FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[retagent]

I think what Boudreau was trying to say was that the hit itself did not cause the injury as it did in, say, the Richards/Booth, or the Cooke/Savard hit. C'mon bennie, the guy's not a wordsmith, he's a coach.

I know you can't really take the fact that the "push" into the boards was reckless, but it was where the push was delivered, and not the hit itself. Again, and I know I'm beating a dead horse here, since no one seems to care, but Boyle's slue foot on Semin in the Olympics was a much "dirtier" play. At least give me that. Also, after Laich scored his second goal last night, Brian Allen jumped on top of him and at least twice slammed Laich's head toward the ice. The red light had gone on, the whistle had blown, the play could not be affected at that point. Which is the "dirtier" hit, one in the flow of play that turned out tragically wrong, or something like that after the play has stopped?

[BDB]

...and he prefers Burger King to McDonald's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulwy7E0S7a8&feature=related

Ha!  Of all the Hitler vids I have seen, that is the best.  It even surpasses the original 'Hitler hates the Flyers' video.

The nonsensical subtlety of this is classic.  Particularly impressive is that the theme is maintained for 3 1/2 minutes across multiple scenes.  Too good.

Wormy Lickspittle #1: Steiner, you need to go back to town.

Steiner: Ey up chaps.  Oh for f**** sake, what does he want?  I just got back.  I've got me fags, light bulbs and pens, so I'm sorted.

Wormy Lickspittle #2: Look, he wants Burger King, and he's in a bit of a rant about it.  [Classic blank stare on Steiner's face]  If you want to tell him that he should be happy with Eva Braun's crappy scones, you tell him.

Whew. Sometimes I think I'm the only one with the weird sense of humor. 

Additional nonsensical sublety:

Wormy Lickspittle #3 "Of course an alternative could be MacDonalds.(sp) Their Happy Meals are most varied, and I believe they also contain a toy. There's a good chance the toy might be a tank."

[OzJohnnie]

...and he prefers Burger King to McDonald's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulwy7E0S7a8&feature=related

Ha!  Of all the Hitler vids I have seen, that is the best.  It even surpasses the original 'Hitler hates the Flyers' video.

The nonsensical subtlety of this is classic.  Particularly impressive is that the theme is maintained for 3 1/2 minutes across multiple scenes.  Too good.

Wormy Lickspittle #1: Steiner, you need to go back to town.

Steiner: Ey up chaps.  Oh for f**** sake, what does he want?  I just got back.  I've got me fags, light bulbs and pens, so I'm sorted.

Wormy Lickspittle #2: Look, he wants Burger King, and he's in a bit of a rant about it.  [Classic blank stare on Steiner's face]  If you want to tell him that he should be happy with Eva Braun's crappy scones, you tell him.

Whew. Sometimes I think I'm the only one with the weird sense of humor. 

Additional nonsensical sublety:

Wormy Lickspittle #3 "Of course an alternative could be MacDonalds.(sp) Their Happy Meals are most varied, and I believe they also contain a toy. There's a good chance the toy might be a tank."

Of course, the worse part is that this thing was almost certainly created by a Pommy git (read Barmy wanker (read read, Englishman)).  I guess even a stopped clock is right twice a day and even a Brit can have some clever humor.

[retagent]

Hey Oz. I see the Packers picked up an ex Aussie footballer to shore up their punting game. Can't remember his name right now. Have you heard about it?

[OzJohnnie]

Hey Oz. I see the Packers picked up an ex Aussie footballer to shore up their punting game. Can't remember his name right now. Have you heard about it?

No, I hadn't heard but here's an article on it from yesterday.  Chris Bryan.  He played a few games for different teams over the last five seasons, but only one game for the Collingwood Magpies last year and was cut.  He must have a big boot.  Shame he'll have to sign his contract with an 'X', but it is Green Bay so they'll be used to that.

[tmerton]

Hey Oz. I see the Packers picked up an ex Aussie footballer to shore up their punting game. Can't remember his name right now. Have you heard about it?

No, I hadn't heard but here's an article on it from yesterday.  Chris Bryan.  He played a few games for different teams over the last five seasons, but only one game for the Collingwood Magpies last year and was cut.  He must have a big boot.  Shame he'll have to sign his contract with an 'X', but it is Green Bay so they'll be used to that.

So long as he wears his ARF uniform for team pictures, I'm fine with it. 


Heh.

[tmerton]

Just received this from my brother; maybe Oz can, uh, translate ...

AUSTRALIAN LETTER OF THE YEAR!  This [edit - allegedly] is an actual letter sent to the DFAT (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) Immigration Minister.  The Rudd Government reportedly tried to censure the author, but got nowhere because every legal person who read it nearly wet themselves laughing!


Dear Mr. Minister,

I'm in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe this.

How is it that K-Mart has my address and telephone number, and knows that I bought a television set and golf clubs from them back in 1997, and yet the Federal Government is still asking me where I was born and on what date?

For Christ sakes, do you guys do this by hand?

