josie

I don't blame your niece haha Y'all got it easy in the underoo department. Wore some men's briefs and boxers back in high school just to try it (ok, a bunch of us did this, no guys tried girl underwear though), and man, it's nice to not have a freakin' wedgie or something lacy going up your cheeks every third step. Then again, we also don't have low hanging fruit... Trade off?

Yeah that's downright dirty. Panty/panties is the one that gets me. God dang that's a creepy one. Sure, some see it as a cute or naughty way to describe a lady's undergarment, I think it sounds borderline pedophile. Shudder.

Love me some Yukon. No idea who that is. Another good one: Sorry, I'm apparently image happy today.

Now you got me searching for ugly/distracting goalie pads. Enjoy my curated collection. Maybe we should resurrect the Art of Hockey thread or whatever it was called... Pretty good, no? Oh baby. Actually super cool. Love it. Ok there are many others but... Enjoy.

haha beat me to it. One rust belt love is akin to another. We all love broken, vaguely dirty things, with hope for renewal... You come in over that airport and it's your dirty disgusting crime ridden rusted iron scrapheap city. :wub:

I'll always be a Tigers fan. Knew Jim Leyland's family. Hometown hero. Met the man myself, love telling stories about my grandfather dealing with him when he was a young brat in my grandpa's high school math classes. That and I don't follow baseball enough to have any major torches besides the home ties to one :)

I fully expect that to be the main reaction people will have to my shifting allegiance. Especially friends back home. The argument of "well, my home is here now" is a bad one, sense this board alone is a great example of die hard Sabres fans living in other parts of the world. I guess my argument is I had a passing interest in hockey growing up in Red Wing territory. It was part of life, but not something I was actively involved in until fairly recently. It's a cozy, warm, homey thing for me. I'll always wear the number 40 when I play because of Zetts. The Sabres, this board, well, they're really where I've learned about hockey. And at the risk of being labelled a band wagoner, I think I'm finding myself gravitating to them. Would that change if Detroit found another Datsyuk/Zetterberg? I kinda doubt it. By the time that happens, I will have built that foundation here with the Sabres. Any time these two teams face each other, I find myself evaluating all of this. It has changed for me. I would gladly wear any of my Wings jerseys to a Wings game, but not this one. I attended a Sabres v Wings game two years ago at the FN Center, wore my Winter Classic Zetterberg jersey. I really don't think i could do that anymore, with this team. I simply wouldn't go to this matchup. I'm sure many will view me with skepticism, but hell, I'm viewing myself with skepticism. It's weird. God help me when they're both certain playoff teams.

Yes. No. Yup. Never. Shut up.

Yes dear, I catch your hint...

I can't watch. Tears me apart. I can't root for a side this year. It was easy to root for my home team last year. Now I have more interest in the Sabres' evolution, but I still love 40, 55 and 13 on Detroit... And Larkin. I really like watching that kid. He's good. When Zetterberg, Datsyuk and Kronner retire, I think my days as a Detroit fan primarily may backseat to second fav. For the most part, the new kids do nothing to excite me. I'd much rather watch Jack, Rasmus, ROR, Samson, Evander. That's really saying something for me. Bold prediction based off Detroit lately... Det loses in OT. That's their specialty. Mrazek's the better goalie IMO, but the Wings have been real lackluster in the last month. Besides Larkin. Kronwall had a nice OT win recently. But that's about it :/

I'm loving watching this kid shape up. I admit, I ignored him for longer than I should have within the sludge of last year (and Risto, too).. but when my little score app was so often showing me S. Reinhart, I started paying more attention. Keep him up here, it's doing him some good. He's got smart linemates, he's got a high IQ, he's becoming a nicely rounded player. I'm really starting to love watching this team.

This is the first I've been able to sit at my computer since the surgery last Wednesday, so an update for anyone who's interested how this busted leg stuff goes/who doesn't already know all too well... I caught my edge in a rut in the ice. I was trying to avoid a hapless opponent who was trying to keep the puck in the blue line in our zone. I knew he wouldn't be able to and was going around him to grab the puck and zoom off. Well, he stood up in front of me, I didn't want to hit him, stopped on a turn funny and caught some rough ice by the door of our bench. Spiral fracture. They offered me a cast or surgery, same recovery time. Took the surgery, as my ligament was not holding my tibia in place (only fibula was broken). So they put 4 screws and a plate in, I have a 6+ inch incision (which I have yet to see). Things feel pretty solid already. I can feel the metal against my incision when I move my leg the wrong way. It's healing quickly, but I can feel the puckered skin rasping against the cotton of this splint. I get it taken off in another 1.5 weeks. I do not wish charlie horses on most people. I do not with charlie horses on a broken leg on my worst enemy. And they are very common for me. The doc put an extra piece of plaster out the back of my heel that makes putting on clothing nigh impossible (reasons were: elevation, discourage load bearing). Soooo I guess it's yoga pants in public for the next week and a half. I feel like such a slob. I developed a quick tolerance to Percocet and got off them immediately because that sh!t stops you up. Unfortunately, I'd been on them enough that I actually have gone through a mini withdrawal the last day or so. I can only imagine what ramping down from a legitimate addiction is like. But overall my toes are regaining their normal color, I still have little feeling/pins and needles in my big toe- i think the first splint was tight enough that it damaged some nerves. Small price I guess, but still vaguely unpleasant. I'll be in a flexible/removable cast after they take this off/stitches out, and I can finally SHOWER FULLY AGAIN. No more balancing act to hang a leg out the shower. In the realm of injuries sustainable in hockey, it's nothing. But I have about 2 weeks coming up here where I don't know how I"m going to get to work and teaching as I cannot drive. If you bust your leg on the rink, try to bust your left leg haha.. Then you could at least rent a car and drive an automatic. I'd say 20 percent of my discomfort now is physical (coming out of that surgery was the worst I've had, nurses had crash carts ready, and I've had major heart surgery, throat surgery, and other surgeries), the other 80 is mental and my god is it awful. I went from doing everything/being the strong one to barely leaving the couch in a 72 hour period. I hate it. My abs are gone, showers are tough, I feel disgusting, depression sets in fast (I did so much to keep that crap at bay). I keep myself amused by doing chinups and any other arm exercises that don't p!ss off my leg. If you find yourself in a predicament like mine, I hope hope hope you have someone around to help you, if at the very least, visitors to keep you sane. And don't catch your edges. Ugh. I admit, when the time comes, I'm going to be scared to play hockey again. This is going to wipe out a lot of money for me, let alone time. But hey, I get to watch a lot of hockey now that I'm stuck on the couch..? And I've seen a lot of bad 80s movies I'd never seen before, so, positives?

