the flavoring shots for the next Devils-Sabres game.
And they better not put marshmallows in it! I hate when they do that.
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I’m ambivalent about what the marshmallows do to the flavor, but do they ever fuck with your experiment’s data. I’ve seen so many FDA filings run aground on account of some “chef” getting “fancy” and putting marshmallows in the brains.
You know, I’ve never seen Chuck the Duck and Roy-z in the same place…
You take that back! YOU TAKE THAT BACK RIGHT NOW!
I hope to see Chuck passed out on Chippewa in the flavoring shots for the next Devils-Sabres game.
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Schnookie, I’m just saying, I’m pretty sure Chuck was wearing sparkly assed pants under that jersey. I think they said, “I’m Chuck, bitch.”
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I think they said, “I’m Chuck, bitch.”
“I’m Chuck, bitch. Also, mmmmmm poutine!”
“I’m Chuck, bitch. Also, mmmmmm poutine!”
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And WTF is Turco doing to my Fire Clowns???
I’m pretty sure Chuck was wearing sparkly assed pants under that jersey. I think they said, “I’m Chuck, bitch.”
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: That proves he’s a better speller than Roy-Z, whose sparkly-assed pants say “I’m Roy-Z, bich.”
Roy-Z’s say, “I’m Cool, bich.”
Roy-Z’s say, “I’m Cool, bich.”
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oh, shootout. hmm.
OK, shootouts BLOW, but that Travis move was hilarious!
Looks like the Zajac “trick shot” isn’t enough tonight.
Chico totally pulled a Swedish chef.
Chico totally pulled a Swedish chef.
I need to know more about this.
Right after Zajac scored in the shootout, Chico said, and I quote: “Hor! Hor! Hor! Hor! Hor! Hor! Hor! Hor! Hor! Hor! Hor!”
Good Lord, Arnott still cuts the top half of his t-shirts off. ::shudder:: Why won’t someone tell him he looks like an idiot?!
“I’m Roy-Z, bich.”
Roy-Z’s say, “I’m Cool, bich.”
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I just peed in my sparkly-assed pants.
Thanks for nothing, Weber. You couldn’t have even taken a penalty, you fat pussy toad?
Aaaaaaaaahhhahahahahah excellent
Good Lord, Arnott still cuts the top half of his t-shirts off. ::shudder:: Why won’t someone tell him he looks like an idiot?!
Um. The sleeves, or the whole thing? Because the latter would be just… wow
You couldn’t have even taken a penalty, you fat pussy toad?
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The sleeves, or the whole thing? Because the latter would be just… wow
Heh, good point. It’s really just like six inches off the collar. All the way around. It’s very Flashdance.
Okay, that’s still wow. Very wow.
I wonder if he runs into the shower with a chair singing, “What a feeeeeeling!!”
I wonder if he runs into the shower with a chair singing, “What a feeeeeeling!!”
There is no question that he does that ALL THE TIME.
holy shit, this cal-chi game is a blowout. hilarious.
and the cal fans are booing. ouch
Love that you included Chico’s sketch of whatever the hell he was talking about! Val thought that was an upside down Stanley Cup.
Before an offensive-zone draw for the Devils, MSG+ gives us a close-up shot of Peters and Tootoo yapping sort of lamely at each other.
If there was ever a chance to see me, that would have been it as it happenend right in front of me.
MSG+ gives us a photo tour of the various Devils fans in attendance in the lower bowl, but neglect to show Frisby
Those bastards!
And no, I was not wearing a Predators jersey or tooting a fucking whistle and I should cut a bitch for even suggesting such.
Thank God for the Leafs. What a performance yesterday.
They blew a 3-0 lead, a 4-2 lead, a 5-4 lead with 3 seconds to go, they got srobbed of a valid goal in OT by the stupid intent to blow rule, and they lose in the SO. Against Carolina. What a night.
And no, I was not wearing a Predators jersey or tooting a fucking whistle and I should cut a bitch for even suggesting such.
Heh heh. Yeah, that was low. I’m sorry! @@@@@@ (I still don’t understand why you weren’t prominently featured in the tour of Devils fans at the game! MSG+ sucks!) More importantly, though, did you have a good time? I’m sorry the Devils didn’t play more awesomely, but all in all, it was a pretty good game.
