Anonymous Bloggers Outed!
by Chemmy on Sep 15, 2010 3:36 PM EDT
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PrintHello faithful readers of our slandering and libelous anonymous internet haven for thought crime: today we pull off our masks and expose our real names.
In this morning's Globe and Mail (this was printed in a newspaper right? if not it's dangerously close to making Bruce a blogger...) Bruce Dowbiggin's column "Usual Suspects" contains:
That might be a problem as "blogger" has come to be synonymous for bending the rules on sourcing or taking liberties with research. Others complain that bloggers hiding behind anonymity don’t reveal their conflicts or connections to either management or players. Things that would never pass muster with an editor go viral on the internet.
First off I'd like to point out the lengths Mr. Dowbiggin goes to in his attempt to avoid saying what he means. The use of "Others" is akin to the "Some people say" that Fox News has used to great effect in their quest to obfuscate the origin of their commentary.
Just as we can't criticize Fox News for their horrible mind numbing drivel because, allegedly, they're reporting what other unnamed sources say similarly we're not to criticize Mr. Dowbiggen's assurance that anonymous bloggers say mean things because all of them used to be general managers of NHL teams.
His train of thought has merit as a thought exercise: surely an anonymous forum would be a good place for a scorned employee to voice his displeasure with a former organization but unfortunately I don't think it holds water as an actual reason for bloggers to not be anonymous.
Consider that if an ex-employee of a sports team had inside information to slag their former employer it would be an enormous internet drama explosion of 'Tsar Bomba' proportions. Simply put: it hasn't happened yet and when it's unfolding for the first time an awful lot of people are going to be watching going "oh wow".
Usual Suspects continues to wildly miss the point and speak in the third person (third blog?) in this paragraph:
Usual Suspects feels that if a blogger wants a place in a press box or dressing room environment there should be something more tangible at stake - say, a bond of $10,000 that a blogger would lose should a court or arbitrator find he or she broke professional standards or libel laws.
Usual Suspects seems to think that if a libel suit were filed against a blogger in a court of law that nothing would happen. This is bizarre for many reasons: I doubt anyone who signs up on Blogspot believes that they're now above the law. They may be ignorant of libel laws but being ignorant of a law doesn't mean you can't be prosecuted.
Usual Suspect's insistence on a $10,000 bond for bloggers comes down to (uh, them? it? this is getting confusing) the blog wanting to make sure that in the event that someone says something mean about Usual Suspects they'll have something to collect.
The next time the Usual Suspects' car (blog car? why can't he just write as a person?) gets run into by an uninsured motorist will it insist that all motorists have a bond for damages? Will we make all people who could potentially commit a crime be bonded to ensure their ability to pay damages for those crimes?
In our attempt to avoid having to lay down tens of thousands of dollars in bond the time has come for the blogging crew at PPP to become unmasked. We've decided to leave our Contributing Authors off the hook so unfortunately you'll never know the real identities of "Steve Burtch" or "MForbes37". Sorry.
Here of course is your new decoder list:
PPP = Michael McManus
Chemmy = Roger Kint
SkinnyFish = Dean Keaton
birky = Fred Fenster
WrapAroundCurl = Christine Plummer
Karina = Edie Finneran
Those are real people's names as far as anyone knows and if anyone has any quibble with our identities we'll post our personally identifying tax numbers and home addresses as soon as our critics do.
Yours Respectfully,
Roger Kint
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I always thought ...
SkinnyFish looked like a “Dean.” A “Dean Keaton,” actually. Mind: blown!!!1
A Toronto sports blog, where unabashed homerism is alive and well...
So who’s Kobayashi?
You bloggers…
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by torleafsfan29 on Sep 16, 2010 8:05 AM EDT up reply actions
Bravo.
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You know
this whole shit is tired already. What MSM doesn’t realize is that if PPP or a lot of other blogs went to print, a lot of these so-called critics would be outsold by them.
Sean Leahy put it best when he pointed out that the MSM slandering bloggers is just the new way to get cheap hits.
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a bond of $10,000 that a blogger would lose should a court or arbitrator find he or she broke professional standards or libel laws.
That’s a great idea. Wonder how willing Bruce’s mittenstringer pals are to pay a fine every time they screw up?
