Your Scattered Thursday Night Open Thread

Just feast your eyes on that glorious 100th year throwback Giants uniform. It’s got everything-crisp lines, easy-to-see numbers for the older fans, primary colors out the ying yang… Okay fine, they look far more like a Canadiens jersey that Howie Morenz may have worn back in 1924. I will not be spending any money on that travesty. Sheesh, even the 70’s unis that those shitty Giants teams wore look better than that. Hot take, I know.

Obit Time:

Darren Dutchyshen, nicknamed “Dutchy” believe it or not, was a staple on TSN since 1995. He passed away due to prostate cancer yesterday. I’d have bet my last loonie that it would have been complications from long-term steroid use because that guy was incredibly jacked during his entire tenure.

Obit #2:

Alice Munro, Canadian short story writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013 also passed away recently. Her concise stories of women’s inner lives were a revelation to me. How she could write with such a deft touch about relationships and then almost take your breath away in the final few sentences is a gift that few have.

Cars: The Sequel:

Chiefs rookie wr Xavier Worthy had his vehicle stolen tudder day. This may come as a shock to you but no member of the Kansas City organization injured a young child, left the scene of an accident or was charged with a crime!

Basketball:

Joker and The Nuglets can close out Minny tonight.

Hockey:

Edmonton and Vancouver are tied at two games apiece and I’ve had to listen to fly-by-night hockey fans say, “why do two Canadian teams have to play each other? That’s one less chance that one of our teams will be in the final!” Stop it with the silly questions/observations.

Hockey Again:

The Stumbling Rangers can end their series but the tide is turning.

This is your abridged version. Good night.

 

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rockingdog

Found a funny:

I came here to sing Air Supply and kick ass, and I’m all out of love.

Dunstan

Well, you can always make love (out of nothing at all).

WCS

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rockingdog

Money is like shit. If we spread it around, it functions as fertilizer, enabling incredible ideas to sprout and grow. If instead we just pile it up into mountains, it stinks and all the great stuff that could sprout and flourish is starved of nutrients.

That’s Rocking!

Horatio Cornblower

Man, it’s like they saw this coming.

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Horatio Cornblower

Wow, that disappeared faster than Carolina’s 3rd period lead.

Hey-O!

Horatio Cornblower

I need to see more Carolina fans in tears. Those tears sustain me.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

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Dunstan

Did you learn nothing from Canada’s best musicians?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJN3u1wAWIk

litre_cola

Oh dear God I forgot about that We are the World Canadian wannabe.

WCS
Sharkbait

Won $11 on that series. Not sure why the Rangers were underdogs in that series but whatever. I’ll take it

fleshwound_NPG

nerds (and therefore vegas) really, really love vichy whalers for their shot volume generation

it is just fucking cotton candy

fleshwound_NPG

rangers can only succeed in years oj simpson makes major headlines and i got some real bad news for them after this season

Brick Meathook
Horatio Cornblower

One time in a handshake line after a soccer game my brother came up on a kid from the other team who’d been cheap-shotting kids all game. Punched him right in the face.

What I’m saying is that the Stanley Cup handshake lines could be a lot more entertaining.

Dunstan

I punched a kid in the stomach once in the handshake line. Not real hard, but enough that he knew it wasn’t an accident.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Gotta save that for the deciding game of the Finals.

fleshwound_NPG
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

[activates] – Lowratio’s PTSD

Horatio Cornblower

Mrs. Horatio has made certain threats if I play this again.

I’m playing it again.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

[runs through the clubhouse wearing nothing but a “Whalers 4EVR” bandana wrapped around his wing-wang]

– Horatio Cornblower

fleshwound_NPG

maybe wearing the shittiest jersey in your wardrobe for home playoff games is not a good idea

Doktor Zymm

The NFL schedulers have given Leonard Floyd the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever

Horatio Cornblower

I’m just so happy right now.

King Hippo

post-game Hee Haw is gonna be so Sad Panda smgdh

WCS

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King Hippo

Vichy fall apart? That’s UNPOSSIBLE!

Horatio Cornblower

THIS CAROLINA COLLAPSE I CALL IT D-DAY BECAUSE…ah shit, you all know where this one’s going.

Horatio Cornblower

“They just stood there while the Rangers went right around them!! Who could have seen this coming!?!?”

Horatio Cornblower

Ypres!

Sharkbait

NOT OVER YET

fleshwound_NPG

lol fuck tda

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Dunstan

Fuck Chris Kreider.

Horatio Cornblower

Counterpoint: I am donating to his kids’ college fund.

fleshwound_NPG

oh we will be seeing that crying canes kid on the internet in about 5 minutes, thank you tnt

Doktor Zymm

I just organized my Chicago box o’ cables, very satisfying!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I would be all for renaming the White Sox the Chicago Box O Cables

Horatio Cornblower

If this score hold this game might replace USA-USSR in Lake Placid as my favorite hockey game ever.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I presume the change in the score hasn’t affected this sentiment?

Horatio Cornblower

It just makes it sweeter, Rikki.

It just makes it sweeter.

Horatio Cornblower

Welp, bad news everyone: that goal means I have to join the priesthood.

Doktor Zymm

Which one?

fleshwound_NPG

oh what a bedshitting

WCS

TRIPLE OT PLEASE AND THANK YOU

Horatio Cornblower

Rangers hell, it’s the Chris Kreider show.

