NHL Mega-Mock Draft Reboot - Discussion / Draft Thread - MEATY PHASE EIGHTEEN! Part One!

[Beef Invictus]

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.

There were different grades of it! Welfare Cheese was the worst! Some of it was probably leftover from the 1930s!

As in, yes, a bunch of it was from the actual WW2 era!

 

[ajgoal]

There were different grades of it! Welfare Cheese was the worst! Some of it was probably leftover from the 1930s!

As in, yes, a bunch of it was from the actual WW2 era!

I saw a movie about it once. Well, at least at one point the main character applied for government assistance and got cheese.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I saw a movie about it once. Well, at least at one point the main character applied for government assistance and got cheese.

Probably gross cheese. A lot of it had to have the inedible parts sliced off, so that the technically edible parts could be distributed.

 

[ajgoal]

Probably gross cheese.

I'm pretty sure that wasn't the title.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Im on vacation. You can skip me (for the third time)

 

[DancingPanther]

Im on vacation. You can skip me (for the third time)

Unbelievable

 

[BiggE]

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.

Government cheese is the Kevin Hayes of cheese.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Government cheese is the Kevin Hayes of cheese.

You are up.

 

[BiggE]

Looks like the Methgators need an actress. Hmm, who would best appeal to our um, unique, fanbase??

How about

The original Daisy Duke, Catherine Bach

@BernieParent , back to you, ya good ole boy!

 

[Beef Invictus]

I want you all to know that there is currently enough cheese in storage to hand out 4 leebs to every American.

 

[mja]

Government cheese is the Kevin Hayes of cheese.

Wrong, it's the Keith Yandle of cheese. It needed to be thrown away years ago but persists because people in authority are stupid.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Well, that was rank. Like government cheese.

Think about how bad it has been, and how bad it could be.

2016 Penguins
2017 Penguins
2018 Craps
2019 Blues
2020 Bolts
2021 Bolts
2022 Oilers?

I don't really mind Tampa (anymore) - I am just extremely bored with that story. But the rest of it, and the potential for more this year? F*** off, that's terrible. Then you consider what the Flyers have sunk to? Yesterday or Wednesday or some shit, I guess Elliotte shat his 32 Turds, and he just casually mentioned that f***ing Bob Clarke et al "have a big say in decisions." It just slid out of his ass like a smooth-bored post-veggie log that someone else will eat for gut health. Like, is anyone in a position like that even aware of how f***ed this is? And how does Chuck still have a job? What have we ever done to deserve this shit?

On a positive note, that gruff chicken sneezed right in front of me this morning, which ruled. Also, f***ing "Tomorrow" had an episode where a dog is in its last days, and it runs away from his human because he doesn't want the human to have to suffer by seeing him die. The human is very appropriately attached to the dog and torn the f*** up by missing him. They show scenes of the dog on its own for three weeks before it is found by the Reapers, and this is one of those tiny handbag dogs, like a Pomeranian or something. In one scene, they show the dog standing under a slide in a playground to shelter from the rain. I mean, come the f*** on. Pure emotional blackmail. It's one of those scenes where you really desperately need to suspend your disbelief, because otherwise it would be completely ridiculous. When you do suspend it? Devastating. Textbook manipulation.

We start the day with @BernieParent on the clock, @Chuck Downie on deck, a handsome rabbit on the lido deck, and @mja on the lido afterdeck. Cannon may even return from Florida today, but I am not going to hold my breath, and neither should you. Enjoy your oxygen.

 

[BernieParent]

My, these turns do creep up on me.

"The owners of the Tampa Bay FireSticks, somewhat befuddled with their remaining open categories, will fill that of Team Double-timer by assigning Team Actor Ryan Reynolds to be the official Pilot of our Team Single-pilot Attack Vehicle. Being a peace-loving franchise, we expect that Mr. Reynolds' task will be simply for special events and humanitarian missions.

"And with that we will close our drafting of this round and not delay the next selection of @Chuck Downie's next selection, particularly as Chuck needs to crack the whip in this site's other active drafting thread."

