FTB - Back to Business Edition
by PPP on Oct 31, 2008 9:17 AM EDT
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Well, yesterday's bit of unpleasantness behind us all, here are some links to get us through the day while the Barilkosphere prepares something special for later this morning:
- In case you missed it in the comments, Howard Berger has gone insane. Literally. There are no shortage of reactions.
- TSM wants his head on a pike.
- RepressedOptimism wants it to be a really sharp pike.
- Steve puts on his doctor's hat and diagnoses Berger's disease: Narcissism.
- Sean is better than me because he's actually worried that Berger might have legitimate problems.
- Koopa Kid is wondering which member of the media might be next to stop taking their meds (please be Cathal Kelly!).
- And The General lightens the mood with an easy guide to identifying the Maple Leafs that might be coming to your door tonight.
Enjoy the links and look out for a special Barilkosphere-wide posting later today.
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I take it
Mr. Berger is PO’ed about the latest news that the Leafs are the most profitable hockey franchise in the history of human civilization?
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by Winkle on Oct 31, 2008 9:22 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
He’s upset because he got banned from PPP. FTN = Berger in disguise.
by lb71 on Oct 31, 2008 9:31 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Zing!
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by Winkle on Oct 31, 2008 9:36 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
instantrimshot!
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by loser domi on Oct 31, 2008 9:43 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
hahaha Down Goes Brown sent me an e-mail with the same joke.
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by PPP on Oct 31, 2008 9:50 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ha! I was thinkin' the same...
I don’t read Berger. He’s on the list of people who’ve steered me wrong more often then right and he’s been on the list since ‘95. Since I don’t read him I can’t really comment, but what I have seen has all been garbage.
I honestly thought everyone was going to do Halloween themed posts and was worried mine would get lost in the shuffle.
by general borschevsky on Oct 31, 2008 9:57 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Really though… Berger does have a good a pulse on what’s going on around the locker room. He has great access to everyone, and generally can get a story better than most people.
His problem is he is a dick when it comes to relaying info to us fans. If he could cut out the self adjulating bullshit and listener/readership insult train, he would actually be a good journalist.
by RepressedOptimism on Oct 31, 2008 10:04 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
crap
i came over here to post that exact thought…
all inall, i’m on DGB’s wave ;ength. The whole post just didn’t feel like Howie. I mean, some of it was funny, some of it was sad, but none of it PO’d me, because it was unfolding like a car crash. Him lashing out in every which direction…just weird.
Anybody throws me against the boards I'm gonna piss all over myself.
by blurr1974 on Oct 31, 2008 10:13 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
maybe he won/lost a bet and as a result had to post like “the biggest dick ever?”
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by loser domi on Oct 31, 2008 10:15 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Battling that dude from crossing over in this years universes biggest douche competition!
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 31, 2008 10:16 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
oh yes…
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by loser domi on Oct 31, 2008 10:18 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
seriously
i’ve actually read it a couple times now, and it all just feels weird…i’m very interested to see how this all plays out. half the comments are saying that howie’s right, and the other half are telling him to go hang himself. if those murderous 50% abandon howie’s blog, that might be a swift kick to the ego…
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by blurr1974 on Oct 31, 2008 10:22 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
If he does kill himself as a result, did the commenters kill him?
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by loser domi on Oct 31, 2008 10:23 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Blogocide!
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 31, 2008 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
that’s a question for the courts…
i could have said blood thirsty i guess…
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by blurr1974 on Oct 31, 2008 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sad thing is, the percentage that leaves will be minimal because everyone who has been a contributer to this point will stick around to see the tow truck and firemen pull that wreckage of a post apart.
And who the eff thinks howie is right? Do they hand out lobotomies in this country like candy or something?
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 31, 2008 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Do they hand out lobotomies in this country like candy or something?
well that does explain a lot…
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by loser domi on Oct 31, 2008 10:25 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
maybe a little penis envy
Perhaps berger wants to make a kagillion dollars a year like MLSE.
Not gonna happen with crap like this.
by RepressedOptimism on Oct 31, 2008 9:38 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Penises are funny things
“honestly, you couldn’t go with a better design than ’the last chicken in the butcher shop?”
/Kryton’d
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by loser domi on Oct 31, 2008 10:08 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Double Polaroid from a vacuum cleaner, ftw!!
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by Mattblack on Oct 31, 2008 10:20 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
"is that normal?
what? takin Polaids and showin it to your mates? NO!"
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by loser domi on Oct 31, 2008 10:21 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
polaid= Polaroids
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by loser domi on Oct 31, 2008 10:21 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Now why do you suppose that happened?
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by Mattblack on Oct 31, 2008 10:23 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m just full of fail,. I mean, I am</I. a loser. It says so in my name!
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by loser domi on Oct 31, 2008 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
exhibit A, right there
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by loser domi on Oct 31, 2008 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
nah
Polaid = Polish Kool Aid
Perogie flavoured
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 31, 2008 10:25 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was thinking Polish AIDS, which is just sad
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by loser domi on Oct 31, 2008 10:28 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Whats wrong with Polish people who help you out?
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 31, 2008 10:31 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
nothing at all
except when they help give out AIDS
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by loser domi on Oct 31, 2008 10:32 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hmmmm
Bacon and onions and cheese and dough!
Who says Poles are dumb? Not this guy.
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by PPP on Oct 31, 2008 10:29 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Its like a refreshing meal
OH YEAH!
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 31, 2008 10:31 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
needs bacon
/doesn’t everything?
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by loser domi on Oct 31, 2008 10:36 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m half Polish and there’s nothing better than deep fried pierogi
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by Chemmy on Oct 31, 2008 10:38 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
pierogis are delicious.
