PASabreFan

Not that many strong words had been invented. Now we have the best words.

Well?

I haven't gone fully down the rabbit hole, but he was singing the original 1918 version. The Far and Wide version appears to have been adopted on July 1, 1980 when Oh, Canada officially became the anthem. I haven't found any clips of Joe after summer 1980. I think his music stopped shortly after. Weir is the original.

Not when inky gets fired up. I'm staying logged in.

Smell, we're going for a bag skate. Ole Punch threw his beaver hat across the office and they called in Dodo to talk to him. It didn't work. Hope you didn't have the sausage gravy for breakfast. It's interesting. It appears the Far and Wide/God Keep version didn't kick in until the anthem became official in 1980.

I mean did he have his own version? Here's Rene Rancourt in Boston in 85.

Smell, we got a problem. That appears to be the way he always sang it. No "From far and wide" and no "God keep our land." The thick plottens.

Dude. Did you listen?

Sad day. Also, there was a tragedy last night.

He's 26. He should be a known entity.

He butchered it, I think. All thy sons command became In all of us command a few years ago.

So, no Petterson?

It works for me.

This was one those Find the Shoehorn in the Haystack graphics for me.

This is a great watch. My God, the memories. It ends curiously enough about where my fandom ended. Van's calls, like Rick's, were perfect. Tim Russert has the final word: the Bills are going to win a Super Bowl, if not in my lifetime, then in Luke's. (This doc also ends with a great chant I had never heard but works so well: B-U-F-F... ALO. Probably didn't capture the cadence but it needs to be adopted.)

Again, what are we clinging to?

I can't type what I want to.

She was all lined up but came down with bronchitis. I am a bad person.

*****in eh. Trade any or all of them. It hardly matters. Let's try this with a true 1C.

I apologize all. I've been using my late wife Marlene's pill organizer, unwittingly, since last Sunday. She was a master planner and had her pills all set up for the next four years. It hasn't been the same since she departed. It also hasn't been the same since Björn went back to Sweděn.

I decided to study the pic to see if I could recognize anyone. Not a soul. Should have gotten Christie. Maybe Shero. Really should have recognized Rick!

That logo is everything. It's a nation's flag. I always think about the franchise as the country and the people occupying that franchise as the Congress, the president, the federal government. Those people come and go. There is always hope we can get it right. I'm just trying to survive the Pegula Era. We are one decision by Terry to cash in from having hope again. Fan has earned his immunity.

Anyway let's nip this one in the butt... "The Sabres would have made the playoffs but for the losing streak." They are 8-7-1 since the streak ended. And their record before the streak was probably not playoff caliber, either. Hoppe's gonna Hop and Lysowski is gonna Lyso anyway.

I'm not worried about what teams ahead of us in the standings do, not yet anyway.

One game at a time. I'm focused only on the Caps on Saturday afternoon.