Baseball is for pussies. Now hockey — that’s a man‘s sport…!
66 Replies to “In which I attempt to curry favor with Canadians by carefully caressing their cultural sensibilities, 4”
Dude! Curling…
Hockey is a man’s sport , but football is the game .
Who are you Jeff and where are you?
Careful now, baseball is a gentlemen’s game. Suits our British heritage well, very close to the grand ole game of cricket. Nothing wrong with spending a lazy day in late July playing baseball, when one would surely die from exhaustion even trying to play road hockey.
Go Jays Go!!!
I’m a yank (and damn proud of it too),
but I agree, baseball is the most boring ‘sport’. I’ll watch poker or golf on TV before I’ll watch fat guys who don’t shave and spit alot stand around a field in their PJ’s for hours on end.
baseball is an event designed for statisticians.
And as for it being a gentlemens game; please spare me.
At least cricket has style; The dapper cloths, the crisp white shirts, and the cute terms like “wicket”. And the British announcers rock.
And yes, hockey is a brutal sport. I salute any who play it; they’re made of sterner stuff than I.
My favourite curry is that green stuff that comes in a can from Thailand.
And I know my neighbour would count it a favour if his other neighbour would cook less curry…
Your attempt to curry ‘favor’ might go over better if you didn’t spell it like a Yank. Shouldn’t this blog have the British Commonwealth Spellerator plugin?
You judge:
Bobby Baun scores a Stanley Cup final winning goal, in overtime, with a broken leg.
George Brett is unable to play in a World Series game because of his hemorrhoids.
On a related note hockey fans, check this out: http://www.zoomcom.ca/beerleague
Curling is the Game. CBC did their best to destroy the curling broadcast on tv this past spring.
Now they are helping the Govt to destroy Canada.
BOO on them.
Hmmmm… That’s the way I’ve always spelled “favor”, much easier and consumes less space… 😉
It’s kind of like the “color” thing… why waste good letters that you can throw around later.
The reason Americans spell “favor”, “harbor”, “labor”, (etc.) and pronounce the last letter of the alphabet as “zee” rather than “zed” is due to the tireless efforts of Noah Webster, the dictionary guy. He believed that Americans should adopt a language dialect distinctly our own, and forego the Commonwealth’s psychological apron-strings. So, if you have a Webster’s Dictionary up there, you’re either a rebel or a traitor. Someone from Ottawa may soon show up.
LOL … I’ve been a traitor all my life as we’ve always used Webster. No wonder i can’t spell, the damn Canadian system is confusing me…
B.C. ferry misses dock, hits marina instead
CTV.ca News Staff
A B.C. ferry smashed into between 15 to 20 pleasure boats as it ran aground at a marina while docking at Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver.
nealenews.com
Agenda: 01 July, 2005. Red Alert: Challenger I & II on stand-by. Fill pockets of dockers with cash.
Visit Dosanjh Ussal; take precautions first. Visit lions at zoo; watch football; hockey is for Tories. Overfly Alberta. Mrs. Martin stays home, for sure this time. o, take water bottles, filled with my pure, sparkling CSL bilge. Mrs. Martin decides to come. Sh.t.
About the only game that comes close to hockey in terms of speed, teamwork and finesse is basketball. And that was invented by a Canadian.
“Someone from Ottawa may soon show up.”
Word has it “someone” in DC might be ‘showing up’ for all those new red blooded draft eligible cannon fodder for Iraq…real soon.
How do you spell relief?
A pox on all your houses.
Lacross, the little brother of war!!
Go to a game of box lacross and never want to see those ice dancing NHL sissies again.
BTW July 1 the double blue will be in big red’s house.
Go Stamps!!
Wrong, mth. George Brett did NOT miss a game during the 80 World Series. He played in all six games of the series batting .375 despite the notorious case of hemorrhoids.
Don’t anyone let Kenny Rogers read this blog.
I skydive, mountainbike, play hockey, football, and all that but I’ll be damned if I play lacross. That’s a psycho’s sport. Have you seen the damage those nutters do to each other? It’s worse than Auzzie Rules Rugby.
It’s Canadian though.
You know you come from great country when Hockey is your SECOND toughest sport…
Come on Warwick, grab a stick and give it a go. You will eventualy quit bleeding. I gave my 10 year old son a Lacross stick so we can have some fun together after the mountain biking, chucking around the foot ball, kicking around the soccer ball, and the other fun stuff.
