Your “A Different Sheepskin On The Menu” Wednesday Night Open Thread

NFL News:

  • Getting in the way of a Romo trade is the fact that he counts for $19.6 million of Cowboys salary-cap space in 2017. But they do save $5.1 million if he is not on the team.
  • Philip Rivers considers the Pro Bowl his “last game” as a San Diego Charger.
    • A nice sentiment, but it won’t unburn those jerseys.
  • The bullshit was flowing from Roger Goodell pretty freely today. Well, he was on “The Herd”, and bullshit is Cowherd’s stock-in-trade. So, what did he talk to Skip Bayless & Peter King’s love child about:
    • He reiterated his “disappointment” that San Diego wouldn’t bend over couldn’t work out a deal with the Spanos’ to keep the team in town.
    • He maintained that the Thursday games “are pretty darn good”.
    • He claimed “it would be an honor” to hand the Super Bowl trophy to Tom Brady. “He’s an extraordinary player, great performer, and a surefire Hall of Famer.”
Yeah, it'll be just like this.
Yeah, it’ll be just like this.

It’s Robbie Burns Day!

That means Whisky & Haggis for dinner!!

While I realize it may not be for some people,

it’s good enough for me! Thus, allow me to impart upon you the Selkirk Grace:

     Some hae meat an canna eat,
          And some wad eat that want it;
     But we hae meat, and we can eat,
          And sae let the Lord be thankit.

Just don’t go overboard, or the nightmare fuel

becomes real!

Slàinte!


Canada 150:

January 25, 1924 – Canada competes in the first Winter Olympics.

In 1924, the first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France. A total of 258 athletes (247 men, 11 women) represented the 16 countries participating: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, Sweden, United States, and Yugoslavia. There were 12 Canadians: one speed skater, two figure skaters (including Canada’s first ever female Olympian, Cecil Smith), and the nine men who made up the hockey team.

The original sports were:

  • Bobsled
  • Curling
  • Figure Skating
  • Hockey
  • Military Patrol (similar to today’s biathlon)
  • Skiing (Cross-Country, and Jumping)
  • Speed Skating

Back in the early days of the Olympics, athletes had to be “pure” amateurs. So  the Toronto Granites hockey team, which had won the Allan Cup national amateur senior championship, had the right to represent Canada.

Naturally, Canada picked up the gold in hockey, beating the US 6-1 in the final. This was Canada’s only medal of the tournament; Norway came first, with 17 total medals.

The attendance & popularity of the Winter Games led the IOC to declare a Winter Olympiad would be held every four years, its cycle to coincide with the summer scheduling. [This schedule would be divorced in 1994, with the Lillehammer Winter Games; 1992 was the last year of joint Olympics.]

[The Joint Olympics have been held every year since 1988.]

(sources: CBC; COC)


Tonight’s sports:

  • NHL:
    • Leafs at Red Wings – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
    • Flyers at Rangers – 8:00PM | NBCSN
    • Canucks at Avalanche – 9:30PM | Sportsnet1
  • NBA:
    • Warriors at Hornets – 8:00PM | ESPN
    • Lakers at Trail Blazers – 10:30PM | ESPN
  • NCAA: lots; preferred viewing:
    • St. John’s at Providence – 6:30PM | FS1
    • Butler at Seton Hall – 8:30PM | FS1
  • Australian Open: Women’s semifinals – 9:30PM | ESPN2 / TSN
    • Venus Williams versus Coco Vandeweghe – 10:00PM
    • Serena Williams versus Mirjana Lučić-Baroni – 11:30 PM

If anyone needs me,

I’M TOSSIN’ ME CABER!

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A Canadian man-child of indeterminate age, he stays young by selling alcohol at sporting events and yelling at the patrons he serves. Their rage nourishes his soul, and their tips pay for his numerous trips to various sporting events.
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WCS

I love this stuff:
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Also, this:
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Unsurprised

Sweet. A proper topless photo of Charlotte McKinney. Thanks, reddit!

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Unsurprised

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Brick Meathook

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WCS

I appreciate your enthusiasm, but, beating the Avalanche is like beating up the blind, autistic nine-year-old who was born without arms.

Senor Weaselo

3 fantasy points apiece for Senor’s Crystal Lake Machetes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip9fnNV47lE

Brick Meathook

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Brocky

man, maybe its my inexperience with the fandom, but how exactly are the blackhawks underwhelming right now?

fucking idiots taking shots at the home team. go root for the fucking stars you dallas loving asshole.

WCS

Shooting at the home team is standard practice in Philadelphia and Baltimore.

Unsurprised

Clients are the worst, but fans are a close second. Their unjustified sense of entitlement and ownership over teams and players is sickening and is used to justify their shitty behavior.

For more information, consult everything ever posted to DFO.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Not exactly the same as pictured, but when I was in Scotland, the B&B host made me a breakfast stack of haggis, eggs, and hashbrowns, and it was fucking delicious.

http://www.macsween.co.uk/media/102824/0441_macsween_of_edinburgh-angus_bremner_.jpg

litre_cola

Black Pudding for breakfast is excellent as well.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Just finished The Night Manager. I am not fully whelmed.

WCS

The book, the series, both, or answer not given?

BrettFavresColonoscopy

The series with half of Hiddleswift

WCS
BrettFavresColonoscopy

I’ll take “Things Hippo Sez” for $400, Alex

JerBear50

Oops, missed this part. I read it but haven’t seen the series. Nor do I plan to since the book wasn’t even that great.

JerBear50

I read it this past year. My reaction was about the same as yours.

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

Yeah- when you draw from one of Le Carre’s worst books for source material, you can’t just throw together a spectacular cast and high production values and expect the cake to make itself.

The 2011 film of Tinker Tailor shows what an incredible cast can do with good Le Carre.

Curse of Marino

What in the hell is going on in the NBA?

Sixers are 7-3 in their last 10.
Dion Waiters making it look stephortless.
Last place team in the west can still realistically make the playoffs.
Westbrook averaging 30/10/10.

Senor Weaselo

Cavs have lost 6 of their last 8, that too.

Curse of Marino

The fucking Kings beat them, I keep forgetting Sacramento has a team.

WCS

So do most women in Kevin Johnson’s life.

Senor Weaselo

I’m pretty sure you’re lying about there being a team in Sacramento. That’s like saying there’s an NFL team in Houston or Nashville!

Wakezilla

Dog days of the NBA. The good teams go into hibernation in January. Usually it doesn’t matter as their autopilot mode is still better than 90% of the league playing like their season matters

Senor Weaselo

“The good teams go into hibernation in January” …and also the Knicks.

WCS

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Unsurprised

Jesus Christ. I hate politics. I wish I were as stupid as the rest of this idiotic country so I wouldn’t care and working so I would be too busy to worry and just sit back and take any tax cuts I could get.

WCS

Alcohol and Xanax help.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Weed should not be undervalued, either. Several North Cackalackians are alive today because of it. California and/or Nevada and/or Colorado….here I come (giggity).

litre_cola

Hear hear.

Sharkbait

This season of Sunny has not disappointed yet.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I’m about to watch tonight’s as soon as this terrible movie ends.
Then…..
JEFFREY LEBOWSKI

Senor Weaselo

Knicks off the timeout go bad possession but get the rebound, turnover leading to layup, turnover. That’s actually kinda impressive in its sucking.

Sharkbait

I hate the fucking Flyers

Senor Weaselo

That third period was disappointing. On the other hand, I do have Mason on my fantasy team…

Sharkbait

Should’ve been up 1 or 2 after the 2nd.

Wakezilla

I’ve hated them ever since the Mark Recchi- John Leclair trade.

On a related note, fuck John Leclair

The Maestro

Caber tossing! I used to get shittered drunk and do that a lot. My roommate was in the fife and drum corps at Fort Henry in Kingston, ON, and the official cabers lived in our living room. We ended up permanently fucking them up when we killed a big bottle of rum and tossed them around a gravel parking lot and split the ends so badly they couldn’t be fixed.

Great fucking sport.

