I actually went to that game with my son in law and 2 granddaughters. Not only was it my first hockey game to attend, but I had never even watched a full game on TV before. My granddaughters are ages 9 and 12 and they were very happy that the Stars won, but I don't think they understood the rules any better than I did.
I actually went to that game with my son in law and 2 granddaughters. Not only was it my first hockey game to attend, but I had never even watched a full game on TV before. My granddaughters are ages 9 and 12 and they were very happy that the Stars won, but I don't think they understood the rules any better than I did.
A fun and wholesome game fit for the entire family.
Really liked the Stars when they were led by American and Detroit native Mike Modano.
I actually went to that game with my son in law and 2 granddaughters. Not only was it my first hockey game to attend, but I had never even watched a full game on TV before. My granddaughters are ages 9 and 12 and they were very happy that the Stars won, but I don't think they understood the rules any better than I did.
A fun and wholesome game fit for the entire family.
Really liked the Stars when they were led by American and Detroit native Mike Modano.
Will be a good series with Edmonton. Canada’s last hope after the Leafs were mauled by the Panthers.
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Wow. A somewhat sober post, at 9:15AM. The 2:30AM stuff isn’t family rated.
Did you get a job?
Best, Ted
_________________________________________________________________________________ “Welcome to Arby’s drive through, this is is Lonesome, do you have any coupons?”
I actually went to that game with my son in law and 2 granddaughters. Not only was it my first hockey game to attend, but I had never even watched a full game on TV before. My granddaughters are ages 9 and 12 and they were very happy that the Stars won, but I don't think they understood the rules any better than I did.
A fun and wholesome game fit for the entire family.
Really liked the Stars when they were led by American and Detroit native Mike Modano.
Will be a good series with Edmonton. Canada’s last hope after the Leafs were mauled by the Panthers.
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The most frustrating thing to me was that the stadium announcer never gave us any information. There were constant stoppages in play that would lead to a face-off, but he never once told us the call. Considering how difficult it is to see the puck from as far away as we were, I thought he would announce the call and why they were having a face-off, but he never did. Is this normal, or was it unique to Dallas?
Does the average fan see well enough to know what was called without being told, or do they just not care? I would have enjoyed it more if I understood the call instead of just being blasted with loud music.
I have always appreciated how our announcers at Auburn football games play it absolutely straight with no gamesmanship no matter what happened. They simply announce what happened - "Chris Davis returns the missed field goal 109 yards for a touchdown. Final score, Auburn 34, Alabama 28."
Those guys that play hockey have gotta be incredibly tough. I'm gonna watch on TV Wednesday night and try to understand it better.
I actually went to that game with my son in law and 2 granddaughters. Not only was it my first hockey game to attend, but I had never even watched a full game on TV before. My granddaughters are ages 9 and 12 and they were very happy that the Stars won, but I don't think they understood the rules any better than I did.
A fun and wholesome game fit for the entire family.
Really liked the Stars when they were led by American and Detroit native Mike Modano.
Will be a good series with Edmonton. Canada’s last hope after the Leafs were mauled by the Panthers.
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The most frustrating thing to me was that the stadium announcer never gave us any information. There were constant stoppages in play that would lead to a face-off, but he never once told us the call. Considering how difficult it is to see the puck from as far away as we were, I thought he would announce the call and why they were having a face-off, but he never did. Is this normal, or was it unique to Dallas?
Does the average fan see well enough to know what was called without being told, or do they just not care? I would have enjoyed it more if I understood the call instead of just being blasted with loud music.
I have always appreciated how our announcers at Auburn football games play it absolutely straight with no gamesmanship no matter what happened. They simply announce what happened - "Chris Davis returns the missed field goal 109 yards for a touchdown. Final score, Auburn 34, Alabama 28."
Those guys that play hockey have gotta be incredibly tough. I'm gonna watch on TV Wednesday night and try to understand it better.
My family had season tickets to the Jets for many years and I've been watching hockey on TV since the late 1960s. I also used to play. I think what you didn't hear from the announcer at the game is pretty standard. Not saying it should be like that, just what it is. I have zero problem knowing where the puck is and how the play might unfold, but I've been watching for a long time. So it's rare, given the visual advantage of being in the stands, that I am surprised where the puck might go. I already know the most likely directions. About the only time I lose track of the puck is in a crowd scramble in front of the net. I know the puck is in there......just too many bodies to see exactly where. I also know most of the likely reasons why play gets stopped. Sometimes I miss it because it's a relatively new rule and I'm some old fart who likes it the way it used to be! Hahaha. There is an unwritten rule about hockey.....the longer play goes without a whistle, the better the game is to watch.
Most reasons for play stoppage that does not result in a penalty, most fans don't care about. They are usually very minor infractions and play stoppage tends to prevent that minor infraction from giving an advantage. Almost like a do-over. Although there are times, particularly in something like penalty killing, where the opportunity for play stoppage helps the short handed team by taking momentum away from the attacking team.
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The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
My wife thinks what I enjoy watching is worse, and to most folks it is. But, I can watch billiards being played by pros for hours, because I love to play myself.
My wife thinks what I enjoy watching is worse, and to most folks it is. But, I can watch billiards being played by pros for hours, because I love to play myself.
Much as I enjoy billiards (grew up with a table in my bedroom) I have not got to the point of being able to watch it on TV. I am not a weekend regular in front of the tv wacthing sports as so many are, but as you rightly point out, a competence in a sport vastly increases the likelihood of enjoying watching it.
