Hey ! anyone knows if Vigmond's Maple Leafs toilet seat & bowl still worth 5K after this year's Epic Collapse ?
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For those who didn't see this one !
It's a piece of art in writing about the Leafs !
Rex Murphy muses on hockey and the Toronto Maple Leafs long, long road to playoffs success.
http://www.cbc.ca/thenational/indep.../2013/04/25/thenational-rexmurphy-042513.html
This is just too funny !!
Here's a transcript of it...
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James Murray, a mainly self-educated Scotsman – the best Scotsmen are all self-educated, and they educate the rest of us – ask any Scot – undertook in 1879 to start work on the Oxford English Dictionary.
He was a mere tike of 42 years-old then and he started at the letter A. He estimated – exaggerating to buy himself time – it would take 10 years to finish.
Poor Professor Murray looked up his very last word – the dictionary unfinished, in 1915. I believe he was working on V by then…and in a despairing note found after his passing observed that the Dictionary tormenting his sleep, evaporating his hope, having anguished most of his very long life, had at least given him some inkling how future Toronto Maple Leaf fans were going to feel. Like him: worn out, weary, disappointed, unrequited.
I bring up this touching story to put things in perspective, now that the Leafs, the Jamaican Bobsled team of professional hockey, are at least in the playoffs. Its been 9 years since they got that far.
However, we have to strain our eyes all the way back to the last century - 1967 - when Lester B. Pearson and John Diefenbaker were household names and people, as far as I understand, not at gunpoint, actually listened to Pat Boone…when the cup was last carried in triumph down Yonge Street.
How long, O Lord, how long? There are some Leaf fans that began their romance with exasperation and failure, i.e., became fans, when they were mere sprouts, freckled-faced and in short pants ---- who are now (still fans) hairless and hopeless and on their third electric scooter.
They should be reminded that the Leafs are in very good company.
You see it's all in the time scale.
The Building of St. Peter's Basilica started in 1506 and was only finished in 1626.
The pyramids were the work of centuries.
And so it is with a Leafs victory. Think of the them as a project for the ages. Just because the cup was last seen in Toronto when the Ice Caps were retreating and vast glaciers were scooping out Hudson's Bay - the northern sea, not the store on Bay Street -- is no reason to carp. After all, as the saying has it, Buffalo wasn't built in a day.
And as for lighting up the CN Tower every time the Leafs score a goal, while I deplore its global warming implications. I still think it's a great idea: a flash a decade will really lift Torontonians' spirits.
So I think we have reason to hope that the Cup will be in this city's future, possibly around the time of the second coming of the IKEA monkey, when tickets will be selling for only 20 thousand dollars in the nosebleed section, and some reasonable time before the hulking CN Tower crumbles at last to dust.
Hopelessly...
See ? I can talk about the Leafs and put some long article too !
Bwahwahwahwahwahwahwahwaha :lol::lol::lol:
It's a piece of art in writing about the Leafs !
Rex Murphy muses on hockey and the Toronto Maple Leafs long, long road to playoffs success.
http://www.cbc.ca/thenational/indep.../2013/04/25/thenational-rexmurphy-042513.html
This is just too funny !!
Here's a transcript of it...
...
James Murray, a mainly self-educated Scotsman – the best Scotsmen are all self-educated, and they educate the rest of us – ask any Scot – undertook in 1879 to start work on the Oxford English Dictionary.
He was a mere tike of 42 years-old then and he started at the letter A. He estimated – exaggerating to buy himself time – it would take 10 years to finish.
Poor Professor Murray looked up his very last word – the dictionary unfinished, in 1915. I believe he was working on V by then…and in a despairing note found after his passing observed that the Dictionary tormenting his sleep, evaporating his hope, having anguished most of his very long life, had at least given him some inkling how future Toronto Maple Leaf fans were going to feel. Like him: worn out, weary, disappointed, unrequited.
I bring up this touching story to put things in perspective, now that the Leafs, the Jamaican Bobsled team of professional hockey, are at least in the playoffs. Its been 9 years since they got that far.
However, we have to strain our eyes all the way back to the last century - 1967 - when Lester B. Pearson and John Diefenbaker were household names and people, as far as I understand, not at gunpoint, actually listened to Pat Boone…when the cup was last carried in triumph down Yonge Street.