I am hoping the bruises heal up before any one notices. 😉
I get hurt enough. My knees and left ancle are still healing from a horribly bad landing when I flew a too-small parachute 7 weeks ago. Last year I fell off a ladder bridge into a shallow, rock-lined river on my mountainbike. I didn’t get out of the clips so I still had the bike attached to me when I fell. That ended biking for the summer… I don’t know what I’ll do to myself next year.
If I played lacross I’m sure I’d end up in intensive care.
What’s hockey?
(I’ve heard of it. The Jordan Formula 1 cars have “Bring Back Hockey” on them. If only someone would explain to to me.)
Shaken: stop making me laugh. I curry everything. Try Pataks HOT.
OK TimR, George Brett only missed part of a World Series game because of his ‘roids. A game which I might add the Royals went on to lose and go down 2-0 in the series.
So does that makes him only mostly a pussy instead of totla pussy?
greenmamba – What’s hockey?
Stick, hard rubber, and try and sail that sucker through your opponent… 😉
Hockey’s not a game, more of an organized riot…
Oh, yah.
If you are so smart: Who was called the “Barber”?
Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb?
Who’s on first? No; who’s on second?
What is Homer’s favourite position?
Who threw the winning pass at ’48 Grey (or is it Gray) Cup game when Calgary invaded Hogtown? (This explains TO’s aversion to Alberta.) (Aversion means : strong hatred; dislike; jealousy; envy….)
Where are Gordie Howe’s elbows on display?
What is Don Cherry’s opinion re everything?
Lastly, will there be a season this fall? or election first? (Sniff)Please Wayne G., get some dollars & cents into them guys, willya, huh…
BTW, Nortel is moving HQ to Orttawar. Sell now.
Where’s Kate, and why are you such an ignorant American? And why do you hate Canadians? And where’s Kate?
Attlla Girl,
“ignorant American?” – your the only one that thinks so, you don’t like the thought process being challenged?
“And why do you hate Canadians?” He dosen’t, but some Canadian launched an attack on him on his first post the last go around.
“where’s Kate?” Uh … read the posts, prior to this one for clues.
You had me at Anne Murray…;) LOL Jeff, you crack me up!!
WLM Redux…thanks for the 43 man Squamish reference…I laughed straight out…and you motivated me to search my ’78 thru ’85 Mad collection looking for the article…I of course found it in a “Super Special” edition.
BTW are you the WLM from Free Dominion?
baseball sucks till the stanley cup(sic) is over and hockey sucks till the world series is finished.
11,900 km bicycle race!!! Nah… to much work. In fact thinking about all that work is makin me thirsty … time for a beer…
Girl watching is the most dangerous sport.
Jealous boyfriends and husbands must be avoided.
But what the hey looking can’t hurt anyone,right?
_Hockey_ may well be Canadian, but is _NHL_ hockey Canadian? It seems it is one of those many things that are marketed to us complaisant Canucks as being Truly Canadian with the implication that we are less than real Canadians if we don’t partake. I would put Tim Horton’s, ‘Roots’ clothing, Joe’s Molson Canadian beer in the same category, and I am sure there are others. If we want myths (and it seems we do) why do we allow advertising firms to make them for us?
“11,900 km bicycle race!!! Nah…” speaking of hemorrhoids.
Girl Watching is definately the most dangerous sport! I have the permanently bruised dent in my right side to prove it. The ringing ear drum is a good hint too. Yet, I remain proudly incorrigible.
Hockey, where fully grown adult males tie blades on their feet and chase a frozen chunk of rubber around on a sheet of ice. Sounds kinda foolish when you describe it that way, doesnt it?
Jeff, why not make it easy on everyone, and just ask them!
What flavor curry DO Canadians like?
I am here to tell you that the toughest, most vicious game in the world is women’s field hockey.
All the more so when:
1. it’s played by teams from private girls’ schools; and
2. you’re a male umpire.
Ouch!
Jeff, you slut, you’ve recycled (the concept if not the concept). Shame. Stand on your own two feet already.
(btw, “shame” when used in the House of Commons is considered a major slur, since profanity is banned. Just so you know)
damn, I hate it when that happens. Here I give you sh*t and all and screw up with a typo.
“the concept if not the concept” should have read “the concept if not the content”
time for bed. gnite.