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I agree with your Michael McManus who lives at 123 Fake St. in Missisauga. It’s important that we’re all transparent because without real names and addresses no one knows who you are.
Who is Keyser Soze?
Can you change my name to notRoger Kint?
by not_Chemmy on Sep 15, 2010 10:06 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Hahaha… who does this money go to? Because if mainstream media had a similar provision, that undisclosed purse would have a lot of money right now. Maybe we can get MSM writers to agree to this professional-standards levy, and use that money to solve world famine and cure cancer.
by Peter Raaymakers on Sep 15, 2010 7:23 PM EDT up reply actions
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Certainly, I would recommend very strongly against going sailing with Mr. Kint.
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"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator) CERTIFIED GRABBO LOVER
/taps nose
/ walks away suddenly losing limp
Rule #20
by JaredFromLondon on Sep 16, 2010 1:38 AM EDT up reply actions
First off I’d like to point out the lengths Mr. Dowbiggen goes to in his attempt to avoid saying what he means. The use of “Others” is akin to the “Some people say” that Fox News has used to great effect in their quest to obfuscate the origin of their commentary.
The Karl Rove treatment. Dirty as hell, but unfortunately quite effective.
Great piece Chemmy, er, Mr. Kint.
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Also Wendel Bark’s real name is Damien Cox.
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I hear that Damien Cox is in close contact with Mike Hawk, Phil McCracken, and Ben Dover.
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Rumour is he’s looking for Amanda Hugnkiss
and has had trouble locating Mike Hunt.
Who wants to hear a funny ass joke?
Damien Cox is required by law to keep many miles between him and Mike Hunt.
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by loser domi on Sep 15, 2010 3:51 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
This is all well and good but ...
Who the heck is Todd Hockney?
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Does this mean now you’re all forced to move out of your respective mothers’ basements? I think only anonymous interwebz people are allowed to crash in mom’s basement.
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Importing/Exporting?
PPP ain't nothin to cuss with
The Guess Who sucked, the Jets were lousy anyway
by Plea From A Cat Named Felix on Sep 15, 2010 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions
Just importing.
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As for what it’s for it’s very complicated but relates to the industrial production of benzylmethcathionine.
Who is Keyser Soze?
Sounds about right.
PPP ain't nothin to cuss with
The Guess Who sucked, the Jets were lousy anyway
by Plea From A Cat Named Felix on Sep 15, 2010 3:58 PM EDT up reply actions
No in Mississauga it’s not! No LLC in Canada!
You’ve finally been unmasked!
Be an Optimist Prime, not a Negatron.
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by Sergei Puckizin on Sep 15, 2010 5:35 PM EDT up reply actions
LLC doesn’t mean what you think it does.
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reeeeeeeallllly…
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by Sergei Puckizin on Sep 15, 2010 6:41 PM EDT up reply actions
Well done!
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Who cares what you think Mr. Anonymous? Are you secretly a spurned ex-employee of PPP? Do you have an axe to grind because you got FIRED FROM BLOGGING???
Who is Keyser Soze?
No, but if I were Roger I’d pretty much constantly be asking my wife/girlfriend/date if she wanted to go on a trek.
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Why is that? So you could commit libel while remaning IMMUNE TO THE LAWS OF THIS COUNTRY?
HUH?
IS IT?
Who is Keyser Soze?
FF to 2:18
No, it’s where I’m ticklish.
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You’re not doing that right now?
PPP ain't nothin to cuss with
The Guess Who sucked, the Jets were lousy anyway
by Plea From A Cat Named Felix on Sep 15, 2010 3:50 PM EDT up reply actions
I get the reference, but if these names don’t change back by tomorrow Imma be really confused.
Who wants to hear a funny ass joke?
Why whatever do you mean? You’ve met me in person and I explicitly remember introducing myself at Dean Keaton.
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I’m Batman.
When I read the nickname Testicula, the first thing that popped into my head was a vampiristic scrotum that can only be killed with a silver cross driven through the vas deferens. - Certified Grabbo Lover
you kept making all the stops?
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for your sake, i hope you're the blue batman.
Who wants to hear a funny ass joke?
by ohshrit on Sep 15, 2010 3:56 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Just remember our real names.
