BagBoy

hilarious!

Maybe it's just me, but this corrected post seems to make more sense than the original.

I was 8 when we left East Aurora. I don’t remember Arden Farms by name, but I remember every fall my family used to go to some place nearby where they made incredible apple cider. We got to watch them squeeze it, and they showed us the whole process of making cider. We always took a few gallons home (non-alcoholic), and that stuff was great.

I've never owned an automatic transmission. Standards are a bit annoying in heavy traffic, though.

Absolutely, Ebola is no joke. But at this point, don’t we all know that the 24/7 media onslaught needs to be taken with a grain of salt, or more like a couple of kilos of salt? Reporters are painting the gloom and doom scenarios, not doctors. When the vast majority of doctors start telling us to freak out, then it’s time to worry. If it ever comes to that, I have great confidence that the media will let us know immediately. Up until now, this hasn’t happened. Many doctors (and LGR4GM) have pointed out that ebola is not nearly as contagious as many other potential deadly diseases. Not only that, but in modern societies like ours, this disease is very containable. The ‘epidemic’ status afforded this disease is a result of the infrastructure shortcomings of places where it has emerged. Furthermore, as Josie914 pointed out, the cultural traditions of people in the West African nations where the outbreaks have appeared have contributed greatly to the spread in those places. Let’s not be a bunch of Chicken Littles telling everyone the sky is falling.

If I could evict one state from the USA, South Carolina would be a very close 3rd after Mississippi and Alabama.

I couldn't agree more.Maybe I’m a little too old school for my own good. I know that popular wisdom says to let the league take care of the LaRose suspension, and then that should be the end of it. But for me that LaRose hit needs to be addressed by the Sabres the next time we play them (11 days from now) “with extreme prejudice”. I’m not talking about trying to hurt LaRose. I’m just talking about a very physical, very intentional penalty against him on his first shift, with our guy barking at him afterwards for his BS hit on Gorges. LaRose WAS actually trying to hurt Gorges, unlike the situation with Gorges and Jordan Staal, where Gorges simply took out his man. The fact that Staal’s leg got mangled afterwards was strictly Staal’s own fault, because he tackled Gorges on the way down and was 100% responsible for his own injury.

They had to start early last year to fit the Olympics into the schedule.

Apparently Grigs was 7-1 at the dot. Anybody know who wore the C and the A's?

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=462053 Phil Kessel is a fat POS prima donna. Who knew?

From a corporate base perspective, I agree with you that another team in Toronto is absolutely the smartest way for the NHL to expand. Let's face it - even TWO more metro Toronto teams could be sustainable in the near future. But as a Sabres fan, I don't want this to happen, and I'm really rooting for the Leafs to use their influence to prevent any new teams from emerging anywhere near the Niagara peninsula.

Okay, I get your main point that the NHL is more likely to land a lucrative TV contract with a few more American teams, all things being equal. I agree that any potential newbie NHL fans in the US won’t give a rat’s as-s about teams from cities in Canada that they’ve never heard of. Now let’s get a few other things straight. There’s no way Halifax or Saskatchewan could support an NHL team There’s no way Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver gets a 2nd team in the next 20 years (or ever) Seattle - maybe one day gets a team - but Portland/KC/Houston/San Antonio/SLC/Milwaukee/Hartford is just plain silly If anything, the NHL has too many teams, as opposed to not enough. Potential new US markets are not going to be impressed by a league that is even more watered down than today’s NHL How about YOU take the emotion out of it? With no Canada, there is no NHL. Period.

No matter how you slice it, you'll be going right through Winston-Salem, NC which is the home of Old Salem. http://www.oldsalem.org/visit.html If you like Biltmore, I'm sure you will appreciate Old Salem. The food there is excellent, so you might want to visit one early afternoon and have lunch at The Tavern.

I'll bite, too. Perreault's era and this day and age are a million miles apart concerning how smoking is regarded by society. Back then, movie stars and TV stars smoked on screen, and it was cool. In fact, there were even cigarette commercials on TV into the 1970's. Back then it was okay to smoke in bars, at your desk at work, on airplanes, in grocery stores, on buses, in cars, and every place in between. Nobody who didn't smoke bitched about second hand smoke, because it would have just made the smokers blow smoke directly at them. Hell, I even smoked in my seat at a hockey game (granted this was in NC). Even pregnant women smoked. The stigma we have today for smoking simply didn't exist back then. A hockey player smoking back then was about the same as a hockey player today who eats too many chocolate bars. Sure chocolate bars aren't good for you or your conditioning, but nobody's equating how many chocolate bars a hockey player eats with how committed he is.

Not me. He was a point per game guy for the Sabres as a youngster, including in the playoffs. Also, we wouldn't have gotten Lafontaine without him.

I was horrified when the Goat's Heads were first introduced, but I really learned to like those jerseys a lot.

I can't help but wonder where The Slug would have made its appearance on this list. Pretty darned near #30 if you ask me.

You'll get no arguments from me. The Habs went way overboard on this signing IMO.

Doesn't this mean Pegula will have less time to "meddle" with the Sabres?

The thread is Leino, the punch line in the Python vid is “I’m opening a boutique!”. Maybe you shoulda given it a few more seconds! It’s all in good fun!

So let's see...We have an athlete who evidently has no idea of what's expected of him, and now he's selling clothes. Well, this skit certainly comes to mind.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw8ZL_gcTSM

How about the Zero F#cks Given t-shirt from inkman's link in the Murray Heaven thread? http://us2.campaign-...b5&e=e898b1738d

+1 - especially the part about not thanking Philly.

It's Hi Time Wine Cellars. Lagavulin 16 in NC is $100, but they sell it for $75. Wine, bourbon, tequila, etc., not just Scotch. They package the bottles very well (like in a styrofoam cast), so shipping has never been a problem. One thing to remember - you can get air shipping anytime of year, but if you do land shipping (cheaper) they won't do it in the summer or the winter, because the conditions (temperatures) adversely impact quality. God, I really do sound like I'm schilling for these people, don't I?

A lot of the posts here reference the fact that many preferred brands are not only expensive, but often hard to find. I order my good booze from a certain place in California, and it’s way cheaper than here in NC, and the variety is ridiculous. I’m new here so I don’t know if it’s okay to just flat out name the place for you. FWIW I’m not affiliated with them in any way, just a happy customer.