I'll watch golf and tennis occasionally. Baseball never (never played but I did play cricket) although I like listening to it on the radio and used to have season tickets to the Blue Jays. Basketball.....never. I didn't play it. Football once in a while. Hockey during the playoffs. Alpine skiing I love to watch. Good slalom watersking I could watch for hours. I like watching the competence and knowledge of the sport allows me to appreciate that competence.
And while reruns of sporting events, where the outcome is known, seems pointless to me, I can watch the 1973 Preakness and the 1973 Belmont Stakes endlessly.
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The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
Four time nine-ball world champion Johnny Archer grew up and learned to shoot as a kid just a few miles down the road from me. I followed his career, as much as I could watching TV, until he retired from pro level competition. He now shoots local tournaments where I have had the opportunity to get to know him better, and try to learn from his techniques. Billiards has been a fascination for me ever since high school. In college I majored in agriculture and minored in snooker. Spent about as much time in Kendrick's Recreation Center, the local pool hall in Tifton, as I did in class at school.
I played golf in high school and college but lost interest in playing the game as an adult. It's a ritual for my wife and I to watch the closing round of The Masters Golf Tournament, here in Augusta, each April. The Augusta National, where it is held, has to be one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. It's like a paradise.
Four time nine-ball world champion Johnny Archer grew up and learned to shoot as a kid just a few miles down the road from me. I followed his career, as much as I could watching TV, until he retired from pro level competition. He now shoots local tournaments where I have had the opportunity to get to know him better, and try to learn from his techniques. Billiards has been a fascination for me ever since high school. In college I majored in agriculture and minored in snooker. Spent about as much time in Kendrick's Recreation Center, the local pool hall in Tifton, as I did in class at school.
I played golf in high school and college but lost interest in playing the game as an adult. It's a ritual for my wife and I to watch the closing round of The Masters Golf Tournament, here in Augusta, each April. The Augusta National, where it is held, has to be one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. It's like a paradise.
Cliff Thorburn, first and only non British World snooker champion used to play at the pool hall my friends and I played at during Uni days in the mid 1970s.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
I have a lot of respect for the game of snooker. It seems to me to be a game for gentlemen. I saw lots of money won and lost at the front snooker table at Kendrick's, but never a fight. The rack man pulled a knife out one time and put it to the throat of a mouthy shooter who had called him "Monkey Man" because his ears stuck out. But, there wasn't a fight. IMO, snooker is to billiards what FITASC is to clay target shooting.
James, for sheer entertainment find a video of some of the Mosconi Cup, which is held annually, alternating between America and England. It is the American team against the European team and consists of team and individual matches. The audiences are raucous, loud and very much into the competition. I want to go to the Mosconi Cup when it comes back to America in 2026. It was in Orlando last year but I couldn't go. It really looks like a lot of fun. Many fans don face paint and clothes that represent their favorite team's homeland.
James, for sheer entertainment find a video of some of the Mosconi Cup, which is held annually, alternating between America and England. It is the American team against the European team and consists of team and individual matches. The audiences are raucous, loud and very much into the competition. I want to go to the Mosconi Cup when it comes back to America in 2026. It was in Orlando last year but I couldn't go. It really looks like a lot of fun. Many fans don face paint and clothes that represent their favorite team's homeland.
That’s crazy! If there’s a flight to Mildenhall I’m going!
Not to interrupt your billy-ards thread but the Canes got rocked in Raleigh tonight.
_____________________________ Ted, you play the billy-ards?
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ I have seen a couple of alcohol fueled disagreements, where the billiard tools became weaponized, that were interesting.
I am somewhat disappointed though not surprised that supposed ultra-nationalist Canadian James “Canada Jim” canvasback has not updated this thread in my absence. The Stanley Cup finals begin Wednesday in Edmonton, Alberta where the Oilers will host the (Miami) Florida Panthers. Of course as an American-Canadian I am rooting for the the team from Florida, though as I said last January, if a Canadian team wins the Stanley Cup I will be happy it is Edmonton.
__________________________________________ Billy-ards table in your bedroom? ROTFLMAO
I am somewhat disappointed though not surprised that supposed ultra-nationalist Canadian James “Canada Jim” canvasback has not updated this thread in my absence. The Stanley Cup finals begin Wednesday in Edmonton, Alberta where the Oilers will host the (Miami) Florida Panthers. Of course as an American-Canadian I am rooting for the the team from Florida, though as I said last January, if a Canadian team wins the Stanley Cup I will be happy it is Edmonton.
__________________________________________ Billy-ards table in your bedroom? ROTFLMAO
Your absence inevitably brings its own je ne sais quoi that is far more rewarding than some stupid hockey game.
Best, Ted
_______________________________________________________________________________ About 90 here, today. Not thinking about hockey. If it was 30 I wouldn’t be, either.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________ There is an idiot claiming what ‘possums will and won’t eat. I’m not a phd, but, I had a trap line, and learned the list of stuff they won’t eat is really, really, short.
After reading that D-day thread I find it somewhat ironic that a German (Leon “Drai” Draisaitl) just saved Canada’s bacon (which we all know is just ham) with a fluke goal in OT last night.
How come you didn’t post a link to that beautiful course in Detroit?
Did they find another corpse on it?
