Monday, December 05, 2005
Thirty Degrees and The Hockey Game's On......
Great weekend! Hope everybody else had one as well. In a rare moment of success, over 50% of my chosen teams won this weekend, with the Longhorns, Suns, and Coyotes being the victors, while the Cowboys and Broncos both got whupped. Of course, when weighted appropriately, I still sucked because the NFL is a lot more important to me. I could really give a flying cow cookie about hockey, but I keep an eye on things because the game is important to Bo and Joe E, the soon to be proud parents of our second grand-parakeet. It's like a family responsibility now. But the game itself completely escapes me. It looks like high speed soccer to me, except the players get to carry blades and big sticks. Wait a minute.....that actually sounds kinda cool put that way. Maybe I need some kind of "hockey immersion class" so I can better appreciate the game.
I got no point of reference or background, since I grew up in New Mexico. Hockey there is what birds drop on your car if you park under an elm tree. Hell, I'd be happy if I could just see the puck once in a while. Maybe if they used a bigger one, like a dinner plate, and a big-ass soccer net instead of that itty-bitty thing they have now, the scores would be more fun, like 24-20. They could give the goalie a bigger stick, or maybe a sheet of plywood, to help him out. That said, why don't NHL teams just hire Sumo wrestlers to be their goalies? Those dudes could gear up, sit in front of the net, and drink beer for three periods. You couldn't slide a a sheet of paper into the goal, much less a puck.
On another subject, I just saw on the news that some Al-Qaeda bigshot got blown to smithereens by a missile. According to the report, the missile was fired from one of those drone planes, and struck a "safe house" where this guy was holed up.
Safe house?
Isn't that a bit of a misnomer? I mean, how freakin' safe can it be if the guy got blasted to smithereens? And just what the hell is a smithereen, anyway? Is there a singular form of the word? If you found the guy's toe, would that be a smithereen?
Never mind, I gotta get back to work.........
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I got no point of reference or background, since I grew up in New Mexico. Hockey there is what birds drop on your car if you park under an elm tree. Hell, I'd be happy if I could just see the puck once in a while. Maybe if they used a bigger one, like a dinner plate, and a big-ass soccer net instead of that itty-bitty thing they have now, the scores would be more fun, like 24-20. They could give the goalie a bigger stick, or maybe a sheet of plywood, to help him out. That said, why don't NHL teams just hire Sumo wrestlers to be their goalies? Those dudes could gear up, sit in front of the net, and drink beer for three periods. You couldn't slide a a sheet of paper into the goal, much less a puck.
On another subject, I just saw on the news that some Al-Qaeda bigshot got blown to smithereens by a missile. According to the report, the missile was fired from one of those drone planes, and struck a "safe house" where this guy was holed up.
Safe house?
Isn't that a bit of a misnomer? I mean, how freakin' safe can it be if the guy got blasted to smithereens? And just what the hell is a smithereen, anyway? Is there a singular form of the word? If you found the guy's toe, would that be a smithereen?
Never mind, I gotta get back to work.........