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Cleaning It Up
by IwoCPO on 11/29/08 at 05:24 PM ET
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My wife told me to look for the garland. She said it was in the only-reachable-by-ladder attic kind of deal in the garage. Words fail me when I tell you the great pride I felt in responding with these words: “I literally have no idea what garland is.”
Oh, I had an idea what garland is. But do you remember the scene from “Shawshank”, what Andy Dufresne said about drinking beer while working outside? “I think a man workin’ outdoors feels more like a man if he can have a bottle of suds. That’s only my opinion.”
That’s kinda how I felt. I think a man feels more like a man if he can tell his wife he has no frigging idea what “garland” is. And if he can say it with a real sarcastic tone, even better.
Don’t get me wrong. I got the garland down from the attic. But for a minute there, boy, I was the man.
And then I went inside, cracked one, and got to work cleaning up the blog roll on the starboard side. A few changes. Man, a whole bunch of sites that hadn’t been updated in several monts. Gone.
And a few more I visit all the time but hadn’t gotten around to adding. Exampe: Knee Jerk City, Mirtle’s new spot, Hockey Joe’s place over at Fox and Ted Leonsis’ new address as well. I’ll be digging into the Wing-specific section yet. So if any of you bastards haven’t been writing lately and hope to stay, you best get tip-tapping.
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Posted by Tyler from Lansing on 11/30/08 at 12:54 AM ET
A tip o’ the cap to you Chief for the cheap pop for me.
Posted by HockeyJoe from Upstate New York on 12/01/08 at 02:30 PM ET
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Cleaning up, Bill..?
You and Paul can remove HTT from the blogroll,
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Posted by HockeyTownTodd on 11/29/08 at 05:48 PM ET