Best, Ted ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ A bad day hunting beats a good day working, but, a good day golfing is the same as a bad day golfing.
I missed King being around. I don’t think he knew or cared much about hockey but at least he liked to banter about it. Mainly his Nova Scotia boys Sid “The Kid” Crosby, Nathan “Big Mac” MacKinnon and Brad “The Rat” Marchand, who had a monster post season.
________________________________________________________________________________________ When David Priess said “People were too stupid to understand the letter”, he was talking about you.
I would prefer a Putin-free USA: the very opposite of what Amerikanistan has become today, under Putin's orange poodle.
I would suggest any German is in no position to be critical of the US, given that the US has handed you your standard of living for the last 80 years. You're upset now because Trump is insisting you now shoulder the burden of your own defense. Pitiful!
I guess you bought the Clinton - Steele dossier hook line and sinker. You guys do have a knack for unified thinking that marches you off a cliff.
Maybe just STFU and say thank you to the Americans for the last 80 years. Given German behavior in starting and waging WWII, the Allies would have been justified in letting you wallow in the rubble.
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The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
I would prefer a Putin-free USA: the very opposite of what Amerikanistan has become today, under Putin's orange poodle.
I would suggest any German is in no position to be critical of the US, given that the US has handed you your standard of living for the last 80 years. You're upset now because Trump is insisting you now shoulder the burden of your own defense. Pitiful!
I guess you bought the Clinton - Steele dossier hook line and sinker. You guys do have a knack for unified thinking that marches you off a cliff.
Maybe just STFU and say thank you to the Americans for the last 80 years. Given German behavior in starting and waging WWII, the Allies would have been justified in letting you wallow in the rubble.
Wow, James. Thank you very much.
Gave me such a nice case of the swells that I could forgive the notion that Justin Trudeau was elected up there.
Best, Ted
____________________________________________________________________________ On second thought, fook that…What the hell were you guys thinking?
Ted, some of us called it. The Western half of the country knew what a little poseur prick he was.
He was elected, as was our current idiot, Mark Carney, by the free shit army along with public employees and comfortable, mostly retired boomers.
And if you think you don’t like him, imagine how so many of us up here feel. I would hardly think it fair to characterize Americans as though you all voted for Biden, Clinton and Obama, even though a great many did.
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The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
_____________________________ Was curious as to what this thread would morph into.
It’s got a solid foundation of golf, hockey and poutine.
Best, Ted
____________________________________________________________________________________ The corpse on the golf course thing is a bit unsettling, I’ll give you that….
_____________________________ Was curious as to what this thread would morph into.
It’s got a solid foundation…hockey...
Well, the draft, free agency and expansion is coming up so I can probably keep it going for a couple more weeks. Supposedly Atlanta is going to be given another shot. I personally don’t think the citizens of that state have the intelligence or sophistication to understand the game but if there’s a billionaire down there that wants to give it a whirl, best of luck to him. It’ll probably be the best shot for Canada to get another team when they relocate to Quebec City X years later.
_____________________________ Was curious as to what this thread would morph into.
It’s got a solid foundation…hockey...
Well, the draft, free agency and expansion is coming up so I can probably keep it going for a couple more weeks. Supposedly Atlanta is going to be given another shot. I personally don’t think the citizens of that state have the intelligence or sophistication to understand the game but if there’s a billionaire down there that wants to give it a whirl, best of luck to him. It’ll probably be the best shot for Canada to get another team when they relocate to Quebec City X years later.
_____________________________ Was curious as to what this thread would morph into.
It’s got a solid foundation…hockey...
Well, the draft, free agency and expansion is coming up so I can probably keep it going for a couple more weeks. Supposedly Atlanta is going to be given another shot. I personally don’t think the citizens of that state have the intelligence or sophistication to understand the game but if there’s a billionaire down there that wants to give it a whirl, best of luck to him. It’ll probably be the best shot for Canada to get another team when they relocate to Quebec City X years later.
Another reason to hate the Leafs. In the world’s most fanatical hockey market, where the Leafs sell out every game with season tickets, for over 50 years now, they constantly veto a team locating in Hamilton, Kitchener or London.
Any of those three locations would do far better than any other city in Canada.
Ontario and Quebec, 25 million people. 3 teams.
Alberta 4.5 million 2 teams.
Manitoba 1.4 million. 1 team.
NS is barely 1 million. There’s not enough money in Halifax or in Quebec City. The Jets stay afloat because the silent backer is in the $50 billion plus club.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
Not a new sport. Hockey is good training for dealing with the people that need to FAFO. Note the good hold Tarnasky had on his shirt. On ice that's to deal with equal and opposite forces because you are on skates. On land, that is to pull the idiot's head into the punch.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
That time of year again. I’m sure you’re as excited as I am to get the season started. McDavid not signed. All the other upcoming UFA’s not signed, waiting for him to set the ceiling. Wings could use a LW1 on a line with Larks and Rayzer. Kyle Connor would be a good fit.
I hope the organization of the FREEDOM! party is going well.
_____________________________________ Stan, I’ve taken you off the line with Ted and Jim. I put the Audi driving Orange Man from Alpena on it instead. 🇺🇸🇨🇦
Dastardly Canadiens roll into Dee-troy-it Thursday.
_______________________________ Ted, James, Orange Man (forwards) Stan, Argo (defense) Make sure your insurance is up to date. If the Doublegun bbs tournament ever takes place you’re going to need it.
