NHL Mega-Mock Draft Reboot - Discussion / Draft Thread – A WHOLE NOTHER PHASE TWENTY-ONE!

[Beef Invictus]

Soon. Be ready.

 

[ajgoal]

Soon. Be ready.

 

[pit]

Catching up after coming back. Makeup pick #1.

I hate golf. It's elitist, environmentally destructive and just full of wankers.

I worked at a country club for a year. I know of what I speak. It will be a cold day in hell before you see me on a golf course.

And so with that, I choose Team Golf Course: Uummannaq Greenland Golf.

"500 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Uummannaq Greenland Golf wins the award for the coldest round of golf. Host to the World Ice Golf Championship, golfers from around the world come to play on this unique golf course. Although hazards are said to include seal dens and crevasses, the biggest threat is frostbite, which players are taught how to spot before they tee off."

@pit , make your second pick sometime today and try not to tee off on @JojoTheWhale for sniping your pick ONCE AGAIN.

 

[pit]

Make-up pick #2

There are a number of great ancient civilizations off the board, but to quote a little green Jedi - War does not make one great.

So in keeping with #lore, the Chimpanzees will choose what might have been the only non-militaristic civilization - one that remains a great mystery.

Team Ancient Civilization: The Indus Valley

I am still catching up at work today, so rather than me hack together something crummy, you can read more here if you are interested: The real utopia: This ancient civilisation thrived without war

@Beef Invictus continues to be up. Industrious Beef! Voluptuous Beef! Sacred Beef!

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Catching up after coming back. Makeup pick #1.

I hate golf. It's elitist, environmentally destructive and just full of wankers.

I worked at a country club for a year. I know of what I speak. It will be a cold day in hell before you see me on a golf course.

And so with that, I choose Team Golf Course: Uummannaq Greenland Golf.

"500 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Uummannaq Greenland Golf wins the award for the coldest round of golf. Host to the World Ice Golf Championship, golfers from around the world come to play on this unique golf course. Although hazards are said to include seal dens and crevasses, the biggest threat is frostbite, which players are taught how to spot before they tee off."

@pit , make your second pick sometime today and try not to tee off on @JojoTheWhale for sniping your pick ONCE AGAIN.

I found live video of me calling @CanadianFlyer88 over to help snipe your ass again.

**There's an NSFW word in there**



How was the trip?

 

[Beef Invictus]

I hope your sex is never on fire, @mja. Tight mja! Unknown mja! Dusty mja!

For my first pick of my picks, I pick a golf thingy.


Windy Hill Par 3 Course

It's a 9 hole par 3 course. The worst part of golf is that it takes anywhere between 4 and 400 hours to play, depending on the groups ahead of you. Not the case with Windy Hill's Par 3 Course. And it's lighted! Fancy that! Play at night! Truly, this is the future of the sport. Its zenith. Its perfection.

They also have batting cages, go karts, and mini golf. All those snobby country clubs don't have go karts because they think they are too good for go karts. But by not having go karts, they diminish themselves and become lesser than a place like Windy Hill. All they have left is their pretension and delusional, false belief in their own greatness.

Will I pick again? Will it be now? Will it be later? Will I eat a patent-pending Beef Invictus Salad (the salad's perfected form, much as Windy Hill perfects golf by stripping away the useless garbage) first?

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I hope your sex is never on fire, @mja. Tight mja! Unknown mja! Dusty mja!

For my first pick of my picks, I pick a golf thingy.


Windy Hill Par 3 Course

It's a 9 hole par 3 course. The worst part of golf is that it takes anywhere between 4 and 400 hours to play, depending on the groups ahead of you. Not the case with Windy Hill's Par 3 Course. And it's lighted! Fancy that! Play at night! Truly, this is the future of the sport. Its zenith. Its perfection.

They also have batting cages, go karts, and mini golf. All those snobby country clubs don't have go karts because they think they are too good for go karts. But by not having go karts, they diminish themselves and become lesser than a place like Windy Hill. All they have left is their pretension and delusional, false belief in their own greatness.

