NHL Mega-Mock Draft Reboot - Discussion / Draft Thread - MEATY PHASE EIGHTEEN! Part One!
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I'll fix it.
Hello I am THE MUTINEERS and for my rival I select @CanadianFlyer88
There are seven reasons for this selection:
1) he stole chase young
2) his proximity to Calgary
3) he lives strangely close to Calgary
4) Calgary is near him
5) He is so close to Calgary he might secretly be in Calgary
6) He has bad food opinions
7) He lives in Calgary
Magua
Entirely Palatable Product
His team dog/cat breed is also “catfish.” He’s a sick Calgary adjacent man.
CanadianFlyer88
Knublin' PPs
Little did you know that my loophole selection wouldn't even be the worst pet take in the Quackverse with at least two Quackverse members actively hating pets.
CanadianFlyer88
Knublin' PPs
Magua
Entirely Palatable Product
Little did you know that my loophole selection wouldn't even be the worst pet take in the Quackverse with at least two Quackverse members actively hating pets.
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FOG Greatest Game
Mickey Ward Vs Arturo Gatti I (2002)
The epic match that kicked off one of boxings best rivalries and trilogies
Two absolute warriors with no quit in them
Rest in Power, Arturo.
Mickey Ward Vs Arturo Gatti I (2002)
The epic match that kicked off one of boxings best rivalries and trilogies
Two absolute warriors with no quit in them
Rest in Power, Arturo.
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You should see the slob on TV reporting on the f***ing Stillers. Everything about that organization is trash. Obviously.
We got all the way through three picks yesterday, which is two more than I thought we did lol. We start today with @Asnito on the clock. That means that @Young Sandwich should be ready to go in exactly six hours. @ajgoal is on the lido deck and GKJ is on the lido afterdeck. Jojo has a pick to make up, and both Cannon and Starberry are AFK until the weekend or so, or something. It's the summer, innit.
So "Tomorrow," right. The basic premise of the story is that there are these grim reapers who escort souls to the afterlife, but there is one department which tracks people who are considering suicide and tries to stop them. It's heavy subject matter, but the main characters are flimsily and badly constructed in the manner in which these shows churn out protagonists on the assembly line of series they have going. The part of it from their perspective is, so far, kind of lame, at least when it comes to their interactions with each other. But the back stories of the people they are out to save have been great and super affecting. The latest one I've seen is a 91-year-old veteran of the Korean War whose life has been ruined by the trauma he suffered as a teenaged soldier. The respect he is shown by the reapers at the end of his life is just awesome. Particularly right now, but these days in general, patriotism seems to me like a very inappropriate concept to apply to your country when your country has turned into a defective shithole. Luckily we have the escapism of shows like this to get our minds off of it for a few precious minutes. And that's the success of this show - despite handling a subject matter (patriotism, not suicide) which has been on my mind, it is convincing enough to allow you to suspend your disbelief and get out of the present in real life.
Now I am going to go destroy another shithole civilization, probably the Mayans.
We got all the way through three picks yesterday, which is two more than I thought we did lol. We start today with @Asnito on the clock. That means that @Young Sandwich should be ready to go in exactly six hours. @ajgoal is on the lido deck and GKJ is on the lido afterdeck. Jojo has a pick to make up, and both Cannon and Starberry are AFK until the weekend or so, or something. It's the summer, innit.
So "Tomorrow," right. The basic premise of the story is that there are these grim reapers who escort souls to the afterlife, but there is one department which tracks people who are considering suicide and tries to stop them. It's heavy subject matter, but the main characters are flimsily and badly constructed in the manner in which these shows churn out protagonists on the assembly line of series they have going. The part of it from their perspective is, so far, kind of lame, at least when it comes to their interactions with each other. But the back stories of the people they are out to save have been great and super affecting. The latest one I've seen is a 91-year-old veteran of the Korean War whose life has been ruined by the trauma he suffered as a teenaged soldier. The respect he is shown by the reapers at the end of his life is just awesome. Particularly right now, but these days in general, patriotism seems to me like a very inappropriate concept to apply to your country when your country has turned into a defective shithole. Luckily we have the escapism of shows like this to get our minds off of it for a few precious minutes. And that's the success of this show - despite handling a subject matter (patriotism, not suicide) which has been on my mind, it is convincing enough to allow you to suspend your disbelief and get out of the present in real life.
Now I am going to go destroy another shithole civilization, probably the Mayans.
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JojoTheWhale
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I'll sort my makeup pick here momentarily, but due to Ray Liotta being in the news, I am once again thinking about how utterly awful Field of Dreams was. Not even Burt Lancaster could save that nostalgia schlockfest.