I’d kinda been hoping this thread had died the sad death it deserves.
Gotta say one thing for old LR. He sure knows how to beat a horse to death.
You could, of course, simply skip over it and ignore it.
Might have to mix in a bit of politics to pique his interest. Trump and Carney seemed to be getting along pretty good at the White House.
_______________________________ Besides being an expert on Canadian coyotes, James is also leader of the Canadian FREEDOM! Party. Hopefully we see him debating in parliament one day.
_________________________________________________________________________________ Rapid City, maybe, Lonny. But I’m worried the Vikings might relocate there.
Curiosity will out. Trying to connect these heart-warming tales, Canadian politics, ice hockey, African poverty to double guns is an interesting mind ju-jitsu trick. The link will reveal itself, no doubt; we just have to cogitate in an imaginative wonderland a bit more. MKULTRA comes to mind.
(Unless you are just pretending to be hoi palloi). re Ted-quote Argon44 from the locked 16 bore thread.
The guy is a teamster working for communists and drives an Oldsmobile. Either he’s super dedicated or the CIA has him on the really good stuff.
Originally Posted by Argo44
MKULTRA comes to mind.
I have to admit. I check that O’Reilly thread every now and again to see if you finally cracked. Babbling on and on for the past 10 years about O’Reilly shootsguns and serial numbers extant.
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(Unless you are just pretending to be hoi palloi). re Ted-quote Argon44 from the locked 16 bore thread.
The guy is a teamster working for communists and drives an Oldsmobile. Either he’s super dedicated or the CIA has him on the really good stuff.
Originally Posted by Argo44
MKULTRA comes to mind.
I have to admit. I check that O’Reilly thread every now and again to see if you finally cracked. Babbling on and on for the past 10 years about O’Reilly shootsguns and serial numbers extant.
_______________________________________ With the gales of November remembered …
Eh, douch, Not a Teamster. The Olds is put away.
You know, people who live in glass houses….
Best, Ted
__________________________________________________________________ ……really ought to give up on the notion that they are Gretzky’s love child.
Little Canada Jim (English) Le Petite Jacques du Canada (French) Wee Jimmy comes from away (Newfish)
Because really, all Canadians should speak all three official languages.
Wee Jimmy, how ‘bout those Jets? Luckily eked out a point last night against the Mammoth or they’d be tied for last in the league. What a difference a year makes wha?
Little Canada Jim (English) Le Petite Jacques du Canada (French) Wee Jimmy comes from away (Newfish)
Because really, all Canadians should speak all three official languages.
Wee Jimmy, how ‘bout those Jets? Luckily eked out a point last night against the Mammoth or they’d be tied for last in the league. What a difference a year makes wha?
_____________________________ Got a place picked out in Rapid City yet, Ted?
Waiting to see if Mississippi comes through and drops their state income tax. You know, Minnesota Governor Walz seems to have misplaced about $10 billion around these parts.
Waiting to see if Mississippi comes through and drops their state income tax. You know, Minnesota Governor Walz seems to have misplaced about $10 billion around these parts.
Bloody shame Minnesota is such a corrupt, high tax shytehole. It would be a nice place other than that. Waaay better than Jawja for sure. Miss’sippi? Good luck. I’d move to Columbia first.
______________________________________ In case Wee Jimmy missed it.
Waiting to see if Mississippi comes through and drops their state income tax. You know, Minnesota Governor Walz seems to have misplaced about $10 billion around these parts.
Bloody shame Minnesota is such a corrupt, high tax shytehole. It would be a nice place other than that. Waaay better than Jawja for sure. Miss’sippi? Good luck. I’d move to Columbia first.
______________________________________ In case Wee Jimmy missed it.
I think you mean Colombia.
Best, Ted
________________________________________________________________________ You’d be dead about 30 minutes after you left the airport.
You’d be dead about 30 minutes after you left the airport.
Ted,
You’re the kind of guy that would go to a five star hotel and stick your head in the toilet and claim that it sucked. Maybe you and JR can go to a Solzhenitsyn slam in Jackson after you move there.
______________________________________ Here for the hockey.
You’d be dead about 30 minutes after you left the airport.
Ted,
You’re the kind of guy that would go to a five star hotel and stick your head in the toilet and claim that it sucked. Maybe you and JR can go to a Solzhenitsyn slam in Jackson after you move there.
______________________________________ Here for the hockey.
You know, Rhodes, the scroll on the bottom of the screen on the TV broadcast, in Colombia, letting you know who had been kidnapped, who had been released, and who was dead, was more compelling to me, when I was there, then anything I ever read by Solzhenitsyn.
24-7.
On second thought, I think you should go. Take your mind right off hockey.
Meant to ask, is this you?
Best, Ted
______________________________________________________________________________ When they find your corpse, that Canadian passport you thought would save you will be stuck up your bung.
Wow, that's quite a video Ted. What a F'ing pussy. I hope the girlfriend dumped him immediately. I don't want to go unarmed into a knife fight but I'm sure not hiding while my girlfriend does.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
Wow, that's quite a video Ted. What a F'ing pussy. I hope the girlfriend dumped him immediately. I don't want to go unarmed into a knife fight but I'm sure not hiding while my girlfriend does.
It was the guys wife.