And good morning, everyone! It turns out that when I blew off that town hall meeting yesterday, my name was drawn at random for a door prize. So now everyone in my department knows I wasn’t there! Awesome!
So now everyone in my department knows I wasn’t there!
Aaawkwaaaard!
So now everyone in my department knows I wasn’t there!
Ooh. There’s got to be a good way to spin that one.
So now everyone in my department knows I wasn’t there! Awesome!
Oops. Do you still get the prize?
So now everyone in my department knows I wasn’t there!
if it were me, they’d have called my name just as i was walking back from the bathroom with TP stuck to my shoe and the barn door still open.
No! I didn’t get to keep the prize, dammit! My life is so terrible! Heh. Apparently a friend of mine covered for me by telling the VP announcing the prizes that I “had a lot of work to do” and that’s why I’d left. I imagine it was very difficult for the directors I support (who were still at the meeting) not to audibly snort with derisive laughter at the suggestion that I was too busy to sit through a town hall meeting. :P
if it were me, they’d have called my name just as i was walking back from the bathroom with TP stuck to my shoe and the barn door still open.
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Sorry we didn’t get to see you on TV, Frisby!
if it were me, they’d have called my name just as i was walking back from the bathroom with TP stuck to my shoe and the barn door still open.
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I bet I win the Miserable Work Day Award for today! I just had to sit through a 2-hour “how to respond to stereotyping in the office” training! I considered saying, “I get what you’re saying about not stereotyping, but come on, it’s totally valid to say all Rangers fans are all assholes, right? Am I right, or am I right?”
I get what you’re saying about not stereotyping, but come on, it’s totally valid to say all Rangers fans are all assholes, right?
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“I get what you’re saying about not stereotyping, but come on, it’s totally valid to say all Rangers fans are all assholes, right? Am I right, or am I right?”
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: But see there’s a difference. Stereotyping would be like saying “All blonds are dumb” or “All Italians are in the mob.” What you did was make an anthropological observation, like ” Mammals are warm-blooded” and “All Rangers fans are assholes.”
What you did was make an anthropological observation, like ” Mammals are warm-blooded” and “All Rangers fans are assholes.”
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Exactly. And really, how offensive can a stereotype be if it’s 100% true?
And really, how offensive can a stereotype be if it’s 100% true?
Exactly. You don’t see me getting all upset when people call ice dancers slutty, do you? No. Because if I was that upset about it, I would stop being so slutty. Gosh.
You don’t see me getting all upset when people call ice dancers slutty, do you? No. Because if I was that upset about it, I would stop being so slutty. Gosh.
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: We, like, TOTALLY have the power to alter how people perceive us. But I don’t want to not be slutty, so people who don’t like it can just suck it.
the worst possible way of responding to stereotyping in the office place is to have a meeting about it.
but thats clueless management for you.
I just had to sit through a 2-hour “how to respond to stereotyping in the office” training!
I think I saw that on an episode of “The Office.”
i’m surprised it takes 2-hours to explain: “just kick ‘em in the ding-ding”
But I don’t want to not be slutty, so people who don’t like it can just suck it.
It’s not like I wear a sparkly “Juicy” across my ass because I support healthy fruit drinks.
the worst possible way of responding to stereotyping in the office place is to have a meeting about it.
We’d have sexual harassment seminars at my old job, but because it was retail, they avoided stereotyping seminars. Every facet of retail involves sterotypes.
It’s not like I wear a sparkly “Juicy” across my ass because I support healthy fruit drinks.
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The best part about it was that they asked us all to discuss times when we’ve had staff members stereotype us. But we all work together so like I’m going to be all, “Hey, hypothetically let’s say my hypothetical boss said something hypothetically really hateful…” Sigh.
But we all work together so like I’m going to be all, “Hey, hypothetically let’s say my hypothetical boss said something hypothetically really hateful…”
Isn’t that stereotyping bosses? Why is it the bosses that are always saying something hateful?! :P
5:56 Not more tooting!
Hey! I’m tooting right now!
5:56 Not more tooting!
Hey! I’m tooting right now!
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Well, another one bites the dust. Zubrus is out for 4-6 weeks with a leg injury. This being the Devils, they refuse to say whether he broke it, as if that would make it worse.
In news of the totally useless, Ilkka Pikkarainen has been put on IR with a mysterious illness and PL3 was taken off IR.
