“Useless Trivia”
Impress your co-workers, friends or classmates with virtually useless trivia.
During filming of the 1984 fantasy comedy splash starring Tom Hanks co-star Darrly Hannah had to film a scene when she violently ate a dish of lobsters. Being a vegetarian got her way when she asked director Ron Howard to place the lobster meat with tufu paste. It was placed in the shells of the lobsters and between takes she cried for the death of each and ever lobster that provided their shell for the film.
John Candy was supposed to get the role that went to Rick Morranis in Ghosbusters, but after various delays he was no longer available when the film started shooting.
The Legend of the Jersey Devil has him born in 1735 in Burlington
The golden arch for the McCdonald’s in Magnolia is one of the oldest in existence. That’s why its only one arch, instead of the double arches made into an M. It was moved from its original location which was about a mile down the pike from where it stands now near the Warwick Road intersection.
Years ago an internet rumor about Scott Baio dying in a car crash got so much circulation that radio stations picked it up. The rumor got so far that his parents called him up crying. He answered the phone saying he wasn’t dead for a few days. It was the same day that Chris Farley died. Scott Baio is alive and well many years later.
The long standing rumor that Mountain Dew lowers sperm count apparently changed in the last few years and actually had people thinking it could be used to prevent pregnancy. That is false if that were the true I would have more cases in my garage of the soft drink than Philly has pot holes.
The first year of the Flyers existence the roof off the newly build Spectrum blew off forcing the team to play many home games on the road.
In the early stages of the Flyers existence, they had a “support” team called the Jersey Devils. They played in Cherry Hill. My mom dated one of them, and was once offered a chance for a double date with Bob Clarke.
On the day I was born October 13, 1979 Michael Jackson’s song “Can’t Stop Till I Get Enough” hit number one.
Bald eagles can actually swim. They use an overhand movement of their wings that is very much like the butterfly stroke. There is one that sits on a post in the back waters of Sea Isle who I have seen on various fishing trips. He or I guess her build a nest there, but I have never seen the eagle showing off his or her swimming skills.
Liza has never seen a jellyfish.
Penguins used to able to fly and still have an organ above their eyes that turns saltwater into fresh water. I would imagine that’s a fun bar trick.
The South Jersey Highway Delsea drive got its name because of its destinations. It goes from Delaware to the Ocean. Its actually the street that takes you right into the heart of wildwood.
Drew once predicted that Jenna would be the downfall of the crew.
Consider yourself wiser now that you know all this stuff.
Thursday, May 08, 2003
Tuesday, May 06, 2003
“10 Things I Hate About Roman”
Okay, many of the 610 WIP people have been going to bat for the Flyers net minder all season long when the Flyers fans wanted his head his season. Philly isn’t exactly nice to goalies. You can’t blame them recent goalies such as Dominic Roussel and Tommy Soderstrom aren’t good enough to clean my toilet let alone win a cup for a team. Fans are like some one coming out of one bad relationship after another they keep looking for flaws in the current relationship. The relationship of the fans and CHECKO hasn’t been any thing to rival my long lasting friendship with my best friend in the world Jay.
Okay I am not going to say the goalie is the reason they Flyers got no where again this year, but it’s the reason that they won’t go any farther than they did. Of course their old legs, and horrible special teams would have doomed them anyway, but people should also realize that we never solved our goalie problems despite what the front office and the biased reports of the Flyers Comcast team might tell you.
1. I am sick of people comparing him to Hasek. Granted they are from the same part of the world, and they flip and flop a lot. However the recently retried Hasek had a better competitive edge, and his body was more flexible. He is lateral movements were incredible. He kept Buffalo alive for a few rounds each year despite their awful offense. His nickname is the Dominator and Cechmanek’s nickname is CHOKEMANEK.
2. People give him too much credit for his success this season. He has picked up an impressive amount of shot outs his time here. He tore up the Flyers all time shutout list in a mere two years. However a good deal of that has to do with the good defensive system (it fell apart in the post season) that the Flyers had in place. They did win the Jenny’s Throphy but that was because of the system it was more than goaltending. If you look at many of Roman’s shutouts they are when he faced very few shots and very savable ones at that. Times when the system only allowed a few shots from the blue line. The one victory this series that he had a shotout he earned, they other the Flyers defense did.