Best, Ted
___________________________________________________________________________ Safe bet she wears the pants AND drives the Honda Cub in that family.
Why would I talk about a team that is playing like shit. Why wouldn’t I talk about a team that essentially led the league start to finish last year.
I’m sure you understand the difference.
I don’t talk to you much now because you often behave like a dick. I have better things to do. Maybe you get your jollies baiting people. IDK. I have a good time talking with people like Stan and Ted. They don’t start the convo with bait. You want talk? Change your tack.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
Why would I talk about a team that is playing like shit. Why wouldn’t I talk about a team that essentially led the league start to finish last year.
I’m sure you understand the difference.
I don’t talk to you much now because you often behave like a dick. I have better things to do. Maybe you get your jollies baiting people. IDK. I have a good time talking with people like Stan and Ted. They don’t start the convo with bait. You want talk? Change your tack.
Why would I talk about a team that is playing like shit.
I don’t know, hometown team? Just a summer soldier I guess.
Originally Posted by canvasback
I don’t talk to you much now because you often behave like a dick.
Still sore about the ribbing I gave you about your political speech? That was some of the dumbest shyte I’ve ever read. I would have given you a pass but you had to end it with - AND FREEDOM! lolz
Originally Posted by canvasback
I have a good time talking with people like Stan and Ted.
Bruh.
______________________________ As I said previously, you still have the Canadiens. ps - you still politickin’?
Why would I talk about a team that is playing like shit.
I don’t know, hometown team? Just a summer soldier I guess.
Originally Posted by canvasback
I don’t talk to you much now because you often behave like a dick.
Still sore about the ribbing I gave you about your political speech? That was some of the dumbest shyte I’ve ever read. I would have given you a pass but you had to end it with - AND FREEDOM! lolz
Originally Posted by canvasback
I have a good time talking with people like Stan and Ted.
Bruh.
______________________________ As I said previously, you still have the Canadiens. ps - you still politickin’?
Don’t flatter yourself. Given the way you post here I could care less about some supposed ribbing. Simply a troll here. Never posting anything about guns. You behave like an a$$hole consistently here so I can only assume you are an a$$hole in the rest of your life.
So I’ve made the mistake of wasting a couple min on you today. But every once in a while it probably helps for you to hear the truth.
Now I’ll go back to ignoring you.
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The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
If there was a hockey game last night, he might not see this for a day or two.
Bravo, James.
Best, Ted
_____________________________________________________________________________ Either that, or, he got up early to go red squirrel hunting with the prof.
I wish you would give us some updates on your political career.
FREEDOM!
_______________________________ Saturday matinee, Ted. Pens handed the winged wheelers a stinging defeat.
Sounds like you were the one sitting on their butt.
Fuel is out of the car and the bike, net total of 6 gallons for the snow blower. Two cups of oil in the FJ tank, batteries out, and on the maintainer, done in the shop for now. Pheasant and grouse season are closed here. But, no sitting around on my butt.
Figured you eat enough crow right here, prof. Remember when you said Trump would never, ever, win again?
Big one right there. Hell, he won three times looking at the votes counts from Georgia. Funny how when you look at the evidence, instead saying there isn’t any, the big picture changes, not that you would notice.
Suppose I could hunt tomorrow, since I got my work done, and they left the season open across the weekend after the 1st, bless their hearts.
Never done it before. They probably figured you needed the extra time.
I got a freezer full of ditch parrots.
You got a freezer full of crows, I’m guessing.
Best, Ted
____________________________________________________________________________________ Crows and Red Squirrels.
Fuel is out of the car and the bike, net total of 6 gallons for the snow blower. Two cups of oil in the FJ tank, batteries out, and on the maintainer, done in the shop for now.
Those are some mad skilz there, Ted. Hooking up a battery to a maintainer and filling a snow blower with gas. Hoo boy! I think you could have worked your way up to chief donut and coffee getter at Bubba McCaullif’s demolition derby down in Jackson Miss’ssippi if you hadn’t hit the shop right out of high school. Gotta be better than whatever the heck you’re doing now.
Originally Posted by Ted Schefelbein
Who does the winter store for you on the Cub?
I ride that thing all winter. We’re quite a bit tougher here in The Motor.
_______________________________________ You should feel right at home in Miss’ssippi, Ted.
Mad skills happened when I restored them, motor city boy. I did all the mechanical, bodywork, paint, interior, vinyl top, and electrical on both. No need to bore you with updates and modifications you can’t grasp, like disc brakes on the Olds, and relays on the big draw electrics on the bike, I’m sure. You might want to look into some studded tires for the Cub, stud.
Best, Ted
______________________________________________________________________ Ever built a motor? Ah, never mind.
Mad skills happened when I restored them, motor city boy. I did all the mechanical, bodywork, paint, interior, vinyl top, and electrical on both. No need to bore you with updates and modifications you can’t grasp, like disc brakes on the Olds, and relays on the big draw electrics on the bike, I’m sure.
lol. And here you are wasting your time working for communists. Ever occur to you to open your own shop? No guts?
Originally Posted by Ted Schefelbein
Ever built a motor?
Not since high school.
____________________________ How’d you land on Miss’ssippi of all places?
Mad skills happened when I restored them, motor city boy. I did all the mechanical, bodywork, paint, interior, vinyl top, and electrical on both. No need to bore you with updates and modifications you can’t grasp, like disc brakes on the Olds, and relays on the big draw electrics on the bike, I’m sure.
lol. And here you are wasting your time working for communists. Ever occur to you to open your own shop? No guts?