Oh, and Yann Danis will get the start against Dallas. Fine w/me.
Hmmm…I think Zach Parise is going to ask to be traded from the Beards of Bees pretty soon. We lost 7-3 last night. Holy CRAP!
So I’m watching the Dallas Cheerleading Camp show (I know, I’m further proving how much I love educational tv) and the coach calls this one girl in to tell her that her 124 lb chunky butt needs to lose 12 lbs. Actually used the word chunky. I didn’t know Crunchy’s twin sister coached the Dallas Cheerleaders.
Wow, mcguffers! I’m kind of appalled. And embarrassed. Why would they show that part? (Are you talking about the Cowboys cheerleaders?)
I think the Stars Ice Girls were all forced to get new teeth from the cosmetic dentistry sponsor. If the little jumbotron blurb where they panned across a line of girls with identical teeth is any indication.
and the coach calls this one girl in to tell her that her 124 lb chunky butt needs to lose 12 lbs. Actually used the word chunky.
Ew! 124 lbs is WAY beyond chunky. That girl WISHES she was only chunky. I’m surprised they didn’t show that MORE OFTEN.
If the little jumbotron blurb where they panned across a line of girls with identical teeth is any indication.
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Why would they show that part?
Half the show is someone getting ripped because their ass is too chunky, boobs are too small, hair too stripper-y or hips too wide. Ironically enough, most of the DCC rejects have gone on to be Stars Ice Girls.
Can you tell I’m a fan of the educational TV as well?
hair too stripper-y
No way! Now that’s a criticism I wouldn’t have expected from the coach of the Cowboys Cheerleaders. :P
On what planet is that show not educational? I’ve learned so much already! Like, that with hips like mine, I can only be an Ice Girl, not a Cowboys Cheerleader.
Oh, and for the record, this week sucked. I am SO glad it’s the weekend now!
Can you tell I’m a fan of the educational TV as well?
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Are you talking about the Cowboys cheerleaders?
Yeah, it’s a show on MTV which I never would think I’d watch, but it sucks you in. Like a black hole for brain cells.
Later in the episode, they had Chunky go to the team’s trainer for some one on one cardio. Then they show a quick plug of his work out tape that was specifically made for the Cowboys Cheerleaders as he says “You can’t lose with the workout” which led me to two thoughts: 1) “You can’t lose” is not a good tag line for a workout video aimed at helping you lose weight and 2) If the DCC have a no-fail workout routine, then why is one of their rookies having trouble making weight?
Can you tell I’m a fan of the educational TV as well?
This includes Sabres games, right? :)
This includes Sabres games, right?
Right. Where else would I learn that the dishwasher that I don’t have is only efficient if it’s full and that the rinse only cycle is a water hog?
1) “You can’t lose” is not a good tag line for a workout video aimed at helping you lose weight and 2) If the DCC have a no-fail workout routine, then why is one of their rookies having trouble making weight?
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: That guy’s like, “Wait, go back to the beginning there. You’re blowing my mind.”
This includes Sabres games, right?
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Where else would I learn that the dishwasher that I don’t have is only efficient if it’s full and that the rinse only cycle is a water hog?
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Goose makes me want to go out and buy a dishwasher just so I can use it efficiently.
So far my favorite play tonight has been Myers jumping in the net creating a Crunchy/Myers force field as Timmy and Goose rammed everything out of the way in the front.
I forgot how much I dislike Lucic.
Looch like mcggugers! Why mcguggers not like Looch? :(
Awww! What’s my favorite hunchback up to tonight? (Did anyone else see the “Cheating Death” feature on Colbert a couple weeks ago, the one with “Vaxaconda”? Where he listed “hunchfront” as a side effect of one of the drugs? Needless to say, Looch is fast becoming known as a hunchfront here at stately IPB Manor…)
Damn hunchfront scored two goals including the OT winner. At least we think it was Looch on the winner. Replay is fuzzy.
mcguggers want to punch Looch in his hunchfront. (Though I think they’re giving Bergeron the OT goal)
I had the volume down during the intermission when they had Goose’s and Bergeron’s pictures side by side. I think they were comparing who is prettier.
Aw, sorry guys. I guess that’s a pretty good reason for not liking the hunchfront tonight.
Crunchy looks like the every crackhead junkie in every Law & Order ever right now.