Horatio Cornblower

This game makes me remember the Whalers.

Not because the fat fuck Karmanos moved the Whalers to Carolina, but because the Ranger’s power play is just as incompetent as what I used to pay good money to see in that shopping mall in Hartford.

Horatio Cornblower

YES, FUCKING NAILED IT!!!

YOU SUCK RNAGERS, NO WAY YOU CAN DO THAT AGAIN!!! BOOOOOOOO TEAM IN RED-WHITE-AND-BLUE!!!! BOOOO I SAY!!!

Horatio Cornblower

This commercial where the guy criticizes the other because he doesn’t have his 6-week-old on skates yet is one of the most accurate depictions of hockey parents I’ve ever seen.

The most psychotic group of people this side of the Hell’s Angels, and at least the Hell’s Angels might help you change a tire.

Doktor Zymm

The Hell’s Angels have better jackets too

Dunstan

A friend of mine has become a big time Hockey Dad. Regularly texts me and another friend with the results of each game. “1 goal, 1 assist, and held the other team’s best forward to two shot attempts.” I’m waiting for him to break out the advanced stats. Damnit I want to know zone entry percentage!

Already one of his twins has quit hockey. Gee, I wonder why.

Horatio Cornblower

I could always tell you what my son had done in his baseball games.

I just didn’t.* Because who wants to be that guy?

*Unless it was really funny.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

The Dr. Mrs.’ cousin tried to get her to come watch one of her kids’ hockey games. She conjured a scheduling conflict to avoid it, and the cousing got the hint and didn’t ask again.

Horatio Cornblower

Those cigarettes weren’t going to get themselves, son.

Horatio Cornblower

I should insult the Rangers’ efforts more often.

Try harder you fucking pigs!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Is there anything more relaxing than sipping a bourbon and coke and watching your dog struggle to stay awake and fail?

Horatio Cornblower

Drinking a beer and watching my cat go through catnip withdrawal?

Horatio Cornblower

I dunno, if I were the Rangers I might have tried showing up for this game.

Mr. Ayo

Timely!

LemonJello

They’re biding their time until Game 8.

WCS

THEY’RE THAT FUCKING STOOPID ENOUGH GOD DAMN IT I HATE THESE ASSHOLES

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Horatio Cornblower

Ah, the ol’ Maple Leafs strategy!

WCS

That puck might have broken through the atmosphere.

WCS

Vichy Whale playing a game of three-bar. Left post remaining.

Doktor Zymm

Oh, Canada, smh

King Hippo

Everything’s a comin’ up VICHY!*

*until they very predictably lose Game 7 in Noo Yawk

fleshwound_NPG
Horatio Cornblower

Banner this. ACAB!

litre_cola

At 7 year Olds futbol. The parents small talk around me makes me want to throat punch a dozen people

SonOfSpam

Must be difficult to see the action, being 500 feet away.

WCS

I’m curious how this impacts the Leafs’ coaching search.

Game Time Decision

If he goes undefeated in soccer, he’ll be on the short list
*TSN does 4 hour panel on how this is a good thing

fleshwound_NPG

the leafs should be fine making a list of possible coaches this summer as long as they have a steady supply of crayons

the blue ones taste better to them

WCS

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Game Time Decision

Noise cancelling headphones are your friend

fleshwound_NPG

kid turns 4 next week and oh man i do not look forward to such bullshit in the future

Doktor Zymm

Make up horrifying medical problems and just casually drop them in to the conversation

WCS

Keeping mumbling something about “brain lesions/demons.”

Horatio Cornblower

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litre_cola

The most dull pratter. I had always heard about suburb types who talk about ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for long stretches of time.

fleshwound_NPG

THESE STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS LEMME TELL YA I CALL THEM UNDERAGE HIGH SCHOOL KIDS DRINKING BECAUSE IT SEEMS NOBODY CAN MAKE IT PAST THE SECOND ROUND

Game Time Decision

How many bald eagles is that

WCS

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I despise these ice squadrons so very, very much. The Vichy Whalers are an affront to The Force. Ice Giants are quite literally the Dallas Non Gendered Cowpersons of Gary Bettman’s fiefdom. Both are so, utterly, frustratingly inane.

Brick Meathook

I discovered the BilliardTV channel and now I’m totally into watching billiards on TV.

https://ibb.co/pXYzbHt

fleshwound_NPG

everybody, spring 2024: why didnt uconn recruit caitlin clark, wonder what her and paige bueckers on the same squad would have been like

wnba, spring 2025: guess what

fleshwound_NPG

the smol numbers of the gints jerseys make it look like they shrunk in the wash and look like a kids uniform

if only eli was still around

Horatio Cornblower

They look like USFL uniforms.

Horatio Cornblower

I just read Munro’s ‘Dance of the Happy Shades’ a month or so ago. She could write the shit out of a short story.

King Hippo

Arsenal pipped me to the 2246-47 title. 2247-48? Suffice to say Gilkey’s men are giving him the desired reaction. 21 points clear after 26 rounds.

Brick Meathook
ballsofsteelandfury

A friend of mine is going to Munich. Any tips on what to see/visit?

SonOfSpam

I heard they have a fest celebrating Oktober.

Brick Meathook
Horatio Cornblower

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