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

My, these turns do creep up on me.

"The owners of the Tampa Bay FireSticks, somewhat befuddled with their remaining open categories, will fill that of Team Double-timer by assigning Team Actor Ryan Reynolds to be the official Pilot of our Team Single-pilot Attack Vehicle. Being a peace-loving franchise, we expect that Mr. Reynolds' task will be simply for special events and humanitarian missions.

"And with that we will close our drafting of this round and not delay the next selection of @Chuck Downie's next selection, particularly as Chuck needs to crack the whip in this site's other active drafting thread."

Very nice category, Bernard.

 

[Lord Defect]

We have team villain, or something along those lines, how about team innocent? A wholesome character with a pure heart from movie or show?

 

[BernieParent]

Very nice category, Bernard.

Thank you very much, Cap'n. Desperation does sometimes give rise to creativity.

 

[Chuck Downie]

Les Comiques select Team Greatest Game Ever

Deep Blue vs Kasparov, Game 6, 1997

Deep Blue versus Kasparov, 1997, Game 6 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

@Captain Dave Poulin

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I have mentioned this guy a million times in my "Dear Diary" entries. The first movie that made me aware of him was "New World" (2013). The cast is LOADED, but he just burst off the screen and stood out. (I cannot recommend this film enough - it is just awesome.)



I could say the exact same things about this film, too, and his performance in it.



I could pick basically any of his other films as the third one, but he is great in "Asura: City of Madness" (2016).



He's charismatic, hilarious, dangerous, and always believable. Basically, if you see that he is in something, you watch it. Period.

Team Actor - Hwang Jung-min

@mja

 

[mja]

I could have literally gone in 1,000 different directions with this, but ultimately I decided that @Magua had the right idea for Official Team Cover Song.

For my money, there is no better cover band than Nirvana, in large part due to Cobain's diverse and almost contradictory musical tastes, and his preternatural ability to reinterpret songs that not only honored the original rendition but also made them his own. This is an artist who was equally at home covering Bowie, archly twee indie pop, psychedelic rock, punk, folk, blues, and so much more. He loved a good crisp pop hook as much as waves of distortion, obscure musical oddities as much the all-time greats.

Even narrowing this down to one song is a real challenge. The Unplugged set is filled with great covers that make up an incomprehensibly large chunk of the set list and that's where I'm ultimately going to draw from, but I could just as easily have pulled from several other recordings highlighting bands as diverse as northwest punkers The Wipers or Glaswegian pop wonders The Vaselines, and I almost did. That's one of the great things about Nirvana covers, oftentimes they served as an entry to a great but low profile or forgotten artist, and helped broaden and shape your musical horizons.

Magua already took the killer Bowie cover that is now the definitive version of that song, but I'm going to go with the closer, Nirvana's absolutely haunting rendition of the old traditional folk song "In the Pines" aka "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" Cobain based his interpretation on Leadbelly's, which in typical fashion he made sure to emphasize, thus introducing folk blues legend Huddie Ledbetter to the Generation X masses.



After this performance, MTV asked Cobain and Co. to do one more. Cobain declined saying, "I don’t think we can top the last song."

@Magua, shiver for me

 

[Rebels57]

I could have literally gone in 1,000 different directions with this, but ultimately I decided that @Magua had the right idea for Official Team Cover Song.

For my money, there is no better cover band than Nirvana, in large part due to Cobain's diverse and almost contradictory musical tastes, and his preternatural ability to reinterpret songs that not only honored the original rendition but also made them his own. This is an artist who was equally at home covering Bowie, archly twee indie pop, psychedelic rock, punk, folk, blues, and so much more. He loved a good crisp pop hook as much as waves of distortion, obscure musical oddities as much the all-time greats.

Even narrowing this down to one song is a real challenge. The Unplugged set is filled with great covers that make up an incomprehensibly large chunk of the set list and that's where I'm ultimately going to draw from, but I could just as easily have pulled from several other recordings highlighting bands as diverse as northwest punkers The Wipers or Glaswegian pop wonders The Vaselines, and I almost did. That's one of the great things about Nirvana covers, oftentimes they served as an entry to a great but low profile or forgotten artist, and helped broaden and shape your musical horizons.