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by loser domi on Oct 31, 2008 10:39 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
you guys need to try the deep fried twinkie. go buy yourself a fry daddy and some twinkies and go crazy!
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by blurr1974 on Oct 31, 2008 10:40 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
twinkie winkle
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by Winkle on Oct 31, 2008 10:41 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Riddle Me This
Has anyone here actually met a Berger supporter? You know someone that agrees with his mindless, anti-Leaf fan, anti-Leaf, anti-steak and lobster meal ramblings? I mean someone who isn’t a Sens or Habs troll.
Honestly now my suspicions of him writing his own comments to boost his positive image are viable after that schizoid blow up.
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 31, 2008 10:30 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Never
Not even the most OKIA of Leaf fans ever agrees with Berger. Cox maybe but never Berger.
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by PPP on Oct 31, 2008 10:38 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Anyone else wonder what would happen if Cox and Berger get in a room together?
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by loser domi on Oct 31, 2008 10:39 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
a whole lot of preening and chest puffing, or, each fawning over the other about how “always accurate” their “columns” are…
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by blurr1974 on Oct 31, 2008 10:41 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Anyone else wonder what would happen
if Cox and Berger had an offspring… together?
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by Winkle on Oct 31, 2008 10:42 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
No wondering...
I know: Ugliest baby ever which would grow up to blame all of his problems on his stupid parents.
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by PPP on Oct 31, 2008 10:43 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
and...
for once the kid would be right!
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by blurr1974 on Oct 31, 2008 10:43 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
the kid would rebel and become the greatest and most humble Toronto Sports writer ever.
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 31, 2008 10:46 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
And he wouldn’t insult fans!
and he’d hate the Eagles
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by loser domi on Oct 31, 2008 10:47 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The kid would be called Cox-Berger. Or would it be Berger-Cox?
by lb71 on Oct 31, 2008 10:51 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
hehe, you said cocks…
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by loser domi on Oct 31, 2008 10:53 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dear Company I.T.
Please do not read this thread.
Love,
Anonymous Worker
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by Winkle on Oct 31, 2008 10:54 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Cox-Berger
Sounds like a fast food restaurant from a porn
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 31, 2008 10:55 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
right next to Futt Buckers?
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by loser domi on Oct 31, 2008 10:57 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
yeah, and that new chicken restaurant, Cock in a box
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 31, 2008 10:59 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
LD's obviously taken up a new challenge
Getting Winkle fired without posting NFSW links.
And damnit it all to hell, why does the shitz only hit the fan on Fridays? I come into work with only one thing on my agenda to do for today and 2 hours later I’m suddenly buried under like 4 projects at the same time and they all have to be handed in before 5.
Bullshit!!
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by Winkle on Oct 31, 2008 10:59 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
::tear::
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by loser domi on Oct 31, 2008 11:00 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The good thing is
I won’t have to stay late because the deadline is 5.
Someone wanna do me a favour and find out how Ministry Transportation Ontario classifies potholes?
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by Winkle on Oct 31, 2008 11:04 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Speed bumps
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 31, 2008 11:08 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Scorch!
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by PPP on Oct 31, 2008 11:41 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
your time zone
hurt you again, you’re waaay too late on this one
but I’ll pay you for other things ;-)
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by Winkle on Oct 31, 2008 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
which reminds me...
“The always accurate media” line killed me especially because he followed it up about how the 3 wins in 4 was going to move the Leafs into their habitual 11th or 12th place.
Habitual? Does that moron know what the word means because if there is a spot the Leafs have not habitually been in over the past decade and a half it’s 11th or 12th.
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by PPP on Oct 31, 2008 10:42 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Anyone know what kind of car he drives? I have this pound of sugar and these carpenter nails that need a home
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 31, 2008 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
it sounds fancy
and that’s all he cared about
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by Winkle on Oct 31, 2008 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I honestly wonder if Cox isn’t part of this whole thing somehow.
Berger took a few shots at the media in a recent posting (remember how 90% of the media swallow whatever the Leafs give them?) Then he concluded with a pretty obvious shot at Cox (mentioning how we wouldn’t go on and on about Jim Benning, Gary Nylund, etc.)
I wonder if Cox, or one of the other media bigshots, told him to go piss up a rope? And like the wannabe-popular kid who finds out nobody likes him, he decided to shoot up the school.
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by Down Goes Brown on Oct 31, 2008 12:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Are we puppets in Cox’s greater plan?
I’m going to kill myself.
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by Chemmy on Oct 31, 2008 12:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Holy Smokes
That’s awesome. Well, at least he didn’t track down IP adresses and take out the bloggers…yet. Oh God.
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by PPP on Oct 31, 2008 12:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
We’re moving you into protective custody!
by LeafFanInVan on Oct 31, 2008 12:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
quick!
to the Barilko-cave!
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by blurr1974 on Oct 31, 2008 12:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
::dons hard hat::
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by loser domi on Oct 31, 2008 1:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I have one of those
Plus a reflective vest!
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by Winkle on Oct 31, 2008 1:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
We know.
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by Mattblack on Oct 31, 2008 3:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
dear god
that is creepy
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 31, 2008 3:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
That's a nice representation
of my job history
I got one better, from my current job
This is what I did on my 5th day on the job (2nd day in the field).
I did the impossible, I got a tracked all-terrain Bobcat stuck costing the company a $150 tow to get out.
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by Winkle on Oct 31, 2008 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes
But have you ever got a Golf cart stuck upside down in a sand trap?
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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 31, 2008 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Send a wire to the main office....
..tell ’em I said owwwwwww.
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by Mattblack on Oct 31, 2008 4:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hahahahahahahah
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by Chemmy on Oct 31, 2008 4:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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