How long, O Lord, how long? There are some Leaf fans that began their romance with exasperation and failure, i.e., became fans, when they were mere sprouts, freckled-faced and in short pants ---- who are now (still fans) hairless and hopeless and on their third electric scooter.
They should be reminded that the Leafs are in very good company.
You see it's all in the time scale.
The Building of St. Peter's Basilica started in 1506 and was only finished in 1626.
The pyramids were the work of centuries.
And so it is with a Leafs victory. Think of the them as a project for the ages. Just because the cup was last seen in Toronto when the Ice Caps were retreating and vast glaciers were scooping out Hudson's Bay - the northern sea, not the store on Bay Street -- is no reason to carp. After all, as the saying has it, Buffalo wasn't built in a day.
And as for lighting up the CN Tower every time the Leafs score a goal, while I deplore its global warming implications. I still think it's a great idea: a flash a decade will really lift Torontonians' spirits.
So I think we have reason to hope that the Cup will be in this city's future, possibly around the time of the second coming of the IKEA monkey, when tickets will be selling for only 20 thousand dollars in the nosebleed section, and some reasonable time before the hulking CN Tower crumbles at last to dust.
Hopelessly...
See ? I can talk about the Leafs and put some long article too !
Bwahwahwahwahwahwahwahwaha :lol::lol::lol:
Gotta love that one !
"The Jamaican Bobsled team of professional hockey" ! :lol:
That's a beauty !
"The Jamaican Bobsled team of professional hockey" ! :lol:
That's a beauty !
You have to laugh: Every time a trade is made the leaflovers say it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. In time, virtually every one of these "brilliant" trades turns out to be a disaster (Tuukka Rask for Andrew Raycroft? How did THAT one work out, boys?). When the new messiah is eventually shipped out on his ass after stinking the joint out in Hogtown, the same Koolaid drinkers who praised his arrival now cheer his departure. It's a neverending con game that leaf management plays on its gullible know-nothing hockey-challenged fans to make the poor gullible saps believe that things are happening. Remember Burkie? Brought in as the savior of the franchise only to be unceremoniously canned after four years of complete and utter failure.
Now they've traded a backup for a backup, but in typical loser leaf fashion they've not JUST given up one backup for another, they've also tossed out Matt Frattin. Oh yeah and that's not enough either, so in typical leaf fashion they've also mortgaged more of their future by ALSO giving away a second round draft pick. The leafs have been cellar dwellers for decades so they should have stocked up on primo talent like other teams have been able to do in a similar situation - instead this hopeless franchise has either given away their draft picks or squandered them with the absolute worst picks in history except for iggy's hockey predictions.
Now they've traded a backup for a backup, but in typical loser leaf fashion they've not JUST given up one backup for another, they've also tossed out Matt Frattin. Oh yeah and that's not enough either, so in typical leaf fashion they've also mortgaged more of their future by ALSO giving away a second round draft pick. The leafs have been cellar dwellers for decades so they should have stocked up on primo talent like other teams have been able to do in a similar situation - instead this hopeless franchise has either given away their draft picks or squandered them with the absolute worst picks in history except for iggy's hockey predictions.
After landing goalie Jonathan Bernier today (whom rumored as many as 20 NHL teams were interested in trading for the last year) for what is essentially a back up nhl'er or stud ahl'er in Ben Scrivens, a nice 3rd liner on most nhl teams in Matt Frattin and a 2nd rounder in either 2014 or 2015 (Torontos choice btw) which 28% of the time a 2nd rounder even makes the NHL, the Leafs now have 2 top young goalies while the dead things have one and the scabs have None. (haha, Price SUCKS!)
This was a win-win trade and should help both the Kings and the Leafs, esp the Leafs. They say the team that gets the best player wins a trade but i still think LA is fine with their return as Frattin will easily take Penners place and cost a heck of a lot less and Scrivy should be a solid backstopper behind All World Johnny Quick.
This was a win-win trade and should help both the Kings and the Leafs, esp the Leafs. They say the team that gets the best player wins a trade but i still think LA is fine with their return as Frattin will easily take Penners place and cost a heck of a lot less and Scrivy should be a solid backstopper behind All World Johnny Quick.
"dead things" ? "scabs" ? How about juvenile , repetitive, inaccurate and unoriginal use of the terms you used here...which I guess is par for the course for your posts.