It did occur to me. It also occurred to me that I’d have to deal with the general public. Look in the mirror, home fries. You know anybody who wants to deal with you?
Originally Posted by Ted Schefelbein
Ever built a motor?
Not since high school.
Got my start there, too. But, they wouldn’t let me tear into a big block Olds.
____________________________ How’d you land on Miss’ssippi of all places?
Haven’t landed anywhere.
But, for sure, Detroit was never in the running.
Best, Ted
_________________________________________________________________ Isn’t it ‘aboot time for you to be on a snowmobile in Ontario?
Guns, motorcycles, hockey, Colombia…..a little bit of everything for everyone.
James, pause it at 0:01. lol, gotta love the Winnipeg Sun.
To be fair…the Jets have won two straight and crawled out of the basement. That honor belongs to the Canucks now.
____________________________________ Wings and Hurricanes play for first in the east tomorrow night. 91 goes up in the rafters. ps-That was quite the beat down in Quebec last night.
_________________________________________________________________ If they do, I won’t. Goes double for you, Rhodes.
It's the tariff on voting for liberals Ted. Should be a cautionary tale for Americans.
How's Minnesota doing these days. You have a habit of pot calling kettle black on these kinds of topics. Seems like your state would fit right into Canada, except you are a little more violent than us. LOL Sure like those Lefties and Muslim migrants though. Yep, you'd be right at home up here.
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The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
I wasn’t born here. Not ‘gonna die here, either. That’s the plan, ‘anyhoo. Minnesota is better than Canada in only one way, and that is there are more roads leading out of the place to states where actual American normies live. I also think you have something backwards. Canada, would fit right in Minnesota, if the truth be known. Carney’s got nothing on Walz, how do you lose $19 billion in less than a biennium, on a governor’s salary? Kamala truly had to find somebody dumber than her, and it is the only assignment she ever got a passing grade on.
At the time, mid 1960s, Dad knew he had to get off the East coast, the stench of unfettered liberalism drove him out of New Jersey and Maryland. Fast forward to about the year 2000, and he realized, too late, he should have gone farther west.
Terrible pinch by Makar (Alberta). Wish King was alive to see Werenski (Detroit, Mich) body MacKinnon (Nova Scotia) off the puck and feed J Hughes (Orlando, Fla) for the Golden Goal. Connor “Stonewall” Hellebuyck (Detroit, Mich) 40 save effort to be named best goalie in the Olympics.
edit: I forgot McDavid (ONTARIO!) Front row seat for the festivities.
I watched them win last time they won gold. 1980. In the US. Jackson Hole. That was kinda fun.
Well done.
That’s awesome! I think. Maybe.
Didn’t watch it.
Best, Ted
______________________________________________________________ Didn’t watch in 1980, either.
Being in the room, actually a ski lodge lounge, in America, filled with Americans, while their team pulled off the impossible against the Soviets.....well watching a sporting event on tv can hardly get better than that.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
I watched them win last time they won gold. 1980. In the US. Jackson Hole. That was kinda fun.
Well done.
That’s awesome! I think. Maybe.
Didn’t watch it.
Best, Ted
______________________________________________________________ Didn’t watch in 1980, either.
Being in the room, actually a ski lodge lounge, in America, filled with Americans, while their team pulled off the impossible against the Soviets.....well watching a sporting event on tv can hardly get better than that.
Not the Miracle on Ice but still pretty satisfying watching that French monster ragdoll Canadian Tom Wilson.
I watched them win last time they won gold. 1980. In the US. Jackson Hole. That was kinda fun.
Well done.
That’s awesome! I think. Maybe.
Didn’t watch it.
Best, Ted
______________________________________________________________ Didn’t watch in 1980, either.
Being in the room, actually a ski lodge lounge, in America, filled with Americans, while their team pulled off the impossible against the Soviets.....well watching a sporting event on tv can hardly get better than that.
Not the Miracle on Ice but still pretty satisfying watching that French monster ragdoll Canadian Tom Wilson.
I wonder how many of those elbows uppers wish they were in Arizona or Florida right now.
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______________________________ Try Colombia next time canooks. Heck, even Winnipeg is probably looking pretty good right now.
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Score is zero to zero with no winning, the same Gomers yelling back and forth past each other with no impact on each other, but consistently driving away other potential customers for Dave.
I was out smoking (Newminster 400+Cornell & Diehl Dark Burley 50/50 mix in a Ser Jacopo bent brandy) and was thinking James was just being dramatic. I searched “is Canada a failed state” on YouTube and was shocked what came up. Ya, Wee Jimmy is fooked.
Maybe Ted can adopt you…
“Immigrating to the USA legally usually requires a sponsor (family member or employer) to file a petition, followed by a visa application, interview, and, if approved, obtaining a Green Card for permanent residency. Primary pathways include family-based, employment-based, the Diversity Visa Lottery, or refugee status.”
________________________________________ On the bright side, the Jets beat Vancouver in OT last night.
“This is the dynamic the economist Albert Hirschman warned about: That loyalty is what turns frustration into voice—the impulse to fix what is broken rather than flee. Today, exit is cheap and reversible. When taxes rise or services disappoint, the response is no longer to press for reform but to move.”