3. He is clearly here just for the money. That’s why he came here not to win a Stanley Cup, but to make a few million dollars. He didn’t come into the league until he was 31 if he wanted the Stanley Cup he would have came over here the first couple of times teams tried to make him an offer he couldn’t refuse. He hates living here more than Drew hates Bush.
4. He is inconstant he will make a the occasional eye-popping save, but he will let a goal in from the blueline even on occasion innocent dump ins.
5. He is easily rattled. You screen him he is done. You bump him he falls over and lays there like a wounded animal for a minute, even if he has the chance to get back to his skates he will lay flat on the ice.
6. He goes down way to quick a player comes over the blueline and he falls to his tummy. He gives them more net to shoot at. Sometimes the players will launch a shot off too quick and it will manage to hit him. Than Jim Jackson hollers and we all think he is the next Roy.
7. When he does go on a good run its mostly with bizarre looking slaves. It almost appears that he is letting himself get hit by a puck not saving the puck. Despite shutting teams out many times he never appears “UNBEATABLE” . It never gets to the point that the other teams think that he is shutting them down big time. People think its just luck, and sometime it is. They know once you get two goals past him he is done. He never rebounds from a bad goal. He also manages to let the puck in the net just at the wrong time to kill any momentum the Flyers had. Usually ones where people can’t imagine how someone could score from that distance or angle. Do you think anyone in the NHL actually fears him? Please he is a laughing stock, ask any outside fan visit other teams newsgroups. It is not just a philly negative thing.
8. Look at the replays of some of the goals he lets up. Sometimes its not lack of talent its lack of heart and total apathy. I think he might have A.D.D. or something, because his stance will be that of a goalie not facing a shot or in warm ups. The puck will go in and the most surprised person is usually Checko because he wasn’t either paying attention to the play, or wasn’t going to bother getting a good standing position until the players got farther into the zone. He plays better when he sees more shots, which is horrible.
9. Most the players on the team hate him. He doesn’t socialize with most of them.
10. He is another Hextall…a descent goalie at times. He can shutout the Ilsanders during the regular season so we can all see his great stats and not want to fault him for failure. But when push comes to shove and they need him to come up big he falls short. Sometimes after he comes up big he lets up a goal that shouldn’t have gone in erasing his previous effort. When it comes to Cup time he doesn’t make the saves he should. If you goalie doesn’t your done in this day in age that’s the bottom line. Who gives a damn if he shuts out Atlanta in December. Oh yeah and he is past his prime.
Note to Snider: Next time you wonder why you don’t make front pages of news papers anymore or why there are more empty seats in the FU center than disregarded pizza boxes at Dukes apartment look at every elimination game over the past 4 years.
Okay, many of the 610 WIP people have been going to bat for the Flyers net minder all season long when the Flyers fans wanted his head his season. Philly isn’t exactly nice to goalies. You can’t blame them recent goalies such as Dominic Roussel and Tommy Soderstrom aren’t good enough to clean my toilet let alone win a cup for a team. Fans are like some one coming out of one bad relationship after another they keep looking for flaws in the current relationship. The relationship of the fans and CHECKO hasn’t been any thing to rival my long lasting friendship with my best friend in the world Jay.
Okay I am not going to say the goalie is the reason they Flyers got no where again this year, but it’s the reason that they won’t go any farther than they did. Of course their old legs, and horrible special teams would have doomed them anyway, but people should also realize that we never solved our goalie problems despite what the front office and the biased reports of the Flyers Comcast team might tell you.
1. I am sick of people comparing him to Hasek. Granted they are from the same part of the world, and they flip and flop a lot. However the recently retried Hasek had a better competitive edge, and his body was more flexible. He is lateral movements were incredible. He kept Buffalo alive for a few rounds each year despite their awful offense. His nickname is the Dominator and Cechmanek’s nickname is CHOKEMANEK.
2. People give him too much credit for his success this season. He has picked up an impressive amount of shot outs his time here. He tore up the Flyers all time shutout list in a mere two years. However a good deal of that has to do with the good defensive system (it fell apart in the post season) that the Flyers had in place. They did win the Jenny’s Throphy but that was because of the system it was more than goaltending. If you look at many of Roman’s shutouts they are when he faced very few shots and very savable ones at that. Times when the system only allowed a few shots from the blue line. The one victory this series that he had a shotout he earned, they other the Flyers defense did.
