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Yep, the spirit of Bob and Doug Mackenzie lives on...

:laugh3: Ok, that was hilarious. ...and then there was Nickleback... :tongue: Sorry about them. :disappointed:

As of the begging of the Olympics, Ovechkin and Crosby were the leading NHL point scorers this year? There was one game they faced off in last year where they both got a hat trick.

The pride of Nova Scotia, boys and girls, the pride of Nova Scotia. :D

Has to be one of the single most intense games I've ever seen... :sweatdrop: See you all on the other end... :escaping3:

Now she's getting it. :sneaky: You and me both. *hides*

Drat I still forgot Cut Copy and The Bug... :bomb: But no room. :( Oh well.

Holy crap! :stunned: What a game. We were soooo close. Need to breathe. :mad: Overtime here we come.

Ok, a little tinkering and I've finalized my list. I want to knitpick it some more, but I won't. http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showpost.php?p=3990829&postcount=369 But since it still hasn't shown up on the first page, I'll repost it here just in case... :thinking:

You'd better believe it. :beadyeyes:

Heh. And he'll probably be saying it's their fault for years to come... I'm beginning to wonder if it might not be a bad idea to start teaching anger management in school... :thinking:

You'd better believe it. :cool: Bring 'em on! :sneaky:

What he said: http://thechronicleherald.ca/Sports/1169628.html Give our hockey champs a break CHRIS COCHRANE Sat. Feb 27 - 4:53 AM ANY ATHLETE who has played on a championship team can look forward, and deservedly so, to the post-game celebration with teammates. It’s a special time when players who have battled through so much adversity — and there’s always adversity for a title team — can finally take some time to relax and bask in their accomplishments. The best celebrations are the impromptu ones that happen immediately after the victory. The athletes are exhausted and mentally drained but totally hyped on the big win. These are the times athletes remember forever. That’s why it’s so unbelievably ridiculous to hear the whining and apologizing going on over the Canadian women hockey team’s private, on-ice celebration after winning Olympic gold against the U.S. on Thursday night. Some drank beer and champagne, some had a few puffs of a victory cigar. It was the same kind of celebrating that hundreds of sports teams across Canada do every year. The difference here, and to some this constitutes a major faux pas, is that the players were wearing Olympic medals. The International Olympic Committee, a group whose own ethics have been called into question at times in the past, isn’t happy with the women’s behaviour. "I don’t think it’s a good promotion of sport values," Gilbert Felli, the IOC’s executive director of the Olympic Games, said about the celebration. "If they celebrate in the changing room, that’s one thing, but not in public." Hockey Canada was quick to toe the line. "The members of Team Canada apologize if their on-ice celebrations, after fans had left the building, offended anyone," read a Hockey Canada statement. "In the excitement of the moment, the celebration left the confines of our dressing room and shouldn’t have. "The team regrets that its gold medal celebration may have caused the IOC or COC (Canadian Olympic Committee) any embarrassment. Our players and team vow to uphold the values of the Olympics moving forward and view this situation as a learning experience." In hindsight, maybe the women’s team should have kept the party in the dressing room where there were no photographers to snap shots of them having a celebratory drink, and out of respect for any American team members still in the arena. And maybe they should have made sure that the one player on the team who was under the legal drinking age (by a month) didn’t have a drink. But is it really such a big deal? Isn’t it time to ease up on the political correctness that seems to hold sway over just about everything these days? Don’t give me that line about them being role models for the youth of Canada. Part of the problem with this role-model thing is that we tend to build them up to a level where they can no longer be ordinary people with ordinary strengths and flaws. These women had just capped off months — no, make that years — of intense preparation to win an Olympic medal. That arena is where they are role models, so judge them on their dedication, their talent and their sacrifice. Don’t judge them for celebrating after finally achieving their goal. What if it had been the Canadian men’s team celebrating a gold medal on home ice? I bet no one would be gasping and holding up their ethics manuals if it had been Sidney Crosby taking a drag on a cigar or Chris Pronger throwing back a beer. So I say ignore the petty bitching, ladies. You conducted yourselves like any other Canadian champions and you have nothing to apologize for.

I know, it was so close. It wasn't really any big mistakes either, just tempermental ice that was catching both sides out. But that's what makes curling so much fun to watch (says I)- eleven ends of strategy and big shots comes down to one single shot at the very end. Make it and you win. Miss it and you lose. And missing it could be a matter of the slightest gesture to throw the weight off, a tiny millimeter in direction at the throw,or a little ice pebble that's come loose throwing the stone off. No pressure. :P Both sides played brilliantly. Well won Sweden. :D I went skiing once. It was terrifying and I never made it off the bunny hill. :tongue:

^^Everyone wants to drive the zamboni. *nods* Apparently she was no exception. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qRPNPyk8EY]YouTube- I Wanna Drive the Zamboni[/ame]

http://www.torontosun.com/sports/vancouver2010/hockey/2010/02/26/13037636.html Canadians defend women's hockey team They may have cracked that cold one in the wrong place according to Olympic rules, but Canadians are leaping to the defence of their Olympic hockey champions. The International Olympic Committee announced that they were launching an investigation into the on-ice celebrations of Canada's women's hockey Olympic team following their gold medal win on Thursday night. But the rest of Canada quickly condemned the action, filling online forums and Twittering their congratulations to their women's hockey team one more time. "I wish I was there with them," wrote el baz on ottawasun.com. 'Canadian Women' was a trending topic on Twitter on Friday morning ­ meaning it was one of the most discussed topics on the social network forum. The women's hockey returned to the ice with cigars, beer and champagne about 30 minutes after the gold medal ceremony on Thursday night. Photos of the celebration appeared online shortly thereafter. But while the IOC's investigation is ongoing, some online commenters are curious that if it is so concerned about the image of its athletes' celebrations, it seemed strangely silent when Canadian skeleton winner Jon Montgomery drank from a pitcher of beer on live television following his gold medal win. "I didn't have a problem when Jon Montgomery celebrated and I don't have a problem with the women's hockey team celebrating," wrote another poster. "These athletes work hard to get where they are and they deserver to enjoy their moment as they see fit." Following Montgomery's gold medal win, he was filmed walking away from his event when someone from the crowd handed him a pitcher of beer, which he drank from liberally. This isn't the only time that post-medal celebrations have come under scrutiny at the Vancouver Games. After snowboarder Scotty Lago of the United States posed for photos with his medal at a party, with several women in biting his medal in risque poses, he offered to go home before the U.S. Olympic Committee had a chance to ask him to leave. "He made that call, and it was the right decision," U.S. Olympic Committee Chairman Larry Probst said at the time. Hockey Canada has apologized for the actions of the women's team. "In the excitement of the moment, the celebration left the confines of our dressing room and shouldn't," they said in a statement. "The team regrets that its gold-medal celebrations may have caused the IOC or COC any embarrassment." That apology isn't sitting well with many online posters, either. "These people need to lighten up. The women did their job, (and very well I might add). A celebration at centre ice in an empty arena with a little alcohol, was neither inappropriate, nor should it be a reflection of any kind on the Olympic committee," wrote Jay on the ottawasun.com. "I'm sure the girls wanted to live in the moment a little longer, since it's one of the greatest milestones of their lives."

Criticism, yes. The daily mail moral straightjacket Tsk tsking? No.

Oi! Complain about their behavior if you want, but don't go "Daily Mail"-izing our hockey team. :angry:

Refreshing to see some journalists doing their job for once. My kudos to the 6 Music staff. Rather than merely repeating release rumors they double checked sources. EMI didn't know for sure when the release is happening (like Coldplay would tell them how studio sessions are going- that's the easiest way to be stuck with a deadline you never wanted...). When that answer wasn't enough, they started questioning one of the producers about it and got a clearer answer: A great big maybe. As in not for sure, but not a no either. Journalistic integrity isn't dead after all. :nice: I was worried for a bit there.

I was going to make one myself in illustrator, but hey, if you can do one in under an hour go for it- you'll save oodles of time and the first one you did turned out so well. :nice:

^Yay! :nice: I've finished cleaning up the lowercase letters. Same deal: Next up punctuation and numbers. Then comes the hard part...

...I wonder what the Russian headlines are saying now? :thinking: Oh man, I watched some of the US Switzerland game on NBC and couldn't believe the announcer they had- it was like he knew almost nothing about hockey and kept coming up with the most insane comments about what was happening. They even had one of the commentators from the Canadian sports channels working with him and the guy kept having to correct him but he just kept ignoring it. When the Canadian guy had anything intelligent and interesting to say the other guy would act like he hadn't said anything and would even interrupt him. Best comment: And he [the goalie] barely avoids making a snow angel. :wtf:

Their healthcare system is so good they don't need one. :thinking: As for incentives, that's what voters are for.

Seconded. :cool: Burial is the awesome sauce, and in my opinion Untrue is one of the landmark albums of the decade. (As well as being freaking awesome.)

And in 2008 Coldplaying's top 50 was voted as: Coldplay - Viva la Vida Elbow- The Seldom Seen Kid Sigur Rós - Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust Keane - Perfect Symmetry Oasis - Dig out your soul Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns The Killers - Day and Age MGMT - Oracular Spectacular The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement Beck - Modern Guilt Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs Travis - Ode to J. Smith Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend R.E.M. - Accelerate Bloc Party - Intimacy The Verve - Forth TV on the radio - Dear Science Kings of Leon - Only by the Night The Kooks - Konk British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? The Racontuers - Consolers of the Lonely Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago Kaiser Cheifs - Off With Their Heads Glasvegas - Glasvegas Metallica - Death Magnetic Portishead - Third City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love Hey Rosetta - Into Your Lungs Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight Seth Lakeman - Poor Man's Heaven Nada Surf - Lucky Razorlight- Slipway Fires ¡Forward, Russia! - Life Processes Foals - Antidotes Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel Santogold - Santogold Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off The Lavender Bridge Jason Mraz - We sing, we dance, we steal things The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing The Fireman - Electronic Arguments Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell Flight of The Conchords - Flight of The Conchords Guillemots - Red The Feeling - Join With Us Duffy - Rockferry We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery The Music - Strenght in Numbers dEUS - Vantage Point