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And a big USn congrats to the Canadiennes.
I find watching hockey on TV to be an exercise in futility; buncha people skating around to no apparent purpose then suddenly half of them raise their cudgels in the air with looks of glee. They should maybe make the puck bright flashing pink so that it can be seen.
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They should maybe make the puck bright flashing pink so that it can be seen.
Fox (or some network) tried an experiment where using a special puck and sensors around the arena, on your TV screen the puck was surrounded by a blue glow. It even let you see where the puck was along the near-side boards (usually impossible due to the camera angle). I thought it was a great innovation, but the whinging of purists combined with the $400/puck price tag brought about its quick demise.
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make the puck bright flashing pink so that it can be seen
I don't watch too much hockey, but didn't they actually do something just like that for a while? Using the technology more commonly seen in football games with the yellow first-down line? For some reason it didn't go over.
Edit: five minutes late (and $400 short), I see. FL's post wasn't there when I looked two minutes earlier! :-)
...Oh well. Let it stand.
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Needless to say, Canadians had a field day with that one. We are privately quite proud of our ability to watch a hockey game and follow the motion of the puck unassisted, thank you very much!
When you watch a lot of hockey, you know where to watch for the puck. The cameramen have to be especially good. It was pretty noticeable during one point in the game on TV yesterday - one girl blasted a pass in one direction, my head turned that way, the camera went that way - then we realized that by some quirk of physics the puck had bounced the other way, and the view whipped back across the ice. The camera almost never loses sight of the puck to that extent. I nearly got whiplash following the view to the other end of the ice!
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congrats to the UK curlers..........all scottish of course and yes all the stones weigh 42lbs each, and the British team skipper is estimated to have pushed 5 tons of rock over 50 miles during the course of 13 matches, and yes the stones all come from the Ailsa Craig quarry in Scotland where the game began.
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Angel:
I dunno how she can say no Bel! I have two waffle irons I could bring with me to make the task easier.
I can just see me explaining to customs, "yes sir, they are waffle irons. What are they for? Well, um, they are, um, for making waffles?" She said wafflingly! Oh no! Why didn't Faldage tell me this? I know Michigan is a long way away from upstart [sic] NY, but. 
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OOOO Faldage, put 'em up, put 'em up. You are in trouble now...
make the puck bright flashing pink so that it can be seen
Heaven forfend! I'm with Bean on this one. It was terribly distracting to have that blue line trailing after the puck like a comet tail all over the ice.
Just a little perspective here...It is a BLACK puck on a WHITE surface.
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a BLACK puck on a WHITE surface
Moving very fast and looking very small. I can see that if you understand what the skaters are doing that it probably looks a little less like willy nilly skating about, but it's no way to be introduced to the sport. I don't even like watching *baseball on TV. I want to make up my own mind about where to look.
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OOOO Faldage, put 'em up, put 'em up. You are in trouble now...
He's in trouble from all quarters now... [checking passport]
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JazzO and I will agree with you on this one!
[Oh, that's Scots rock...]
... as long as I'm on a roll...
The Simpson family are driving through Capitol City where "Dancing Homer" is gonna work the 5th inning (the Beer inning) as their apprentice mascot... as they pass a trio of guys dressed in black Hebrew garb Bart yells out "Look! There's ZZ Top"... "YOU GUYS ROCK". One looks back and says, "EH... maybe a liddle".
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