Yup. As I noted, I can see this idiot taking up the North American idea of what sweet potatoes are, provided this mad notion of a diet was formed by an American.

So the yam is called sweet potato in North America, and I can see right wing baronets thinking along the same lines. And the yam, according to Harold McGee’s abso-fucking-lutely indispensable book On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, may have been cultivated in Asia as early as 8000 BC. But yeah,…

On the flip side, go to YouTube and find yourself some footage of goal-scoring wonders playing games of Crossbar.

I had one of those for Freddy Adu, but it kept changing.

And this, from something like 30 years ago. The woman shooting hoops at the start is a gal I went to high school with (and she was also on the leading edge of national team women’s rugby, IIRC). https://www.nfb.ca/film/shooting_stars/

I did forget, and I thank you for not bringing up those painful memories.

I think we all know people who have a piano and can, at best, only play Chopsticks.

The gift of this gif (hard g: piss off, haters. Yes, that includes my son) is all I ever need for today. Although if there is one to correct idiots who write “lead” when they mean “led,” I would combust with joy.

The ghost of Bill Veeck wants to offer this kid a contract.

Wild Toikey Surprise.

Or, conversely, he could play in a decent city with a great rink and a fabulous hockey tradition and history and be paid decent money and not give a shit about what “the people” care about.

Ref just keeps tab of the extra time and tacks it on at the end. In a perfect world.

I see what you’re saying, but we know where the money is. Both with people and with television.

It’s one of the finest river valleys/parklands I’ve ever been to, and there’s an area down below and just west of his house that’s an off leash park I take my dog to when we visit family in town. The goddamn place sticks out like a ridiculous sore thumb.

To be even more fair, a lot of Edmonton’s brutalist architorture has been disappeared over the years. Also, it ain’t nothing like Salt Lake City (I also lived in Utah for a short spell), where the joke name for the LDS headquarters was the Bulgarian Secret Police.

I apparently was a couple years behind this guy in high school, but I’ll be damned if I can remember him, and he’s not in my yearbook. I have a couple friends from that same year, and I think I will contact them and ask if they remember him.

He cried when Tyson was drafted, too. Frankly, the popcorn is the only thing keeping enough salt in his body. https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/nhl-draft-pick-s-sobbing-grandpa-will-melt-your-heart—video-141626468.html

I do not disagree, although AT&T is right at the cutoff, 80,000.

All the jokey shit aside, it’ll be interesting to dig into the meat of this. Like South Korea/Japan, which took two spots away from Asia, this would take three from CONCACAF. But by 2026 there’s a good chance we’ll be at that ridiculous 48 team World Cup, which means after the three are gone there would still be 3.5…