3. He is clearly here just for the money. That’s why he came here not to win a Stanley Cup, but to make a few million dollars. He didn’t come into the league until he was 31 if he wanted the Stanley Cup he would have came over here the first couple of times teams tried to make him an offer he couldn’t refuse. He hates living here more than Drew hates Bush.
4. He is inconstant he will make a the occasional eye-popping save, but he will let a goal in from the blueline even on occasion innocent dump ins.
5. He is easily rattled. You screen him he is done. You bump him he falls over and lays there like a wounded animal for a minute, even if he has the chance to get back to his skates he will lay flat on the ice.
6. He goes down way to quick a player comes over the blueline and he falls to his tummy. He gives them more net to shoot at. Sometimes the players will launch a shot off too quick and it will manage to hit him. Than Jim Jackson hollers and we all think he is the next Roy.
7. When he does go on a good run its mostly with bizarre looking slaves. It almost appears that he is letting himself get hit by a puck not saving the puck. Despite shutting teams out many times he never appears “UNBEATABLE” . It never gets to the point that the other teams think that he is shutting them down big time. People think its just luck, and sometime it is. They know once you get two goals past him he is done. He never rebounds from a bad goal. He also manages to let the puck in the net just at the wrong time to kill any momentum the Flyers had. Usually ones where people can’t imagine how someone could score from that distance or angle. Do you think anyone in the NHL actually fears him? Please he is a laughing stock, ask any outside fan visit other teams newsgroups. It is not just a philly negative thing.
8. Look at the replays of some of the goals he lets up. Sometimes its not lack of talent its lack of heart and total apathy. I think he might have A.D.D. or something, because his stance will be that of a goalie not facing a shot or in warm ups. The puck will go in and the most surprised person is usually Checko because he wasn’t either paying attention to the play, or wasn’t going to bother getting a good standing position until the players got farther into the zone. He plays better when he sees more shots, which is horrible.
9. Most the players on the team hate him. He doesn’t socialize with most of them.
10. He is another Hextall…a descent goalie at times. He can shutout the Ilsanders during the regular season so we can all see his great stats and not want to fault him for failure. But when push comes to shove and they need him to come up big he falls short. Sometimes after he comes up big he lets up a goal that shouldn’t have gone in erasing his previous effort. When it comes to Cup time he doesn’t make the saves he should. If you goalie doesn’t your done in this day in age that’s the bottom line. Who gives a damn if he shuts out Atlanta in December. Oh yeah and he is past his prime.
Note to Snider: Next time you wonder why you don’t make front pages of news papers anymore or why there are more empty seats in the FU center than disregarded pizza boxes at Dukes apartment look at every elimination game over the past 4 years.
“10 Things I Hate About Roman”
Okay, many of the 610 WIP people have been going to bat for the Flyers net minder all season long when the Flyers fans wanted his head his season. Philly isn’t exactly nice to goalies. You can’t blame them recent goalies such as Dominic Roussel and Tommy Soderstrom aren’t good enough to clean my toilet let alone win a cup for a team. Fans are like some one coming out of one bad relationship after another they keep looking for flaws in the current relationship. The relationship of the fans and CHECKO hasn’t been any thing to rival my long lasting friendship with my best friend in the world Jay.
Okay I am not going to say the goalie is the reason they Flyers got no where again this year, but it’s the reason that they won’t go any farther than they did. Of course their old legs, and horrible special teams would have doomed them anyway, but people should also realize that we never solved our goalie problems despite what the front office and the biased reports of the Flyers Comcast team might tell you.
1. I am sick of people comparing him to Hasek. Granted they are from the same part of the world, and they flip and flop a lot. However the recently retried Hasek had a better competitive edge, and his body was more flexible. He is lateral movements were incredible. He kept Buffalo alive for a few rounds each year despite their awful offense. His nickname is the Dominator and Cechmanek’s nickname is CHOKEMANEK.
