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Shimla and Manali Tours

brijesh12 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:09:58 -0800

Shimla and Manali are the beautiful hill stations situated in the state of Himachal Pradesh. Both the hill stations are endowed with superb natural beauty that tempts tourists from all around the world for tours and travels in Himachal Pradesh. Shimla is the capital city of Himachal Pradesh and it famously known as the “Queen of Hill Stations”. During the British Raj it was the summer capital of the country. Gifted with superb natural beauty, gorgeous hills, emerald meadows and adventure and sports activities like skiing, heli skiing, paragliding, golfing, trekking, etc. Shimla offers amiable ambiance for a memorable vacation in India.

Shimla exotic beauty and captivating tourism appeals tourists, holidayers, honeymooners, nature lovers and adventure seekers for tours and travels in Shimla from all over the world. There are myriad places of tourist interest which are worth visiting and exploring with Honeymoon Package Manali. Some of the popular places to visit in this beautiful city are Christ Church, Gaiety Theatre, Ellerslie, Railway Board Building, Viceroy Lodge, etc. More of all Shimla’s beauty is enhanced by the seven hills that surround the city. Observatory Hill, Summer Hill, Jakhoo Hill, Inverarm Hill, Prospect Hill, Botany Hill and Elysium hill offers tourists and vacationers with picturesque vistas that never fail to lure the heart of tourists. Exploring the beauty of these superb places of Shimla will be delightful experience that you will love it and cherish it for lifetime.

Beside these there are several other attractions such as Scandal Point, Combermere Bridge, the Mall, the Ridge, Kamna Devi Mandir, State Museum, India Institute of Advance Study, Sankat Mochan Temple, etc. These tourist places are also worth visiting and exploring on tours to Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.

Shimla acts as a paradise for the adventure enthusiast. During the winter time the city adorns herself with the new white cloth from her wardrobe. The thick sheets of snow covers this beautiful city making it the perfect place to enjoy skiing, trekking, angling, fishing, golfing, etc. Adventure enthusiast visit this city from across India and abroad to get chilled and thrilled with the adventurous sports provided by this beautiful hill station Shimla.

At the distance of about 275 km from Manali there is a beautiful town Manali. Visiting Manali from Shimla itself it a pleasurable and lifetime experience. Tourists can enjoy the scenic beauty of nature, picture perfect landscapes and the cascading waterfalls while visiting Manali from Shimla. It is the dream destinations of the honeymoon couples and newly wedded couples. Family Vacationers, holidayers, nature lovers, adventure seekers also prefer to visit Manali to spend their vacation in a delightful and memorable way. It offers tourists with the superb view of nature, breathtaking landscapes and snow covered Himalayas that steals the heart of tourists with their charm without making them notice.

There are several places of tourist interest in this picturesque hill town of Manali which are worth visiting and exploring. Rahala Waterfalls, Manali Temple, Vashisht Temple, Solang Valley, Rothang Pass, Hot Water Spring, etc are some must attraction on tour to Manali. It is also a much popular destination for adventure and sport activities. A visit to Manali gives tourists wonderful opportunity to enjoy some of adventure & sport activities like trekking, mountaineering, rock climbing, white water rafting, fishing, angling, skiing, heli-skiing, ice-skating, etc. Enjoying adventurous sports in this beautiful hill town will be a lifetime experience of your tours to Manali that you will love to cherish throughout your lifetime.

There are several tour operators and travel agencies offering tailor made tour packages for tour and travels in Himachal Pradesh. They offer various exciting travel packages in Himachal like Himachal Tour Package, adventure tours in Himachal Pradesh, Shimla Honeymoon Package, Kullu Shimla Manali tours, etc. Choose any package of your choice and explore the superb natural beauty of Himachal Pradesh.
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Horrible Dates

Monique Marie — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:11:58 -0800

Here is something I found on the Internet for us poor women who go out on dates.
Every date has that moment, that magical moment, during which everything changes. I'm not talking about the romantic comedy moment, when things click and you fake an orgasm at the diner. I'm talking about the moment when you realize that the check cannot come fast enough. Here are 10 actual quotes from actual dates I have actually been on, during which I knew I would be willing to pick up the entire tab as long as it meant getting out of there fast.
10. "I really think the band is going to make it this year."No, the fact that he was a 30-year-old bartender working for cash under the table didn't turn me off. Neither did the fact that he'd been wearing the same jeans for days. Neither did the fact that he slept in a twin bed in a house with five other people. But I realized, at this moment, that "this" year meant there was a "last" year, and probably some years before that, when the band also was not making it. And maybe there was a reason why: suckage.
9. "Here's a 25-minute story about the Meetup.com group I started."I downed two beers over the course of the tale. He had two sips of his.
8. "I'd like to send you some of my fiction."Oh, good. You like stories. Here's one: Andrea goes on a date with dude who writes mermaid erotica and never talks to him again.

7. "I thought I saw my ex just now. She'd be here all RAAAAAAANGH *mimics knife stabbing, Psycho style*"I wish we'd seen your ex just now. Then I could ask her what the hell is wrong with you instead of sitting here stirring this Chai Tea Latte and assuming it was some kind of childhood head injury.
6. "John McCain is the man."Now, if you mean to say that John McCain is "a" man, I can hardly quibble. Technically speaking, I think we can assume that to be true. And if you mean to say that John McCain is "The Man," as in, part of the terrifying conservative machine, then yes, I'm on board. But sir, if you mean John McCain is the man, as in, your homeboy, then I'm just going to have to get this meal to go.
5. "Your eyeshadow looks like someone punched you in the face."To be fair, he was English, which means the accent makes asinine comments like these a little easier to take. But not so easy that I didn't break up with him via text message soon after. Hey, I was mature and classy like that.

4. "Eight of my friends have committed suicide."Everybody likes the tragic guy. But apparently everybody who liked this tragic guy decided to end their own lives. When Tragic Guy dropped this bomb 10 minutes into our first date, I decided I'd rather stay on this end of the mortal coil, thanks.
3. "This is my daughter."We were supposed to hang out at his place of business, maybe catch a movie later or head over to the mall. I was looking forward to getting to know him--we'd only met once before. Instead, I met his adorable daughter, who looked at my 21-year-old self with "I need a mommy!" eyes for five hours while we went ice skating. A little warning would have been nice.
2. "I don't like cats."The countless numbers of dudes who have said this to me have inevitably said it after I tell them I have two cats. Maybe it's a clever way of dropping the "I'm not interested" bomb. Or maybe they're creeps. I mean, who doesn't like an entire species of furry animal?
1. "This is my mom."Remember "This is my daughter" Dude? Yeah, his mom came with us on the ice-skating date. Amazingly enough, I gave him one more shot: he came over for dinner at my house and, before I'd set the appetizer, put his toothbrush in my toothbrush holder. I wished he'd brought his mom instead.

A History Test

Grandpa — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:02:30 -0700

History Exam...
Everyone over 40 should have a pretty easy time at this exam. If you are under 40 you can claim a handicap.

Thi s is a History Exam for those who don't mind seeing how much they really remember about what went on in their life.

*** Get paper & pencil & number from 1 to 20.
****Write the letter of each answer & score at the end.

Then before you pass this test on, put your score in the subject line. Send to friends so everyone can HAVE FUN!!!! Also send it back to me.

1. In the 1940s, where were automobile headlight dimmer switches located?
a. On the floor shift knob.
b. On the floor board, to the left of the clutch...
c. Next to the horn.

2. The bottle top of a Royal Crown Cola bottle had holes in it.. For what was it used?
a. Capture lightning bugs.
b. To sprinkle clothes before ironing.
c. Large salt shaker.

3. Why was having milk delivered a problem in northern winters?
a. Cows got cold and wouldn't produce milk.
b. Ice on highways forced delivery by dog sled.
c.. Milkmen left deliveries outside of front doors and milk would freeze, expanding and pushing up the cardboard bottle top.

4. What was the popular chewing gum named for a game of chance?
a.. Blackjack
b. Gin
c. Craps

5. What method did women use to look as if they were wearing stockings when none were available due to rationing during WW II.
a. Suntan
b. Leg painting
c. Wearing slacks

6. What postwar car turned automotive design on its ear when you couldn't tell whether it was com ing or going?
a. Studebaker
b. Nash Metro
c. Tucker

7. Which was a popular candy when you were a kid?
a . Strips of dried peanut butter.
b. Chocolate licorice bars.
c. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.

8. How was Butch wax used?
a. To stiffen a flat-top haircut so it stood up.
b. To make floors shiny and prevent scuffing.
c On the wheels of roller skates to prevent rust.