Will I pick again? Will it be now? Will it be later? Will I eat a patent-pending Beef Invictus Salad (the salad's perfected form, much as Windy Hill perfects golf by stripping away the useless garbage) first?

They played at night in "Hole in Love," so I am all in. Great pick.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

They played at night in "Hole in Love," so I am all in. Great pick.

They also played last weekend's version of "The Match" at night in Florida. I, like every other person on the planet, did not watch said event.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Cease being in suspense! I SHALL PICK IMMEDIATELY.

 

[pit]

I found live video of me calling @CanadianFlyer88 over to help snipe your ass again.

**There's an NSFW word in there**



How was the trip?

Not a bad trip. I prefer a little more than 2 days between 9 hours drives, but what can you do?

Family was mostly good. Did an early Xmas and then the party. I'd recap my pre-party "old person using technology" comedy skit, but it is far too long and convoluted to explain except that old people don't know how to use phones, GPS or anything in the world when they can just complain instead.

Got some Yum-Yum donuts before leaving and am now trying to get caught up from "days off" at work, which literally just means work twice as hard before leaving and after returning because no one does your work will you are away.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Music Video:

Smashing Pumpkins, "1979"

This was a hard decision. There are a lot of music videos I love. This pick is as much about the song as the video accompanying it, which pretty much perfectly suits the song. 1979 is one of my favorite songs. Everyone knows that sound can evoke feelings. The fact that people spent money funding research to confirm that is as blindingly stupid as a research project I was a tech on, where we determined it's harder to drive at night when people shine bright lights in your eyes. Corgan (I assume it was chiefly him, since at this point I'm pretty sure the band was taking a collective 2-year heroin nap) set out to capture the feeling of nostalgia in sonic form, and he did it. And that's an achievement. It's perfect, like Windy Hill. I love it. It is mine, and I will take it with us.



@mja! Thinkable mja! Erect mja! Squalid mja!

 

[Rebels57]

Music Video:

Smashing Pumpkins, "1979"

This was a hard decision. There are a lot of music videos I love. This pick is as much about the song as the video accompanying it, which pretty much perfectly suits the song. 1979 is one of my favorite songs. Everyone knows that sound can evoke feelings. The fact that people spent money funding research to confirm that is as blindingly stupid as a research project I was a tech on, where we determined it's harder to drive at night when people shine bright lights in your eyes. Corgan (I assume it was chiefly him, since at this point I'm pretty sure the band was taking a collective 2-year heroin nap) set out to capture the feeling of nostalgia in sonic form, and he did it. And that's an achievement. It's perfect, like Windy Hill. I love it. It is mine.



@mja! Thinkable mja! Erect mja! Squalid mja!

My all-time favorite song. Great pick.

 

[Beef Invictus]

My all-time favorite song. Great pick.

I have no idea what my favorite song truly is, but on most days I'd probably answer this.

 

[Rebels57]

I have no idea what my favorite song truly is, but on most days I'd probably answer this.

Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode is the only other contender for #1 for me. 3-100 is where it gets difficult.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode is the only other contender for #1 for me. 3-100 is where it gets difficult.

My number 2 might be Mr. Bad Example.

"Of course I went to law school, and took the law degree. And counseled all my clients to plead insanity. Then worked in hair replacement, swindling the bald; where very few are chosen, and fewer still are called." Similarly, 3-100 is a 98 way tie.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Music Video:

Smashing Pumpkins, "1979"

This was a hard decision. There are a lot of music videos I love. This pick is as much about the song as the video accompanying it, which pretty much perfectly suits the song. 1979 is one of my favorite songs. Everyone knows that sound can evoke feelings. The fact that people spent money funding research to confirm that is as blindingly stupid as a research project I was a tech on, where we determined it's harder to drive at night when people shine bright lights in your eyes. Corgan (I assume it was chiefly him, since at this point I'm pretty sure the band was taking a collective 2-year heroin nap) set out to capture the feeling of nostalgia in sonic form, and he did it. And that's an achievement. It's perfect, like Windy Hill. I love it. It is mine, and I will take it with us.



