Does it mean I've naturalised as a Minnesotan if I a) Looked at your second list
b) Went "I could buy that in the right setting" to everything until...
c) I got to "combines outstate characters with characters from the Twin Cities"
d) When I went ... "Well, you know, it'd really depend on how it was set up. I'm not sure I could suspend disbelief that far for most people, but for Mris...."
SHHH. I know, I know, I was darned lucky my team even made it in to the playoffs this year and let me tell YOU THIS, after 18 years, I would have been an unhappy hockey mom.
If you can get the book done before the Wings win the Cup this year might depend on how many of the games you're watching, hmmmmm?
Is that supposed to be "Don and Don" or "Don and Ron?" I mean, I'm guessing one of those Dons is Don Cherry (which would make it Don & Ron, for Ron MacLean). If not, who's the other Don? (I suppose it could be Don MacLean, or even Don McLean... though I would bet a slice of American Pie that everyone's sick of hearing from Don McLean.)
When I say "Don and Don," I mean Don and Don. In this case it is Don Duguid and the late lamented Don Chevrier, my favorite pair of curling announcers. I have never heard them sing "American Pie," and now of course it's too late for Don Chevrier.
Ah. So sorry. All that hockey in the poll and my brain immediately went to Hockey Night in Canada. (Mirth probably would have known who they were, of course.)
Now curling people and non-curling people... that's diversity of opinion, right there.
He has so *many* opinions (and such strong ones, in such large portions, too). Being in such copious supply, I think Adam Smith would say that Don Cherry's opinions would have to be offered at a discount.
His ties might have to be discounted too, though I'm not sure a person would want them even for free.
Not only have no idea when, but what it is . . . however, if it has anything to do with sports, I won't remember five seconds after being told as I've got no context.
There is an exchange in this book wherein Tam asks Carter if he thinks the Stanley Cup is the Holy Grail, and Carter looks at him like he's stupid and says it doesn't have to be, it's the Stanley Cup. So that's the emotional meaning of it.
Literally it is the best trophy in all of sports, a great huge silver thing that's had silver rings engraved with team name and year added to it since 1892. There is not a prize in North American sports older, and certainly none more venerable.
I try to be pretty careful about not assuming that people either will or will not have the hockey background, just as I try not to assume that they will or will not know the ballad etc. There are times and places for assuming audience knowledge, but I just don't feel that this is one.
And each player on the winning team gets a day with the cup in his custody--how cool is that? The Stanley Cup as the punchbowl at your wedding, a chance to use the Stanley Cup as a fund-raising device for flood victims...as long as it's not disrespectful--it's you and the Cup, together for the day.
Caps vs. Habs is one of this year's match-ups where I would cheer for either of the teams if they were playing someone else (someone like, say, the Wings or--I don't even want to type this--the Canucks).
I am, despite my fondness for a few people on my friendslist and despite the number of Swedish players they've had, anti-Wings nearly the way I'm anti-Yankees. And I have grave difficulties cheering for any team from south of the snow line. So I'm afraid I'm expecting to cheer against the victor eventually. Or at least hoping I'll have the chance. So many of my teams were completely out of the playoffs this year, alas.
I currently live just outside DC, and The Girl is a die-hard Caps fan.
...thankfully, I was born in Detroit and still have enough family there that I'm back often, and I split my childhood between there and Chicago. So I still have teams alive.
Montreal: from the heart of Hell I stab at thee. May you all become ill from bad poutine!
See, this is the thing: one of my friends who isn't any kind of sports fan thought that sports fans all had the formulation, "[my team] rooolz, [any other team] droooolz!", more or less. And that's just not so. The cheering protocols are complex and intricate.
I like Montreal and poutine (in moderation, in the latter case). And not falling completely apart on the power play would have helped the Caps' case for advancing to the next round, I tell you what.
I like both the Pens and the Habs, so I don't know what to hope for there. The Flyers are Dead To Me, so go Bruins. Chicago all the way, of course--Chicago is one of the teams I will sometimes cheer actively for, but "whoever is playing the Canucks" is always a favorite in this house. And go Sharks go, even though they're farther south than there ought to be hockey.
Okay, secret confession time: I was born 200 miles up the road, in Oilers territory. I kept my allegiance until I had spent as much time down here as I had there, and then decided it was no longer safe. Still cheer for them unless it's the Battle of Alberta, though.
I mostly included that in case people with dairy allergies wanted to answer that they were confused. Some of them still do like cheese, of course, but just can't have it. But I would imagine that some would have sufficiently negative associations with the consequences of cheese not to like it any more, poor things.