Magua already took the killer Bowie cover that is now the definitive version of that song, but I'm going to go with the closer, Nirvana's absolutely haunting rendition of the old traditional folk song "In the Pines" aka "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" Cobain based his interpretation on Leadbelly's, which in typical fashion he made sure to emphasize, thus introducing folk blues legend Huddie Ledbetter to the Generation X masses.



After this performance, MTV asked Cobain and Co. to do one more. Cobain declined saying, "I don’t think we can top the last song."

@Magua, shiver for me

Was nearly my pick. Legendary.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

I could have literally gone in 1,000 different directions with this, but ultimately I decided that @Magua had the right idea for Official Team Cover Song.

For my money, there is no better cover band than Nirvana, in large part due to Cobain's diverse and almost contradictory musical tastes, and his preternatural ability to reinterpret songs that not only honored the original rendition but also made them his own. This is an artist who was equally at home covering Bowie, archly twee indie pop, psychedelic rock, punk, folk, blues, and so much more. He loved a good crisp pop hook as much as waves of distortion, obscure musical oddities as much the all-time greats.

Even narrowing this down to one song is a real challenge. The Unplugged set is filled with great covers that make up an incomprehensibly large chunk of the set list and that's where I'm ultimately going to draw from, but I could just as easily have pulled from several other recordings highlighting bands as diverse as northwest punkers The Wipers or Glaswegian pop wonders The Vaselines, and I almost did. That's one of the great things about Nirvana covers, oftentimes they served as an entry to a great but low profile or forgotten artist, and helped broaden and shape your musical horizons.

Magua already took the killer Bowie cover that is now the definitive version of that song, but I'm going to go with the closer, Nirvana's absolutely haunting rendition of the old traditional folk song "In the Pines" aka "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" Cobain based his interpretation on Leadbelly's, which in typical fashion he made sure to emphasize, thus introducing folk blues legend Huddie Ledbetter to the Generation X masses.



After this performance, MTV asked Cobain and Co. to do one more. Cobain declined saying, "I don’t think we can top the last song."

@Magua, shiver for me

That song was one of the major things that got me interested in the blues and I will always remember it for that. But what I always think of first is this moment at the end:

It was like watching someone mentally teleport and violently snap back into the moment. It's seared into my brain like few other things I've ever watched.

 

[mja]

That song was one of the major things that got me interested in the blues and I will always remember it for that. But what I always think of first is this moment at the end:

It was like watching someone mentally teleport and violently snap back into the moment. It's seared into my brain like few other things I've ever watched.

Yes! That, and when he breaks out into screaming, "My girl! My girl!" Just rewatched the video before posting, and even though I knew both moments were coming, they still fried my brain.

I can't bear the thought that we're offing Kurt in the QV. It's so very wrong.

 

[Rebels57]

That song was one of the major things that got me interested in the blues and I will always remember it for that. But what I always think of first is this moment at the end:

It was like watching someone mentally teleport and violently snap back into the moment. It's seared into my brain like few other things I've ever watched.

Agreed on that last moment - it's haunting - you can see everything he was going through all at once in 2 seconds

Yes! That, and when he breaks out into screaming, "My girl! My girl!" Just rewatched the video before posting, and even though I knew both moments were coming, they still fried my brain.

I can't bear the thought that we're offing Kurt in the QV. It's so very wrong.

We'll find a way to rescue him, we've discussed this before.

 

[DancingPanther]

Band: hey DP we want to play Manic Depression you can learn the drums right

Me: O_O

 

[BiggE]

That song was one of the major things that got me interested in the blues and I will always remember it for that. But what I always think of first is this moment at the end:

It was like watching someone mentally teleport and violently snap back into the moment. It's seared into my brain like few other things I've ever watched.

The raw emotion in his voice is heartbreaking.