FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[bennie]

bennie - Which feed of the Caps/Canes did you watch? I thought the Caps announcers went out of the way to sympathize with Laviolette(?) when he burst a blood vessel. If you watched the Carolina feed, what was their take? I thought it could have gone another way, but I don't think giving matching minors was all that terrible a call. After seeing the Caps get jobbed repeatedly, maybe they're due some favorable breaks. If you want to question a call, I thought Semin's "hooking" was pretty cheap. I think they need to do something about all the hooking calls in general. You should, at the very least, have to have a minimal effect on the "hookee." Just touching a guy's gloves doesn't constitute hooking by any definition I'm familiar with.

I had the Caps feed. The little clip they put together of Laviolette's hissy fit was kind of mean...but very funny. I thought his head was going to pop clean off! I think both hooking and tripping (and for that matter, goalie interference) should involve more than a bit of a breeze and a light tap. But then again, where would Hasek's career be if he didn't drop like he was dead everytime an opposing player gave him a dirty look as they skated past? 8)

[bennie]

I would have to question anyone whose judgement led him to hang those two monickers on his kids. Jersey? Is that after the state or after the athletic apparel? Jett? with two T's? If it's after Joan, I might give him a pass. Otherwise, it's cruel and unusual punishment. May I get a ruling from the judge?

With my job, I see a lot of people's full legal names. There was Teddy Bear, Bubba, Spring Thyme, Bambi (hopefully her mother has been able to avoid forrest fires!) and my personal favorite, Nimblewill. Of course there are many more, but these are just some of the ones that I remember off the top of my head. What were their parents thinking (or smoking)?

[OzJohnnie]

I would have to question anyone whose judgement led him to hang those two monickers on his kids. Jersey? Is that after the state or after the athletic apparel? Jett? with two T's? If it's after Joan, I might give him a pass. Otherwise, it's cruel and unusual punishment. May I get a ruling from the judge?

With my job, I see a lot of people's full legal names. There was Teddy Bear, Bubba, Spring Thyme, Bambi (hopefully her mother has been able to avoid forrest fires!) and my personal favorite, Nimblewill. Of course there are many more, but these are just some of the ones that I remember off the top of my head. What were their parents thinking (or smoking)?

In bootcamp for the Navy there was a guy in our company named Anthony NMN Anthony.  The NMN was Navy for No Middle Name.  The guy's name was literally Anthony Anthony.

[Retired Old Rat]

I would have to question anyone whose judgement led him to hang those two monickers on his kids. Jersey? Is that after the state or after the athletic apparel? Jett? with two T's? If it's after Joan, I might give him a pass. Otherwise, it's cruel and unusual punishment. May I get a ruling from the judge?

With my job, I see a lot of people's full legal names. There was Teddy Bear, Bubba, Spring Thyme, Bambi (hopefully her mother has been able to avoid forrest fires!) and my personal favorite, Nimblewill. Of course there are many more, but these are just some of the ones that I remember off the top of my head. What were their parents thinking (or smoking)?

I've met a few girls over the years named Bambi.  Something always told me that was not the name given by their parents.

I must say, Spring Thyme has a nice ring to it.

[tmerton]

Hey, ROR - don't you need your rest for tomorrow?

[sfury]

The new George Clooney movie Leatherheads is opening. It's loosely based on the life of Johnny Blood McNally. Former SI writer Rick Reilly and another SI guy cowrote it after originally doing research on him for a magazine story in the 80s. The movie looks extremely underwhelming, but who knows. In the new SI, the co-writer mentions St. John's when talking about him, although this story doesn't.

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080402/GPG04/804020589/1250/GPGlife

[Retired Old Rat]

My Swedish nurse shows up at 3:45 in this video.

[stanbob]

Best of luck today ROR.  Hope that you are back on the board soon, thoughts and prayers stay with you.

[OzJohnnie]

When I log in late at night, around 9pm, there are often 5 or 6 guests looking at the MIAC PP.  I would doubt they are in Oz or East Asia.  More likely India or the Mid-East.  Maybe early morning in Europe.