Asnito
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JojoTheWhale
(9 Goals this season)
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It's difficult to narrow down a category as broad as Gifs. I'm guessing there will eventually be a Gif III and possibly more, so let's just say Gif I started a Star Trek theme to which we will be adhering.
I'll add it to the Sheets, Cap.
I'll add it to the Sheets, Cap.
Everyone here ought to be ashamed of themselves. I'm including myself in those selves too, so don't get uppity. We're in Phase 18, round 11(!) and this legendary gem has yet to be selected. What an absolute steal this late in the draft. If you haven't heard this story before, the rock you live under must be a f***ing doozy, because this should be required learning and taught to children yearly in school from 1st to 12th grade. Then taught yearly after that in continued education courses throughout the world.
I'll let the man tell the story in his own words in this wonderful little animated short film. You're welcome.
Team Greatest Game Ever - Dock Ellis LSD No-Hitter
@ajgoal I'm high as a Georgia pine
I'll let the man tell the story in his own words in this wonderful little animated short film. You're welcome.
Team Greatest Game Ever - Dock Ellis LSD No-Hitter
@ajgoal I'm high as a Georgia pine
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Goodfellas is a movie I always watch if it's on.
Field of Dreams is one I've always refused to watch for years now.
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It's #2 on my favorite films of all-time list.
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DancingPanther
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Lord Defect
Secretary of Blowtorching
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Yet you withhold it from us. Don’t be me
ajgoal
Almost always never serious
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You know who they are. They think they know everything about something, be it art, music, food, or most annoyingly at the moment, beer. They then take it upon themselves to insist that you're wrong not to enjoy some particular aspect that they do, and try to explain that, "If you try X, you'll change your mind!" Nevermind that you like dark lagers and Belgian ales, you have to try this IPA. Or they'll harangue you for half an hour to explain that you're wrong to not enjoy their choice band of the moment.
Then they say something like, "This is a pretty good saison," when trying a Belgian quad (actual quote). This is how you know that they're actually full of shit, but they continue to talk to you as if they're actually experts and that you should be drinking/listening to/ appreciating whatever they want you to, rather than what you actually have found you enjoy after several decades of trying stuff.
To be clear, this isn't someone who encourages you to give something a try and then lets it be if you tell them you're not interested. This is the person who keeps pushing and insists you're wrong to like what you like and not like what you don't.
Team pet peeve: [Subject] snobs
@GKJ
@Captain Dave Poulin I think I'm good with no mulligan, I'll double check and let you know.
Then they say something like, "This is a pretty good saison," when trying a Belgian quad (actual quote). This is how you know that they're actually full of shit, but they continue to talk to you as if they're actually experts and that you should be drinking/listening to/ appreciating whatever they want you to, rather than what you actually have found you enjoy after several decades of trying stuff.
To be clear, this isn't someone who encourages you to give something a try and then lets it be if you tell them you're not interested. This is the person who keeps pushing and insists you're wrong to like what you like and not like what you don't.
Team pet peeve: [Subject] snobs
@GKJ
@Captain Dave Poulin I think I'm good with no mulligan, I'll double check and let you know.
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OK yes, for my FREE HANDOUT, the Mutineers pick:
GOVERNMENT CHEESE
I had this idea back when Jojo gave me the blessed opportunity to reference it recently.
It's my favorite example of a bunch of well-meaning ideas that should be good spiraling out of control to damage society in some way.
Way back in the Depression Era during the Great Depression, farms struggled. To prop the farms up, the government bought crops or reimbursed farmers for not growing, as the case was needed. When it came to the dairy industry, the government just bought their dairy. In particular, cheese. So a good way for a farmer to survive was to make cheese, and the government would be it. Eventually, the industry hit a state where it would collapse without the government buying the cheese. And nobody wants to be responsible for stopping the buying and destroying farmers.
Then during the Reagan Era, Reagan was president. He decided he would try to fix the Cheese Problem and liquidate the cheese stockpile, just put an end to the whole cycle. Food inadequacy was a problem in a lot of poor areas. People were skeptical of food stamps and welfare. So, why not hand out the absolutely f***ing humongous stockpile of cheese to the poor? Seems like an easy and good idea without downside, right? What can go wrong? And while at it, why not just hand it out to food chains and stores and also subsidize them if they feature it on their menus and advertise it? Thus, the 80s Cheese Explosion in the United States and why cheese is omnipresent everywhere. Thus the rise of mozzarella sticks, and stuffed crust pizza. This created a problem, though. By flooding the market with cheese, the dairy industry found itself in deep shit. So, what was the solution? That's right! The government had to buy even more cheese! Around and around we go! Oh also it's tied to obesity absolutely skyrocketing since it flooded high calorie/high far cheeses into the American diet where poor people used to eat beans or whatever.
