BoC Presents: IRON BLOGGER
by Earl Sleek on Aug 30, 2010 8:09 AM PDT
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PrintOver the past couple of months, my fellow bloggers Megalodon and Rudy Kelly have collaborated on a few posts: Patrick Marleau Facts parts one and two, their review of The Love Guru, and most recently, why every team will fail this season. It's been a very good pairing, but I guess with enough cooperation comes that competitive itch to somehow outdo each other. And since we're a blog that thrives on silly experimentation, they came up with this...
Hey,
Meg and I wanted to try something. We wanted to do a thing where the commenters give a writing prompt, hockey or otherwise, or a jumping off point for a blog entry, and then Meg and I would have 24 hours to post it and the commenters would vote on a winner. To keep it fair, though, we need your help to pick the idea and e-mail to us, that way we aren't looking at the ideas and coming up with a story before the clock starts. Then we'd both have the story saved and ready to be put up on the blog the next day and send you a copy to prove we didn't go over the time limit. Seems like it might be fun and get the comments going a little bit. What do you think?
Uh-oh... I like it. Cartoon!
Whose rambling will reign supreme?
So now the next step is up to you, readers. What topic or scenario will be the theme ingredient to this inaugural challenge? Be as silly or as specific as you'd like -- what do you want to read two contrary versions of in the near future? To keep things simple, let's make sure we only use one topic for both bloggers, not a separate one for each. And if you'd like to add any rules or anything, now's the time to do that, too.
Allez cuisine! Let the Battle of California commence.
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Example: Take two NHL teammates not from your team and write an episode of Perfect Strangers.
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how about an episode of Scooby-Doo instead?
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by PNK on Aug 30, 2010 8:22 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
i agree (only the old shcool cartoon not that fuckin stupid movie)..make sure include all the villians…“the mummy” COIN COIN..!!…the witch..etc..im sure they could tie..the scooby do characters and villians to our Boc teams
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-John Marston-
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 30, 2010 8:48 AM PDT up reply actions
Keep ‘em coming — I suspect I’m going to pick one and send it to them late tonight, so they’ll essentially air on Wednesday morning, I think.
Does that work for the contestants?
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i love roman emperors (and they seem to like history and give good history lessons..meg and rudy i mean)…would want them to do somthing with them
75% get assianated..others castrate or blind there rivals…i dunno…im sure there somthing they could do with that topic
"I dropped a hundred fools like you!"
-John Marston-
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 30, 2010 8:59 AM PDT up reply actions
Corey Perry retires to play in the Lingerie Football League
Rice is great when you're hungry and you want 2000 of something.
by brokenyard on Aug 30, 2010 8:21 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
so the compitetion is between meg and rudy..your nto involved earl?
"I dropped a hundred fools like you!"
-John Marston-
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 30, 2010 8:23 AM PDT reply actions
If it works, I’m challenging the winner or something. Later we may enlist outside bloggers for extra humiliation, too. :)
"Ridin’ The Meat Train & Dreaming of Jack’s Johnson All Summer Long!"
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by Earl Sleek on Aug 30, 2010 8:29 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I vote that this image to introduce each blog
"I dropped a hundred fools like you!"
-John Marston-
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 30, 2010 8:27 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
sedins would win…
or hedman
Мы в любовь играли,
И как кровь из вены капает слеза.
Remember kids it's down the road not across the street
Frankly, the Sedins didn’t show me enough cullinary skills in the pizza commercial to sell me. This is still the quientessential chef from Sweden that I’ll remember.
The Spirit of MeatTrain'10!
by DodgerBlueBalls on Aug 30, 2010 10:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Even More difficult
Georges Laraque! Hockey Players trying to cook a vegan menu…oh, the glorious carnage!
"Skillet, we just spent $64,000 in that bar. So we're gonna have to get jobs to cover up the fact that we rob banks" -Mouse Fitzgerald
meg has red hair?
"I dropped a hundred fools like you!"
-John Marston-
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 30, 2010 8:28 AM PDT reply actions
Heh, I’ve never met Meg, who knows?
This cartoon was meant to be generic enough for multiple re-uses.
"Ridin’ The Meat Train & Dreaming of Jack’s Johnson All Summer Long!"
http://www.battleofcali.com/
by Earl Sleek on Aug 30, 2010 8:31 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
i mean the one on the left is rudy…looks like the shirt i saw him in…hairy legs..chili choker underwear…only thing wrong with it is his underwear being unsolied
that you in the green elvis shirt in the middle (apparently all shirts you own are green)
and it looks like u guessed on meg and his golf pants..im working on ideas for what meg is gonna look like in my cartoon…its tough
"I dropped a hundred fools like you!"