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From today forward
All PPP members will be required to deposit $5,000 in the account of Michael McManus to cover any “libel” that you might include in any comments.
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It’s true. Now that I blog under my real name I am liable for your libel. It’s only fair.
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do you take Visa?
my acct number is 1111999977774444, my real name is Harry Beaver.
This is my BOZAK!!!1
by blurr1974 on Sep 15, 2010 3:58 PM EDT up reply actions
I’m sorry that number was declined at GunzPornandWeed.org’s online store. Do you have another?
Who is Keyser Soze?
by Chemmy on Sep 15, 2010 3:59 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I would of thought an awesome sounding store like that would be cash only… or am I thinking of the luckyloosecathouse?
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When are you gonna reveal your real name over at 5FH?
He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.
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I’ll do it for 5,000 dollars
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Shocked that there’s no Amanda Hugankiss on the payroll here…
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by blurr1974 on Sep 15, 2010 3:55 PM EDT reply actions
OK wait. Lemme get this straight. You’re not really Felix Potvin? Well, damn… there go my journalistic bona fides.
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i think that’s libel. You owe Mr. McManus $5k
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by blurr1974 on Sep 15, 2010 3:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Damn. Well, since I did comment, and I did agree to the terms and conditions to do so, I guess I’ll send the check. My wife is going to be PISSED.
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Sep 15, 2010 7:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Does Karina know you changed her username or will she have a bitch of a time logging in when she gets back home?
Who wants to hear a funny ass joke?
Unless she is suffering from amnesia she will remember her name.
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The best part about this is that Bruce Dowbiggin totally sounds like a made-up name.
PPP ain't nothin to cuss with
The Guess Who sucked, the Jets were lousy anyway
by Plea From A Cat Named Felix on Sep 15, 2010 4:00 PM EDT reply actions
I love how it was Bruce Dowbiggin, of all people, whining about bloggers “taking liberties with research”. Especially since he is a guy who wrote a book on the last CBA, then went all over Calgary radio and the Herald just before the lockout deliberately misrepresenting Jarome Iginla’s contract status as per that same CBA so as to maintain his “Flames are leaving Calgary/Iggy is being traded” schtick he invented from the day he disgraced my fine city. And when he got called out for lying the way he does, his response was to sick the Herald’s corporate lawyers after online forums that dared to call him out.
Bruce Dowbiggin hates the internet because he knows the internet sees through his crap. The average blog writes better and more insightful commentary than he does. And places like this are well above average. Bravo, gents.
I’m sorry but unless you have a real name or ten thousand dollars you’re not allowed to question the media.
Who is Keyser Soze?
heh heh…just saved myself a cool 10 grand.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Sep 15, 2010 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions
1967ers is my real name. In Liechtenstein, it’s as common as “Smith” is here.
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Jrwendelman is mine too; I’m Jewish, but my parents were from Alabama.
So many people put the emphasis on the “..man” part at the end of the name, but it’s “wendelman” just like as in “Goldman” or “Sniderman”.
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Ah, you’ve done me a mitzvah!
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"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator) CERTIFIED GRABBO LOVER
What? It’s pronounced Spider-Man. It’s not like, Phil Spiderman!
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by Sergei Puckizin on Sep 15, 2010 5:51 PM EDT up reply actions
who would Phil Spiderman?
not me, no sirree
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Sep 15, 2010 7:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Spiderman must mean something totally different on the interwebs. I’ve heard of Supermanning, but not Spiderman…
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Check this out. My work, cited.
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by Sergei Puckizin on Sep 16, 2010 11:55 AM EDT up reply actions
Unlikely. We’ll take the money now and return it to you when we’re confident you’re not making up a fake name.
Who is Keyser Soze?
Here's a compromise
I’ll give you half to hold until my identity is proved legitimate.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Sep 15, 2010 4:31 PM EDT up reply actions
Do you have links I could use as research in my Bruce Dowbiggin hit piece?