@mja! Thinkable mja! Erect mja! Squalid mja!

Not only does it capture the feeling of nostalgia in general - it very strongly provokes nostalgia for the halcyon days of 1995-96. Great song.

 

[Magua]

Got some Yum-Yum donuts before leaving

I go to Yum Yum's in Warminster every couple months. Sometimes more in the fall for their apple/pumpkin glazed donuts. They're so f***ing good, and they make them in store. My favorite local place.

Music Video:

Smashing Pumpkins, "1979"

This was a hard decision. There are a lot of music videos I love. This pick is as much about the song as the video accompanying it, which pretty much perfectly suits the song. 1979 is one of my favorite songs. Everyone knows that sound can evoke feelings. The fact that people spent money funding research to confirm that is as blindingly stupid as a research project I was a tech on, where we determined it's harder to drive at night when people shine bright lights in your eyes. Corgan (I assume it was chiefly him, since at this point I'm pretty sure the band was taking a collective 2-year heroin nap) set out to capture the feeling of nostalgia in sonic form, and he did it. And that's an achievement. It's perfect, like Windy Hill. I love it. It is mine, and I will take it with us.



@mja! Thinkable mja! Erect mja! Squalid mja!

Most excellent choice, starry Biff. Tangy Biff. Unctuous Biff. You and I have similar music tastes. Fun fact: this music video was directed by the same duo who did Little Miss Sunshine. I assume you know there's a sequel video for another song. I also know what my 2nd favorite Pumpkins video is.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I also know what my 2nd favorite Pumpkins video is.

Make sure we re-visit this when all the picks are in.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I go to Yum Yum's in Warminster every couple months. Sometimes more in the fall for their apple/pumpkin glazed donuts. They're so f***ing good, and they make them in store. My favorite local place.



Most excellent choice, starry Biff. Tangy Biff. Unctuous Biff. You and I have similar music tastes. Fun fact: this music video was directed by the same duo who did Little Miss Sunshine. I assume you know there's a sequel video for another song. I also know what my 2nd favorite Pumpkins video is.

I do know there is a sequel, and they also directed another one that I like as a video far more but I needed this song.

In fact they directed more than one candidate I was considering, outside the Pumpkins.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Actually this is too urgent to wait and it won't be pick ripping, I must PM Magua because the end is too far for me to sit on this.

 

[mja]

I'm still not over @GKJ sniping me twice so I'm going to keep making chalk picks without any write-ups. Fun fact: I'm the world's worst golfer due to the worst slice in golf history. May as well test that theory out with the course that started it all.

Team Golf Course: The Old Course at St. Andrews

Wait, @pit already went so I have to tag @Lord Defect? Yuck.

Dumb Defect! Stupid Defect! Nonsensical Defect!

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

I'm still not over @GKJ sniping me twice so I'm going to keep making chalk picks without any write-ups. Fun fact: I'm the world's worst golfer due to the worst slice in golf history. May as well test that theory out with the course that started it all.

Team Golf Course: The Old Course at St. Andrews

Wait, @pit already went so I have to tag @Lord Defect? Yuck.

Dumb Defect! Stupid Defect! Nonsensical Defect!

This course is owned by the perverts. Otherwise, it would have been my first pick this phase.

 

[mja]

This course is owned by the perverts. Otherwise, it would have been my first pick this phase.

Wait, what? When? How?

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Wait, what? When? How?

Dealer's choice or wild card or whatever from a previous phase.

 

[mja]

Dealer's choice or wild card or whatever from a previous phase.

Motherf***er. I swear I searched it. f***ing hell. What a disaster.

@Lord Defect can proceed, I'll get it in tomorrow morning.