Thanks bio! Yeah, I'm gettin' pretty scared now... Given the pain I'm in and they haven't even cut me open/screwed metal in there yet... I've had so many surgeries, including heart, and none of those scared me, and I find myself getting the heebie jeebies over this. Sigh. I'm stupid.

My boss brought me a cookie. It's the little things. Surgery at 730 am tomorrow. Awesome that it's so early, I'll have all day to lay around in a drug haze so I have a shot at being coherent on Thanksgiving! Yayyy! I'm currently working on a Power Rangers game. 3 of us that sit near each other are all on this game, and any time I look up, someone is acting out martial arts moves for animation ref purposes. Pretty funny stuff.

I mostly agree, but I also see it as a cool opportunity for some fresh design stuff. Then again, it's usually just a built by committee turd of a result. Yeah, agreed. I guess don't fix what's not broken?

Wtf is happening with that collar... "The shoulder yoke is contrasted in black as a visual play on Chicago’s nickname of “City of Big Shoulders. #StadiumSeries" Oh. Toews still looks slightly happier than he did when unveiling Team Canada's jersey...

Yes.

I always imagine a dentist's office. And then I associate the tasty noodles with that hurt your teeth dentist office smell. Not good.

At first I hated them. Then I liked them. Then I hated them again. I am now firmly in "meh" territory. Then I just decided they look like an off brand soda can from the 90s. Don't think I'll be buying this jersey, no matter how adorable Zetterberg makes it look. As much of a homer Detroit fan as I am, nah, they're great, but the original Sabres jersey is still the best IMO. Damn that's a beautiful, simple, fantastic design. Agreed. Keep the weird jerseys comin'. I love it.

Uh huh. For me it's those venus blades. I don't buy shaving gel, they're fine without. Super smooth results, just stupid expensive. I tried to go down to cheaper razors + shaving gel, just ended up tearing my skin apart. And taking forever. I am not a patient woman and there's a lot of surface area to be deforested. I've considered the DSC razors. I need to find more female testimonials. So I really found a goldmine with getty images archive, so I will post hockey related stuff I find in here. Little quebecois kids learning hockey sur la glace, 1931.

We are literally one and the same. Photographic proof of our siamese twin-ness/attached at hip. Walking is rather difficult. Hirsute? Her-suit. But no, I just can't stand stubble. The fact that I know my leg is getting hairier under this splint is driving me bonkers. That and it itches. Bodies are stupid.

Ok, I gotta know- do any of the ladies in your lives have secrets to cheaper shaving? Because I've tried the cheaper razors and oh baby no, it doesn't work. I spend so much damn money to keep these gams smooth... I hate it.

Part of the caption explained that they did this to "stay healthy and fit". I think there was a lot more of the "stay hardy and healthy, take a cold shower every morning" belief back then. This was apparently fairly normal, but also is a good excuse to be silly for the camera. I guess when you consider their outfits here aren't that far from figure skaters' outfits... Here's more bathing suit shinny from the same day:

The Buffalo Snowbirds goofing around and playing puck in bathing suits, 1928. I doodled them for fun at some point and thought you guys would dig the original picture.

Your story reminds me of one my friend told me when we were up in Whistler for the Ironman Canada... This guy was a college rugby player turned triathlete/marathoner. He was just having an off race on some marathon, going along, doing fairly well, and not pushing himself too hard, despite his slower than normal time. The final 3 miles were on an uphill section up to the finish. So he's pushing along, coming up on these final 3 miles uphill, it's 85+ degrees, he's passing people. Earlier on he had passed a rather out of shape girl in a neon yellow halfshirt with sorority stuff on the back and regular athletic short shorts. Everyone else in this race had streamlined kits on/pro gear. She's struggling mightily on the flat road and just doesn't seem to belong there. He didn't think a thing of it other than she kinda stuck out. Well, he started running out of steam on that uphill when he hears another runner. It's yellow shirt, who says "hi!" as she easily jogs by. They hit that hill and she must have had some kind of amazing hill endurance, because, as he put it "fat rolls and all, she powered up those last 3 miles out of sight." So now, whenever he's having a rough race or something, his wife (12 time Ironman finisher, including Kona) just starts teasing him about Yellow Shirt. But good luck PA! I can't run worth a crap but I admire mightily those who can :D Trust me. NEVER take this guy to a "fun run". My company participated in a Color Run. Let's just say I was having feminine difficulties the day of the race and couldn't move particularly quickly. Which is fine... it's a race where super out of shape people and little kids and people with STROLLERS can amble along and have some fun. Nope. d4rk was in GO MOOODE BLEAAHHGHHH and I could barely hobble... "JO PEOPLE ARE PASSING US! THEY'RE BEATING US!" I couldn't go any faster unless I wanted to experience my own color run. We spent the "happiest 5k race" screaming at each other. You butt. Never again.