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NHL Mega-Mock Draft Reboot - Discussion / Draft Thread - MEATY PHASE EIGHTEEN! Part One!
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Finnish Baseball being selected TWICE is peak Quackverse 
Lord Defect
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I stood in the shade for 45 minutes for tball pictures, and now I’m sweating profusely while drinking a leinenkugel as I wait for the kids pool to fill up. We’re pretty much the same.
I'm back on home soil, and everything you've ever heard about Hedonism is true. Since I'm here for a few minutes and supposedly went to a no-holds-barred orgy island, I might as well drop a pick. "The wild women, the wild women. The ripping and the tearing, the ripping and the tearing."
Team Gif II - Hedonism Rick
I don't know who is up or how many picks I have left to make, but they will have to wait til Monday.
Team Gif II - Hedonism Rick
I don't know who is up or how many picks I have left to make, but they will have to wait til Monday.
Lord Defect
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How did I miss this? I would have remembered this. Probably.
Striiker
Former Flyers Fan
Cool cool cool cool cool
If it helps I’ve been struggling for like 16 phases now. I don’t know bands or screenwriters or cover songs or any of that old person shit. I just go with lore picks at the last second.
But just wait until the tables are turned and we get some Counter-Strike or Call of Duty categories. Guess who’ll be laughing then.
mja
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt
Lord Defect
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CanadianFlyer88
Knublin' PPs
How many purses do you own?
Lord Defect
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How many purses do you own?
Chuck Downie
Cheese and olive
CanadianFlyer88
Knublin' PPs
My pet peeve is something that is an affront to humanity. It's also an affront to nature, but as you all know, nature is the worst.
Replacing beautiful brown eyes, and sometimes downright black eyes, with these atrocities makes me violently ill. It's not that I don't like green eyes - I love them to pieces - or blue eyes, or grey eyes ...
"Oh, you've got green eyes,
Oh, you've got blue eyes,
Oh, you've got grey eyes ..."
... it's that this practice is so unnatural that it hurts my heart as much as my eyes. And very often, as I can bear personal witness to, it can go terribly, terribly wrong, leaving the poor lady looking like a bloodshot, bug-eyed alien creep.
Team Pet Peeve - Colored Contacts
@mja
Replacing beautiful brown eyes, and sometimes downright black eyes, with these atrocities makes me violently ill. It's not that I don't like green eyes - I love them to pieces - or blue eyes, or grey eyes ...
"Oh, you've got green eyes,
Oh, you've got blue eyes,
Oh, you've got grey eyes ..."
... it's that this practice is so unnatural that it hurts my heart as much as my eyes. And very often, as I can bear personal witness to, it can go terribly, terribly wrong, leaving the poor lady looking like a bloodshot, bug-eyed alien creep.
Team Pet Peeve - Colored Contacts
@mja
GKJ
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OK, let's do the Classic Tetris World Championships
The whole thing is nuts.
The whole thing is nuts.
mja
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt
Team Double Timer: Dinosaur Jr. - Anthem Singers
J will handle vocal duties on The Star-Spangled Banner, while Lou will take over for O Canada. Every once in a while we'll throw in God Bless America or America the Beautiful or Freak Scene just to keep things fresh. J will shred on all of them.
@Magua
J will handle vocal duties on The Star-Spangled Banner, while Lou will take over for O Canada. Every once in a while we'll throw in God Bless America or America the Beautiful or Freak Scene just to keep things fresh. J will shred on all of them.
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Team Double Timer: Dinosaur Jr. - Anthem Singers
J. will handle vocal duties on The Star-Spangled Banner, while Lou will take over for Oh, Canada! Every once in a while we'll throw in God Bless America or America the Beautiful or Freak Scene just to keep things fresh. J. will shred on all of them.
@Magua
We are getting some excellent ideas for categories. Well done, boys.
