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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 11-16-09, 01:32 PM
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we will stop calling it a METRIC century, when you guys stop calling it ICE HOCKEY...it's frickin' HOCKEY, that's it...just HOCKEY, there are no other kinds that matter...no need to specify 'ICE' hockey...just Hockey.

and it has been almost half a 'century' since the Leafs won the cup.
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Originally Posted by Jynx
a century is a 100 of anything. years, miles, km, feet, etc
But dis is amorica! Doop-da-doo!!!
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Originally Posted by velocanuck
and it has been almost half a 'century' since the Leafs won the cup.
And atleast another half to go.
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Originally Posted by Tsuru
But dis is amorica! Doop-da-doo!!!
but this BF is soooo sophisticated, it spans borders...
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Originally Posted by DScott
We don't have such distinctive sub-groupings among caucasoids on the left coast. We all just sh-- rainbows and ride our bikes all year long, hoping not to get run over by the taco trucks, geriatrics in Mercedes rushing to their plastic surgeons, or pissed off ER docs.
Yes but arent 90% of the people of California from somewhere else? How can you build any real animosity to others if you have no roots ?
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Originally Posted by clausen
And atleast another half to go.
nooo...this is the year...you can tell the way they are playing first 18 games...they have already won 3 games!

Gonna be a good year...
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Old 11-16-09, 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by velocanuck
but this BF is soooo sophisticated, it spans borders...
BF knows no borders??? Now THAT'S a scary thought.... Though this one scared me more:

Originally Posted by patentcad
There is no such thing as a 'metric' century.


DAY DOOK ER JYOBS!
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So it seems to me that only Burma, Liberia and the United States don't use the metric system...

Maybe us Canadian Freds are the ones who are right about this!!
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Originally Posted by clausen
And atleast another half to go.
It's OK my northern despondent puck fans.
I'll arrange a bike tour south across the "Big Lake" so you can visit the Stanley Cup in future years.
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Originally Posted by velocanuck
nooo...this is the year...you can tell the way they are playing first 18 games...they have already won 3 games!

Gonna be a good year...
Haven't there owners taught you anything.
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Originally Posted by spry
It's OK my northern despondent puck fans.
I'll arrange a bike tour south across the "Big Lake" so you can visit the Stanley Cup in future years.
It's OK. The players always bring the cup back to there home towns so we see it all the time.
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Would you have the MacKenzie Brothers Christmas Album?
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Originally Posted by clausen
It's OK. The players always bring the cup back to there home towns so we see it all the time.
I'm your closest neighbor here in the land of plenty and always willing to help out.
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Would you have the MacKenzie Brothers Christmas Album?
No. They play it more than enough on the radio.
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Originally Posted by Chris R.
So it seems to me that only Burma, Liberia and the United States don't use the metric system...

Maybe us Canadian Freds are the ones who are right about this!!
Yep, so I guess OP is right. There is no such thing as a "metric century"... There's only centuries and what the folks in Burma, Liberia, and the states occasionally do, 160.9 km rides.
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Yep, so I guess OP is right. There is no such thing as a "metric century"... There's only centuries and what the folks in Burma, Liberia, and the states occasionally do, 160.9 km rides.
Wuss,
so your giving up in defeat to the "Loon of Mt.Doom"?
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so your giving up in defeat to the "Loon of Mt.Doom"?
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Huh? I claim victory in the name of base 10.
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Originally Posted by velocanuck
we will stop calling it a METRIC century, when you guys stop calling it ICE HOCKEY...it's frickin' HOCKEY, that's it...just HOCKEY, there are no other kinds that matter...no need to specify 'ICE' hockey...just Hockey.
Most rational people don't believe ice hockey matters in the first place, let alone field hockey. Why don't you just called in "professional Beating The Crap Out Of A Guy While Skating" and be done with it, rather than pretending it's a sport?
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Originally Posted by shouldberiding
Most rational people don't believe ice hockey matters in the first place, let alone field hockey. Why don't you just called in "professional Beating The Crap Out Of A Guy While Skating" and be done with it, rather than pretending it's a sport?
At least it's the players getting beaten and not their dogs..
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Originally Posted by DScott
We don't have such distinctive sub-groupings among caucasoids on the left coast. We all just sh-- rainbows and ride our bikes all year long, hoping not to get run over by the taco trucks, geriatrics in Mercedes rushing to their plastic surgeons, or pissed off ER docs.
"teach them a lesson"
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Originally Posted by shouldberiding
Most rational people don't believe ice hockey matters in the first place, let alone field hockey. Why don't you just called in "professional Beating The Crap Out Of A Guy While Skating" and be done with it, rather than pretending it's a sport?
It's all horse hockey to me.
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Originally Posted by jdon
At least it's the players getting beaten and not their dogs..
The fictional movie "Slapshot" has done a disservice to the sport and these boobs that believe hockey is always a brawl on ice.
Try viewing "Miracle on Ice" for a more reality movie.
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Originally Posted by shouldberiding
Most rational people don't believe ice hockey matters in the first place, let alone field hockey. Why don't you just called in "professional Beating The Crap Out Of A Guy While Skating" and be done with it, rather than pretending it's a sport?
"professional Beating The Crap Out Of A Guy While Skating Night in Canada"

nawww...doesn't work...lets stick to "Hockey Night in Canada".

by the way, did you know that last season, the new york mets, yes, baseball, had more bench clearing brawls than the ENTIRE national hockey league put together!

Don't even get us all started on whether baseball is a sport.
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Originally Posted by spry
The fictional movie "Slapshot" has done a disservice to the sport and these boobs that believe hockey is always a brawl on ice.
Try viewing "Miracle on Ice" for a more reality movie.
Slapshot was a great movie.
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Besides, today's NHL is based on speed and skill...hardly any fighting at all anymore...
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