2. People give him too much credit for his success this season. He has picked up an impressive amount of shot outs his time here. He tore up the Flyers all time shutout list in a mere two years. However a good deal of that has to do with the good defensive system (it fell apart in the post season) that the Flyers had in place. They did win the Jenny’s Throphy but that was because of the system it was more than goaltending. If you look at many of Roman’s shutouts they are when he faced very few shots and very savable ones at that. Times when the system only allowed a few shots from the blue line. The one victory this series that he had a shotout he earned, they other the Flyers defense did.
3. He is clearly here just for the money. That’s why he came here not to win a Stanley Cup, but to make a few million dollars. He didn’t come into the league until he was 31 if he wanted the Stanley Cup he would have came over here the first couple of times teams tried to make him an offer he couldn’t refuse. He hates living here more than Drew hates Bush.
4. He is inconstant he will make a the occasional eye-popping save, but he will let a goal in from the blueline even on occasion innocent dump ins.
5. He is easily rattled. You screen him he is done. You bump him he falls over and lays there like a wounded animal for a minute, even if he has the chance to get back to his skates he will lay flat on the ice.
6. He goes down way to quick a player comes over the blueline and he falls to his tummy. He gives them more net to shoot at. Sometimes the players will launch a shot off too quick and it will manage to hit him. Than Jim Jackson hollers and we all think he is the next Roy.
7. When he does go on a good run its mostly with bizarre looking slaves. It almost appears that he is letting himself get hit by a puck not saving the puck. Despite shutting teams out many times he never appears “UNBEATABLE” . It never gets to the point that the other teams think that he is shutting them down big time. People think its just luck, and sometime it is. They know once you get two goals past him he is done. He never rebounds from a bad goal. He also manages to let the puck in the net just at the wrong time to kill any momentum the Flyers had. Usually ones where people can’t imagine how someone could score from that distance or angle. Do you think anyone in the NHL actually fears him? Please he is a laughing stock, ask any outside fan visit other teams newsgroups. It is not just a philly negative thing.
8. Look at the replays of some of the goals he lets up. Sometimes its not lack of talent its lack of heart and total apathy. I think he might have A.D.D. or something, because his stance will be that of a goalie not facing a shot or in warm ups. The puck will go in and the most surprised person is usually Checko because he wasn’t either paying attention to the play, or wasn’t going to bother getting a good standing position until the players got farther into the zone. He plays better when he sees more shots, which is horrible.
9. Most the players on the team hate him. He doesn’t socialize with most of them.
10. He is another Hextall…a descent goalie at times. He can shutout the Ilsanders during the regular season so we can all see his great stats and not want to fault him for failure. But when push comes to shove and they need him to come up big he falls short. Sometimes after he comes up big he lets up a goal that shouldn’t have gone in erasing his previous effort. When it comes to Cup time he doesn’t make the saves he should. If you goalie doesn’t your done in this day in age that’s the bottom line. Who gives a damn if he shuts out Atlanta in December. Oh yeah and he is past his prime.
Note to Snider: Next time you wonder why you don’t make front pages of news papers anymore or why there are more empty seats in the FU center than disregarded pizza boxes at Dukes apartment look every elimination game over the past 4 years.
Okay, many of the 610 WIP people have been going to bat for the Flyers net minder all season long when the Flyers fans wanted his head his season. Philly isn’t exactly nice to goalies. You can’t blame them recent goalies such as Dominic Roussel and Tommy Soderstrom aren’t good enough to clean my toilet let alone win a cup for a team. Fans are like some one coming out of one bad relationship after another they keep looking for flaws in the current relationship. The relationship of the fans and CHECKO hasn’t been any thing to rival my long lasting friendship with my best friend in the world Jay.
Okay I am not going to say the goalie is the reason they Flyers got no where again this year, but it’s the reason that they won’t go any farther than they did. Of course their old legs, and horrible special teams would have doomed them anyway, but people should also realize that we never solved our goalie problems despite what the front office and the biased reports of the Flyers Comcast team might tell you.
1. I am sick of people comparing him to Hasek. Granted they are from the same part of the world, and they flip and flop a lot. However the recently retried Hasek had a better competitive edge, and his body was more flexible. He is lateral movements were incredible. He kept Buffalo alive for a few rounds each year despite their awful offense. His nickname is the Dominator and Cechmanek’s nickname is CHOKEMANEK.