Hey, Jeff in WA,
Ottawa doesn’t care about the Webster’s dictionary … HECK … we have a whole political party hell-bent on separation. Does this not spell traitorous? … please check your dictionary Jeff :-))
The way I see it … in 1776, anybody that came north to Canada has helped create the current mess we’re in. “Taxation without representation IS tyranny!!!” Everyday, in this country, my tax dollars are wasted and the governing body seeks new ways to spend more of my hard earned money. Yes, taxation without representation is tyranny … Canadian Revolution, anyone??? Do you think I could start my own political party and receive national recognition like the Bloc … the Revolution Party of Canada … after all, doesn’t anything go in Canada now?
Yo Candace! Concept, schmoncept. I was just lapsing into hyperbole (again). My dear wife doesn’t mind me appreciating feminine pulchritude, but sometimes wryly looks askance at me with that “woman look” if I make any verbal comments about what I’ve witnessed. Living here in a university town, I’m always in trouble, and male enough to never care about the lesson.
…and Hershey! I was attempting some sardonic humor (vis touchy Canadian nationalism, later confirmed by the fellow from Smithers) with my dictionary comment. Joe Moleson and others up there may be PO’d about how we Gringos use the lexicon, but “them’s the breaks”. I was letting folks know about why we took that particular turn.
With regard to “no taxation without representation” it must be remembered that the George III – Lord North government (with its stupidly managed actions, reactions & inactions)is still primarily known for its arrogance, not its brains. You needn’t be running around in the 18th Century to rise up against fools.
PS: The knucklehead in Smithers ain’t gonna help.
Yes, Jeff … I did catch your ‘humor’ :-)))
BTW … I think Noah did had it right.
“What flavor curry DO Canadians like?” -MikeC
Silly boy, Maple syrup of course!
If you love hockey so much, why don’t you play in the NHL* yourself, you chickenhock!
*Oh, that’s right. Never mind.
dear Jeff in Pullman,
We couldn’t care less about ‘your’ lexicon, most people up here that I know and read use the same one and have for decades…
As to foolishness; there is nothing MORE foolish (or hopelessly misguided) than the self imagined imperialist/arrogance mindset…whether ‘running around’ in 18th century England or 21st century USA.
HAve a nice day.
Dude! Curling…
Hockey is a man’s sport , but football is the game .
Who are you Jeff and where are you?
Careful now, baseball is a gentlemen’s game. Suits our British heritage well, very close to the grand ole game of cricket. Nothing wrong with spending a lazy day in late July playing baseball, when one would surely die from exhaustion even trying to play road hockey.
Go Jays Go!!!
I’m a yank (and damn proud of it too),
but I agree, baseball is the most boring ‘sport’. I’ll watch poker or golf on TV before I’ll watch fat guys who don’t shave and spit alot stand around a field in their PJ’s for hours on end.
baseball is an event designed for statisticians.
And as for it being a gentlemens game; please spare me.
At least cricket has style; The dapper cloths, the crisp white shirts, and the cute terms like “wicket”. And the British announcers rock.
And yes, hockey is a brutal sport. I salute any who play it; they’re made of sterner stuff than I.
My favourite curry is that green stuff that comes in a can from Thailand.
And I know my neighbour would count it a favour if his other neighbour would cook less curry…
Your attempt to curry ‘favor’ might go over better if you didn’t spell it like a Yank. Shouldn’t this blog have the British Commonwealth Spellerator plugin?
You judge:
Bobby Baun scores a Stanley Cup final winning goal, in overtime, with a broken leg.
George Brett is unable to play in a World Series game because of his hemorrhoids.
On a related note hockey fans, check this out:
http://www.zoomcom.ca/beerleague
Curling is the Game. CBC did their best to destroy the curling broadcast on tv this past spring.
Now they are helping the Govt to destroy Canada.
BOO on them.
Hmmmm… That’s the way I’ve always spelled “favor”, much easier and consumes less space… 😉
It’s kind of like the “color” thing… why waste good letters that you can throw around later.
The reason Americans spell “favor”, “harbor”, “labor”, (etc.) and pronounce the last letter of the alphabet as “zee” rather than “zed” is due to the tireless efforts of Noah Webster, the dictionary guy. He believed that Americans should adopt a language dialect distinctly our own, and forego the Commonwealth’s psychological apron-strings. So, if you have a Webster’s Dictionary up there, you’re either a rebel or a traitor. Someone from Ottawa may soon show up.
