NHL Mega-Mock Draft Reboot - Discussion / Draft Thread – TITILLATING PHASE TWENTY-FOUR!

[BigToe]

Y'all are picking too fast. Gimmie a sec to find something.

Nvm just gimmie Broccoli

Team Vegetable - Broccoli

@JojoTheWhale or @Magua idk Broccoli

Broccoli

 

[DancingPanther]

 

[Magua]

One could always use some Quackverse karma.

The Honolulu Ghibli welcome back into existence our Team Extinct Animal: the Labrador Duck

Look at this cute little guy (or girl!):

The Labrador duck happens to be the first known bird species to go extinct in North America after Columbus stumbled his way here. It was last officially seen in 1875 in Long Island. North America owes you this one.

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@Beef Invictus ! Obsequious Beef! Warmongering Beef! Clerical Beef!

 

[Beef Invictus]

Let me do a think

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

That Labrador duck f***ing rules. We are bringing them back. I am going to train my black-footed ferrets to ride on their backs when they fly.

We start the day with @Beef Invictus still on the clock, of course, @Lord Defect on DUH-ck, Rebels already wasted, and mja on the lido afterdeck. @ajgoal can make up his pick when he is ready, and Jojo can make his picks up when he gets back, which I think is around Aug. 5.

OK, dream time, but rather than a sweet and romantic and exciting dream, I am going to tell you about something exceedingly stupid. I have this recurring dream where I am back at the newspaper working my job. There are several versions of this dream, most of them involving missed deadlines or stories which I should have covered and didn't. That almost NEVER happened in real life - seriously, very close to never - so I don't know where they are coming from.

The other night I had one of them, and this one started off in a new office that I had found for us. Everyone was very excited, because it was extremely organized and clean and pretty spacious. Everyone was very relaxed. And Henry Winkler was there. You see, I sometimes have dreams where Henry Winkler drives me home, and it is a long drive, and he is a f***ing terrible driver. He has no control on the road. He goes too fast, and he never uses his brakes, and he's all over the road, so every time I am in the car with him I almost die. In fact, I SHOULD die in some of the situations he gets us into, but somehow he gets us out of it and keeps going.

So that happened again. I really don't get a lot of sleep when I'm sleeping.

 

[Striiker]

Speaking of which…

How often do you guys have dreams?

I know some people have them most nights, but I only have one like once every couple months.

 

[BiggE]

Speaking of which…

How often do you guys have dreams?

I know some people have them most nights, but I only have one like once every couple months.

You dream pretty much any time you achieve rem sleep, you just don’t remember them. I usually remember a dream every few days or so, but everyone is different.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Speaking of which…

How often do you guys have dreams?

I know some people have them most nights, but I only have one like once every couple months.

I've either had them more or remembered them more since I started sleeping in this chair.

 

[BigToe]

Speaking of which…

How often do you guys have dreams?

I know some people have them most nights, but I only have one like once every couple months.

You need to up your dream game, Striikebruh.

 

[Striiker]

You need to up your dream game, Striikebruh.

Well I don’t exactly have any control over that, ToeBro.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Time was spent traveling so things got lost. I suppose I'll do a magnet.

Thank you @Magua! Smokey Magua! Blubbery Magua! Agile Magua!

Boss 360° 3500 lb Bundle

The Brute Boss bundle is a highly powerful neodymium magnet with a 360-degree pulling capacity, which comes with a stainless steel case for maximum protection. The bundle includes a cut-resistant glove, 8mm rope, aluminum carabiner, and threadlocker. The magnet has a 200%+ increase in distance...

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I do that. That can hold 3500 leebs.

@Lord Defect

Simple Defect! Complex Defect! Middling Defect!

 

[Lord Defect]

Time was spent traveling so things got lost. I suppose I'll do a magnet.

Thank you @Magua! Smokey Magua! Blubbery Magua! Agile Magua!

Boss 360° 3500 lb Bundle

The Brute Boss bundle is a highly powerful neodymium magnet with a 360-degree pulling capacity, which comes with a stainless steel case for maximum protection. The bundle includes a cut-resistant glove, 8mm rope, aluminum carabiner, and threadlocker. The magnet has a 200%+ increase in distance...

brutemagnetics.com

I do that. That can hold 3500 leebs.

@Lord Defect

Simple Defect! Complex Defect! Middling Defect!

Thanks beef! Beef! Beef!
We’ll take the goat slow song, Unchained Melody by the righteous brothers.

