CanadianGuitarist

Oh yeah. Forgot your member title. They've recently begun playing that song on Walmart's in-store radio, and I always mark out when that line plays. Most of the store thinks I now love A Simple Plan, lol. Also, on a more serious note, I3K was spot on.

It wasn't too bad. I felt like kind of a whore calling Americans exclusively, but my staunchly conservative grandmother cheered me up by saying "Well, no one likes to hear from telemarketers, so you're actually goring Americans". That's paraphrased. I doubt she said gore.

I win 200 bucks if Pittsburgh wins by 5.5, so maybe there's an added degree of excitement/worry, but how many times has Roethlisberger been hurried/sacked now? 25? Fuckin ridiculous.

One just occured to me like a week ago, while watching The Higher Power on YouTube. How long after WM15 did the Corporation merge with the Ministry? Three weeks? Maybe five or six. Forty days is a pretty quick reconciliation between the Bossman and the guy who HUNG HIM.

How bad (or more accurately, much different) could it be from any other CBC affiliate? I'm with Treble - I'm so freakin spoiled by HD. I've got something like 300 channels on my ExpressVu, and outside of the Score, I never watch anything that's not in HD, and that's only about 30 channels. I'm reaching Marvin levels of love.

There was a period today where Baron was beating me. Thank God I won. Not only was it an important divisional game and he and I are buds in life, if he had won under those circumstances using EP's - yeccccch.

As is mine. In standard def, I get eight (eight!) CBC feeds. Every single one of them yesterday showed Toronto. Fortunately, I got to see it in HD. The Centre Ice feed of the Sabres-Montreal was on MSG, and I had to freakin listen to Jeannerete and Harry Neale. Ugggggggggh.

And what's the deal with his fucking name? My favourite team won a hockey game today. Beating a tired team playing on the road, two games, two cities, two nights. The Habs needed this. Not just the win, but rebounding from the blown lead was huge.

YES! I was an unstoppable force at Red Rover. When I was in fifth grade, one girl once tried to run through the chain I formed with another kid -- she wound up flipping over it and landing right on her head. Unfortunately, Red Rover was banned from the schoolyard from that day forward. That doesn't take away from my MVP status though. Ok, this isn't a sport achievement at all, but the quote reminded me of it, and it's a good tale nonetheless. When I lvied with my brother, it was in a 1-bedroom apartment. My bedroom was more intended as a dining room, it was surrounded on two sides by these three tiered steel rails, that my dad likened to a wrestling ring. I told a buddy Aaron this, and both he and his ex-girlfriend Casey loved it, and began calling it the squared circle. A few weeks later, Casey and I are plastered, and Aaron's with us, driving that evening. My buddy Chris and his ex Korren were also there. Casey's lying on my bed towards the end of the evening, with one of her legs and foot sticking between two of the rails. Aaron's on the opposite side of the railing with me, when an also-drunk Chris screams out "ROYAL RUMBLE!". Aaron and I begin trying to toss one another over this railing. I'm too drunk to realise Casey is screaming in pain, caused by my shoving Aaron onto her foot. I don't notice he lets off due to her pain and throw him over the top. I begin prancing around screaming "COLLINS! COLLINS! COLLINS! IS GOING TO WRESTLEMANIA!" Aaron tells me between laughs that I almost broke Casey's foot, and I instantly feel terrible. Chris pulls me aside and says "No friends, only foes, in the Royal Rumble". I still felt terrible, but Aaron agreed with Chris and forgave me. She forgave me the next day, though I still felt badly for about a week. She would then go on to alienate all of our friends one by one, followed by breaking up with Aaron under unbelievably shitty circumstances (which I'm sure is hard to believe given the story I've just told). During that period, this story became just an occurance, to funny again.

If we have any YTMND afficianados here, how could this happen to him?

Expect a bevy of posts from RedBaron, who's won our annual Mini-Masters golf tournament five times(18 holes, anywhere from 3-8 players). Well, 4-1/2. He tied our buddy Jay after 18 holes in 2006, but Jay was too drunk to playoff, so they shared the title. Also lied to his girlfriend about getting a lap dance that evening, which I accidentally ratted him out for.

I knew you'd come through with a cornhole joke KKK. I was wondering what it was, but the description, coupled with the adding of Cincinnati, helped me figure it out. I used to date a girl from Cincy, and actually played said game with her mother. I don't remember what we called it, but it certainly wasn't cornhole - she did the right thing not calling it that, especially given that my ex's father first learned of me by finding some pictures she and I had taken. Oh yeah, I had two holes in one playing mini golf with her family one time.

Just weed, Iggy. Someone post Al Bundy already.