9. Before inline skates, how did you keep your roller skates attached to your shoes?
a. With clamps, tightened by a skate key.
b. Woven straps that crossed the foot.
c. Long pieces of twine.

10. As a kid, what was considered the best way to reach a decision?
a. Consider all the facts.
b. Ask Mom.
c. Eeny-meeny-miney-MO.

11. What was the most dreaded disease in the 1940s and 1950s?
a. Smallpox
b. AIDS
c. Polio

12. 'I'll be down to get you in a ________, Honey'
a. SUV
b. Taxi
c. Streetcar

13. What was the name of Caroline Kennedy's pony?
a. Old Blue
b. Paint
c Macaroni

14. What was a Duck-and-Cover Drill?
a. Part of the game of hide and seek.
b. What you did when your Mom called you in to do chores.
c. Hiding under your desk, and covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill.

15 . What was the name of the Indian Princess in the Howdy Doody Show?
a. Princess Summerfallwinterspring
b. Princess Sacajawea
c Princess Moonshadow

16. What did all the really savvy students do when mimeographed tests were handed out in school?
a. Immediately sniffed the purple ink, as this was believed to get you high.
b. Made paper airplanes to see who could sail theirs out the window.
c. Wrote another pupil's name on the top, to avoid their failure.

17. Why did your Mom shop in stores that gave Green Stamps with purchases?
a.. To keep you out of mischief by licking the backs, which tasted like bubble gum.
b. They could be put in special books and redeemed for various household items.
c. They were given to the kids to be used as stick-on tattoos.

18. Praise the Lord , & pass the _________?
a.. Meatballs
b. Dames
c. Ammunition

19. What was the name of the singing group that made the song 'Cabdriver' a hit?
a. The Ink Spots
b. The Supremes
c. The Esquires

20. Who left his heart in San Francisco ?
a. Tony Bennett
b. Xavier Cugat
c. George Gershwin
----------------------------- -------------------------------

ANSWERS

1. (b) On the floor, to the left of the clutch. Hand controls, popular in Europe , took till the late '60's to catch on.

2. (b) To sprinkle clothes before ironing.. Who had a steam iron?

3. (c) Cold weather caused the milk to freeze and expand, popping the bottle top...

4 . (a) Blackjack Gum.

5. (b) Special makeup was applied, followed by drawing a seam down the back of the leg with eyebrow pencil.

6. (a) 1946 Studebaker.

7. (c) Wax coke bottles containing super-sweet colored water.

8. (a) Wax for your flat top (butch) haircut.

9. (a) With clamps , tightened by a skate key, which you wore on a shoestring around your neck.

10. (c) Eeny-meeny-miney-mo.

11. (c) Polio. In beginning of August, swimming pools were closed, movies and other public gathering places were closed to try to prevent spread of the disease.

12. (b) Taxi , Better be ready by half-past eight!

13. (c) Macaroni ...

14. (c) Hiding under your desk, and covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill.

15. (a) Princess Summerfallwinterspring. She was another puppet.

16... (a) Immediately sniffed the purple ink to get a high.

17. (b) Put in a special stamp book, they could be traded for household items at the Green Stamp store.

18. (c) Ammunition, and we'll all be free.

19. (a) The widely famous 50's group: The Inkspots.

20. (a) Tony Bennett, and he sounds just as good today.

SCORING

17- 20 correct : You are older than dirt, and obviously gifted with mental abilities. Now if you could only find your glasses. Definitely someone who should share your wisdom!

12 -16 correct: Not quite dirt yet, but you're getting there.

0 -11 correct: You are not old enough to share the wisdom of your experiences.

Making Ends Meet in the Great Depression (an oral history)

Grandpa — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:14:40 -0700

Making Ends Meet in the Great Depression
By JOYCE WADLER (New York Times)
Published: April 1, 2009
AT a time when life in America is beginning to resemble a roller-coaster ride on the way down and everyone is trying to find ways to save money, it may be instructive - both in terms of offering helpful hints and putting things in perspective - to look at how people ran their households during the Great Depression.

Memories from the Great Depression seem more relevant today than ever. The New York Times is starting a series of video conversations about that painful past and the uncertain future. Join in at
Back then there was little money for food, let alone new curtains, but people found ways to cope. Backyard gardens were cultivated not because of a sudden itch to eat locally grown produce, but out of necessity; homeowners did their own repairs and found ingenious ways to make their homes functional and attractive.
Below, some who lived through the Depression share their memories.
THOMAS MOON, 87
Huntsville, Ala.
Thomas Moon, a retired electrical engineer, grew up in New Hope, Ala., 20 miles from Huntsville. One of six children of a sharecropper, he began working in the fields just as the Depression hit, when he was 7 or 8, earning 50 cents a day. At 17, he joined the Navy, where he served in World War II.
The house I grew up in, all we had was a fireplace for heat and a wood stove in the kitchen to cook with, and two kerosene lamps. The living room had the fireplace - we had two full-size beds in that room.
In the winter the chickens would come up under the house and sit in the basement, so if we wanted a chicken we’d raise a plank up and reach down and get the chicken. (It was warm in the wintertime. The base of that chimney would be nice and warm; I don’t blame them for going down there.)
There was nothing thrown away. We’d make soup out of the feet that was delicious. The gizzard, oh, man, that was choice meat, everybody loved the gizzard. We used to make featherbeds out of chicken feathers and geese, but we’d pick the goose without killing him: all you do is pick him up, yank the feathers off when he was still alive. He don’t mind it. It grows back in two or three months.
In the summer, I took a washtub and put it on a little scaffold out near the chicken house and put burlap sacks around it to make it private. You’d fill that tub full of water in the morning, the sun would heat the water. I found a valve somewhere and I had a valve in the bottom of the tub, and that’s where we got the warm water. It held about 20 gallons. We might take one shower a week.
When you got hungry, you could take a walk out in the mountains. There was always something to eat - all kinds of berries - and in the winter you got pecans, hickory nuts, walnuts. We used to eat bullfrog; that’s a delicacy. And we used to eat squirrels and rabbits.
And possums. Ever eat a possum? Don’t try it. I’ll never forget the first possum I ate.
My grandfather and his son invited me to have a possum dinner. You know how a possum looks at you with his teeth open?
When they opened the oven door, the possum’s mouth was wide open. I took one bite out of that possum, that was the end of my possum career.
ANNIE PEZZILLO MOON, 87
Huntsville, Ala.
Annie Pezzillo Moon, Mr. Moon’s wife, who has been a homemaker for more than 65 years, grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, one of 12 children - nine of whom survived - of Italian immigrants. Her father was a self-employed truck driver, she says, delivering fruits and vegetables in an operation controlled by the Mafia. (“If you didn’t pay off the Mafia, they shot you,” she says. “I guess my father paid.”) As a 13-year-old during the Depression, she sometimes sold shopping bags in the street. A few years later, she dropped out of high school to make 50 cents an hour working at Woolworth’s. She met her husband when she was 21 and he was a sailor on leave in New York.
Our house wasn’t nice. All we had was three bedrooms and a kitchen. We never had a living room, we never had pictures on the walls. My sister slept at the foot of the bed, and I slept at the head of the bed.
I went to the Madonna House on Cherry Street, where the nuns were; my father didn’t know this, but we needed food. The nuns gave me a ticket where I would get stale bread and stale cake.
For Christmas we got fruit - maybe a case would break and my father gave us a piece of it. We never, ever got a present.
At the Madonna House, they would put us on a bus and take us uptown to what we called the Rich Lady’s House. I don’t think it was a house, maybe it was a club house. They would have toys on tables, and you could take a toy from every table. And at the end, they would give us a coupon and there was an Endicott Johnson factory and we would get a new pair of shoes.
My sister wanted to go roller skating one Christmas Eve. I wasn’t doing nothing. I said, Oh, heck, I’ll go. My sister met these two sailors and brought my husband over to me. He didn’t pick me up, I’ll make that clear. That was Dec. 24. We got married March 11.
Memories from the Great Depression seem more relevant today than ever. The New York Times is starting a series of video conversations about that painful past and the uncertain future. Join in at never on a pair of roller skates in his life. He fell down, they ran over his fingers. He said he was in love, so there was no pain.
MERLIN NELSON, 87
New York
Merlin Nelson, a retired executive of American Machine and Foundry, lives in Manhattan. He grew up in San Bernardino, Calif., where his father, a onetime North Dakota farmer, worked in real estate. In 1933, when Mr. Nelson was 11, the real estate market had collapsed and his father bartered property in San Bernardino for an old house and some land in Salem, Ore., where he eventually started a chicken farm.
We spent the Christmas of 1933 in this modest house there. Dad drove the 1930 Chevrolet out in the foothills toward the Cascade range, found a tree, put it on top of the car, found some mistletoe and picked some sprigs of that and some holly and then some white berries. They popped corn and then you got a needle and thread, and that combination of fruit and popcorn basically was our decoration.