Even now, the government still occasionally buys a big lump of cheese to relieve farmers.
And so everyone who comes to our game will be handed a brick of government cheese. And we will advertise it for those sweet subsidies. And we will fry it, and stuff it in pretzels, and in crusts, and coat nachos in it, and have a Cheese Pool.
GOVERNMENT CHEESE
I had this idea back when Jojo gave me the blessed opportunity to reference it recently.
It's my favorite example of a bunch of well-meaning ideas that should be good spiraling out of control to damage society in some way.
Way back in the Depression Era during the Great Depression, farms struggled. To prop the farms up, the government bought crops or reimbursed farmers for not growing, as the case was needed. When it came to the dairy industry, the government just bought their dairy. In particular, cheese. So a good way for a farmer to survive was to make cheese, and the government would be it. Eventually, the industry hit a state where it would collapse without the government buying the cheese. And nobody wants to be responsible for stopping the buying and destroying farmers.
Then during the Reagan Era, Reagan was president. He decided he would try to fix the Cheese Problem and liquidate the cheese stockpile, just put an end to the whole cycle. Food inadequacy was a problem in a lot of poor areas. People were skeptical of food stamps and welfare. So, why not hand out the absolutely f***ing humongous stockpile of cheese to the poor? Seems like an easy and good idea without downside, right? What can go wrong? And while at it, why not just hand it out to food chains and stores and also subsidize them if they feature it on their menus and advertise it? Thus, the 80s Cheese Explosion in the United States and why cheese is omnipresent everywhere. Thus the rise of mozzarella sticks, and stuffed crust pizza. This created a problem, though. By flooding the market with cheese, the dairy industry found itself in deep shit. So, what was the solution? That's right! The government had to buy even more cheese! Around and around we go! Oh also it's tied to obesity absolutely skyrocketing since it flooded high calorie/high far cheeses into the American diet where poor people used to eat beans or whatever.
Even now, the government still occasionally buys a big lump of cheese to relieve farmers.
And so everyone who comes to our game will be handed a brick of government cheese. And we will advertise it for those sweet subsidies. And we will fry it, and stuff it in pretzels, and in crusts, and coat nachos in it, and have a Cheese Pool.
GKJ
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I'm the one who put out the suggestion for a mulligan coming off all of the blackhawks stuff, so I should go ahead do that, and we're going to replace Jonathan Toews at 2nd line center, with Ross Colton
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DancingPanther
Foundational Titan
- Jun 19, 2018
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OK yes, for my FREE HANDOUT, the Mutineers pick:
GOVERNMENT CHEESE
I had this idea back when Jojo gave me the blessed opportunity to reference it recently.
It's my favorite example of a bunch of well-meaning ideas that should be good spiraling out of control to damage society in some way.
Way back in the Depression Era during the Great Depression, farms struggled. To prop the farms up, the government bought crops or reimbursed farmers for not growing, as the case was needed. When it came to the dairy industry, the government just bought their dairy. In particular, cheese. So a good way for a farmer to survive was to make cheese, and the government would be it. Eventually, the industry hit a state where it would collapse without the government buying the cheese. And nobody wants to be responsible for stopping the buying and destroying farmers.
Then during the Reagan Era, Reagan was president. He decided he would try to fix the Cheese Problem and liquidate the cheese stockpile, just put an end to the whole cycle. Food inadequacy was a problem in a lot of poor areas. People were skeptical of food stamps and welfare. So, why not hand out the absolutely f***ing humongous stockpile of cheese to the poor? Seems like an easy and good idea without downside, right? What can go wrong? And while at it, why not just hand it out to food chains and stores and also subsidize them if they feature it on their menus and advertise it? Thus, the 80s Cheese Explosion in the United States and why cheese is omnipresent everywhere. Thus the rise of mozzarella sticks, and stuffed crust pizza. This created a problem, though. By flooding the market with cheese, the dairy industry found itself in deep shit. So, what was the solution? That's right! The government had to buy even more cheese! Around and around we go! Oh also it's tied to obesity absolutely skyrocketing since it flooded high calorie/high far cheeses into the American diet where poor people used to eat beans or whatever.
Even now, the government still occasionally buys a big lump of cheese to relieve farmers.
And so everyone who comes to our game will be handed a brick of government cheese. And we will advertise it for those sweet subsidies. And we will fry it, and stuff it in pretzels, and in crusts, and coat nachos in it, and have a Cheese Pool.
As someone who ate government cheese growing up in the 80's, I do not believe that it was ever brought into food chains and stores. Paying customers would not have tolerated that stuff considering how foul it was. I think it was only foisted on the poor and elderly.
Government cheese was problematic and stupid, but I don't think it led to our cheese addiction. That stuff was barely even cheese.
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