So, for all you guests that are having a read, I would just like to say thanks for stopping by and I encourage you to register and join in the conversation.  Particularly if you are all Johnnies.

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

I have seen Pat mention on other boards that there are some sort of "software trolls" that can "view" message boards and are trolling for email addresses and such.

[retagent]

That must be the source of all those "Male enhancement" spams I get. They must figure that if you are hanging out on this message board at that time, you need some help in getting your software to be more hardware.

[BDB]

That must be the source of all those "Male enhancement" spams I get. They must figure that if you are hanging out on this message board at that time, you need some help in getting your software to be more hardware.

I stopped getting those, but lately I've been hammered with Gucci watches and fancy footwear junk e-mails. 

[finsleft]

A child was told to write a book report on the entire Bible. This is amazing. I wonder how often we take for granted that children understand what we are teaching? Through the eyes of a child.....

Children's Bible in a Nutshell

In the beginning, which occurred near the start, there was nothing but God, darkness, and some gas. The Bible says, 'The Lord thy God is one', but I think He must be a lot older than that. Anyway, God said, 'Give me a light!' and someone did. Then God made the world.

He split the Adam and made Eve. Adam and Eve were naked, but they weren't embarrassed because mirrors hadn't been invented yet. Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating one bad apple, so they were driven from the Garden of Eden. Not sure what they were driven in though, because they didn't have cars.

Adam and Eve had a son, Cain, who hated his brother as long as he was Abel. Pretty soon all of the early people died off, except for Methuselah, who lived to be like a million or something.

One of the next important people was Noah, who was a good guy, but one of his kids was kind of a Ham. Noah built a large boat and put his family and some animals on it. He asked some other people to join him, but they said they would have to take a rain check.

After Noah came Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Jacob was more famous than his brother, Esau, because Esau sold Jacob his birthmark in exchange for some pot roast. Jacob had a son named Joseph who wore a really loud sports coat.

Another important Bible guy is Moses, whose real name was Charlton Heston. Moses led the Israel Lights out of  Egypt and away from the evil Pharaoh after God sent ten plagues on Pharaoh's people. These plagues included frogs, mice, lice, bowels, and no cable. God fed the Israel Lights every day with manicotti.

Then he gave them His Top Ten Commandments. These include don't lie, cheat, smoke, dance, or covet your neighbor's stuff. Oh, yeah, I just thought of one more: Humor thy father and thy mother.
One of Moses' best helpers was Joshua who was the first Bible guy to use spies. Joshua fought the battle of Geritol and the fence fell over on the town.

After Joshua came David. He got to be king by killing a giant with a slingshot. He had a son named Solomon who had about 300 wives and 500 porcupines. My teacher says he was wise, but that doesn't sound very wise to me.
After Solomon there were a bunch of major league prophets. One of these was Jonah, who was swallowed by a big whale and then barfed up on the shore.
There were also some minor league prophets, but I guess we don't have to worry about them.

After the Old Testament came the New Testament. Jesus is the star of the New Testament. He was born in  Bethlehem in a barn. (I wish I had been born in a barn, too, because my mom is always saying to me, 'Close the door! Were you born in a barn?' It would be nice to say yes.

During His life, Jesus had many arguments with sinners like the Pharisees and the Democrats. Jesus also had twelve opossums. The worst one was Judas Asparagus. Judas was so evil that they named a terrible vegetable after him.

Jesus was a great man.. He healed many leopards and even preached to some Germans on the Mount. But the Democrats and all those guys put Jesus on trial before Pontius the Pilot. Pilot didn't stick up for Jesus. He just washed his hands instead.

Anyways, Jesus died for our sins, then came back to life again. He went up to Heaven but will be back at the end of the Aluminum.
His return is foretold in the book of Revolution.

[BDB]

Hey JJR, here's a contest you need to get in on.

If I were Paris, I'd pick the gal above. 

http://parisbff.com/

[finsleft]

New sign at BDB's: