You know it’s a unique day when I had to fight WordPress to get it to accept February 29 in its calendar. Anyway, I was bored so here a few

Leap Day Historical Facts!

  • 1980 – Gordie Howe scores his 800th NHL goal.  
    • He’d score one more in his career, giving him 801 & the NHL record until Wayne Gretzky breaks it.
    • Because he was a Hartford Whaler when he did it, there’s only one sound effect that matters:

Other important February 29th events:

  • 1796 – The Jay Treaty comes into effect between Britain & the USA.
    • Properly known as The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America (the Jay Treaty is not so much a mouthful), it helped settle trade disputes after the Revolution as well as the the boundary between Canada – technically, “British North America” – and the USA vis-à-vis the 13 colonies.
    • A side effect is that it allowed, via its language & subsequent legislation, Native Indians born in Canada to be entitled to freely enter the United States for the purpose of employment, study, retirement, investing, and/or immigration.
      • Article III of the Treaty stated that Great Britain and the United States would allow First Nations people to live on either side of the newly established border and to freely cross the border.
      • For immigration purposes, the person must be 50% aboriginal, as such evidence would include either an identification card from the Ministry of Indian and Northern Affairs or a written statement from an official of the tribe from which they or their ancestors originated.
      • It’s a right still enforced today.
  • 1916 – In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from twelve to fourteen years old.
    • There were strenuous objections from the SC senators, who argued for state & local governance over a federal imposition.
    • In context, marriages under age 16 were only prohibited by state law in 2019.
      • The age of consent had been raised in South Carolina from age 10 in 1880 to age 16 by 1920.
  • 1936 – The “Pocket Rocket” Henri Richard is born.
    • Fifteen years younger than his elder brother, Maurice “Rocket” Richard, he played 20 years for the Habs & won 11 Cups, the most by any one player.

Tonight’s sports:

  • NHL:
    • Canucks at Leafs – 7:00PM | CBC / Sportsnet
    • Hurricanes at Habs – 7:00PM | CityTV
    • Red Wings at Senators – 7:00PM | Sportsnet1
    • Jets at Oilers – 10:00PM | CBC
  • NBA:
    • Rockets at Celtics – 8:30PM | ABC
  • NCAA: highlighted matchups
    • Duke at Virginia – 6:00PM | ESPN
    • DePaul at Butler – 6:30PM | FS1
    • Michigan State at Maryland – 8:00PM | ESPN
    • Arizona at UCLA – 10:00PM | ESPN
    • St. Mary’s (Cal.) at Gonzaga – 10:00PM | ESPN2
  • Fútbol:
    • MLS Soccer:
      • Nashville SC vs. Atlanta United – 8:30PM | FOX / TSN4
      • Whitecaps FC vs. Sporting KC – 10:30PM | TSN
    • Liga MX:
      • Club América vs. Necaxa – 7:55PM | UNI
      • Tigres UANL vs. UNAM – 9:55PM | UNI
  • XFL Football:
    • Seattle Dragons at St. Louis Battlehawks – 5:00PM | FOX
  • Fisticuffs:
    • UFC Fight Night: Benavidez vs. Figueiredo
      • Prelims – 6:00PM | TSN2 / ESPN+
      • Main Card – 8:00PM | TSN2 / ESPN+
    • AEW Revolution – PPV

Tonight’s TV:

  • Saturday Night Live – 11:30PM ET / 8:30PM PT – NBC / Global
    • Host: John Mulaney
    • Musical guest: David Byrne

I will be out at a bar watching the AEW show, hopefully enjoying myself & not getting roped into some sort of physical confrontation. I will keep you posted.

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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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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Let’s rock.

blaxabbath

I don’t really care if UA loses this game to UCLA because a Bruins win would put the nail in ASU’s conference championship hopes. That said, UCLA has the most fair-weather, obnoxious, “lowercase f” Fans in all of sports.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Gratliff

Looks like that was the annual Loser Tours With Fozzy match
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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Ah, the long awaited followup to the “Save the Cheerleader” tour.

Unsurprised

Unreal

h

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ballsofsteelandfury

Photoshop?

Unsurprised

Nope. It’s an outtake from the Treats shoot she did when she was 18.

h

ttps://giant.gfycat.com/SociableCooperativeEel.mp4

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Yep, sure, I’ll take another.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Never know how the night might end up.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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THERE, THAT’S BETTER.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Unsurprised

h

ttps://giant.gfycat.com/CompassionateMistyArrowana.mp4

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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GODDAMNIT!!

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Gratliff

Chris Jericho sung to the ring by a choir doing the top single by his band. I stan a legend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqURPBtGJzg

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Gratliff

It had all the greatest hits, including the Cody Rhodes Memorial Over-Booked NWA Special. The tag match was the standout, especially with that perfect heel turn tease.

blaxabbath

We’ve been here 8 months and I think I’m finally ready to set up my downstairs “office” which is annoyingly a room right when you walk in the house with glass French doors so you can’t ignore it. On top of that, it’s the room the dogs use because I put the dog door in there and it’s the room I can sequester them to when we have company and don’t want to deal with their spazzing.

So far all I’ve got is a “Raiders Fan Parking ONLY” sign.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Unsurprised

it’s the room the dogs use

“Raiders Fan Parking ONLY” sign.

How appropriate.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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“That is NOT what I meant, Mike!”

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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“Damn it; if one of my tits fall out we’ll have to do another god damn take.”

Unsurprised

Stupid censors. ABC would’ve benefited from her showing off her tits.

h

ttps://giant.gfycat.com/WhichUnselfishCurlew.mp4

ballsofsteelandfury

Whoa! I heard Moose cum all the way from California!

ballsofsteelandfury

Who the hell downvoted this? You’re insane, whoever you are.

Or are you related to Lynda Carter?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Sean Penn in 8th grade.

Apparently.

WCS

Has anyone seen Jodie Foster and Sean Penn in the same room at the same time?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

-Priest in the early 70s

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

JFC I’m in a great mood.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Gratliff

How bad was tonight for Pete Buttigieg?

He went to Allendale County in December.

"I know that as somebody who’s new on the scene, I’ve got to earn that trust and we’ve got to have those conversations," he told Dems there.

Nine people in the county voted for him tonight. pic.twitter.com/RHL3iyrEgn

— Dan Merica (@merica) March 1, 2020

Unsurprised

On a dare?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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The one mask appears to be eating a Vienna Sausage.

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Gratliff

Cody Rhodes got a really stupid tattoo and I’m happy Dusty didn’t have to see it
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MURKA!!

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Just watched most of the movie Anna, not that great of a movie but I sure did enjoy depictions of a women shooting a lot of men in the head.

Not sure if it is related, but apparently Kirk Douglas brutally raped Natalie Wood when she was 16. The world is a beautiful place…… apparently.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

ALLEGEDLY.

Nothing like that has ever been covered up.

litre_cola

Everyone is on the straight and narrow if Bahamian islands taught me anything.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

“Nothing to see here, let’s move along.”

“Or hear either, people.”

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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“Ummm, dude!”

Unsurprised

Pete Buttigieg may be the first Democrat to get a negative percentage of the African American vote.

Gratliff

At some point, it goes from being funny to being sad, then all the way back to funny.

Unsurprised

Not a lot of people out around town.

I can’t imagine why.

rockingdog

Found a funny:
DEATH: You’re grounded! Get back here!
DEATH’S DAUGHTER: Whatever. *gets on motorcycle, zooms across tightrope*
DEATH: HOW DARE YOU DEFY ME!

WCS
theeWeeBabySeamus

TJ likes it like that.
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

That’s a pretty good spankin’….

theeWeeBabySeamus

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WCS

Where’d you find footage of my hockey career?

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rockingdog

Celtics up by 14
Jason tatum should tap into kobe brain and just start getting his

Gratliff

lol Tom Steyer just spent a ton of money just to see how well he could do in literally one state before dropping out

Gratliff

New plan for eliminating the billionaire class: National elections every year

Tom Steyer had spent $253.7 million on his campaign as of the end of January, FEC reports show. – h/t @CarrieNBCNews

— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) March 1, 2020

herodotus450

At this rate Ottawa might catch San Jose.
/This is an hilarious hockey joke, in case you don’t get it.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Any season when Arizona isn’t dead last is hilarious.
But at least HockeyTown is mathematically eliminated.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I have a sneaking suspicion that most of you will like me more again when I’m allowed to start drinking again on March 3rd.
Woooooo Sobriety!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm-ISatLDG0

Gratliff

I was sent to a Costco to see if people are stocking up (even though health officials say it’s not necessary) in case COVID-19 gets more serious here. This guy came out of the store with 16 boxes of condoms and a big jar of coconut oil. We all have priorities. pic.twitter.com/C3edUsgZzH

— Jill Bennett (@jillreports) February 29, 2020

rockingdog

Kind of interested in this rockets celtics game

theeWeeBabySeamus

You guys thought we were done with Disco last night, didn’t ya?
Hehehehe….suckers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARt9HV9T0w8

Gratliff

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Gratliff

So are we eventually gonna get Pete or Amy to drop out or is literally every one of them going to wait it out and hope for a brokered convention?