I didn't actually have a problem with any of the combinations in that question, but the closest to a problem that I had was with outstate people and people from the Twin Cities.
I'm afraid when I gave her permission to write it by herself it totally lost the necessity to have a tapir in it. And it's not like one is going to appear without some serious work.
Regarding question #1: I have been thinking a lot about introverts extroverts lately, and how they make good teammates, and your statement about forwards and defense made me realize that in the great hockey game of life, mmerriam is the defense, and I am the forward on our team.
Regarding question #3: You know me too well. I had already enthusiastically clicked that button before I read the footnote! :-)
#1: That is so sweet. You always know that if you pass it back to the point, he'll be there to keep it from going over the blue line. Um. Just go, "Oh, yeah!" in an enthusiastic voice there.
#3: It's like we've known each other awhile or something....
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a) Looked at your second list
b) Went "I could buy that in the right setting" to everything until...
c) I got to "combines outstate characters with characters from the Twin Cities"
d) When I went ... "Well, you know, it'd really depend on how it was set up. I'm not sure I could suspend disbelief that far for most people, but for Mris...."
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I know! Marvel at the diversity!
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But then, Janet does seem remarkably open-minded, when you think about it. In all sort of manner of ways.
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Oh, wait. You're not James Nicoll. Nevermind.
Cats.
How James Nicoll is like orphans.
Re: How James Nicoll is like orphans.
Re: How James Nicoll is like orphans.
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SHHH. I know, I know, I was darned lucky my team even made it in to the playoffs this year and let me tell YOU THIS, after 18 years, I would have been an unhappy hockey mom.
If you can get the book done before the Wings win the Cup this year might depend on how many of the games you're watching, hmmmmm?
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Now curling people and non-curling people... that's diversity of opinion, right there.
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I know all those words and prefixes separately....
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Now, standing up on a relatively fragile piece of wood to ride a wave that towers twenty feet overhead--that's a sport.
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His ties might have to be discounted too, though I'm not sure a person would want them even for free.
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But writing? That is the win!
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Literally it is the best trophy in all of sports, a great huge silver thing that's had silver rings engraved with team name and year added to it since 1892. There is not a prize in North American sports older, and certainly none more venerable.
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Because really, is there any cup more awesome than the Stanley Cup?
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...shit, that means Halak still has two wishes left. WE'RE BONED! SOMEONE CALL A WIZARD!
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Caps vs. Habs is one of this year's match-ups where I would cheer for either of the teams if they were playing someone else (someone like, say, the Wings or--I don't even want to type this--the Canucks).
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I'm cheering for both of them. Because, really, how can you not?
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I am, despite my fondness for a few people on my friendslist and despite the number of Swedish players they've had, anti-Wings nearly the way I'm anti-Yankees. And I have grave difficulties cheering for any team from south of the snow line. So I'm afraid I'm expecting to cheer against the victor eventually. Or at least hoping I'll have the chance. So many of my teams were completely out of the playoffs this year, alas.
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...thankfully, I was born in Detroit and still have enough family there that I'm back often, and I split my childhood between there and Chicago. So I still have teams alive.
Montreal: from the heart of Hell I stab at thee. May you all become ill from bad poutine!
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I like Montreal and poutine (in moderation, in the latter case). And not falling completely apart on the power play would have helped the Caps' case for advancing to the next round, I tell you what.
I like both the Pens and the Habs, so I don't know what to hope for there. The Flyers are Dead To Me, so go Bruins. Chicago all the way, of course--Chicago is one of the teams I will sometimes cheer actively for, but "whoever is playing the Canucks" is always a favorite in this house. And go Sharks go, even though they're farther south than there ought to be hockey.
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But even that doesn't justify Canucks fans.
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But I have a fictional character who plays for the Oilers in part on purpose: Bobby Laird would not be the same guy if he played for the Canucks.
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Also, I'm allowed to mock the Wild. My team's the Ducks. :P
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I didn't realize Ducks fans had any room to mock anybody. :)
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Because when they find out I'm a Ducks girl, they stop being mad, and pat me on the head instead. :P
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Balance is overrated, anyway.
P.
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I had better go to bed now.
P.
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Put your beaks up!
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Regarding question #3: You know me too well. I had already enthusiastically clicked that button before I read the footnote! :-)
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#3: It's like we've known each other awhile or something....
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(rereads)
<Emily Litella>Never mind.</Emily Litella>