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I boycotted the Herald for years over Dowbiggin’s crap, but heard him on Fan960 a lot. His favourite argument back then was claim that Iginla, as an upcoming RFA, would have to be offered $8.25 million per year minimum because of the CBA rules mandating that an RFA offersheet had to include a 10% raise. What Dowbiggin frequently got wrong (despite corrections) was that the 10% raise was required only for players making less than league average, and only on base salary, not bonuses. Iggy made $7m base, $7.5m incl bonsues in 03-04, and that’s how he arrived at his scare figure. I’ve little doubt he wrote Herald articles on that same subject. If I have time tonight, I’ll try to dig some up for you, along with other potentials.
He’s such a fucking blowhard. I honestly can’t get past paragraph one of anything he writes in the Herald.
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by Sergei Puckizin on Sep 15, 2010 5:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, shame he left Calgary for Toronto. reeeeeaaaalllll daaaammmmnnn shaaaaammmmeeee.
The Globe is a strange paper now – it has both my most and least respected columnists, and both used to write for the Herald. Hopefully Mirtle spends more time hanging out with Duhatschek rather than Bicycle Bruce.
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by Godd Till on Sep 15, 2010 4:02 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
Do I have to come up with $10,000 if all I want to do is rec the comment that mentions Till’s post?
I’m so confused…
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Has McManus told you guys the story about the hooker with the dysentery?
Negative. I am a meat popsicle.
They weren’t my actual pants. I borrowed them from Fenster cause I knew I’d have the shits. Damn spicy food gets me everytime.
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I wish I was a PPPPrincess, so I could get emails like:
Hey Sergei,
Need you to come up with a real sounding fake name. Email it to me by 4:00.
Chemmy (aka Roger Kint)
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by Sergei Puckizin on Sep 15, 2010 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Can I Secure my bond by offering crisp unmarked nonsesquential $20 bills using my new monopoly set? I need to keep my secret identity from the fine people of the Internet.
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by blindfolded tank driver on Sep 15, 2010 4:14 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Do the same accounts in the caymans still apply?
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by blindfolded tank driver on Sep 15, 2010 4:17 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Keyser Soze runs PPP
Should have known.
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The Globe and Mail offering $10000 to Kint and McManus to join their side?
Do bloggers have contracts or are they fair game for poaching?
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by Wrap Around Curl on Sep 15, 2010 5:07 PM EDT reply actions
is the surprise that youre actually alison brie?
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by Wrap Around Curl on Sep 15, 2010 5:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Hey Christine!
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by Sergei Puckizin on Sep 15, 2010 5:55 PM EDT up reply actions
I just want to say I’m excited by these recent developments because The Usual Suspects is my favourite movie. Haven’t seen it in two months though, probably going to have to watch the dvd again tonight. Although I must say the lack of a Todd Hockney is troubling. But now whenever Birky comments I can read the whole thing in Fenster’s voice which is a huge bonus.
So, the PPP stable just tore off their masks after being called out by a couple of heels. This can only end in a steel cage match. I’ve got PPP getting worked by Damien Cox with a steel chair only to get bailed out by interference from, for some reason, Batista.
by Benjamin Massey on Sep 15, 2010 5:34 PM EDT reply actions
Don’t you mean, BAUTISTA?
Cross-promotion!!!
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by Sergei Puckizin on Sep 15, 2010 5:58 PM EDT up reply actions
I always get Miguel and Jose mixed up too.
by Benjamin Massey on Sep 15, 2010 8:17 PM EDT up reply actions
I thought you meant, like Dave, the wrestler, actually.
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by Sergei Puckizin on Sep 16, 2010 11:58 AM EDT up reply actions
ooh, i’ll bring popcorn! maybe Sean and Yankee will bring hard liquor….
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But when I got an email from PPP, he signed it Jul—-
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Ya, traditional media is so transparent. That’s exactly what I’m thinking when I’m listening to Graham Reaper and Jack Hammer on the radio.
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by Sergei Puckizin on Sep 15, 2010 5:47 PM EDT reply actions
I don’t understand Dowbiggin’s use of the term ‘Usual Suspects’ in this context. Can someone please explain it to me…
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by Van Ryn's Neurologist on Sep 15, 2010 6:03 PM EDT reply actions
so...
no one?
Loving the Leafs is like being in love with a drug-addled, gambling addicted prostitute with a heart of gold and a bunch of humanitarian awards from her youth. It’s hard. It hurts. But dammit! I just love them!
by Van Ryn's Neurologist on Sep 15, 2010 9:38 PM EDT up reply actions
It appears (loosely) to simply be the title phrase he uses for his column.
