whereas hockey players have great balance from all those years of moving v. quickly, and often backwards, while wearing thin metal blades, and moving on a slippery surface. Plus? They're born to fight.
Hockey is like rugby, but faster, and with walls to crash into.
Also, on ice.
Cindy, Nutty and Nora have nailed the essence of my love of hockey. Although I'm quite enjoying the beginning of football season, too.
I live in the Central Time zone, and it's weird to me that 3/4ths of the earth is ahead of us, time-wise.
cereal to add: Happy (antipodean) Birthday, billytea!!!
It's hip to be square.
Suddenly I thought of another worst song canidate.
Timelies. I have skipped like Hec in a dirndl. Happiest of birthdays to those that have had them.
Hockey is like rugby, but faster, and with walls to crash into. And yes, throw-a-punch, buy-him-a-beer type of insane camaraderie.
Word, and why I love both games so.
Yay work-team-msbelle! I hope today will be nice to you.
Suddenly I thought of another worst song canidate.
Gah. I didn't mean to associate BT in any way with a worst song candidate.
BTW, do folks know that it's no fun being an illegal alien?
How come some Orthodox Jews give importance to a general date, with the years counted with regards (in whatever way) to Jesus, whom no Orthodox Jew that I know of likes?
Maybe they have a thing for nines the way some people have a thing for seventeen?
The mathy types will find this funny--I was on the computer last night and DH asked me to look up the definition of a math term for him. He wanted the specific definition of copula. I swear, I thought he said copulate--which is silly because I knew what that word meant but I thought there was som freakish math-related use of the word.
To be fair, though, I'd just spent five hours in a car with a toddler.
Suddenly I thought of another worst song candidate.
Today Max played a special on atrocious songs, entitled
What Were They Thinking?
I like that title. Anyway, I feel obliged to nominate the entire oeuvre of Michael Bolton, including "I Said I Loved You (But I Lied)", and "I Want To Touch You... There".
Oh, and 70% of the hymnbook of the FAC.