Gratliff

And jesus christ, Tulsi. Go home.

WCS

Gabbard, too. I didn’t realize she was still running.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Wait, there’s a Tulsi and a Gabbard?

/is disappointed she hasn’t lost out to people who have already withdrawn.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I’m pretty tanked right now. I was going to have another shot if Bernie crossed 20% in South Carolina, but looks like Diamond Joe is back from Mexico, baby.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Is it OK if we start calling him “joey”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpRfq7xHstg

Spur
Gratliff

I have one goal as a wrestling fan, and that’s to never be the guy walking around an arena with a replica belt over my shoulder like I stopped aging emotionally at 13.

Gratliff

Looks like Tom Steyer got that Juvenile bump

Redshirt

XFL 2.0’s Contrubutions to Society: an original 1-, 2- and 3-point conversion idea and a chance to St. Louis to show the NFL that its still a football town.

WCS

This game is actually pretty entertaining.

Redshirt

The games are good. If they were played in stadiums with 40,000 capacities, it wouldn’t feel so cavernous you would feel the crowd’s energy.

herodotus450

Scotchy’s Sens are in for it tonight

scotchnaut

Your dirty Swede’s are no match for our AHL All Stars!

herodotus450

Hey all our dirtiest Swede’s happen to be on LTIR at the moment, so there.

scotchnaut

You sure showed me, smgdh…

Horatio Cornblower

XFL FIGHT!!! XFL FIGHT!!!

BahGawd, that’s He Hate Me’s music!

Horatio Cornblower

I’ve barely been out of the house for 2 full days and I am slowly going insane. I do not know how shut-ins do it.

Gratliff

Your first mistake was to stop masturbating

litre_cola

So much Whalers on this post Horatio for sure has an erection and could probably use some “alone” time.

Horatio Cornblower

Stop?

Redshirt

That’s your answer to everything!

Redshirt

Someone has way too much free time on their hands.

http://hankehenryontime.com/html/calendar.html

Also, October 31st and all Friday the 13ths would be gone. Plus, we would get a February 30th.

herodotus450

And every six years there’s just an extra week? That’s so much less jarring than an extra day every 4 years (unless the year is divisible by 100 (or something like that))

Gratliff

My favorite wrestling trope is when they do montages of wrestlers training with actual fighters to prepare for a match. Even better when Jericho starts shooting off at the mouth about them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiY23ja3Iu0

Gratliff
theeWeeBabySeamus

I once dated Gordie Howe’s niece. She kept calling him uncle Gordie.
Obviously I had to end that relationship, but not until I actually met Uncle Gordie.
Good Dude.

Horatio Cornblower

Um, what else would she have called him?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Well sure. But it was constant. Uncle Gordie this, Uncle Gordie that. Uncle Gordie used to say. It was literally out of her mouth every 5 minutes.

Yes, I’m a yuuuuuuge hockey fan. But you’re kinda hot if you’d stop saying Uncle Gordie.

theeWeeBabySeamus

How she ended up in Raleigh, NC I have no idea. I guess she and Uncle Gordie followed the Whalers south.

/ducks rotten fruit thrown from Hartford

Horatio Cornblower

Howe, I think, had some sort of honorary, no-show job with the franchise. Good for him. I hope he stole as much of the cocksucker Karmanos’s money as he could.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Me too, actually.

scotchnaut

“Whooooosh!”

-sound made by rotten fruit

Horatio Cornblower

Yeah, the name dropping would get old fast.

But would I do the same goddamn thing if my uncle was Gordie Freaking Howe? Yes. Yes I would.

theeWeeBabySeamus

She had bigger tits than you and I still got tired of it.

Gumbygirl

We have the sports edition of Trivial Pursuit that came out sometime in the 80’s. It’s a joke in our house that every answer for the hockey questions was Gordie Fucking Howe. We ended up mixing those cards in with the regular game, because you could play for days with no winner!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

We have the Genus edition from the 80’s and it’s the same with Entertainment with the answer being “The Beatles.”

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

It was literally out of her mouth every 5 minutes.

I don’t know why you would end such a perfect arrangement, but you do you, I guess.

Gratliff

Looking forward to Big Boss walking away with it tonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw6uzxFi-ak

Senor Weaselo