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by kidkawartha on Sep 15, 2010 10:29 PM EDT up reply actions
OMG you're right.
Could they make that font any smaller?
Loving the Leafs is like being in love with a drug-addled, gambling addicted prostitute with a heart of gold and a bunch of humanitarian awards from her youth. It’s hard. It hurts. But dammit! I just love them!
by Van Ryn's Neurologist on Sep 15, 2010 11:12 PM EDT up reply actions
Wish they’d make the rest of the column in puny font.
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Incredible. You’ve outdone yourselves.
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by Kevin Sellathamby on Sep 15, 2010 6:33 PM EDT reply actions
I’m likely preaching to the choir, but how much of this is really about a so-called “lack of journalistic standards” and “lack of supporting research” and how much is just plain old sour grapes?
I’m probably quite a n00b compared to most of you guys and girls – I only got into hockey blogs about a year ago, when I was looking for news on the Kessel trade. Since then I haven’t looked back – I used to read the sports pages pretty religiously, but now I hardly ever do – the blogosphere almost always has much better, more insightful and more interesting content.
That has to be at least part of the reason for all these recent attacks on sports bloggers from the mainstream media. When it comes to holding the fan’s interest, they simply cannot compete and they probably know it, and so resort to lame cheap shots against bloggers, writ large. It’s like being the Daniel Carcillo of journalism.
What they don’t realize is that every time their bitterness shines through, they lose another customer. Just because their stuff still sells doesn’t mean people like or even enjoy reading what they have to say.
Yet another Leaf fan in Ottawa.
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well done gentlemen, well done
/slow clap…
This space for rent...
by fair_n_hite_451 on Sep 15, 2010 6:40 PM EDT reply actions
Welcome
Thanks for joining.
Puckizin – You’ve got company in Calgary!
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Eeeexxxxcelllent.
Be an Optimist Prime, not a Negatron.
Адразу Ліфс Перайсці !
by Sergei Puckizin on Sep 16, 2010 12:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Well this is hard for me to admit, but
uh… my real name is… I don’t have to do this do I? Uuhhhhrr… I’m… Bob Gainey.
Hi Bob,
here’s your nametag
Colton Orr will pound you into a million stuff
by Future_considerations on Sep 15, 2010 7:23 PM EDT up reply actions
He’s such a nice young man. Makes these delicious spicy dishes, I don’t know where he gets it from. I’ve always said that if you’re only paying people for what they do on ice, you just aren’t doing the NHL right.
Anytime you get a chance to acquire the greatest Latin-Alaskan player of all time, you gotta do it.
Resident Capologist
Dam straight.
I am Mikhail Grabovski's smirking revenge.
by kidkawartha on Sep 15, 2010 10:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Might I suggest/request you include a “blogger formerly known as ____” label in your signatures? Might make things easier for the transition period.
by Peter Raaymakers on Sep 15, 2010 7:25 PM EDT reply actions
Thank heavens serious writers like Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, and George Eliot used their real names. Otherwise literature would have been doomed
Lewis Carroll was many things but he was not a serious writer.
by Benjamin Massey on Sep 15, 2010 8:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Imagine those heavyweights hiding behind pen names and not disclosing all of their relevant relationships? Crazy talk.
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In fairness, those were writers of fiction. So less bloggers, and more like Damien Cox.
Be an Optimist Prime, not a Negatron.
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by Sergei Puckizin on Sep 16, 2010 12:11 PM EDT up reply actions
ZING!
jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator) CERTIFIED GRABBO LOVER
Actually
Lewis Carroll (or Charles Dodgson if you prefer) was a mathematician at Oxford who wrote non-fiction also… which he released under his real name… so I guess when writing fiction nom-de-plume is ok, and when writing non-fiction real names should be used?
Twain (Clements?) also wrote non-fiction journalism and memoirs.
Heck even upstanding figures like C.S. Lewis (Don at Oxford), Eric Blair (aka George Orwell), and all three Bronte sisters used them also.
This modern journo huffiness is all a tad contrived. They should perhaps consider blowing it out their ear.