Magua
Entirely Palatable Product
Not that it gets brought up a lot, but I happen to be a big tennis fan, and my mind instantly went in this direction for the next category. It didn't involve an all-time legend, it wasn't even a championship (far from it), but it was perhaps the most mind-boggling match in tennis history. And it's in the pantheon of athletic willpower and endurance.
The Honolulu Ghibli select as our Team Greatest Game Ever: Isner-Mahut 2010 Wimbledon
So, I said this was far from a championship. Well, it was a 1st round match. Lasting 11 hours and 5 minutes, and played over 3 days, it's the longest match ever by over 4 hours. An average 5-set men's match will tend to go 2-3 hours. The final 5th set was 70-68 for John Isner. The match began at 6:13 pm local time on Tuesday, June 22, 2010. With the sun going down, it was called at 9:07 pm. It resumed on Wednesday at 2:05pm before being suspended again at 9:09 pm. On Thursday, at 3:40 pm, play resumed before concluding at 4:47 pm. A rule change was later instituted for final set tie breaks to avoid another on-court death march.
It was parodied in a pretty funny HBO short movie, 7 Days in Hell, with Andy Samberg.
*****
@Hurricane28
The Honolulu Ghibli select as our Team Greatest Game Ever: Isner-Mahut 2010 Wimbledon
So, I said this was far from a championship. Well, it was a 1st round match. Lasting 11 hours and 5 minutes, and played over 3 days, it's the longest match ever by over 4 hours. An average 5-set men's match will tend to go 2-3 hours. The final 5th set was 70-68 for John Isner. The match began at 6:13 pm local time on Tuesday, June 22, 2010. With the sun going down, it was called at 9:07 pm. It resumed on Wednesday at 2:05pm before being suspended again at 9:09 pm. On Thursday, at 3:40 pm, play resumed before concluding at 4:47 pm. A rule change was later instituted for final set tie breaks to avoid another on-court death march.
It was parodied in a pretty funny HBO short movie, 7 Days in Hell, with Andy Samberg.
*****
@Hurricane28
Last day of the Premiere League season, and I can just sit back, relax, and hope for a miracle.
We start the day with @Hurricane28 on the clock, @Striiker on deck, and @CanadianFlyer88 on the lido deck with two selections to select. Then we go back through those three to Macgruber.
Ugh, yesterday I finished "The Mother The Son The Rat and The Gun" (2022). I had started it on Friday night, but it was so stupid that I kept pausing it to watch the Canes game with sound. At times, I left it playing in the background as I watched the Canes game with sound, because unlike most movies I watch, this turd was in English. For example, there was this long scene with the protagonist and her sister - one of several such scenes - and all it contained was one massive, cliche-soaked word salad. POINTLESS. It is one of these boutique films, where a guy gets the financing to write, direct and produce a movie "his way" without any oversight. These can sometimes work, of course, but this one didn't at all. It had a montage of meetings with the gang leadership without explaining what they were discussing or who was out to get them or anything, just people sitting at a table. It didn't bother showing any blood in the kill shots - they kept the camera on the shooter. That may not sound like a problem, but it is. Gah, what a waste of time. It is a stupid turd and a total mess and a massive waste of time. F***ers.
Then last night I watched "Diner" (2019), no relation to the Barry Levinson masterpiece from 1982, about an eatery for killers run by a killer. This one was directed by Mika Ninagawa, who also helmed that one called "Helter Skelter" that I watched last weekend. She's nuts, but she has a pretty good eye for scenery, all of which is interior. It stars Tina Tamashiro, who is utterly adorable and spends the film in various maid outfits. That really helps, especially when the rest of the movie, aside from some food porn, is just veering all over the place. Funnily enough, this film didn't show much blood either - Mika-chan replaced it with red flowers flying and falling and floating. It's no masterpiece, but the story at the center of it managed to hold itself together, more or less, through all the gonzo weirdness. It's still better than anything David Lynch has ever made. Don't you dare at me.
