Monday, July 21

All The News That's Fit To Vaknat

One of the great opportunities in life one may be fortunate enough to experience is to travel. To go to another country can be a joyful emotional journey, and not just because you've gotten away with taking advantage of your friends Greener, Chemmy and mf37. No, it's because one of the most amazing things in the world is discovering that, in spite of some cosmetic cultural differences, people all over the world are basically just the same.

We all put our pants on one leg at a time. We all call our Mom's on Mother's day. We all have hockey journalists who lie and make shit up because they have a deadlines to meet. I've always heard that Sweden was really similar to Canada. You know, there's a lot of trees there, it's cold in winter and lush in summer. That's one reason Swedes like playing there. Another is that they can count on the lazy, ill-informed Leafs journalists to mimic their lazy, ill-informed Nordic counterparts. See? No more homesickness!

The story of Sundin signing with the Canucks may, in the end, become true. It's an easy story to write when the person in question will receive 20 million dollars for writing his name. Not surprisingly, I subscribe to all the Swedish dailies, so trust me, friends. Click below and see I know what I'm talking about:

6 comments:

Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...

welcome back buddy. i, umm, kinda missed you.

wrap around curl said...

The Canucks realllllly want to keep the Ikea line.

Anonymous said...

To go to another country can be a joyful emotional journey, and not just because you've gotten away with taking advantage of your friends Greener, Chemmy and mf37.

Are you saying that the cheque bounced?

Chemmy said...

Greener got a check?

Loser Domi said...

Sundin's on island time. And whoever typed up that newspaper needs to be fired--I can't understand a word of it!

Jaredoflondon said...

When I tried to read that headline all that came out was "Bort Bort Bort"