Please, please, PLEASE stop fantasizing about me. I get it: you like the Village People - no problem, that's your privilege (and not at all surprising since you're also a leafs fan). I also get that you are very good friends with the Board's only cowboy (Doc), but I'm not at all interested in being another one of your poster boys, so give it a rest.
You should buy yourself a mirror ig. Granted, what you see will not look good at all, but at least it might show you why the world has no respect for you. That might be the first positive step in turning your life around. It will take a lot of time and effort but you might eventually succeed. Good luck and best wishes.
Bwhahahahaahahaaha wow :crazy: you really do take stuff too seriously dont you? :lol:
Here is something you can take as a positive tho, the Dead Things are proposing a new 650 million dollar arena for one of the states worst crime ridden cities, gotta be a feel good story somewhere in that mess, eh CJ? :thumb:
Here is something you can take as a positive tho, the Dead Things are proposing a new 650 million dollar arena for one of the states worst crime ridden cities, gotta be a feel good story somewhere in that mess, eh CJ? :thumb:
I figured out why you don't like the Red Wings iggy:
1. They are a very good team and you only like really crappy teams like the stinkin' leafs.
2. They have the second best GM of all time and you only like crappy GMs who produce 4 seasons of total failure before being tossed out.
3. They have 4 Stanley Cups in the past decade and a half (best in the NHL) and you only like crappy teams that haven't even made it to the finals in 46 YEARS.
4. They've been in the playoffs for 22 consecutive years (!!!) and you only like crappy teams that made it to the playoffs just once in the past freakin' decade.
5. They have one of the best coaches in the game (THE best, according to NHL.com) and you only like unpopular coaches like Ron Wilson, who was voted by the NHL players themselves (!) as the coach they would least like to play for. (Carlyle is an improvement over Wilson - ANYONE would be!) but he's sure as hell no Mike Babcock!
6. They have the best owner in all of professional sports while you only like crappy teams with owners like Harold Ballard, Ontario Teachers, or large corporations with no interest in hockey as a SPORT, just as an investment.
7.They haven't had any sex scandals and you only like teams with a history of sex scandals at Maple Leaf Gardens.
8. They have the greatly respected Henrik Zetterberg (Wayne Gretzky's favorite hockey player of the past decade) as their Captain, while you only like "captains' like Dion Phaneuf, perennially voted (by the players themselves!) as the Most Overrated Player in the entire league.
9. They have Pavel Datsyuk (the most skilled hockey player in the world) and you only like Colton Orr (the LEAST skilled player in the NHL).
10. They currently have and have recently had multiple individual award winners (Datsyuk 4 Lady Byngs and 3 Selkes, Zetterberg a Conn Smythe and a Foundation, Lidstrom 7 !!! Norrises and a Conn Smythe, Yzerman a Conn Smythe a Lindsay and a Selke, Federov a Hart a Lindsay and a Selke, Chelios a Messier, and Darren McCarty a Foundation) while you only like crappy teams like the leafs whose ONLY major piece of hardware in the last 46 YEARS was Little Dougie Gilmour's Selke in 1993 (TWENTY years ago).
11. They fought valiantly in taking the Hawks to the limit before bowing out in round 2 of this year's playoffs and you only like teams like the leafs who staged the most cowardly and EPIC COLLAPSE in the entire history of playoff game sevens!
12. They have a nickname that is about 25 years out of date and that was kindergarten level stupid even then and you LOVE it because it gives you a childish epithet that you can use - which is absolutely perfect for someone with the IQ and maturity level of a 4 year old who has NO original thoughts, no creativity, no knowledge of hockey, no class, no taste, and basically no clue.
13. They have a team in Hockeytown and you only love teams in Hogtown.
14. They have a team history with names like Howe, Lindsay, Abel, Sawchuk, Delvecchio, Ullman, Federov, Larionov, Chelios, Hull, Shanahan, Yzerman, Robitaille, Datsyuk, Zetterberg, and on and on ...and you only like crappy teams with historical names like Brian Spinner Spencer, Tie Domi, John Kordic, Jiri Kissing Bandit Tlusty, Colton Orr, and on and on.