The next summer, we all went out every day helping restore this derelict house. We did things like lift the house up and put a basement underneath.
You got the neighbors to help you. There was a team of Belgian horses nearby; they helped pull the barn closer to the house. Farmers in those days knew how to do all kinds of things. You didn’t need much cash - you did everything on a swap.
My dad got the idea of having Rhode Island Red chickens, and they built a big coop for 200 or 300 chickens. He put in a trap nest system, with a board in front. If it laid an egg, I’d mark a plus on the board; if not, a minus, and after a while the poor ones were sold or eaten.
The male chickens we wouldn’t keep, we’d sell them. I’d have to go and get one and chop its head off and pluck it. No big deal.
GLADYS COLE, 74
Nokomis, Fla.
Gladys Cole, a retired teacher and insurance investigator in Nokomis, Fla., was born in the middle of the Depression and grew up in Hartford. Her father was a mechanical engineer at a dairy there; her mother ran the boarding house where they lived. That meant keeping the tenants in linens and trying to make the house attractive when buying new things was not a good option.
My mother never threw anything away. If a sheet got worn, she would cut it up and put it together with another sheet for the people who lived in the rooms - they didn’t care, they weren’t fussy about linens the way people are today. She mended towels, and when they frayed around the edges, she cut them up to make washcloths.
The sheets that got old and were worn out in the middle, they cut strips from the sides, narrow strips, and tied the ends together and put it on the loom and wove blankets. If they wanted color, they added narrow strips of fabric from old dresses.
You didn’t go to the store and buy clothing; you went to the 5-and-10-cent store, where you could buy fabric very inexpensively. You darned socks - you had a special little wooden ball you put inside the sock; you had cotton yarn. You could actually weave it so it didn’t show. You can’t do that today because the socks are synthetic; it doesn’t hold. My mother would make picture frames out of papier-mâché, and she cut pictures from the Sears catalog and then would make the frames to go around the pictures.
They recycled everything, I tell you, everything.
ANNA JANE NICHOLAS, 87
Oakmont, Pa.
Anna Jane Nicholas, a retired arts and antiques appraiser in Oakmont, Pa., was luckier than many: While by her estimate, the families of 40 percent of her schoolmates could not afford to buy them shoes, her own father, who worked for United States Steel in Gary, Ind., kept his job through the Depression. Still, her family was always very careful with money, and her mother made the family’s clothing and curtains herself, and even re-covered the dining room chairs. She would also line a wooden box on the back porch with burlap and leave dinner in it for migrants searching for work.
My mother would put food out there if she had an extra helping, then she would pull the blinds in the kitchen, because she didn’t want my brother and I to be watching. We discovered later there was a mark in the alley that indicated there was something on the back porch.
My mother was a big-hearted woman. If she had a dessert, she always put a dessert out there. Sometimes they’d leave little notes: ‘Thank you, Ma’am.’
One woman came along - I was surprised, it was usually men - she said, ‘Your gingerbread was lovely.’ She had some sort of piece of paper, it looked like a piece of a bag, just a few words, she said, ‘I always liked to bake gingerbread and your gingerbread was lovely.’
PETER G. HOLDEN, 92
New York
Peter Holden worked for the New York City parks department for 35 years and still lives in Manhattan. He grew up in Raleigh, N.C., where his mother took a job as a cleaning woman for North Carolina State University when he was 7, after the death of his father, a brick mason. Mr. Holden’s home had electricity, but no water; water had to be drawn from a neighbor’s well or hauled from a stream several houses away.
We lived high up on a hill above the southwestern campus, and we just worked together and shared. There was a great feeling of cooperation and help, even among the poor whites and the poor blacks. My grandfather had a farm and most any time he would come in, he would bring enough for two or three days - corn or tomatoes, whatever the season was - and we would share.
We ate beans maybe four times a week, boiled in salt pork. On Saturday or Sunday somehow or other we would have a nice meal. My mother would bring back a steak, that might have been 25 cents a pound. She was paid $8 or $9 a week, but at that time you could have more than a whole week’s groceries with that and have a little money left over.
She got laid off from the N.C. State job and there was just no jobs around Raleigh, so she went to Stamford - she had a sister living up there - and took my younger sister with her. I finished high school in 1934.
My mother always told us you can be anything you want, don’t come here telling me you can’t be this and they won’t let me be that.
That first year, I didn’t think I would be able to go to college, but my mother sent $10 from Stamford. She said, ‘Boy, you take this to St. Augustine’s and see if they don’t take this as a down payment, and if they don’t take it, you send my money back to me or I’ll come back to Raleigh and beat you all over.’
So I went out and tried to discourage St. Augustine’s, but they took me. I graduated college in 1938.
Like my mother said, if you really want to do something you can.

Here is a fogey quizz, you might need help from your grandparents.

Grandpa — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:07:45 -0800

Get paper & pencil & number from 1 to 20.

1. In the 1940s, where were automobile headlight dimmer switches located?
a. On the floor shift knob .
b. On the floor board, to the left of the clutch.
c. Next to the horn.

2. The bottle top of a Royal Crown Cola bottle had holes in it. For what was it used?
a. Capture lightning bugs.
b. To sprinkle clothes before ironing.
c. Large salt shaker.

3. Why was having milk delivered a problem in northern winters?
a. Cows got cold and wouldn't produce milk.
b. Ice on highways forced delivery by dog sled.
c. Milkmen left deliveries outside of front doors and milk would freeze, expanding and pushing up the cardboard bottle top.

4. What was the popular chewing gum named for a game of chance?
a. Blackjack
b. Gin
c. Craps

5. What method did women use to look as if they were wearing stockings when none were available due to rationing during WW II.
a. Suntan
b. Leg painting
c. Wearing slacks

6. What postwar car turned automotive design on its ear when you couldn't tell whether it was coming or going?
a. Studebaker
b. Nash Metro
c.. Tucker

7. Which was a popular candy when you were a kid?
a Strips of dried peanut butter.
b. Chocolate licorice bars.
c. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.

8. How was Butch wax used?
a. To stiffen a flat-top haircut so it stood up.
b. To make floors shiny and prevent scuffing.
c. On the wheels of roller skates to prevent rust.

9. Before inline skates, how did you keep your roller skates attached to your shoes?
a. With clamps, tightened by a skate key.
b. Woven straps that crossed the foot.
c. Long pieces of twine.

10. As a kid, what was considered the best way to reach a decision?
a. Consider all the facts.
b. Ask Mom.
c. Eeny-meeny-miney-mo.

11. What was the most dreaded disease in the 1940s and 1950s?
a. Smallpox
b. AIDS
c. Polio

12. 'I'll be down to get you in a ________, Honey'
a. SUV
b. Taxi
c. Streetcar

13 . What was the name of Caroline Kennedy's pony?
a. Old Blue
b. Paint
c. Macaroni

14. What was a Duck-and-Cover Drill?
a Part of the game of hide and seek.
b. What you did when your Mom called you in to do chores.
c. Hiding under your desk, and covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill.

15. What was the name of the Indian Princess on the Howdy Doody show?
a. Princess Summerfallwinterspring
b. Princess Sacajawea
c. Princess Moonshadow

17. Why did your Mom shop in stores that gave Green Stamps with purchases?
a. To keep you o ut of mischief by licking the backs, which tasted like bubble gum.
b. They could be put in special books and redeemed for various household items.
c. They were given to the kids to be used as stick-on tattoos.

18. Praise the Lord, & pass the _________?
a. Meatballs
b. D ames
c. Ammunition

19. What was the name of the singing group that made the song 'Cabdriver' a hit?
a. The Ink Spots
b. The Supremes
c. The Esquires

20. Who left his heart in San Francisco ?
a. Tony Bennett
b. Xavier Cugat
c. George Gershwin
------------------------------------------------------------

ANSWERS

1. (b) On the floor, to the left of the clutch. Hand controls, popular in Europe , took till the late '60's to catch on.

2. (b) To sprinkle clothes before ironing. Who had a steam iron?

3. (c) Cold weather caused the milk to freeze and expand, popping the bottle top.

4 . (a) Blackjack Gum.

5. (b) Special makeup was applied, followed by drawing a seam down the back of the leg with eyebrow pencil.

