Life at stately IPB Manor is normally a lot like being in a Noel Coward play, with the elegant dress, high-class decor, and zingy witticisms. But some evenings we’re all maybe just a bit off our games — a bit tired, a bit dull, a bit not paying any attention to each other. But from great disconnect can come great possibilities; just imagine how much more interesting the hockey world would be if it was like what Boomer thought she heard this evening.
The scene: our living room, 11:30 pm on Friday night, with the Ducks/Canucks first intermission on TV. The Ducks announcers are talking about how great the Sedins are.
Schnookie: “And they’re creepy.”
Pookie: “I was reading about the Winkelvoss twins today.”
Schnookie: “Speaking of creepy.”
Pookie: “No kidding.”
Schnookie: “What were you reading?”
Pookie: “Oh, it was some thing about how they won a $200 million settlement about Facebook, but it was all in stock, which they claimed was deliberately undervalued. So now they’re suing for $600 million, but they don’t want the money. They just want to beat Zuckerberg, because they’re ultra-competitive douches.”
Schnookie, not really paying attention halfway through that: “Huh.”
Boomer, only just now tuning in: “What did they get $200 million for?”
Pookie: “They claim they invented Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg stole it from them.”
Long, stunned pause.
Boomer, completely incredulous: “The Sedins invented Facebook???”
Long pause.
Boomer: “My fantasy team should be getting a lot more for them if that’s true.”
hahahaha! I can imagine how SHOCKED Boomer must have been! I bet the Sedins don’t even know what facebook is.
Of course the Sedins invented Facebook. Why do you think this is happening: http://gawker.com/5853913/facebook-is-building-an-arctic-swedish-base
What, that’s not the arctic branch of the Church of Larsson?
What is NHL Network doing to this game, it looks like it is presented in Poovision.
When I see Fayne on the point for a power play, I get the same sense of foreboding as when I see Troi’s mother show up on an episode of Star Trek.
We’re at some friends house, mercifully missing this game. I mean, if it’s making people think of Lawxana Troi it can’t possibly be a bad thing that we’re missing it, right?
Also, Facebook has an arctic doom base?!! Suddenly I’m rethinking buy anti-Facebook stance!
Suddenly I’m rethinking buy anti-Facebook stance!
You should get something for that cold, dear.
I’m typing on an iPad after overseeing a 4-year old and a 6-year old playing a high energy game of trains, dynamite, and dinosaurs. I’m just glad I manged to type something that was recognizable as English!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooo
Hahahahahahah!!
This post is exactly why I keep coming back to this blog.
HAHAHAH! The Sedins are good at everything. It’s totally plausible.
Boomer is awesome.
And trying to figure out what a game of “trains, dynamite & dinosaurs” entails is much, much more entertaining than my hockey game. (Please tell me the game involves shipping an NHL team’s defense away on a train that’s loaded with dynamite and/or dinosaurs.)
I imagine it’s one of two options, trains and dinosaurs fighting and constantly exploding OR a world like that show Dinosaurs where the dinosaurs are all like people, and they’re calmly and slowly delivering large loads of dynamite from place to place via train, on schedule, without complications.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo
That conversation is hilarious! Don’t you hate that feeling when you realize you’re going to have to admit you haven’t been paying attention? And on the other side, I’d have been all haughty and frustrated that somebody wasn’t hanging on my every word and I’d miss the hilarity.
Congrats on the Devils win! The poopy Stars lost. AND I had to watch the Red Wings play. That game was a double-whammy.
WOOOOOOOO!!! I can’t believe we missed Clarkson winning the game in a shootout! How did he manage a wrap-around in a shootout?!
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: to all your dinosaur/dynamite guesses. It was a little less boring defense and a little more Matchbox car stunts. Which, honestly? Hockey could use more of.
Patty, sorry your game was so poopy. And Red Wingy.
LOLS! I knew the Sedins were up to SOMETHING big on the off season! Those soft peeping facebook inventors!
I’m finished being mad at hockey now. I’m watching the Islanders. AH BOO!
Everyone’s Movember mustaches are cracking me up, though. There’s plenty of wispy ones and a few Slapshot ones, too.
Dave is on his way to Argentina for business. Flies to Buenos Aires tonight then 7 hour drive to their plant there for a week. It’s really bothering me this time. I knew less last time. Didn’t realize it was a 7 hour drive. Plus was told last time that he probably shouldn’t wear his rings there again. We are talking plain gold wedding band and college ring.
Me no likey.
And yes, I am a worrywart.