I’m so sorry the hunchfront was such a jerk tonight! He never really knows how to behave in civilized society.
I did find it a touch irritating when he peed in the crease after scoring. And I though Ovie’s goal celebrations were over the top.
Pulled into the driveway as they ended the third, then walked in the door, let the dog out, turned on the radio, and Bergeron scored. that was a bummer.
Hey guys!
Oh, and for the record, this week sucked. I am SO glad it’s the weekend now!
You’re right about that. 5 hour town hall meetings = worst week ever. You have earned your weekend.
I have good news! Mike found a job – doing social media and marketing and Oscar is back to his old self. He still has stitches, but he’s moving around like he’s just fine. He also locked himself in the bathroom today.
Oh, and I see the Canucks are back to the “slow start” again. Well, best to get it over with now rather than later.
Kathleen, you didn’t even get to see Goose’s new blue and gold make green commercial!! That was the only worthwhile part of this game.
Mike found a job – doing social media and marketing and Oscar is back to his old self. He still has stitches, but he’s moving around like he’s just fine. He also locked himself in the bathroom today.
First off, Congrats to Mike!!! Now reread that skipping over the word “Oscar”, as I did, and it’s just kind of funny. I was trying to figure out what Mike needed stitches for and how he locked himself in the bathroom. :D
Congratulations to Mike! That’s wonderful news!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Congratulations to Mike!!! That’s fantastic news!!
Now reread that skipping over the word “Oscar”, as I did, and it’s just kind of funny. I was trying to figure out what Mike needed stitches for and how he locked himself in the bathroom.
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: While that was originally a paragraph full of good news, it becomes a paragraph full of HILARIOUS good news when you remove the “Oscar”. Heh.
I did find it a touch irritating when he peed in the crease after scoring. And I though Ovie’s goal celebrations were over the top.
In Looch’s defense, that’s less an in-your-face, pre-planned goal celebration and more just him not being potty trained.
Kathleen, you didn’t even get to see Goose’s new blue and gold make green commercial!! That was the only worthwhile part of this game.
And there hasn’t been a new one in so long, too :(:(
Goose’s faceoff stats have declined precipitously the last few games. I’m getting very worried.
Congrats, Mike! And, um, Oscar.
In Looch’s defense, that’s less an in-your-face, pre-planned goal celebration and more just him not being potty trained.
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And, um, Oscar.
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Oscar’s like, “Thanks. It wasn’t easy locking myself in that bathroom, but I’m proud of myself for figuring it out.”
“Thanks. It wasn’t easy locking myself in that bathroom, but I’m proud of myself for figuring it out.”
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So true!
In Looch’s defense, that’s less an in-your-face, pre-planned goal celebration and more just him not being potty trained.
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Two words – Skin Tags.
That is all. WHY do they keep showing us this commercial during hockey???
Oscar’s like, “Thanks. It wasn’t easy locking myself in that bathroom, but I’m proud of myself for figuring it out.”
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Okay, so about 10 Christmases ago, we were at my aunt’s house and my dad goes to use the bathroom. He apparently missed the announcement that the door knob was broken and won’t open from the inside, because 20 minutes pass before someone finally goes, “Has anyone seen Ray?” So mcdaddy probably feels for Oscar.
Alex Burrows is a bit of a dreamboat.
He apparently missed the announcement that the door knob was broken and won’t open from the inside, because 20 minutes pass before someone finally goes, “Has anyone seen Ray?” So mcdaddy probably feels for Oscar.
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Our cats are too stupid to figure out how to lock themselves into anywhere. So they rely on sneaking into closets and cabinets and stuff and hope we don’t notice and shut the doors after them. Has your dad tried that trick, mcguggs?
Two words – Skin Tags.
That is all. WHY do they keep showing us this commercial during hockey???
Heh. There must be something very skin taggy about hockey fans, I guess.
Hahaha! mcguffer’s dad was stuck in the bathroom! Teehee!
Has your dad tried that trick, mcguggs?
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Pull-ups, Looch. Pull-ups.
Please. Remember, Looch wants pants to be optional.
Yeah, Looch is like, “Listen, I’m not into pants, what makes you think I’d be into underpants?”
Looch wants pants to be optional.
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:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Looch without pants is never not funny… Oh, wait. Ewww. Looch without pants is… *shivers*
Happy Saturday, IPB!