6. (a) 1946 Studebaker.

7. (c) Wax coke bottles containing super-sweet colored water..

8 (a) Wax for your flat top (butch) haircut.

9. (a) With clamps , tightened by a skate key, which you wore on a shoestring around your neck..

10. (c) Eeny-meeny-miney-mo.

11. (c) Polio. In beginning of August, swimming pools were closed, movies and other pub lic gathering places were closed to try to prevent spread of the disease.

12. (b) Taxi Better be ready by half-past eight!

13. (c) Macaroni.

14. (c) Hiding under your desk and covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill.

15. (a) Princess Summerfallwinterspring. She was another puppet.

16. (a) Immediately sniffed the purple ink to get a high.

17. (b) Put in a special stamp book, they could be traded for household items at the Green Stamp store.

18. (c) Ammunition, and we'll all be free.

19. (a) The widely famous 50's group: The Inkspots.

20. (a) Tony Bennett and he sounds just as good today.

SCORING

17- 20 correct: You are older than dirt and obviously gifted with mental abilities. Now if you could only find your glasses. Definitely someone who should share your wisdom!

12 -16 correct: Not quite dirt yet, but you're getting there..

0 -11 correct: You are not old enough to share the wisdom of your experiences. Now give it to your parents, and see how they do.; if they blow it try your grandparents

Hey Look! It is a Buttloaf!

cheekyredhead — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:36:12 -0700

Look! There is a buttloaf! Yep right there for everyone to see. Pointing and laughing is not beneath me and I do that every opportunity I can. Soon you will too.

Every day for months, I have sat in the parking lot waiting to pick up my daughter from high school and I have seen these teenage boys with their butts hanging out over the top of the pants. Now, I asked my daughter why they do this and she is just as mystified as I am. It is just strange. No wonder there are never pants that fit me in the store-these skinny teenage boys are wearing them safety pinned to t-shirts so the crotch is between their knees. They wobble like penguins across the parking lot.

When someone sees purposeful bizarre behavior it simply begs to be made fun of. On the way home I mentioned to my daughter that these boys with their hiney hanging out were simply hysterical. Those baggy and puffy boxers look like they have a loaf of bread stuffed in the back of their pants … or rather it is hanging out the back of those pants. Let’s face it … they have no butt so it may be an actual loaf of bread for all we know. It was at this moment that the term ”Buttloaf” was born!

The human female is subjected to all sorts of strange character affiliations based on all sorts of imagination. Who among us has heard the dreaded “muffin top” or the “camel toe” reference uttered … or cringed in fear at that thought? We all have had those nightmares due to mere whispers of “cottage cheese thighs” and the dreaded “chair-butt” syndrome. To be fair-when one is suffering from any of these afflictions it is usually out of ignorance or denial. It is rarely purposeful bizarre fashion disasters … unlike BUTTLOAF Boy!

There is buttloaf everywhere. It is hilarious to see a kid inflicted with ”Buttloaf Syndrome” trying to crawl into a hyped-up truck while trying to hold his pants up. Watching them on skate boards is a huge point and laugh moment. Today we saw two “Buttloaf” boys running to catch a bus. One lost his backpack while trying to get a hold onto his pants, the other fell as he could not get his leg into the bus as it was hampered by the crotch of his pants!

We all yelled “BUTTLOAF” and yes … it was hilarious! It is hysterically hilarious! Please explain it to me and we will quit pointing and laughing. At this point it became a game of “Find the Buttloaf” and while in a crowd, “Where is Buttloaf?” We played the game all day as we shopped for groceries, and did errands. Buttloaf is everywhere.

We had a wonderful day until we went and picked up my thirteen-year-old stepson. When he came out to the car we yelled “BUTTLOAF!” Why?
Because there he was-my sweet stepson and he has Buttloaf. He got really mad, and I was sincerely sorry that he was mad...but when ya got Buttloaf … that is a voluntary affliction. I am hoping that he will pull his pants up before he falls and breaks his nose...because that would not be funny. A big red nose and baggy pants ... hmmm … isn’t that a clown?
Seriously, I just hope it never goes there because I will have to laugh. Who wouldn’t?

Comply: NO COMPLY @ Beauty Bar Austin

Lorelei Spirit — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:07:54 -0700

Shawn is actually dragging me out tonight...