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Sir Winston Churchill
I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Leafs.
by Steve Burtch on Sep 16, 2010 10:18 PM EDT up reply actions
don't ban me!
huh…..I always assumed skinnyfish was a girl.
by elseldo on Sep 15, 2010 8:47 PM EDT reply actions 5 recs
LEAFSBIANS!
"Tell Sigmund Freud not to worry about his mother, I took good care of her last night. BOOYAH."
Certified Grabbo lover
by loser domi on Sep 15, 2010 9:31 PM EDT up reply actions 9 recs
i like.
Be an Optimist Prime, not a Negatron.
Адразу Ліфс Перайсці !
by Sergei Puckizin on Sep 16, 2010 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions
Haw! Bearded lady!
Brain: The irony of it all, Pinky. Years of trying to take over the world, and all I had to do was say "truculence".
Follow me I'm Boring!
by blindfolded tank driver on Sep 15, 2010 10:38 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Being one of PPP’s girlfriends can make it confusing.
If Skinnyfish is a girl, she has some pretty impressive facial hair.
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein
by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Sep 16, 2010 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Bloggers are unaccountable? Really? Any credible blogger invites comment from the masses. When a blogger writes crap, it’s outed instantly. How often do newspapers print letters to the editor about sports, or even publish corrections?
And MSM’s economic stake makes them less reliable. They are selling access, which they get for playing nice. They they get seats, scoops and interviews. In return, they push stories the team is selling, ask softball questions, and print the answers. (And cooperate in branding exercises like the abomination of naming rights, instead of, say, calling the Jays’ home “Extortionist Monopoly Telecom Centre.”)
How often do newspapers print letters to the editor about sports, or even publish corrections?
I know the Sun used to do letters to the editor about sports on occasion (usually writing a snarky comment at the bottom of each one which didn’t help). They’ve probably stopped since they’re probably getting so much more crap these days.
Publishing corrections? Are you kidding me? They’re well hidden if they do get printed! Publishing a correction would be like admitting the original writer was wrong, no? Can’t have that! ;)
Truculence...starting 10/1/09
A web-site of nothing but the best newspaper corrections: we regret the error
A caption with a photo of a wreath-laying ceremony at Fort Bragg in Saturday’s Local & State section included an incorrect date for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
Bitter Leaf Fan: because sometimes there's no option but to be bitter...
My real name is Jean-Luc Marie-Pierre Tremblay-Parthenais. I was raise in a tradition québécois families by my mother and father who were not married and who were fans of les Nordiques de Quebec. Since they have moved to Colorado I became a fans of Maple Leafs de Toronto since they are the best team from which to hate the Habs, les Nordiques tradition rivals. It feels so good to be free an express my true identité. À la prochaine mes amis!
by Leaf in Habland on Sep 15, 2010 9:46 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
did I kill your father?
"Tell Sigmund Freud not to worry about his mother, I took good care of her last night. BOOYAH."
Certified Grabbo lover
MOAR PRINCESS BRIDE!!!1
Be an Optimist Prime, not a Negatron.
Адразу Ліфс Перайсці !
by Sergei Puckizin on Sep 16, 2010 12:13 PM EDT up reply actions
don’t tease me like that.
Be an Optimist Prime, not a Negatron.
Адразу Ліфс Перайсці !
by Sergei Puckizin on Sep 16, 2010 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Anybody want a peanut!
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein
by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Sep 16, 2010 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions
So long, have fun storming the castle!
jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator) CERTIFIED GRABBO LOVER
Think they have a chance?
It would take a miracle – BUHBYE!
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein
by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Sep 16, 2010 10:24 PM EDT up reply actions
do you have a 6-finger hand?
Nucks Misconduct chief babe, now with a new Twitter username.
I am a Jedi, like my father before me. Except for, in this case, a Jedi is a Canucks fan, and the Sith is the Flames.
Admit it, you guys are all taking steroids, right?
Supporter of the Sergei Berezin "Give and Go" - You give me puck, then you go to hell
And what's David Danforth's t
Don Valley?
Gardiner Westbound?
Jane Street?
Tim Brent?