-John Marston-
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 30, 2010 8:37 AM PDT up reply actions
that you in the green elvis shirt in the middle (apparently all shirts you own are green)
It’s some cross between me and the chairman — I tried to guss him up, but all I could give him was a fancy collar.
And those are supposed to be pajama pants! I own those — how did Meg get them? :)
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Irrelevant, but woo hoo!
Earl grew into a Category 3 hurricane Monday morning, the National Hurricane Center said. As of 11 a.m. ET, Earl’s maximum sustained winds were at 120 mph (193 kph).
Earl could affect areas in the United States from the Carolinas to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, over Labor Day weekend, said CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras.
"Ridin’ The Meat Train & Dreaming of Jack’s Johnson All Summer Long!"
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Yes, you are getting quite dangerous.
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin
too bad hurricanes dont occur on the west coast…i know a certain northern hockey arena id love for you to devestate
United States from the Carolinas to Cape Cod, Massachusetts
ill settle for the red sox….ohhhh..i cant wait till u calm down and just be a tropical storm!!!
"I dropped a hundred fools like you!"
-John Marston-
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 30, 2010 9:01 AM PDT up reply actions
HEY!! I haven’t said one thing to bash the ducks today and you go on the attack already!
okay … I would like to see a post by Rudy & Meg – each showing how to best destroy the Ducks
:)
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin
no need scott niedmeyer did that by retiring
"I dropped a hundred fools like you!"
-John Marston-
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 30, 2010 9:07 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
hurricanes home arena works too… it would win at irony
Мы в любовь играли,
И как кровь из вены капает слеза.
Remember kids it's down the road not across the street
by sleza on Aug 30, 2010 9:09 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
wouldn’t it be more useful for ducks if you made the life difficult (and maybe break few arenas) in western conference area?
Мы в любовь играли,
И как кровь из вены капает слеза.
Remember kids it's down the road not across the street
great minds think alike (see my comment above)
"I dropped a hundred fools like you!"
-John Marston-
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 30, 2010 9:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Earl’s rage is blind and illogical.
"Ridin’ The Meat Train & Dreaming of Jack’s Johnson All Summer Long!"
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i doubt hurricane earl will take out any battlestar gallactia conventions
"I dropped a hundred fools like you!"
-John Marston-
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 30, 2010 9:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Semi-serious topic
If you had a time machine, a potted plant, a fresh dish of Peking Duck (for Sleek, of course), six toothpicks and a roll of duct tape and could do ONE THING to alter your franchise’s history, what would it be? And you have to use everything.
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by Mike Chen on Aug 30, 2010 9:06 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
ohh i like this kind of idea….somthing along these lines would be cuu
"I dropped a hundred fools like you!"
-John Marston-
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 30, 2010 9:09 AM PDT up reply actions
Here’s one: You’ve been hired as the new head coach of the Edmonton Oilers. Despite the fact that you know you’re likely to have an awful year, write up your start-of-the-year locker room pep talk, trying hopelessly to be optimistic. Try to single out as many players as you can.
"Ridin’ The Meat Train & Dreaming of Jack’s Johnson All Summer Long!"
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by Earl Sleek on Aug 30, 2010 9:32 AM PDT reply actions 3 recs
or Toronto Leafs … give them each one team
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin
Leafs will be fine. :)
Giguere is money in contract years.
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or your hired as the sharks PR head/spin doctor and you have to come up with a way to convince fans and media that your not gonna choke again in the playoffs despite feilding the same forwards and dmen..but with inferior goaltending..and do it with straight face
"I dropped a hundred fools like you!"
-John Marston-
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 30, 2010 9:40 AM PDT up reply actions
you woke up on the wrong side of the bed huh?
or you had a dream where you realized that the ducks won’t make the playoffs again … and so you are lashing out at others … :)
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin
:-p
"I dropped a hundred fools like you!"
-John Marston-
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 30, 2010 9:47 AM PDT up reply actions
actually if meg gets over the backhanded comment it would be humorous to see what rudy and meg come up with
"I dropped a hundred fools like you!"
-John Marston-
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 30, 2010 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions
I like this one.
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by Kevin Sellathamby on Aug 30, 2010 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions
I’d love to see this, but as coaches, I think they are more into constructive harrasm—I mean criticism. And instead of the Oilers, put the Ducks.