LOL … I’ve been a traitor all my life as we’ve always used Webster. No wonder i can’t spell, the damn Canadian system is confusing me…
B.C. ferry misses dock, hits marina instead
CTV.ca News Staff
A B.C. ferry smashed into between 15 to 20 pleasure boats as it ran aground at a marina while docking at Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver.
nealenews.com
Agenda: 01 July, 2005. Red Alert: Challenger I & II on stand-by. Fill pockets of dockers with cash.
Visit Dosanjh Ussal; take precautions first. Visit lions at zoo; watch football; hockey is for Tories. Overfly Alberta. Mrs. Martin stays home, for sure this time. o, take water bottles, filled with my pure, sparkling CSL bilge. Mrs. Martin decides to come. Sh.t.
About the only game that comes close to hockey in terms of speed, teamwork and finesse is basketball. And that was invented by a Canadian.
“Someone from Ottawa may soon show up.”
Word has it “someone” in DC might be ‘showing up’ for all those new red blooded draft eligible cannon fodder for Iraq…real soon.
How do you spell relief?
A pox on all your houses.
Lacross, the little brother of war!!
Go to a game of box lacross and never want to see those ice dancing NHL sissies again.
BTW July 1 the double blue will be in big red’s house.
Go Stamps!!
Wrong, mth. George Brett did NOT miss a game during the 80 World Series. He played in all six games of the series batting .375 despite the notorious case of hemorrhoids.
Don’t anyone let Kenny Rogers read this blog.
I skydive, mountainbike, play hockey, football, and all that but I’ll be damned if I play lacross. That’s a psycho’s sport. Have you seen the damage those nutters do to each other? It’s worse than Auzzie Rules Rugby.
It’s Canadian though.
You know you come from great country when Hockey is your SECOND toughest sport…
Come on Warwick, grab a stick and give it a go. You will eventualy quit bleeding. I gave my 10 year old son a Lacross stick so we can have some fun together after the mountain biking, chucking around the foot ball, kicking around the soccer ball, and the other fun stuff.
I am hoping the bruises heal up before any one notices. 😉
I get hurt enough. My knees and left ancle are still healing from a horribly bad landing when I flew a too-small parachute 7 weeks ago. Last year I fell off a ladder bridge into a shallow, rock-lined river on my mountainbike. I didn’t get out of the clips so I still had the bike attached to me when I fell. That ended biking for the summer… I don’t know what I’ll do to myself next year.
If I played lacross I’m sure I’d end up in intensive care.
Hockey is for wet nursed pussies….no Canuk alive could stand a 100 game season of 43 man Squamish
http://www.collectmad.com/madcoversite/index-quiz_olympics.html
What’s hockey?
(I’ve heard of it. The Jordan Formula 1 cars have “Bring Back Hockey” on them. If only someone would explain to to me.)
Shaken: stop making me laugh. I curry everything. Try Pataks HOT.
OK TimR, George Brett only missed part of a World Series game because of his ‘roids. A game which I might add the Royals went on to lose and go down 2-0 in the series.
So does that makes him only mostly a pussy instead of totla pussy?
greenmamba – What’s hockey?
Stick, hard rubber, and try and sail that sucker through your opponent… 😉
Hockey’s not a game, more of an organized riot…
Oh, yah.
If you are so smart: Who was called the “Barber”?
Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb?
Who’s on first? No; who’s on second?
What is Homer’s favourite position?
Who threw the winning pass at ’48 Grey (or is it Gray) Cup game when Calgary invaded Hogtown? (This explains TO’s aversion to Alberta.) (Aversion means : strong hatred; dislike; jealousy; envy….)
Where are Gordie Howe’s elbows on display?
What is Don Cherry’s opinion re everything?
Lastly, will there be a season this fall? or election first? (Sniff)Please Wayne G., get some dollars & cents into them guys, willya, huh…
BTW, Nortel is moving HQ to Orttawar. Sell now.
Where’s Kate, and why are you such an ignorant American? And why do you hate Canadians? And where’s Kate?
Attlla Girl,
“ignorant American?” – your the only one that thinks so, you don’t like the thought process being challenged?
“And why do you hate Canadians?” He dosen’t, but some Canadian launched an attack on him on his first post the last go around.
“where’s Kate?” Uh … read the posts, prior to this one for clues.
You had me at Anne Murray…;) LOL Jeff, you crack me up!!