My birth date you have in my Medicare information, and it is on all the income tax forms I've filed for the past 40 years. It is also on my driver's licence, on the last eight passports I've ever had, on all those stupid customs declaration forms I've had to fill out before being allowed off the planes over the last 30 years, and all those insufferable census forms that I've filled out every 5 years since 1966.

Also... would somebody please take note, once and for all, that my mother's name is Audrey, my father's name is Jack, and I'd be absolutely f*cking astounded if that ever changed between now and when I drop dead!!!...

****!

I apologise, Mr. Minister.  But I'm really pissed off this morning. Between you and me, I've had enough of all this bull****!

You send the application to my house, then you ask me for my f*cking address!! What the hell is going on with your mob? Have you got a gang of mindless Neanderthal arseholes working there!

And another thing, look at my damn picture.. Do I look like Bin Laden? I can't even grow a beard for God's sakes. I just want to go to New Zealand and see my new granddaughter.  (Yes, my son interbred with a Kiwi girl). And would someone please tell  me, why would you give a **** whether I plan on visiting a farm in the next 15 days? If I ever got the urge to do something weird to a sheep or a horse, believe you me, I'd sure as hell not want to tell anyone!

Well, I have to go now, 'cause I have to go to the other end of the city, and get another f*cking copy of my birth certificate, and to part with another $80 for the privilege of accessing MY OWN INFORMATION!

Would it be so complicated to have all the services in the same spot, to assist in the issuance of a new passport on the same day??  Nooooo.. that 'd be too f*cking easy and makes far too much sense. You would much prefer to have us running all over the place like chickens with our f*cking heads cut off, and then having to find some high-society wanker to confirm that it's really me in the goddamn photo! You know the photo.. the one where we' re not allowed to smile?! ....you f*cking morons

Signed - An Irate Australian Citizen.

P.S. Remember what I said above about the picture, and getting someone in high-society to confirm that it's me? Well, my family has been in this country since before 1850! In 1856, one of my forefathers took up arms with Peter Lalor. (You do remember the Eureka Stockade!!)  I have also served in both the CMF and regular Army for something over 30 years (I went to Vietnam in 1967), and still have high security clearances.  I'm also a personal friend of the president of the RSL. and Lt General Peter Cosgrove sends me a Christmas card each year.

However, your rules require that I have to get someone "important" to verify who I am; You know... someone like my doctor - WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN F*CKING PAKISTAN!!!...... a country where they either assassinate or hang their ex-Prime Ministers, and are suspended from the Commonwealth for not having the "right sort of government" .

You are all F*cking idiots!

[janesvilleflash]

Wouldln't be funny if most of it weren't true.

[BDB]

Separated at birth?



Jihad Jamie and Eric Stoltz as Rocky Dennis

[retagent]

Nathan out for the season, Mauer signed for 8 years. Is that the classic "Good News - Bad News" situation?

[tmerton]

Scary license plate -




I might try to pass her - but I sure wouldn't honk my horn.


I wonder if bennie knows her ...  

[retagent]

What makes you think that it's not bennie's plate?

[OzJohnnie]

Just a reminder: Tommies suck....


You know you're a Tommie supporter when:

1. A Halloween pumpkin has more teeth than your wife does.
2. You let your twelve-year-old daughter smoke at the dinner table in front of her kids.
3. You've been married three times and still have the same in-laws.
4. Jack Daniel's makes your list of 'most admired people.'
5. You wonder how service stations keep their restrooms so clean.
6. Someone in your family once died right after saying: 'Hey, watch this.'
7. You think Dom Perignon is a Mafia leader.
8. A ceiling fan once ruined your wife's hairdo.
9. You lit a match in the bathroom and your house exploded, right off its wheels.
10. The market value of your car goes up and down, depending on how much gasoline is in it.
11. You have to go outside to get something from the fridge.
12. One of your kids was born on a pool table.
13. You can't get married to your sweetheart because there's a law against it.
14. You think 'loaded dishwasher' means your wife is drunk.
15. Your toilet paper has page numbers on it.

***

Three women with football-fan husbands are discussing their relationships.  The first says, "My husband follows the Johnnies and let me tell you our sex life is like one championship after another."

The second says, "My husband is a Royals man and every night is like the back-to-back-to-back victories of 2006-08."

They then look at their friend, who hasn't yet said a thing.  "What's wrong," they say as their friend starts sobbing.

"Well," she says hesitantly, "my husband supports the Tommies, and all he does is sit on the end of the bed and tell me how wonderful it's going to be."

[D O.C.]

Wanna wish everyone near the rivers good luck. Now would be a good time to take up stand up paddle boarding.

[DuffMan]

Wanna wish everyone near the rivers good luck. Now would be a good time to take up stand up paddle boarding.

On that topic, I should share these photos I took.  The city of St. Paul closed all accesses to the river on 3/17/2010.  Both photos are taken from about the same vantage point.

I hit the river on 3/14/2010 and took this photo of the landing before leaving (click to embiggen):


I went back to the same landing on 3/21/2010 and took this photo (click to embiggen):