Sorry, Rhoads, I already got my immigrant. One is enough:
“Give us your best, your educated, your brightest, your hottest”……
Something like that. I don’t remember. Statue of Liberty speak.
I do remember the pasty skinned maggot of a government perfunctory, with a bad comb over, telling me she was my problem at her immigration hearing, and there would be no assistance, medical or otherwise, and even if she ran off with the local Tren de Aragua branch, I was responsible for demonstrating she had health insurance, a roof over her head, and three squares a day, and if she got so much as a parking ticket to expect her to be deported.
She took to American life like a baby duck to water. The notion of going out and actually hunting what you are going to eat is ‘kinda weird to her (city girl) but, she plays along:
‘Gotta love a girl with a 16 gauge double on her arm.
Best, Ted
___________________________________________________________________________ You know, Alberta isn’t all that happy with the notion of Canada. James might be just fine, there.
__________________________________ Besides, Alberta doesn’t have a hockey club that will make it to the Stanley Cup either. What a tire fire in Toronto, eh Jimmy.
__________________________________ Besides, Alberta doesn’t have a hockey club that will make it to the Stanley Cup either. What a tire fire in Toronto, eh Jimmy.
Alberta literally doesn’t have to do anything, besides quit communicating and cooperating with Ottawa. The Nation is built. An aircraft carrier parked off the coast wouldn’t help much (as if) and, besides, most of Ottawa’s Jeeps won’t start until spring, anyway.
If then.
Best, Ted
_______________________________________________________________________________ Once curling season begins, they’ll forget what they were arguing ‘aboot.
Now, if James were open to seeking refuge here, I’d be up for that.
Best, Ted
_________________________________________________________________________ But, it ends with him. Next thing you know there’d be a petition going around to build a Tim Horton’s.
Now, if James were open to seeking refuge here, I’d be up for that.
Best, Ted
_________________________________________________________________________ But, it ends with him. Next thing you know there’d be a petition going around to build a Tim Horton’s.
I was in the UP near Marquette this past weekend and saw more than a couple Tim’s on my way through Michigan. Didn’t stop as I was too full from the pasties! 🤣
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
“The Denver Fly Fishing show on the other hand chose to move to the Gaylord Center near DIA. Parking there is $15/day ($33 overnight) and hotel rooms start at around $400.”
Just sleep in your truck at the Walmart parking lot.
“The Denver Fly Fishing show on the other hand chose to move to the Gaylord Center near DIA. Parking there is $15/day ($33 overnight) and hotel rooms start at around $400.”
Just sleep in your truck at the Walmart parking lot.
You know, Lonny, my opinion of Europe as a whole was that the gang tag was actually quite primitive compared to what could be seen right here in the good old US of A. Been there, done that, I guess. No plans to return.
July 8th, by the way. I expect that I’ll be picking up a shift or three a month until they find someone with a Journeyman level skill set. They understand it will be on my terms. I’m OK with that, for a bit.
Best, Ted
____________________________________________________________________________________ Beats the hell ‘outa going to Europe. Or, Detroit.
July 8th, by the way. I expect that I’ll be picking up a shift or three a month until they find someone with a Journeyman level skill set.
You work for communists don’t you? What do you care if they find a replacement?
Originally Posted by Ted Schefelbein
Or, Detroit.
Bruh, you live in Minneapolis.
How’s the relocation search going? Have your spot in Mississippi picked out yet?
James must be out on the stump. No time for hockey I guess.
________________________________________ (Raleigh, North) Carolina Hurricanes in 6.
I work in an institutional commercial printing operation, that has pretty good customer service. We have to sell a percentage of print every month to the outside world, and keep them just as happy as our inside customers. If there are communists in the operation, I haven’t met them. We aren’t on campus, so the tattooed, screaming, pink haired ladies with bolts in their faces aren’t a feature of work.
There are many places we are looking at that look better then here (or, Detroit). I’ll let you know.
Best, Ted
____________________________________________________________ Jonesboro, AR for example.
July 8th, by the way. I expect that I’ll be picking up a shift or three a month until they find someone with a Journeyman level skill set.
You work for communists don’t you? What do you care if they find a replacement?
Originally Posted by Ted Schefelbein
Or, Detroit.
Bruh, you live in Minneapolis.
How’s the relocation search going? Have your spot in Mississippi picked out yet?
James must be out on the stump. No time for hockey I guess.
________________________________________ (Raleigh, North) Carolina Hurricanes in 6.
I work in an institutional commercial printing operation, that has pretty good customer service. We have to sell a percentage of print every month to the outside world, and keep them just as happy as our inside customers. If there are communists in the operation, I haven’t met them. We aren’t on campus, so the tattooed, screaming, pink haired ladies with bolts in their faces aren’t a feature of work.
There are many places we are looking at that look better then here (or, Detroit). I’ll let you know.
Best, Ted
____________________________________________________________ Jonesboro, AR for example.
I'm wondering what's wrong with spending Easter Sunday at a hockey game?
If there was one on Christmas I’d go to that one too.
‘Canes got smoked by the dastardly Quebecers.
Originally Posted by Ted Schefelbein
You post in a drunken stupor at 2:30AM…
Beats dragging your arse to that shyte union job at 6:00am. Stanley Cup watch party in Sarnia, Ontario, CA. There’s still a few old school Canadians in James’s failed freeloading state.
