We're just proud of who we are!! (Nordiques means Northerners)
Mal: Zoe, why do I have a wife? Jayne: You got a wife? All I got is that dumbass stick sounds like its raining. How come you got a wife?
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sue - Jun 15, 2011 9:27:36 am PDT #12821 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Consuela - Jun 15, 2011 9:28:39 am PDT #12822 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Fucking' hipsters.
Heh. I'm still amused at my niece's upset about hipsters invading Oakland. I tend not to think of it as a very hip place, although the food scene is definitely getting hipper.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 15, 2011 9:32:40 am PDT #12823 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
So New Yorkers apparently also have no imagination. See also, Yankees and Metropolitans.
Or possibly, New Yorkers are secretly Canadian!
Kathy A - Jun 15, 2011 9:32:57 am PDT #12824 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I love the fact that our soccer team is the Chicago Fire. Don't know too many other cities that would name a pro sports team after a catastrophe.
Jesse - Jun 15, 2011 9:33:47 am PDT #12825 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm just picturing all of the first team meetings, with the guys looking around saying, "OK, so who are we? Uh, I guess we're.... Americans! (/Canucks/Knickerbockers/etc.)"
-t - Jun 15, 2011 9:33:51 am PDT #12826 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Kathy, San Jose Quakes
§ ita § - Jun 15, 2011 9:36:21 am PDT #12827 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Don't know too many other cities that would name a pro sports team after a catastrophe.
Miami Hurricanes.
I like that the Canadiens are called the Habs, but which one was named first? In my head, if Vancouver was second, it was because they were listless and uninventive. If it was Montreal second, they were just flipping le oiseau by refusing to acknowledge the rest of the country actually exists.
amych - Jun 15, 2011 9:37:05 am PDT #12828 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I love the fact that our soccer team is the Chicago Fire. Don't know too many other cities that would name a pro sports team after a catastrophe.
Be proud of your Fire! The Hurricanes moved/renamed here the year after Hurricane Floyd came through, and there was a fair bit of, "maybe too soon?"... but by now they're just named after a season rather than a single event.
Sue - Jun 15, 2011 9:41:16 am PDT #12829 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I like that the Canadiens are called the Habs, but which one was named first? In my head, if Vancouver was second, it was because they were listless and uninventive.
The Canucks are a relatively young team, from the 1970's expansion. Les Habitants have been around since the teens, '20s? ETA: Wikipedia says 1909 for The Candiens.
brenda m - Jun 15, 2011 9:42:01 am PDT #12830 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
In my head, if Vancouver was second, it was because they were listless and uninventive.
Definitely second. Canucks are a modern-era expansion team. The Habs go back nearly to the turn of the (last) century.
ETA:
The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, formally Le Club de Hockey Canadien, was founded on December 4, 1909. It is the oldest professional hockey franchise in the world,[1] and one of the four founding teams of the National Hockey League (NHL).