Hockey Math: Why the Calgary Flames are Better than the Oilers

So if the Buffalo Sabres beats the Edmonton Oilers 10-2 and the Calgary Flames beats Buffalo 5-2, does that mean the Flames would beat the Oilers 25 to 2? Also does this show that the Flames are 12.5 times better? Trust me, it's an easy proof to do :-)

The Oilers were pounded was so bad, even our local sports radio station had to mention it in a song. For all those fans of the Oilers and the Kinks (or are curious about cross-dressing):

Goal (sung to the tune of Lola by the Kinks)

"But when Jochen Hetch scored, you must've known you were screwed..."

I was camera-less for the game, but the Flames did put on "Military Appreciation Night" where some season ticket holders donated their ducats to local soldiers. During the pre-game ceremony, they had a video montage playing some Johnny Cash that was so good, it even had the Flames starting line-up pull back from the blue line so they could check it out on the jumbo-tron. Another nice touch was that all the side games during the tv timeouts had soldiers vying for prizes. As for the game itself, Kipper made two ridiculous saves and the linesmen should have waved off two icing calls against the Flames (luckily they didn't cost us a goal). You usually only hear the "Oilers Suck" chant when they come to town, but the fans busted it out anyways as the Flames pulled ahead in the third period.

Superbowl Commercials

Most folks up here may not be able to see Fed-Ex (Britney's latest ex-hubie, not the courier) daydreaming in a $US2.6M commercial, but it looks like AOL.ca has them all online so you won't have to youtube for them... The majority of Bud Lights were pretty good, but the most original had to be Sprint's Connectile Dsyfunction parody and the grossest had to be the Sierra Mist's Combover clip.

PS. Actually watched the half-time show... Interested to see that Prince actually covered the Foo Fighter's "Best of You", since the FFs do a rendition of the Symbol's "Darling Nikki" during their concert sets.

Happy Holidays

If you get bored at the office, go check out this amusing site over at www.elfyourself.com. Happy Holidays and here's to a great 2007!

Sexually Aroused Sea Cows

This new website just shows why Leno should step aside (early) and let Conan speak to the late night masses. He adlibbed the website as a joke during a mascot skit and NBC was forced to actually buy the rights to the domain. So they just ran with it and now it's making the internet rounds as fans and James Lipton have joined in.

Tokyo Commute

Few shows on the CBC, besides HNIC and the RMR, are actually worthy. But in the summer I do tivo Zed. Here's an amusing clip that someone caught in a Tokyo subway:



It's about five minutes long and does build up nicely. Fans of Atom Films should definitely surf around to find some other great gems.

Seinfeld & Soup

A buddy of mine heading over to NYC combined with the canteen at where I work that serves up a great Mulligatawny ("It's an Indian soup. It's simmered to perfection by one of the great soup artisans in the modern era.") on Thursdays has reminded me of the infamous Seinfeld episode (which is based on the proprietor of a real soup kitchen in NYC) and mentions the follow soups:

• turkey chili
• crab bisque
• mulligatawny
  
• jambalaya
• gazpacho
• wild mushroom
• Cold cucumber
• corn and crab chowder

PS. Lobster bisque is mentioned in another classic, the "Yada Yada" episode.

anti-motivational posters

For those that are familiar with despair.com's de-motivational(tm) posters, you can now try to make your own @ http://diy.despair.com/motivator.php.



Here's my pitiful attempt. Should have waited for something more inspirational to hit me... Wait... I think that could be turned into a demotivator :-p