Now let's all sit back and have a miraculous day.
We start the day with @Hurricane28 on the clock, @Striiker on deck, and @CanadianFlyer88 on the lido deck with two selections to select. Then we go back through those three to Macgruber.
Ugh, yesterday I finished "The Mother The Son The Rat and The Gun" (2022). I had started it on Friday night, but it was so stupid that I kept pausing it to watch the Canes game with sound. At times, I left it playing in the background as I watched the Canes game with sound, because unlike most movies I watch, this turd was in English. For example, there was this long scene with the protagonist and her sister - one of several such scenes - and all it contained was one massive, cliche-soaked word salad. POINTLESS. It is one of these boutique films, where a guy gets the financing to write, direct and produce a movie "his way" without any oversight. These can sometimes work, of course, but this one didn't at all. It had a montage of meetings with the gang leadership without explaining what they were discussing or who was out to get them or anything, just people sitting at a table. It didn't bother showing any blood in the kill shots - they kept the camera on the shooter. That may not sound like a problem, but it is. Gah, what a waste of time. It is a stupid turd and a total mess and a massive waste of time. F***ers.
Then last night I watched "Diner" (2019), no relation to the Barry Levinson masterpiece from 1982, about an eatery for killers run by a killer. This one was directed by Mika Ninagawa, who also helmed that one called "Helter Skelter" that I watched last weekend. She's nuts, but she has a pretty good eye for scenery, all of which is interior. It stars Tina Tamashiro, who is utterly adorable and spends the film in various maid outfits. That really helps, especially when the rest of the movie, aside from some food porn, is just veering all over the place. Funnily enough, this film didn't show much blood either - Mika-chan replaced it with red flowers flying and falling and floating. It's no masterpiece, but the story at the center of it managed to hold itself together, more or less, through all the gonzo weirdness. It's still better than anything David Lynch has ever made. Don't you dare at me.
Now let's all sit back and have a miraculous day.
Hollywood Cannon
I'm Away From My Desk
Much better...
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Hurricane28
Angry Flyers STH/Weather Guy
Striiker
Former Flyers Fan
Double Timer - Dr Disrespect (Director of In-Arena Experience)
Nobody has a mind for putting on a show like the Doc.
There's gonna be a lot of neon lights. There's gonna be a lot of explosions.
@CanadianFlyer88
Nobody has a mind for putting on a show like the Doc.
There's gonna be a lot of neon lights. There's gonna be a lot of explosions.
@CanadianFlyer88
CanadianFlyer88
Knublin' PPs
Our pet peeve is something that first came to my attention when I started working in downtown Vancouver. I only worked downtown for a few years and now my office hasn't been downtown for over a decade, but this immediately came to mind when I read the categories.
It is also somewhat more relevant in a city where it rains 400% of the time 14 months of the year. Since our franchise is also based in the PNW, this seems like an appropriate selection.
It's hard to convey how annoying it is unless you have experienced this yourself, but the Seattle Sockeyes select as our pet peeve people who keep umbrellas open under store awnings. If you're walking down the street under multiple awnings, put your umbrella away, asshole.
Our team screenwriter only has 7 writing credits to his name, but one is probably my favourite movie of the 2000s and that's enough for me.
The Seattle Sockeyes are thrilled to select John Michael McDonagh.
@Striiker
It is also somewhat more relevant in a city where it rains 400% of the time 14 months of the year. Since our franchise is also based in the PNW, this seems like an appropriate selection.
It's hard to convey how annoying it is unless you have experienced this yourself, but the Seattle Sockeyes select as our pet peeve people who keep umbrellas open under store awnings. If you're walking down the street under multiple awnings, put your umbrella away, asshole.
Our team screenwriter only has 7 writing credits to his name, but one is probably my favourite movie of the 2000s and that's enough for me.
The Seattle Sockeyes are thrilled to select John Michael McDonagh.
@Striiker
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