This icon gets less appropriate by the minute, so I'm trying to write faster.

[mrissa]

[Poll #1557142]

*This answer in place for careswen, although others may feel free to use it.

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

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.

But writing? That is the win!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

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.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I like the way you phrase that, because even a reader like me will intuit the import, even if she hadn't known what it was.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

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.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

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.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yes. That has much awesome.

[mycroftw.livejournal.com]

Well, you, the Cup, and the Cup's friendly Secret Service agent, but yeah. Still awesome.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

it doesn't have to be, it's the Stanley Cup.

Because really, is there any cup more awesome than the Stanley Cup?