15. They have a great young goalie in Jimmy Howard while you only like crappy teams that HAD a great young goalie in Tuukka Rask...but GAVE HIM AWAY for Andrew Raycroft. (How did that one work out for you?)
16. They have a GREAT history in the draft, including some amazing steals (Zetterberg 210th!!!!Datsyuk 171st!!!Howard 64th!!Lidstrom 53rd!) which were necessary because as a team that consistently did well they weren't gifted with high picks like the stinkin' leafs. And you only like poorly run teams that give away most of their draft picks and squander the rest on second or third raters like Tlusty and Luke Schenn. If Toronto ever accidentally STUMBLES into a half-decent pick, they usually blow that too somehow (trading Rask for Raycroft HA HA HA or keeping Kadri on the farm for years even though he was better than anyone on the leafs). What a JOKE of a franchise - no wonder they've had 46 YEARS of complete and utter failure.
17. But in spite of all these reasons I think the BIGGEST reason you hate the Wings is because they're in a CITY and that means you can't fantasize about them being on a ranch (where you could dream about cowboys, put up posters to stare at for hours on end, and sigh about them with your "friend" - all the while listening to your beloved Village People records).
1. They are a very good team and you only like really crappy teams like the stinkin' leafs.
2. They have the second best GM of all time and you only like crappy GMs who produce 4 seasons of total failure before being tossed out.
3. They have 4 Stanley Cups in the past decade and a half (best in the NHL) and you only like crappy teams that haven't even made it to the finals in 46 YEARS.
4. They've been in the playoffs for 22 consecutive years (!!!) and you only like crappy teams that made it to the playoffs just once in the past freakin' decade.
5. They have one of the best coaches in the game (THE best, according to NHL.com) and you only like unpopular coaches like Ron Wilson, who was voted by the NHL players themselves (!) as the coach they would least like to play for. (Carlyle is an improvement over Wilson - ANYONE would be!) but he's sure as hell no Mike Babcock!
6. They have the best owner in all of professional sports while you only like crappy teams with owners like Harold Ballard, Ontario Teachers, or large corporations with no interest in hockey as a SPORT, just as an investment.
7.They haven't had any sex scandals and you only like teams with a history of sex scandals at Maple Leaf Gardens.
8. They have the greatly respected Henrik Zetterberg (Wayne Gretzky's favorite hockey player of the past decade) as their Captain, while you only like "captains' like Dion Phaneuf, perennially voted (by the players themselves!) as the Most Overrated Player in the entire league.
9. They have Pavel Datsyuk (the most skilled hockey player in the world) and you only like Colton Orr (the LEAST skilled player in the NHL).
10. They currently have and have recently had multiple individual award winners (Datsyuk 4 Lady Byngs and 3 Selkes, Zetterberg a Conn Smythe and a Foundation, Lidstrom 7 !!! Norrises and a Conn Smythe, Yzerman a Conn Smythe a Lindsay and a Selke, Federov a Hart a Lindsay and a Selke, Chelios a Messier, and Darren McCarty a Foundation) while you only like crappy teams like the leafs whose ONLY major piece of hardware in the last 46 YEARS was Little Dougie Gilmour's Selke in 1993 (TWENTY years ago).
11. They fought valiantly in taking the Hawks to the limit before bowing out in round 2 of this year's playoffs and you only like teams like the leafs who staged the most cowardly and EPIC COLLAPSE in the entire history of playoff game sevens!
12. They have a nickname that is about 25 years out of date and that was kindergarten level stupid even then and you LOVE it because it gives you a childish epithet that you can use - which is absolutely perfect for someone with the IQ and maturity level of a 4 year old who has NO original thoughts, no creativity, no knowledge of hockey, no class, no taste, and basically no clue.
13. They have a team in Hockeytown and you only love teams in Hogtown.
14. They have a team history with names like Howe, Lindsay, Abel, Sawchuk, Delvecchio, Ullman, Federov, Larionov, Chelios, Hull, Shanahan, Yzerman, Robitaille, Datsyuk, Zetterberg, and on and on ...and you only like crappy teams with historical names like Brian Spinner Spencer, Tie Domi, John Kordic, Jiri Kissing Bandit Tlusty, Colton Orr, and on and on.
15. They have a great young goalie in Jimmy Howard while you only like crappy teams that HAD a great young goalie in Tuukka Rask...but GAVE HIM AWAY for Andrew Raycroft. (How did that one work out for you?)