In Dinglebarn We Trust
And instead of the Oilers, put the Ducks.
You must not have read the part about how I’m picking the topic.
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by Earl Sleek on Aug 30, 2010 4:35 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
hahahahahaha
"I dropped a hundred fools like you!"
-John Marston-
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 30, 2010 6:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Y’all need to serve the greater good of comedy…but I guess last season already did that.
In Dinglebarn We Trust
Did I ever tell you that you are awesome … :)
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin
Eh, regular season results are overrated.
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I guess when you never win the Cup, you create “degrees of not winning the Cup” by which you can judge other teams. Must make the sweeps go down easier.
by Arthur from Anaheim Calling on Aug 30, 2010 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I more or less had feeling like those when we didn’t make the playoffs. I think I’d be ok with not making the playoffs again if it meant more madness with draft choices falling to us again…
I’m positively aiming for the future.
No I lied, I’m aiming for Sutton 20 game suspensions for accidentally killing someone on ice.
Preferably Holmstrom.
I rec’d that shit.
How about
a post describing what the NHL careers would have been like for the characters from the Mighty Ducks movies?
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by PNK on Aug 30, 2010 10:12 AM PDT reply actions 5 recs
I like this.
Don't let the name deceive you, I'm not just a Sharks fan but a Lakers, 49ers, Angels, Giants (and to a lesser extent) Capitals, and Titans fan.
by SharksFanEst.1994 on Aug 30, 2010 5:21 PM PDT up reply actions
You know what I might like to see? A creative writing contest where Meg writes a piece called “Rudy’s Dreams-Come-True Day” and Rudy does the corresponding thing for Meg. Probably the day where the Sharks/Kings win the Cup, but maybe some more miraculous things happen, too.
"Ridin’ The Meat Train & Dreaming of Jack’s Johnson All Summer Long!"
http://www.battleofcali.com/
Or maybe we just set it up like the old joke: “Rudy rubs a lamp and a genie grants him three wishes” — Meg completes that story, while Rudy writes about Meg’s genie experience.
"Ridin’ The Meat Train & Dreaming of Jack’s Johnson All Summer Long!"
http://www.battleofcali.com/
how bout rudy just rubs meg..and..um
"I dropped a hundred fools like you!"
-John Marston-
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 30, 2010 10:20 AM PDT up reply actions
How bout in the lines of SBN’s Mock Expansion Draft – if they were each given a team, where would they have them located, the name, and pulling players from the teams around the league, who would they pick?
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin
silly rabbit..they would just pick the ducks franchise minus corey perry
"I dropped a hundred fools like you!"
-John Marston-
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 30, 2010 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions
and why would they pick a whole team that didn’t make the playoffs last season? :)
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin
I have one that should appeal to many of us -
Rudy & Meg are to write a pilot outline of a sci fi show with the hockey players of their respective teams as the main characters.
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
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by Angy on Aug 30, 2010 12:25 PM PDT reply actions 7 recs
Bloggers and Adulthood Virginity: A Correlation?
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by Nut on Aug 30, 2010 12:45 PM PDT reply actions 4 recs
this one is good too
"I dropped a hundred fools like you!"
-John Marston-
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 30, 2010 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions
My face when this was announced
"Skillet, we just spent $64,000 in that bar. So we're gonna have to get jobs to cover up the fact that we rob banks" -Mouse Fitzgerald
Meg and Rudy attend the Getzlaf nupitals as wedding crashers. Bonus points for an awkward morning after with B-Ry.
In Dinglebarn We Trust
Meg and Rudy each try to convince Getzlaf that he’s balding and needs to just get rid of the combover.
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2010-2011 Season "Recap"
After Edmonton’s game 7 SCF victory over Florida
by Missileshark on Aug 30, 2010 2:56 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
A Topic.
Successful teams in numerous sports often look for that “extra edge” prior or during the season to make themselves that much better than anyone else.
What do you think that “extra edge” is for the Kings/Sharks; and please explain, in full, vivid detail, how you would help your respective teams to get that “extra edge.”
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Man, when I am sober,
I may just write an adaptation of the Iron Chef Japan opener with Earl as the chairman. It has been swirling around in my head all day, and I just can’t get it out.