King Hippo
Unsurprised

I *hate* Obama being the Chill Black Guy-in-Chief. He was the bloodless moderate technocrats’ dream President – a man who sacrificed everything for trinkets and swore they were the best he could do. A man who let his organizational machine be brutally murdered by incompetent fools and mercenary apparatchiks who can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory when it’s handed to them and still reap fortunes from their shitweasel Democratic clients who equally do not give a fuck about you or me or anything but themselves.

FUCK. FUCK YOU. FUCK EVERYTHING. I SWORE I WOULDN’T TALK ABOUT THIS SHIT ANYMORE.

WCS

Fight Milk and Wolf Cola!

Big Black Richard

“Your comment is in moderation.”

All I did was directly quote Robert Burns.

(“Moderation” is the filthiest expletive Jim Irsay has ever heard.)

Big Black Richard

We can’t let mention of Robert Burns pass without paying tribute to his favorite poem of mine — a little verse called Nae Hair On’t.

Yestreen I wed a lady fair,
An ye wad believe me,
On her cunt there grows nae hair,
That’s the thing that grieves me.

It vex’d me sair, it plagu’d me sair.
It put me in a passion,
To think that I had wed a wife,
Whose cunt was out o’ fashion.

Unsurprised

Marrying 12 years olds was common back then. People forget that.

Wakezilla

Jist a reminder, if you’re sick, don’t hug or touch another person’s baby because you will get that baby sick. Common sense lost on people. My daughter was hugged by a family friend, who may or may not disappear soon because she has a bad cold and got my 5 month old sick.

Senor Weaselo

We know nothing!

Unsurprised

OR …

We know he didn’t do anything, because he was with me and OSZ and PirateSloth and BBR and even Beastmode came down and we all got shithouse drunk and smoked the entire Pacific Northwest out of ganj

King Hippo

oh, just wait until you first put the wee one in pre-school. And you and the entire household get to sneeze and shit through every virus known to man.

Nice thing is, your immune system is pretty kickass after that. And you don’t send no wuss into kindergarten!

herodotus450

/Furiously cancels Juice Loosener order for Wakezilla

Curse of Marino
WCS

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Curse of Marino
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“I’ve got some. Don’t use it all, though, I need some for, uh, other stuff.”

– Ray Lewis

Senor Weaselo

Who needs to know how voter registration laws and who’s actually eligible to vote work anyway?

litre_cola

I am a 1st generation Canuck and the rest of the family is from Pitlochrie and Perthshire. I fucking love Haggis. A pub down the road serves a fantastic plate with neeps and tatties. Off I go for dinner and a dram. All the best to all of ye.

ballsofsteelandfury

I’m Mexican and I LOVE haggis!

Sharkbait

Never had it, willing to try it.

jjfozz

I want to take a fishbat and beat Tom Brady’s skull into a pulpy mass of blood and brains.

Senor Weaselo

Lucille would not be enough punishment.

Sharkbait

You can try to block out that hood ornament, Enterprise. But you and I both know that’s an Aston Martin and there’s NO WAY you ACTUALLY rent those cars.

Senor Weaselo

Evening all. St. John’s… wins?

Sharkbait
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

What do you think is a better term for Trump’s policy initiatives: the “War on Science” or the “War on Intelligence”?

WCS

War on Reality

Sharkbait
Unsurprised

I guess it wouldn’t perhaps be that a pro golfer in a golfing community may have been recognized. Nah. It was a goddamn racial and political conspiracy.

That’s also not voter fraud, it’s voter suppression. And if Trump wants to open that door, which he has actually done now, then by all means – let’s talk voter suppression.

Brick Meathook

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Curse of Marino

I got a good chuckle out of that

Unsurprised

Some sweetness to go with the filth.
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Unsurprised

Oh, yeah. That’s the stuff. Sometimes something useful arises from even the murkiest cesspool.
Q: What two actors would you like to see work together who haven’t?

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Unsurprised

It’s like Bill Hicks’s ideal cut of Basic Instinct, only times a million.

WCS

King Hippo

does this need investors?? b/c I gots $12 imaginary comin’ my way and this is a GOLD MINE!!

ThursdaySkyGoddess
Sharkbait

As if I needed an excuse to drink more whisk(e)y

Unsurprised
WCS

ThursdaySkyGoddess

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Unsurprised

Roger Goodell is a national disgrace. People forget that.