WLM Redux…thanks for the 43 man Squamish reference…I laughed straight out…and you motivated me to search my ’78 thru ’85 Mad collection looking for the article…I of course found it in a “Super Special” edition.
BTW are you the WLM from Free Dominion?
baseball sucks till the stanley cup(sic) is over and hockey sucks till the world series is finished.
Ok, it’s not Canadian and it’s not a game but an 11,900 km bicycle race has to count for something…
http://www.tourdafrique.com/indextour.htm
11,900 km bicycle race!!! Nah… to much work. In fact thinking about all that work is makin me thirsty … time for a beer…
Girl watching is the most dangerous sport.
Jealous boyfriends and husbands must be avoided.
But what the hey looking can’t hurt anyone,right?
_Hockey_ may well be Canadian, but is _NHL_ hockey Canadian? It seems it is one of those many things that are marketed to us complaisant Canucks as being Truly Canadian with the implication that we are less than real Canadians if we don’t partake. I would put Tim Horton’s, ‘Roots’ clothing, Joe’s Molson Canadian beer in the same category, and I am sure there are others. If we want myths (and it seems we do) why do we allow advertising firms to make them for us?
“11,900 km bicycle race!!! Nah…” speaking of hemorrhoids.
Girl Watching is definately the most dangerous sport! I have the permanently bruised dent in my right side to prove it. The ringing ear drum is a good hint too. Yet, I remain proudly incorrigible.
Hockey, where fully grown adult males tie blades on their feet and chase a frozen chunk of rubber around on a sheet of ice. Sounds kinda foolish when you describe it that way, doesnt it?
Jeff, why not make it easy on everyone, and just ask them!
What flavor curry DO Canadians like?
I am here to tell you that the toughest, most vicious game in the world is women’s field hockey.
All the more so when:
1. it’s played by teams from private girls’ schools; and
2. you’re a male umpire.
Ouch!
Jeff, you slut, you’ve recycled (the concept if not the concept). Shame. Stand on your own two feet already.
(btw, “shame” when used in the House of Commons is considered a major slur, since profanity is banned. Just so you know)
damn, I hate it when that happens. Here I give you sh*t and all and screw up with a typo.
“the concept if not the concept” should have read “the concept if not the content”
time for bed. gnite.
Hey, Jeff in WA,
Ottawa doesn’t care about the Webster’s dictionary … HECK … we have a whole political party hell-bent on separation. Does this not spell traitorous? … please check your dictionary Jeff :-))
The way I see it … in 1776, anybody that came north to Canada has helped create the current mess we’re in. “Taxation without representation IS tyranny!!!” Everyday, in this country, my tax dollars are wasted and the governing body seeks new ways to spend more of my hard earned money. Yes, taxation without representation is tyranny … Canadian Revolution, anyone??? Do you think I could start my own political party and receive national recognition like the Bloc … the Revolution Party of Canada … after all, doesn’t anything go in Canada now?
Yo Candace! Concept, schmoncept. I was just lapsing into hyperbole (again). My dear wife doesn’t mind me appreciating feminine pulchritude, but sometimes wryly looks askance at me with that “woman look” if I make any verbal comments about what I’ve witnessed. Living here in a university town, I’m always in trouble, and male enough to never care about the lesson.
…and Hershey! I was attempting some sardonic humor (vis touchy Canadian nationalism, later confirmed by the fellow from Smithers) with my dictionary comment. Joe Moleson and others up there may be PO’d about how we Gringos use the lexicon, but “them’s the breaks”. I was letting folks know about why we took that particular turn.
With regard to “no taxation without representation” it must be remembered that the George III – Lord North government (with its stupidly managed actions, reactions & inactions)is still primarily known for its arrogance, not its brains. You needn’t be running around in the 18th Century to rise up against fools.
PS: The knucklehead in Smithers ain’t gonna help.
Yes, Jeff … I did catch your ‘humor’ :-)))
BTW … I think Noah did had it right.
“What flavor curry DO Canadians like?” -MikeC
Silly boy, Maple syrup of course!
If you love hockey so much, why don’t you play in the NHL* yourself, you chickenhock!
*Oh, that’s right. Never mind.
dear Jeff in Pullman,
We couldn’t care less about ‘your’ lexicon, most people up here that I know and read use the same one and have for decades…
As to foolishness; there is nothing MORE foolish (or hopelessly misguided) than the self imagined imperialist/arrogance mindset…whether ‘running around’ in 18th century England or 21st century USA.
HAve a nice day.