 

[Lord Defect]

@Rebels57

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Time was spent traveling so things got lost. I suppose I'll do a magnet.

Thank you @Magua! Smokey Magua! Blubbery Magua! Agile Magua!

Boss 360° 3500 lb Bundle

The Brute Boss bundle is a highly powerful neodymium magnet with a 360-degree pulling capacity, which comes with a stainless steel case for maximum protection. The bundle includes a cut-resistant glove, 8mm rope, aluminum carabiner, and threadlocker. The magnet has a 200%+ increase in distance...

brutemagnetics.com

I do that. That can hold 3500 leebs.

@Lord Defect

Simple Defect! Complex Defect! Middling Defect!

I'm going to bed, but I wanted to ask you if you understand that you are supposed to pick a refrigerator magnet, not just any magnet. Do you?

 

[Beef Invictus]

I'm going to bed, but I wanted to ask you if you understand that you are supposed to pick a refrigerator magnet, not just any magnet. Do you?

This is going on the refrigerator and it is never, ever coming off.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I'm going to bed, but I wanted to ask you if you understand that you are supposed to pick a refrigerator magnet, not just any magnet. Do you?

OK, how about this junkyard magnet? If it can stick on a stove it can stick on a fridge.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Beef, I understood what you were going for - I just wanted to make sure that you understood what you were going for.

We start this Sunday with the shambolic ruin that is @Rebels57 on the clock, again, somehow, @mja on deck, @Asnito on the lido deck, and me on the lido afterdeck.

F***ing Lalas, man. Totally erases your brain cells. I don't have any idea what I was going to say.

 

[Rebels57]

On vacation in Cape May still..skip

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

@mja you can go when you're ready.

 

[mja]

@mja you can go when you're ready.

Skip me. Might be out of commission for a few days. @Asnito

 

[Lord Defect]

 

[Young Sandwich]

@CanadianFlyer88 just trying to combat that low T with your macadamia obsession?

 

[Striiker]

House of Macadamias seems like a trustworthy and unbiased source when it comes to the health benefits of macadamias.

 

[mja]

Making my way up to Paris over the next few days. Seems like an appropriate time to make this pick.

For Team Slow Dance Song, I thought about going in a couple of different directions (but never once the Edith Piaf song my wife picked out for our wedding.) I'm a little more than a bit younger than Cap, so I missed out on the height of the slow dance era. The songs middle school me first slow danced to were late 80's hair metal ballads. I thought about honoring that, but then reconsidered because I wouldn't be caught dead dancing to any of that today. I almost went classic Motown and part of me still wants to, but then I thought about ultimately what the act of slow dancing really is, and what it represents and stands in for, and then it came to me.



Written by Sexpos-friendly French icon Serge Gainsbourg (who once infamously told a young Whitney Houston on live TV that he wanted to f*** her), after his then-lover Bridget Bardot challenged him to write a sincere love song, Je t'aime... moi non plus is a duet that translates to I love you...me neither. It caused a major scandal upon its release--being likely the first song to feature a woman climaxing as an integral part of the composition--but was also a major hit despite being banned in most countries around the world. The original version with Bardot wasn't released until 20 years later because her husband found out about it and issued an ultimatum. Gainsbourg then re-recorded the song with the great love of his life, the English model Jane Birkin, et voilà. By the way, the story goes that while Birkin's, uh, emoting? is simulated, Bardot's was not. Here's her version:



A decade later Gainsbourg wrote and directed Birkin in a film with the same title. I've never actually seen it, but here's the trailer, which indeed does feature an androgynous Birkin messily slow dancing to the title track:



I've had this lined up for quite a while, but in the interim Jane Birkin passed away. I think stateside she was most famous for having a handbag named after her, but she was a major figure in French pop culture and her death was a big deal.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I just read up about Jane Birkin a week or so ago. Great pick. Rest in Peace.

We start the day with @Asnito still on the clock, obviously, myself on deck, Chuck Downie on the lido deck, and Starberry on the lido afterdeck. @Rebels57 and @ajgoal can make up their picks whenever they are ready.

I had another terrible dream about being caught in white-trash crossfire - in this case, an argument that started in a liquor store (where I bought a six-pack of Michelob Light) ended with a white-trash guy drunk driving his pickup truck into a crowd outside the liquor store and into the face of his white-trash sister, slamming her (and several others) into and through the facade of the liquor store. I don't know where this sort of thing comes from, but it's very unpleasant.