I'm really not trying to outdo anyone with my what, five posts, here in the last hour. Grade 12: Failed religion first semester, made it up the next. Also had a spare first semester, so when June rolls around, I have all my mandatory credits (four religion, two math), but still need one to graduate. Go into summer school and they tell me I can take either Grade 12 Calculus or Grade 10 Gym. Since the only year in high school I didn't take gym was ten, coupled with my overall mathematical stupidity, I chose the latter. So, I was already two years ahead of most of the class. I'm stoned my first day during the 'what's your name/grade/favourite thing', and couldn't remember my age, so I said 21. (I was actually 18 at the time). I instantly became known as Old Guy and was deemed to be by far the best athlete even before we actually did anything. To make it even better, there were a lot of middle-school kids fast tracking and getting credits out of the way before they got to high school. I was five or six years older than about a third of the class (even though one student had already been arrested for drugs). Played dodgeball the second day and it wasn't that different from Billy Madison. Played golf the third to last day and I hit my tee shot, a nine iron, about, oh 95-100 yards, which isn't very far at all for me. Still, I heard about 50 gasps and "WOW! DID YOU SEE THAT?". Played ball hockey two weeks later with some of my buddies. Back down to earth.

I realize you're not gonna be a celebrity for it or anything, but that's not all mundane - estimated odds are one ace for every 31,000 golfers. Incidentally, two hole-in-one stories involving my dad. When my brother stayed with him after he finished high school, they would often play this little executive course. The ninth hole was one of three or four Par 4's on the course. It usually played about 240 or 245, but the tees were about 180 this day. My dad knocked it in from the tee using a six-iron. There's this little golf newsletter that comes out weekly during the summer in Niagara, and it'll list local holes-in-one, club championship results, etc. You can usually tell the skill of the golfers on the page that lists holes-in-one, since it includes yardage and club selection. (Lots of Joe Smith, 97 yard, five iron, etc.) My dad was delighted by his ace, but laughed maniacally when the page listed "John Mullen, 245 yards, six iron". Also, his best friend once made an ace at a tournament by flying it onto the green, have it bounce off the Closest To The Pin marker and into the cup. This was 2003 and they still argue over whether or not it should count.

Arizona @ Washington (8.5) Atlanta @ New Orleans (8.5) - What? 8.5 seems awfully high, doesn't it? (3.5) Baltimore @ Buffalo - What I just said, but substitute 'high' for 'low'. Minnesota @ Dallas (9.5) - Gonna be hungry after last week. (17.5) New England @ Miami San Francisco @ N.Y. Giants (9.5) Tampa Bay @ Detroit (2.5) - Lions are being outscored by about eight a game. (1.5) Tennessee @ Houston Kansas City @ Oakland (2.5) - Why not? N.Y.l Jets @ Cincinnati (6.5) Chicago @ Philadelphia (5.5) St. Louis @ Seattle (9.5) - See Dallas. (3.5) Pittsburgh @ Denver (3.5) Indianapolis @ Jacksonville I was toying with this for a while - Has anyone ever picked a team to score zero? Less than seven, even? But St. Louis scores ten. Good luck, all.

I've said this a few times now, but that seems, at least to me, to make infinitely more sense than does a DVD recorder. My uncle got one since he's living with five kids and one TV, and said it's absolutely ideal for hockey season.

Good call, I shoulda clarified that. There's usually mild confusion between R and RW amongst my customers, but it's an easy one to explain. I should have explained, in more detail, how many times there's confusion over DVD +/-, which is what I meant.

Just ours? I recall when I was about 13, telling my dad what my lifetime batting average was in little league. Won a trophy for Highest Average in bowling in a summer league when I was eight. This again came up with my mom and dad when I moved out. My mom insisted she kept all my trophies from when I was a child, and I didn't see the need. My dad agreed, citing if it wasn't in any kind of "hall of fame or museum, fuck it." I remember watching golf in the fall a couple years ago and a graphic was shown saying how much under par the tour was for the year, cumulative, which seemed pretty silly.

The reeling Thrashers have taken another hit: Kari Lehtonen has left the game, re-aggravating his groin. Even so, they're up on the Rangers, 4-0. Sorry Mike. Habs down 3-2 to the Sens. I've only been watching for a few minutes, but the Sens look to be outplaying them quite a bit. I was thinking about this earlier today, even though the Habs have a decent record against the Sens, something about last January's 8-3 seems really really really predominant.

This is why I don't miss Souray, who's once again hurt.

I actually did this as part of my brief telemarketing stint in college. I didn't mind it, it was a break from selling, and most people just hung up immediately, no one yelled at me as they did when I sold. And not only that, it was South Carolina, and I was calling on behalf of the Republicans, so most of them were in fact delighted to hear from me. Sample: Me: By voting for your local Republican candidate.... Them: Are you real or a robot? Me: No, I'm real. Them: Well, we already are, but thanks so much for calling!

Is there a definitive way of finding out which format of blank disc I need for burning? Mine, for example, is imprinted on the disc tray, but I get a lot of customers who aren't sure which to use, and I'm sure not every tray has it written.

He makes 7.15 million this year. His cap number is 5.75 million. So can we call him the most overpaid player in the league, now that Yashin's gone? The Habs had no business losing last night, and I only saw the third period. They outplayed them in the first two as well, I guess?

The OT winner into his own net wouldn't have pissed me off so much HAD HE NOT NEARLY DONE IT FIFTEEN MINUTES EARLIER! Does he actually make 7.15 million a year? A Leafs fan I know insisted this, although I thought it was mid-high 5.