Sandra Lee came up with some friends I was with last night, and I realized that even though I’ve heard a lot of things about her show through IPB, I’ve never actually seen it. So guess what I’ve been up to all morning(/afternoon) on YouTube? So far the absolute mind-blowing low point has been when she brought out a can of white sauce to add to her cream of asparagus soup. Dude, I’m an awful cook, but even I can make white sauce! It’s practically easier than opening a can!
I shared some of the links with my friend who’s a chef, and his first comment was “Those aren’t ingredients at all!” His second: “I’m pretty sure if you ate some asparagus and pissed in a soup pot it would taste about the same as this.”
I can’t decide if my life is more or less complete now that I’ve seen these clips. Maybe some more research is in order…
Hi Gambler! I’m so glad you finally got to behold, with your own eyes, the wondrousness that is Sandra Lee! I remember that can of white sauce very well. I had no idea they even MADE canned white sauce. I mean, what the hell????
“I’m pretty sure if you ate some asparagus and pissed in a soup pot it would taste about the same as this.”
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I had no idea they even MADE canned white sauce. I mean, what the hell????
Apparently they also make powdered white sauce, which Sandra used to make a salmon champagne sauce. (Hilariously after admonishing her viewers for being scared of making sauces and gravies, because “it’s so easy when you know how to do it the right way!” She’s right, but I think she’s the only one who considers powdered white mix the “right way.”) What the hell, indeed.
My favorite is her insistent “You get to take alllllllll the credit!” tagline. Nice try, Sandra, but if I ever subject anyone to one of your recipes, I’m blaming everything on you.
Nice try, Sandra, but if I ever subject anyone to one of your recipes, I’m blaming everything on you.
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we were stunned at how much more a) expensive, and b) disgusting her “recipes” are than you’d expect.
It does seem like her recipes add unnecessary expense all over the place in the name of cutting corners. Is it really that hard to slice mushrooms that you need to buy pre-sliced ones? For all her yammering about saving you time and money, it looks like she really only knows how to do the one.
Okay, I just watched her spray a cake pan with butter flavored no-stick spray, and explain that it should be butter flavored “for added flavor.” I think she might need to borrow Tobias Fünke’s tape recorder for a day. If you’re counting on no-stick spray to do the flavor-adding for you, there’s something seriously wrong with what you’re making.
It does seem like her recipes add unnecessary expense all over the place in the name of cutting corners.
Yup. And the cost of those CornNuts really add up. Although, I have no idea how to dehydrate my own corn pieces, so maybe she’s on to something.
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: To all the Sandra Lee stuff. I just watched the saddest story ever on MSNBC, so I think I’ve cried enough to get ready for a Sabres game! (and yes, I actually have working tear ducts.)
I was just amused by the cranberry sauce molds that Sandra Lee made on one of her shows where she added a cup of orange vodka to the mix. And she didn’t cook out the vodka!
Should her sweet baboo be elected governor of NYS, I can’t wait until the first time she tries to serve some semi-ho crap at an official state function. The reactions should be priceless!
And Staffy is out tonight. His lower bone is bruised. Please, insert any and all jokes here.
Sandra Lee is related to a candidate for NY gov?
And she didn’t cook out the vodka!
What’s Thanksgiving dinner without vodka shots?
His lower bone is bruised. Please, insert any and all jokes here.
Bad Timmy, bad.
Sandra Lee is related to a candidate for NY gov?
She’s dating Andrew Cuomo, who is one of the leading candidates for the position.
And the cost of those CornNuts really add up.
Corn nuts, carol? You mean “acorns”? Heh.
And she didn’t cook out the vodka!
Oh, Aunt Sandy and her vodka! I notice she always taste-tests her cocktails, but almost never the food. I wonder why that could be… Her relationship to alcohol is the only thing I can think of that could explain some of the things she makes, not to mention the apparent opinion she has of the things she makes.
And I think I’m done looking at Semi-Homemade clips after seeing a half a stick of butter mixed with two tablespoons of crumbly bleu cheese put on top of a burger. My gag reflex has taken all it can take.
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: to all this Sandra Lee stuff! I’d never even CONSIDERED making my own “acorns” until now — you guys are so smart!
And we were slow in getting going this evening, but there is a post up for tonight’s games now. :D