2. People give him too much credit for his success this season. He has picked up an impressive amount of shot outs his time here. He tore up the Flyers all time shutout list in a mere two years. However a good deal of that has to do with the good defensive system (it fell apart in the post season) that the Flyers had in place. They did win the Jenny’s Throphy but that was because of the system it was more than goaltending. If you look at many of Roman’s shutouts they are when he faced very few shots and very savable ones at that. Times when the system only allowed a few shots from the blue line. The one victory this series that he had a shotout he earned, they other the Flyers defense did.
3. He is clearly here just for the money. That’s why he came here not to win a Stanley Cup, but to make a few million dollars. He didn’t come into the league until he was 31 if he wanted the Stanley Cup he would have came over here the first couple of times teams tried to make him an offer he couldn’t refuse. He hates living here more than Drew hates Bush.
4. He is inconstant he will make a the occasional eye-popping save, but he will let a goal in from the blueline even on occasion innocent dump ins.
5. He is easily rattled. You screen him he is done. You bump him he falls over and lays there like a wounded animal for a minute, even if he has the chance to get back to his skates he will lay flat on the ice.
6. He goes down way to quick a player comes over the blueline and he falls to his tummy. He gives them more net to shoot at. Sometimes the players will launch a shot off too quick and it will manage to hit him. Than Jim Jackson hollers and we all think he is the next Roy.
7. When he does go on a good run its mostly with bizarre looking slaves. It almost appears that he is letting himself get hit by a puck not saving the puck. Despite shutting teams out many times he never appears “UNBEATABLE” . It never gets to the point that the other teams think that he is shutting them down big time. People think its just luck, and sometime it is. They know once you get two goals past him he is done. He never rebounds from a bad goal. He also manages to let the puck in the net just at the wrong time to kill any momentum the Flyers had. Usually ones where people can’t imagine how someone could score from that distance or angle. Do you think anyone in the NHL actually fears him? Please he is a laughing stock, ask any outside fan visit other teams newsgroups. It is not just a philly negative thing.
8. Look at the replays of some of the goals he lets up. Sometimes its not lack of talent its lack of heart and total apathy. I think he might have A.D.D. or something, because his stance will be that of a goalie not facing a shot or in warm ups. The puck will go in and the most surprised person is usually Checko because he wasn’t either paying attention to the play, or wasn’t going to bother getting a good standing position until the players got farther into the zone. He plays better when he sees more shots, which is horrible.
9. Most the players on the team hate him. He doesn’t socialize with most of them.
10. He is another Hextall…a descent goalie at times. He can shutout the Ilsanders during the regular season so we can all see his great stats and not want to fault him for failure. But when push comes to shove and they need him to come up big he falls short. Sometimes after he comes up big he lets up a goal that shouldn’t have gone in erasing his previous effort. When it comes to Cup time he doesn’t make the saves he should. If you goalie doesn’t your done in this day in age that’s the bottom line. Who gives a damn if he shuts out Atlanta in December. Oh yeah and he is past his prime.
Note to Snider: Next time you wonder why you don’t make front pages of news papers anymore or why there are more empty seats in the FU center than disregarded pizza boxes at Dukes apartment look every elimination game over the past 4 years.
Monday, May 05, 2003
“Melted Ice”
The Flyers got eliminated to the leafs tonight 4 games to 2 tonight. The same old problems that plagued the team last year made them bow out tonight. Horrible special teams and shaky goaltending. They again lost an inspired blowout of game to be eliminated. I didn’t even watch most of the game past the 2nd goal. If you scoll back in my blog you will read how I pointed out that they aren’t much of a better team than they were last year. Granted it was before they picked up some players, but most of them faded into nothing since.
The players wanted the fans to forget what happened last year when they won in an exciting 1st round they did for awhile. However, after tonight’s lopsided score round 1 of this year is the series that will be forgotten not last seasons round 1. Getting past the first round isn’t and improvement its expected with this huge salary.
The empty seats are likely to multiply and believe it or not there is a rumor of a ticket price hike for next season. My father and I are seriously considering discontinuing ours. It isn’t like we would have trouble getting tickets to a game since most of the games won’t sell out just like a number of them didn’t last year.