"I'd walk into the Leafs dressing room to get ready for the day and Harold would be there in his boxer shorts shaving. King Clancy would drop by a little later, play the fool, and then head off to the racetrack." John Brophy
by Mike Pelyk's Hairdo on Sep 15, 2010 10:05 PM EDT reply actions
I thought it was interesting to see Simmons basically dismiss Dowbiggin’s credibility on twitter today. Not that he’s wrong, but you almost never see journalists do that to each other unless it’s some sort of head-to-head conflict a la Cox/Griffin.
Down Goes Brown - Unapologetically nostalgic for the past. Brutally realistic about the present. Grudgingly optimistic about the future.
by Down Goes Brown on Sep 15, 2010 10:06 PM EDT reply actions
The battle royale is a coming. I can feel it.
I think you need to consider playing this one out Jerry “The King” Lawler style; just curl up around the bottom turnbuckle and wait until everyone eliminates each other.
Resident Capologist
Who wouldn’t pay to watch the whole gaggle of Cox, Simmons, Dowbiggin, McCown, Berger, etc. have a battle royale match in a steel cage.
Six men enter…one man leave.
Honestly, if I spent the money I was paying for a newspaper on cocaine and hotpants, it would be a good investment by comparison.
The Maple Leafs- making me certifiably insane since 1985.
by torleafsfan29 on Sep 16, 2010 8:18 AM EDT up reply actions
Loved that too. “It’s Dowbiggin” was a classic reply.
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post fail
… David Danforth’s real name
"I'd walk into the Leafs dressing room to get ready for the day and Harold would be there in his boxer shorts shaving. King Clancy would drop by a little later, play the fool, and then head off to the racetrack." John Brophy
by Mike Pelyk's Hairdo on Sep 15, 2010 10:06 PM EDT reply actions
Not that Dowbiggin’s entire column isn’t obnoxious enough; what I find particularly disgusting is his insistence that free speech belongs only to those with the financial wherewithal to settle a libel suit.
Mostly I guess it proves that you don’t actually have to be smart to be a sports “guy”.
I've been looking at the sky
Didn't you hear
That free costs $10,000
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
if $10,000 dollars of personal money was required of all sportswriters, from both the “legit” press as well as the blogosphere, the dressing-rooms and press-boxes would be empty. Though it would seem that most fishwrap legitimate press sportswriters must have some money available given how little they spend on diet, clothing and personal hygiene products most don’t have two nickels to rub together after the bad insider bets they placed on the ponies, losing their hockey pools, drycleaning the ketchup out of their Sears suits, paying people off to not call them “Malkin to the Kings” anymore and going e6 with the hookers.
"I'd walk into the Leafs dressing room to get ready for the day and Harold would be there in his boxer shorts shaving. King Clancy would drop by a little later, play the fool, and then head off to the racetrack." John Brophy
by Mike Pelyk's Hairdo on Sep 15, 2010 10:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Every time I read the headline
I get a mental image of something like this
And sorry for my citation of youtube, next time I’ll find a more legitimate site
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
I call shenanigans
I went to med school with WrapAroundCurl and I can tell you that she is lying about her name being Christine.
Check her diploma the next time you’re in her office and you’ll see that her actual name is Lisa Plummer.
by Spezzal Teams Playa on Sep 15, 2010 11:05 PM EDT reply actions
What the cops never figured out, and what I know now, was that these men would never break, never lie down, never bend over for anybody. Anybody.
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How come the guy with more posts than everyone else combined still has his “anonymous” username (even though it’s only half anonymous)?
The artist commonly referred to as "Maple".
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by CanadianMaple09 on Sep 17, 2010 12:59 AM EDT up reply actions
I have no last name
I am legion
Rule #20
by JaredFromLondon on Sep 17, 2010 3:05 AM EDT up reply actions
My name is Christine too :D
"I wanna be an achiever like Bad Horse.... I meant Ghandi" ~ Dr. Horrible
To PPP
I want to thank you guys for being a breath of fresh air in an environment of hostile media types. Although I don’t post much in response to your articles and update, I find myself taking more time out of my day to read through all these blogs and vlogs from hockey enthusiasts more often now that I refrain from reading the obnoxious and arrogant tripe over in the Star and Sun dailies.
Keep on taking that puck to the net. Cheers!
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Really appreciate that. Glad you enjoy it.
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