BS: Stanley Gets a Tan!

Subject: BS: Stanley Gets a Tan!
From: Gern
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 11:14 PM

How bout them Lightning? Let no one scoff about ice hockey in Florida anymore. I enjoyed Iginla and was impressed with Calgary's enthusiastic fans. But those who have laughed may now come visit Tampa Bay to see the Stanley Cup. Excuse me while I celebrate...

Subject: RE: BS: Stanley Gets a Tan!
From: Sorcha
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 11:58 PM

So, who the hell is Stanley? You just have to love these thread titles...

Subject: RE: BS: Stanley Gets a Tan!
From: Amos
Date: 08 Jun 04 - 12:23 AM

Apparently it is a cup used to denote league victory in ice-hockey, which apparently, although one has to work to reconstruct this from the obscure message, has recently been taken in unlikely fashion by a Florida team (hence the tan).

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Subject: RE: BS: Stanley Gets a Tan!
From: Peace
Date: 08 Jun 04 - 07:06 PM

He was a Governor General of Canada in the 1890s. English chap. The Stanley Cup is the symbol of victory given to the team in the National Hockey League that wins the playoffs. This year, the playoffs were won by Tampa Bay from Florida. They beat The Calgary Flames from Calgary, Alberta. Canadian hockey fans will be drunk for a week. Calgary hockey fans are drunk all the time anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Stanley Gets a Tan!
From: Peace
Date: 08 Jun 04 - 07:21 PM

I am an Edmonton Oilers fan, and it is a fact of life that we say bad things not just about the Flames, but also about Calgary. If you live in Edmonton and you are a Flames fan, you wear a paper bag over your head when you go to games. No one hurts you or anything like that, but the three Flames fans who live in Edmonton don't want their families to know where they go at night and what they do. It's sorta like a few rungs down from reading pornography.