As the ice melts tomorrow, it will be the last ice many of the Flyers play on as Flyers. I can only hope that many of them won’t return. Id hope any of the older players they can dump they do. Although it will be hard to deal duds like Leclair, Amonte, and Rico. Maybe they can use some of the players to get a competent goalie.
The best thing to do at this point, and I wanted them to do it last year. Is basically stop fooling themselves, and dump all the old heads for young prospects and younger players. It might result in not making the playoffs for a few years but if they draft the right players it will pay off in a few years. This year was just waste of time and money if you think about it.
Its going to be difficult to dump some of the older players because no one will want most of the washed up players. I don’t expect anyone to retire really. Although maybe Leclair should. This might slow the process down but if the NHL gets a salary cap for 2004 they don’t have much choice but to dump some of these players. It would be easier to make a list of Flyers I would keep next year so here it is.
Gagne (young)
Williams (young)
Weinrich
Murray (quick and small price take)
Ragnerson (over the increaingly awful Johnson)
Esche (eh he is just a back up)
Chouirnard (prospect)
Lapointe ( good pick up)
Brasher (Affirmative Action)
Handzus (Quick and hasn't had his best season yet)
Everyone else is expendable I would think. Even JR, let him go win a cup somewhere. You could easily get something for him despite his decrease in skills. He is a good PR man for any team, and I would imagine we could get some high draft picks for him. Let every free agent walk and try to find young talent or throw away players. Treat the team as a expansion team so expectations will be low for years, but the talent pool will be growing.
Oh well I expect my annual flood of emails, phone calls and etc to either offer condolences or rub it in. There are still about 12 minutes left in the game so it should start any minute. They can give him Tony "washed up" Amonte too.
The Flyers got eliminated to the leafs tonight 4 games to 2 tonight. The same old problems that plagued the team last year made them bow out tonight. Horrible special teams and shaky goaltending. They again lost an inspired blowout of game to be eliminated. I didn’t even watch most of the game past the 2nd goal. If you scoll back in my blog you will read how I pointed out that they aren’t much of a better team than they were last year. Granted it was before they picked up some players, but most of them faded into nothing since.
The players wanted the fans to forget what happened last year when they won in an exciting 1st round they did for awhile. However, after tonight’s lopsided score round 1 of this year is the series that will be forgotten not last seasons round 1. Getting past the first round isn’t and improvement its expected with this huge salary.
The empty seats are likely to multiply and believe it or not there is a rumor of a ticket price hike for next season. My father and I are seriously considering discontinuing ours. It isn’t like we would have trouble getting tickets to a game since most of the games won’t sell out just like a number of them didn’t last year.
As the ice melts tomorrow, it will be the last ice many of the Flyers play on as Flyers. I can only hope that many of them won’t return. Id hope any of the older players they can dump they do. Although it will be hard to deal duds like Leclair, Amonte, and Rico. Maybe they can use some of the players to get a competent goalie.
The best thing to do at this point, and I wanted them to do it last year. Is basically stop fooling themselves, and dump all the old heads for young prospects and younger players. It might result in not making the playoffs for a few years but if they draft the right players it will pay off in a few years. This year was just waste of time and money if you think about it.
Its going to be difficult to dump some of the older players because no one will want most of the washed up players. I don’t expect anyone to retire really. Although maybe Leclair should. This might slow the process down but if the NHL gets a salary cap for 2004 they don’t have much choice but to dump some of these players. It would be easier to make a list of Flyers I would keep next year so here it is.
Gagne (young)
Williams (young)
Weinrich
Murray (quick and small price take)
Ragnerson (over the increaingly awful Johnson)
Esche (eh he is just a back up)
Chouirnard (prospect)
Lapointe ( good pick up)
Brasher (Affirmative Action)
Handzus (Quick and hasn't had his best season yet)
Everyone else is expendable I would think. Even JR, let him go win a cup somewhere. You could easily get something for him despite his decrease in skills. He is a good PR man for any team, and I would imagine we could get some high draft picks for him. Let every free agent walk and try to find young talent or throw away players. Treat the team as a expansion team so expectations will be low for years, but the talent pool will be growing.
Oh well I expect my annual flood of emails, phone calls and etc to either offer condolences or rub it in. There are still about 12 minutes left in the game so it should start any minute. They can give him Tony "washed up" Amonte too.
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