Where the Kids Come to Mouth Off - Page 217

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 10-07-2004, 01:30 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I didn't know Cheney had a dog. Hell, I didn't even know he was a hockey fan.

I think we should submit Don Cherry to www.menwholooklikekennyrogers.com

Anne Elk · 10-07-2004, 01:31 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
No kidding. I'm going to have to start adding to my hockey dvd collection which currently consists only of this:

What? No Slapshot?

Anne
Very chuffed about the Red Sox. For now, after all they are the Red Sox.

Anne Elk · 10-07-2004, 01:37 PM

1. The Yankees radio guys are horrible.

2. Chris Berman is horrible. The punny catch phrases may good hooks for Sports Center, but don't cut it elsewhere.

3. It's not until I go elsewhere (DC and NYC this week) that I realize how white Boston is.

4. Other than gwinky, no one I've talked to is missing hockey.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy · 10-07-2004, 01:40 PM

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Originally posted by Anne Elk

4. Other than gwinky, no one I've talked to is missing hockey.

You are hereby banned from the Canada board. And prohibited from drinking any Canadian beer.

greatwhitenorthchick · 10-07-2004, 01:40 PM

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Originally posted by Anne Elk
What? No Slapshot?

No Slapshot, no Mystery Alaska, no Mighty Ducks, no short of the Hockey Sweater, no Wayne's World, no Clerks (I'm trying to think of another movie in which they play hockey, no Miracle etc. I've always relied on the regular season + playoffs + ESPN classic to get me through. I think this will change soon.

but not the Mighty Ducks.

ThurgreedMarshall · 10-07-2004, 01:56 PM

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Originally posted by Anne Elk
2. Chris Berman is horrible. The punny catch phrases may good hooks for Sports Center, but don't cut it elsewhere.

I'm done with Berman too. Whenever he calls a game, a slightly above average play by a second baseman with no runners on sounds something like this: "HOT Shot hit to The-Nile-ain't-just-a-river-in-Cairo? who makes an unBELIEVABLE play, ranging to his right and JUST gets the runner at first! I can't believe what I just saw!" Overly excited for no reason. I can't even stand him on Sportscenter anymore. These guys need to understand that we watch for the game or the highlights. Sure you can add here or there, but you're not the draw.

TM

robustpuppy · 10-07-2004, 01:56 PM

Poll:

For how many days could you tolerate the drone of a jackhammer outside your office window before you lost your mind?

ThurgreedMarshall · 10-07-2004, 01:57 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Poll:

For how many days could you tolerate the drone of a jackhammer outside your office window before you lost your mind?

Ask paigow.

TM

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 10-07-2004, 01:59 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I'm done with Berman too. Whenever he calls a game, a slightly above average play by a second baseman with no runners on sounds something like this: "HOT Shot hit to The-Nile-ain't-just-a-river-in-Cairo? who makes an unBELIEVABLE play, ranging to his right and JUST gets the runner at first! I can't believe what I just saw!" Overly excited for no reason. I can't even stand him on Sportscenter anymore. These guys need to understand that we watch for the game or the highlights. Sure you can add here or there, but you're not the draw.

TM

2.

Down with Boo-yah. Down with Berman.

Does ANYONE like these guys?

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy · 10-07-2004, 01:59 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Poll:

For how many days could you tolerate the drone of a jackhammer outside your office window before you lost your mind?

You have my permission to go home.

Or, if this is happening at home, you have my permission to go to work.

greatwhitenorthchick · 10-07-2004, 02:07 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? Down with Berman.

I used to like him about 3 years ago. The trouble is with most of the Sportscenter people is that either they are smug and bland or they have a schtick that hasn't changed in years and was thin to begin with so just got annoying. I guess I like Dan Patrick, although I don't see him much these days.

Anne Elk · 10-07-2004, 02:10 PM

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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
You are hereby banned from the Canada board. And prohibited from drinking any Canadian beer.

Fine. Be that way. I was only making an observation based on a small unscientific survey of my own. I haven't heard anything in the media about the lock out or what steps (if any) are being taken to resolve it. I did read that many NHLers are playing for small change in various European leagues.

Anne
Not sulking over pints of Guinness

Bad_Rich_Chic · 10-07-2004, 02:14 PM

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Originally posted by taxwonk
It's pretty addictive. There are always interesting plot twists. Unfortunately, you just caught the season finale. The only problem is that the plastic surgery stuff is wayyyy too graphic and truly disgusting.

I'm rather addicted, too. I was extremely amused by the "Famke Janssen is a man" thing. Could only have been funnier if the actress had been Jamie Lee Curtis.

And it was the first time in a long time I'd seen Alec Baldwin doing something that didn't annoy the pants off of me (or at least didn't annoy me more than it amused me).

Question for anyone else who watched it, though -

spoiler So, she just leaves her dead son on the living room floor and goes off to Paris? Did that make anyone else wonder how long extradition would take, or would the French refuse a la Ira Einhorn for the sheer joy of being contrarywise?

BR(wearing sexy boots today)C

Replaced_Texan · 10-07-2004, 02:15 PM

Do ya'll go to galas or other fundraising parties for charities/not-for-profits? If so, how many a year? How do you choose which ones you go to? Is the event more important than the cause? Do you expect to have fun at them or do you just go with the expectation that you're there to support the cause and any ancillary fun is just gravy? Do you ever go to galas with the expectation that they're going to be a hell of a lot of fun?

Answering my own poll: I probably go to a half-dozen or more a year. A majority of the ones I go to support the arts in some way. Most of the rest support some sort of health care (either a disease or an institution). Most I choose because I like the organization or I like the people associated with the organization. Some I go to as a sort of quid pro quo. I invite someone to an event for an organization that I'm very interested in/involved in, and I'll get an invitation a month or so later with a personal note from that person hoping that I can make it. Usually, I expect to have fun at the events that I go to because I know that I'll run into at the bare minimum a dozen or so people that I know. It's a fairly tight scene. The ones I don't expect to have fun at are the more stuffy, blue blood events. I try hard not to end up at these events, though through work, I sometimes have to. There are three fundraisers where I expect the fun to be as good as any other party that I'd go to, and I wouldn't miss them for the world. One in particular from last year, I have no very clear memory of (and neither does anyone else) but the photographs will keep me out of political office for a long time.

R(roped into another planning committee)T

ThurgreedMarshall · 10-07-2004, 02:28 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I used to like him about 3 years ago. The trouble is with most of the Sportscenter people is that either they are smug and bland or they have a schtick that hasn't changed in years and was thin to begin with so just got annoying. I guess I like Dan Patrick, although I don't see him much these days.

I don't get it. Guys like Patrick, Eisen (granted he comes off as smug on those commercials and in interviews...but he's one of the best on Sportscenter) and Ley are so good that they need them to build other parts of their programming. After CNNSI and FoxSports proved they can't compete with Sportscenter, the network put it on what they think is cruise control, with lesser talents like Cohn and Scott. Wait. I guess I do get it.

Also, and I'm using this word a lot today, the guys running ESPN do not recognize Stuart Scott for the fraud that he is. His catch-phrases are old and stale and when he tries to be street, it rings about as true as Hank's "sex-rap." The producers are just out of touch. My gf thinks he's offensive and wrote a letter to ESPN about the "Oh my gudness," "He made his kin-folk, Pookie, Ray-Ray, so proud," "Oh poppy, I did not know you could do it like that," crap.

TM