I've made a few inferences of bitter feelings over some of the Olympic results and most of my Forum cohorts either denied same or denunciated my position. Apparently, I'm not totally off the mark- at least, according to this syndicated journalist from the Chicago Sun-Times.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/telan...pt-rick25.html

What say you now???

 

We say nothing now. Like we needed to respond to an old, wanna be Canadian fish hack. I'll say it once and I'll say it again. The Olympics are a joke. Riddled with corruption. Laughing stock of the free world. Winning a gold medal in some sport played by %2 of the world's population is not something to be proud about. There were about 2,734 Americans that gave a damn about the Olympics (much less a hockey game) and the breakdown of the audience goes something like this:
%98 - death row inmates
%1 - NBC corporate junkies
%.5 - old people in nursing homes who accidentally fell asleep while watching Wheel of Fortune which happened to preceed coverage of the Olympics
%.5 - Dried up sports bars in Detroit whose customers include wanna-be sports journalists like the above mentioned.

Get my drift yet? Oh, and one more thing. If the Northern States of America were the birth place of hockey, and they supposedly have dominated the sport since the birth of time...why the hell did it take 50 yrs for you's guys to win a freekin' gold medal. Calling Canada a dominant country in hockey would be like claiming the Cubs are a dynasty.

So just go back up north, send us some cold air once a year, a just go away.

 

Sheesh, Jason, ole Macster really stoked your fire there. :jester

Here I was thinking you were a taciturn young man who hardly uttered more than six words at time, and then you reveal your true articulate, sarcastic humour. :lol: :lol: :lol:

P.S. Go easy on the Macster...You know that you have a nation and its people craving confirmation when they start combing foreign newspapers for a good word about their accomplishments. Why, if the we did that, those Europeans would have us so screwed up, we would have to collectively check in at the looney bin...or the 'old age home' whichever was most appropriate.
:jester :hat :jester

 

I know, I know....nothing against anybody. But Chuck, when in the process of nation building, sometimes the nation being brought along needs to be put into place every once in a while. :lol:
Ya' just can't let them run roughshod over you.

 

what are you complaning about i have to keep paying for them in my taxes for ever
and thus less corvette parts paul

 

So, Doc, NOW that the party's over, you're complaining. :jester

We, in the rest of the country, watched in awe as those high mogul representatives yawl elected wined and dined those crooked Olympic Committee dudes. Over apertifs, they were askin' 'em..."OK, what's it going to take to get your vote for Salt Lake (wink, wink)?"

I have never figured out why an average guy would WANT the Olympics in their city; more traffic, security generally making life unbearable, up to your **** in arrogant, rich, foreign and domestic buttheads everyday. Afterwards, all the service providers are counting their largesse, and the poor taxpayer gets handed the tab. Redistribution of wealth at it's worst; It's enough to fry'ya.

I should be pretty safe from such outrage out here in the desert. :jester :jester


[Modified by Chuck Sangerhausen, 9:32 AM 3/19/2002]

 

Hey Jas, Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help change your mind :D


[Modified by Ron D, 9:15 AM 3/19/2002]

 

Hmmmmm. I'm not sure if I should stir this pot again. Naw, we'll just mark topless68 on the 'angry denunciation' list and call it good enough.

Actually, a buddy from the States forwarded the URL to me saying the journalist, or rather as topless68 said "an old, wanna be Canadian fish hack, wanna-be sport journist" captured how he and his friends felt about the Olympics. Strangely, he doesn't fit into any of the catagories described.

What can I say? http://www.satirewire.com/news/0010/international.shtml

 

Well, Macster, you COULD say that you know the difference between a few morons that have no interest in the international news (the real truth is they don't have any interest in ANY news) , and a country being secure enough in itself to not to give a rat's azz what their inferior brethren think about their activities. :D :D :D

All right, don't go gittin' serious on us. Jason and I are just showing ya we throw snowballs (or whatever) back.

What thuh heck do you want from us ennyhow? You want we should sing the Canajun national anthem?....OK, why dent ya say so: "Oh Canajunland, Oh Canajunland, You finally won the gold...or something like that; You got lucky once and won the gold, but the next 50 years, you will choke...doo dah dooo dah". :D :D

Besides, who went to bat for your skating team when they got cheated out of the gold? Nobody but the Americans. Them poor Canajun kids were sitting over there keeping a stiff upper lip and saying "Well, I guess they're the judges.", and the American officials were over there jumpin' up and down sayin': "Whut the hell is goin' on here. There is a skunk in this woodpile and she's wearing french perfume. Yawl are trying to rob these kids even if they HAVE done this same show at the last three Olympics. We want an investigation into why these Canajun kids didn't get the gold like they should have and we want it NOW." And, dang if they didn't git a gold (I guess the Mexicans could name a beer for this incident; Call it "Dos Oros".) :D :D

But, did these honorable Canajuns on this here Forum ever just say, "Thank yew, America", or anything like that? Heck no, nary a word, all we heard was "men's hockey gold" this, and "women's hockey gold" that. We all said "Congratulations", "Yawl Did Good", "Yawl Are Hockey Geniuses (snicker)"...NOW, can we just carefully lay these laurels inside the glass case, AND START LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEXT OLYMPICS FER CRYIN' OUT LOUD!!!!

:jester :jester :jester

 

Well, yeah, as a matter of fact! As was mentioned several times before, we Canajuns are planning on taking over the Excited States. In the Canajun tradition, we expect to effect this change peacefully but to do so, we need to soften up any anti-Canajun sentiments, hence our image as nice guys with a kinda warped sense of humour. Gradually, we'll progress to admirable and, eventually, individuals will begin flooding their state governments with requests to join the Dominion of Canajun Land. Of course, we're expecting some hold-outs, but we've devised a fiendishly clever plan to deal with them!!

 

I for one am ready for a US Canada forum hockey game to settle the dispute
:D :D :D

Tom

 

I went to a fight the other night....and a hockey game broke out :jester

 

So, now that we've revealed our fiendishly clever plot to deal with the dissenters, drop the puck and I'll drop my gloves, let's get rolling!! :boxing

Great picture, 67! Too bad you can't read my jersey number from that angle.

 

Hey..... how come I'm on the bottom :( :D Chuck get off my back :lol: Puddum up puddum up :boxing