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Breaking News Alert: Juniorvania Found

Remember that thing I posted about having found the property that satisfied the Known Requirements and Specifications for the Kingdom of Juniorvania? And remember how there were certain conditions and contingencies, some of which lay beyond our control, that would determine whether the Kingdom would be claimed?

In a word: “Done”.

The Kingdom is […]

Next!

I just got a call from a friend who’s telling me that TSN is reporting that John Ferguson Junior has been fired by the Leafs and that Cliff Fletcher is rumoured to be on the way back in an interim capacity.

Film at 11. Hack journos, please commence preparing your “Cliff Fletcher needs to be […]

Remember what SNAFU means?

Bear with us here at HIRTB for a couple of days. There is a situation that has developed with the HTML code in the wordpress theme that used to control the manner in which this site is presented. This “situation” developed when I got a little bored at half time of the Pats-Bolts game and […]

Minnesota and the Great Leap Forward

Did you know that the Minnesota Wild of the NHL do not now, nor have they ever had a permanent team captain? Instead, players for the Wild serve as Captain of the team for terms of a month or two in length, following which the responsibility is shifted to a team-mate.

Now, I like to […]

Super Sunday 2008 v. 1.0

Tomorrow’s two Conference Championship games promise to entertain and amuse. I am looking forward to the Chargers/Patriots AFC Championship, like every other football fan glued to the seemingly inexorable march of the Patriots towards another Super Bowl Championship. I know San Diego Mike and I will probably be on different sides of this issue, but […]

This just in…

It would appear that the long and arduous search for a homeland for our people has come to a conclusion; a tentatively successful conclusion, subject to some conditions that will be satisfied over the next week or so, and one contingency over which we can exert no influence, but a conclusion nonetheless. For the moment, […]

And the product gives you a hangover, too.

Can’t stop laughing at a line from Cox Bloc. In a post about a William Houston article suggesting that Hockey Night in Canada ditch the Leafs and televise the Senators instead, Godd Till writes:

Switching out the Leafs also might not go over well with Hockey Night advertisers. The chance to connect with a fanatically […]

How my wife and I married the Lady in the Water

Last night, Spouse and I unexpectedly ended up in a brief hiatus from our ongoing search for a new homeland that will satisfy the Known Requirements and Specifications for the Kingdom of Juniorvania.

This unexpected little time windfall prompted a spirited discussion concerning its proper and appropriate use, the history of which I shall detail […]

Stylin’ and profilin’, new school.

A friend of ours gave birth this morning to a healthy baby boy. Naturally, part of this evening was decreed by Spouse to include a go-to-the-mall, go-directly-to-the-mall, do-not-pass-go, definitely-do-not-collect $200 trip. The purpose of the excursion was to collect miniature versions of real people’s clothes to give to the child as a gift. It didn’t […]

Limbo, limbo, how low can you go?

Mike and I had a little discussion a few days ago, in the comments section of his site, about inter alia (which is Latin for “between beers”) the myriad of ills facing the NHL as it attempts to make some sort of an impact on the average American consumer.

At some point, Mike referred to […]