_______________________________________ ONTARIO! It’s bigger than Texas! Canada Jim
7:00AM-2:00PM at the U, home fries. 1/2 hour paid lunch, so, 6 1/2 hours. I’m top dog, so, I usually leave the OT for my coworkers. The only reason I can still throw 40” paper into a Heidelberg 82 at age 64 is that short, sweet, shift.
Now, that gig you had at UPS, I could understand how that sucked.
Best, Ted
_________________________________________________________________________________ I spend Easter Sunday with a trip to church, and preparing a big meal for family and friends. There isn’t a sports event that can compare. In my world, anyway.
Doesn’t surprise me. Watched a video on that printer. Looks like a shyte job. The shop planning on upgrading to the Speedmaster XL 106 anytime soon? Before you pack up the ink pad maybe have the shop bid on the job for James’s campaign flyers. Though he could probably just go to Kinkos and bang them out in a half hour himself.
James, how’s the campaign going? Did you see that Marner goal against the Ducks? That outlet from Wild Bill…
Doesn’t surprise me. Watched a video on that printer. Looks like a shyte job. The shop planning on upgrading to the Speedmaster XL 106 anytime soon? Before you pack up the ink pad maybe have the shop bid on the job for James’s campaign flyers. Though he could probably just go to Kinkos and bang them out in a half hour himself.
James, how’s the campaign going? Did you see that Marner goal against the Ducks? That outlet from Wild Bill…
_______________________________________
You’ve confused printing equipment with bindery equipment. The printing equipment the U owns is 100% digital. Process work is farmed out and returned unfinished to be completed in the bindery.
Forgive me, I’d keep going but, detailing more for you would be ‘aboot like trying to teach the cat astrophysics.
Best, Ted
____________________________________________________________________ Admitting you bought an RBL probably set that stage.
7:00AM-2:00PM at the U, home fries. 1/2 hour paid lunch, so, 6 1/2 hours. I’m top dog, so, I usually leave the OT for my coworkers. The only reason I can still throw 40” paper into a Heidelberg 82 at age 64 is that short, sweet, shift.
We never made our guys throw the paper in...we had auto-feeders...but our presses were much bigger than that one.
That’s great. Good to hear. What’s the lad going to major in?
__________________________________ Still couldn’t hack boot camp though.
They told him to feel free to come back, when his blood work returned to normal. But, it was left up to him. His doctor knows better than to keep kids on Acutane in the 6 months proceeding boot camp now, so, that is a plus.
He fell in with the electricians. He was pretty unsure of what changes were coming to the computer/electrical engineering fields. Starts soon as an apprentice.
The Union will take care of his training.
‘Gotta believe that last line will swell your heart. Or, your ulcers.
Best, Ted
____________________________________________________________________ You know, fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through retirement, either.
They told him to feel free to come back, when his blood work returned to normal.
Must have some messed up blood. Should have been caught at MEPS? Maybe things have changed, but you could stay in that med platoon for as long as was necessary as I remember.
Originally Posted by Ted Schefelbein
He fell in with the electricians. He was pretty unsure of what changes were coming to the computer/electrical engineering fields. Starts soon as an apprentice.
Couldn’t get an internship at a computer/electrical engineering firm? Keep on top of things while attending school. Lord knows we need skilled tradesmen though. Know a couple chaps making bank building data centers out west.
Originally Posted by Ted Schefelbein
You know, fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through retirement, either.
Well, you’re fooked.
_____________________________________ Avalanche 1 Knights 0 in 2nd.
The people at MEPS told him to expect a visit with a Navy Doc soon after arriving. Turns out it was four Navy Docs, that took 6 or 7 vials of blood. His condition was more severe than typical, calcium was leaching from major bones into his blood, causing loss of bone mass. He should have been off the medication months before he went.
You are correct, recruits can stay in the rehabilitation platoon as long as necessary. A kid with the same condition was there 13 months, with, no improvement in his blood work. That kid broke his shoulder in basic, due to the problem not being caught.
They told him every case was different, and he wouldn’t be going back to a platoon until he was ready. On the basis of that, he elected to give it a couple of months. He volunteered for shit detail every day, and cleaned parking lots all over San Diego county. Got several good sunburns (it was July). It was his call, and after being there for two months, he decided to come home. He felt like he was spinning his wheels. The Corps said no harm, no foul, we’ll take you back, no question, when your blood work returns to normal. He hasn’t decided if he wants to go back, and at the last check that wasn’t a possibility anyway.
We have several friends in software engineering, computer science, and computer engineering who are between jobs as I type. One, since last Thanksgiving. The boy looked around, and decided being an electrician seemed like a safe bet.
Take it for what it is. He has handled it well, in my opinion.
Best, Ted
__________________________________________________________ See you at 2:30 AM.
Raleigh, NC has a **crime rate of 33 per one thousand residents**, making it one of the higher crime areas in the U.S. Your chance of becoming a victim of a violent crime in Raleigh is approximately **1 in 207**.
I got that right here, dude.
A bloke from Detroit might feel right at home, I suppose.
Best Ted
________________________________________________________ Any good double gun shops? I’m ’sorta a tire kicker these days, but, I still like to look.
_____________________________ Don’t really like any of the teams in the conference finals. Was pulling for Buffalo. Guess I’ll go with Vegas. See Marner get a ring and the Conn Smythe and watch the Torontonians lose their minds.
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