"Skillet, we just spent $64,000 in that bar. So we're gonna have to get jobs to cover up the fact that we rob banks" -Mouse Fitzgerald
The Chariman in Iron Chef Japan is just awesome. He’s so awesome that while everyone else on the show gets some shitty dub, he’s the lone guy who gets to utilize subtitles and his original smirky Japanese.
And the way he bites into a bell pepper, don’t get me started! :)
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Around 12 hours ago
A man’s fantasy became reality, in a form seen many times before, Blogging Stadium, an ethereal battleground for keyboard warriors. The motivation for spending some of his spare time to create Blogging Stadium was to encounter, new, twisted prose which could be called a new artistic creation! To realize his dream, he recruited 2 unwashed californian bloggers, and he named them the IRON BLOGGERS, the invincible men of keyboard skills! Iron Blogger Los Angeles is RudyKelly, and Iron Blogger San Jose is Megalodon. Blogger Stadium is where the Iron Bloggers await the halfhearted challengers of skilled hockey bloggers around the world. Both the Iron Blogger and challenger have 24 hours to tackle the theme topic of the day. Using their ten fingers and perverse imaginations, both the Iron Blogger and challenger will conjure eye-gougingly brutal prose never witnessed before. And should ever the challenger win over the Iron Blogger, he or she will gain absolutely nothing. What inspiration will today’s challenger bring? And how will the Iron Blogger fight back? NO ONE CARES!
"Skillet, we just spent $64,000 in that bar. So we're gonna have to get jobs to cover up the fact that we rob banks" -Mouse Fitzgerald
by joe579 on Aug 30, 2010 11:05 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Keepin' it comtemporary...
With BoC’s elevated status as The Cutting Edge Hockey Blog for all the interwebs, why don’t we invite Meg & Rudy to discuss current affairs outside of the realm of hockey? Perhaps an in depth discussion on this little diddy from the fine folks at Fox News?
The Spirit of MeatTrain'10!
by DodgerBlueBalls on Aug 30, 2010 5:57 PM PDT reply actions
Haha, that’s fantastic. I’m a little suspicious, though — it doesn’t really specify how old this kid is, other than old enough to be in school and old enough to spend a full day at Six Flags.
The story really wants me to believe this kid is like five and this is all the hotel’s fault, but the way the age is left out, this might be some 13-year-old idiot. :)
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That’s a local Fox station, different from the 24 hour thing.
Rice is great when you're hungry and you want 2000 of something.
“You are correct, sir!”
The Spirit of MeatTrain'10!
by DodgerBlueBalls on Aug 30, 2010 6:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Rice is great when you're hungry and you want 2000 of something.
by brokenyard on Aug 30, 2010 6:52 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Okay it’s killing me over which one you will pick Earl … ugh!
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin
(Lifts cloak)
BATTLE SCI FI!
Congrats, Ang.
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YES!!!! :)
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin
Thank you for your contributions, everyone. I will endeavor to properly honor today’s theme ingredient.
Rudy is going to get DESTROYED.
Drew Remenda would praise a bottle of child poison if it had a picture of Darryl Sutter on it.
Battle of California
Rudy is going to get DESTROYED.
Haha, probably.
Rice is great when you're hungry and you want 2000 of something.
Plus I forgot to e-mail him.
"Ridin’ The Meat Train & Dreaming of Jack’s Johnson All Summer Long!"
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haha … no way!!
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin
Yes, and you can expect a visit from our mutual friend Mr. Lincoln for that.
Drew Remenda would praise a bottle of child poison if it had a picture of Darryl Sutter on it.
Battle of California
haha his double shot jack n cokes are 19…he needs a mr. jackson
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-John Marston-
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 31, 2010 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions
The double shot is so that I can have one shot for every space I put between sentences.
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by Earl Sleek on Aug 31, 2010 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
after all these years of hearing us talking sci fi, have you learned nothing? :)
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin
The problem with predicting the future (i.e. in a sci-fi type thing), we are really lousy at it. Where is my flying car!?!?! Why can’t I teleport rather than still be stuck on the I405? And then there is this “future” computer, notice the steering wheel drive.
Let's go Ducks.
That’s the space bar — honk twice between sentences.
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by Earl Sleek on Aug 31, 2010 5:23 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Don’t dishonor Blogging Stadium with your petty complaints.
Drew Remenda would praise a bottle of child poison if it had a picture of Darryl Sutter on it.
Battle of California
by Megalodon on Aug 31, 2010 6:33 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
He’s such a Bobby Flay sometimes.
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by Earl Sleek on Aug 31, 2010 6:48 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
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