16. They have a GREAT history in the draft, including some amazing steals (Zetterberg 210th!!!!Datsyuk 171st!!!Howard 64th!!Lidstrom 53rd!) which were necessary because as a team that consistently did well they weren't gifted with high picks like the stinkin' leafs. And you only like poorly run teams that give away most of their draft picks and squander the rest on second or third raters like Tlusty and Luke Schenn. If Toronto ever accidentally STUMBLES into a half-decent pick, they usually blow that too somehow (trading Rask for Raycroft HA HA HA or keeping Kadri on the farm for years even though he was better than anyone on the leafs). What a JOKE of a franchise - no wonder they've had 46 YEARS of complete and utter failure.
17. But in spite of all these reasons I think the BIGGEST reason you hate the Wings is because they're in a CITY and that means you can't fantasize about them being on a ranch (where you could dream about cowboys, put up posters to stare at for hours on end, and sigh about them with your "friend" - all the while listening to your beloved Village People records).
In fact, SK, we might also ask the leaflovers: how did the last 46 YEARS work out for the leafs?
Dont worry Doc, he is in denial, it goes hand in hand with being a boston sports fan "ovah" the years! Bwhahahahahahaahahah
17 Seconds! to LOSE A CUP FINALS will ALWAYS be a bigger choke than losing a round one game lol....... oooops! 17 SECONDS! OhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhSNAP! :lol:
Sing along "boyz"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtGxusvUT3k
17 Seconds! to LOSE A CUP FINALS will ALWAYS be a bigger choke than losing a round one game lol....... oooops! 17 SECONDS! OhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhSNAP! :lol:
Sing along "boyz"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtGxusvUT3k
Ask our resident cowboy J, the Monster plays for his scapegoat team these days, haha, but Yes, everyone in the hockey world (your lebruns, mckenzies and the like, aka the experts) say the same thing about Sir Jonathan, his pedigree is that of something special. What a 1-2 punch the Leafs now have in goal. Still cant believe Nonis got it done!
Not sure whats the deal with this non sense, but honestly i supose Igna love the leafs because its his hometown team... I mean really only people from toronto could love he leafs these days. Even i was a fan back then in the 90s but they turned out HORRIBLE these latest years... The last best thing they had was Sundin and they should thanks him for staying with such an horrible team over the years... he deserved better...
Oh and nobody touch John Kordic really.. that guy was awesome, loved to see him fight and i miss that time when there was a general fight and you would see him step on the ice and that would be like calling the dogs in black ops !!! LOL
As for Detroit, can't denie they made good decision and are an excellent team... Im just not a fan. But they have excellent players. Its just that "hockeytown" is actually Montreal... no city can even compare to montreal as the official city of hockey.
Oh and nobody touch John Kordic really.. that guy was awesome, loved to see him fight and i miss that time when there was a general fight and you would see him step on the ice and that would be like calling the dogs in black ops !!! LOL
As for Detroit, can't denie they made good decision and are an excellent team... Im just not a fan. But they have excellent players. Its just that "hockeytown" is actually Montreal... no city can even compare to montreal as the official city of hockey.
Kordic led a sad life and it came to a terrible end too quickly. He had many issues and it is just a sad sad story.
Be careful there Mike, Montreal had a good HALF a season and being a small team, they were wearing out down the stretch and it is not like they are all 23 years old. Buying out Kaberle is a good step tho but a shaky carey price making 6.5 mil for the next several years is a concern unless he becomes as good as he should be by now.
Apparently you are stuck in the old country, because anywhere the Leafs go, you usually see as many leafs fans as hometown fans, even at the bell centre there are a good 6K-7K Leafs fans per game, sometimes a little less sometimes a little more.
Be careful there Mike, Montreal had a good HALF a season and being a small team, they were wearing out down the stretch and it is not like they are all 23 years old. Buying out Kaberle is a good step tho but a shaky carey price making 6.5 mil for the next several years is a concern unless he becomes as good as he should be by now.
Apparently you are stuck in the old country, because anywhere the Leafs go, you usually see as many leafs fans as hometown fans, even at the bell centre there are a good 6K-7K Leafs fans per game, sometimes a little less sometimes a little more.
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