Comply: NO COMPLY

Remember back in those halcyon summer days, when kids with spike-swoop haircuts would sulk over to your house on their skateboards, kick-flipping the whole way, bangs covering everyone’s pot-reddened eyes, just to bask in your glory as Thrasher’s newly claimed “heir to the Hosoi throne”? Man, those were the days. The chicks, the sponsorships, the Jimmy Z woody, all the righteous goodness. Remember that?

No?

Of course not. That's probably because like the rest of us, you sucked massive balls on a board and have scars on your face to prove it. Speaking of proving things (and brilliant transitions!), it’s high time you broke out your gnawed-up Natas and showed today’s newschoolers how the Bones Brigade really found Animal Chin: embarrassed by your sick-sh*t ramp skills.

Tonight at Beauty Bar, you’ll get the opportunity to bust out your old moves, and reclaim a piece of treasured nostalgia or whatever it is that working folks try to reclaim when they get back out on a chipped board and wreck the universe. Or crack their pelvis.

Local skate suppliers NO COMPLY (owned by local skate pros Elias and Simon Bingham, and Jake Nunn) are teaming up with Adidas, Krew Clothing, Steaz, and musicians to bring you Team No Comply riding ramps, music for your ears, kickassness, more ramps, and then some ramps for you to bust your sweet ass on (if you are willing to sign a safety waiver, because you know what’ll happen). So there’ll be professionals skating, then some dudes from around the way skating, then perhaps YOU doing some skating, all in an environment of free-flowing music and booze. And Adidas.

Psychotropic DJs will be spinning between live music sets by Julian Decided and The Tunnels. Local photog legend Courtney Chavanell will be taking portraits so you’ll remember your moment of glory forever.

Yabble-mutherf*ckin’-dabble.

NO COMPLY
Thursday, September 27th
Beauty Bar, 617 E 7th
21+
10pm - 2am
$3 cover

The Coopers Are Having Sex

Beachwalker — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:01:38 -0800

The only way to pull off a Sunday afternoon 'quickie' with their 8-year old son in the apartment, was to send him out on the balcony with a Popsicle and tell him to report on all the neighborhood activities.

He began his commentary as his parents put their plan into operation:
'There's a car being towed from the parking lot,' he shouted.
'An ambulance just drove by!'
'Looks like the Andersons have company,' he called out.
'Matt's riding a new bike!'
'Looks like the Sanders are moving!'
'Jason is on his skate board....'
After a few moments he announced, 'The Coopers are having sex!!'
Startled, his mother and dad shot up in bed! Dad cautiously called out,
'How do you know they are having sex?'

'Jimmy Cooper is standing on his balcony with a Popsicle.'

Inspired Playoff Moments for the Flyers!

maisiegirl — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:26:28 -0700

I was thinking about what to post today as we wait for the puck to drop at Wachovia Center in Philadelphia tonight. The Flyers return home trailing in this series to the young, effervescent, playmaking Pittsburgh Penguins and need to find inspiration in some of their unforgettable playoff performances!

I love watching the young talent in Pittsburgh, but more than anything, I want to see a hard-fought, long series. I do not want the Pens or the Wings skating into the Finals having swept their opponents. I want battle scars, black-eyes, aching muscles, I want to see the eventual winners fighting tooth and nail to steal a win from their ice enemy.

This morning, ESPN correspondent David Amber posted some of his favorite playoff moments for the "Broad Street Bullies" and I thought how perfect this piece is for our group. Besides, Bizzy's gym in on Broad Street and I know the area well!!! Moreover, my desire for the playoffs to be surprising is the moment I am still waiting for, but at this point, the hockey Gods seem like they are smiling upon two teams that are shining and strong: Pittsburgh and Detroit.

I know, I know, our wonderful group of hockey-loving Sugars are passionate about their boys as I am about my AVS. So this post is not a slam against your loyalties, it is more about my wanting the games to be closer, to going six or seven games, to cracking at the limit, to heading into OT.

So may the Flyers reflect on some moments from the past and let them inspire their play! As famed, UCLA coach John Wooden says, "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. And, success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."

The Philadelphia Flyers' more than 300 playoff games have provided some unforgettable moments and individual performances that have defined the team and its legacy. We take a look at 10 of the greatest.

Top Playoff Games

10. May 23, 1997: Game 4, Eastern Conference finals vs. New York Rangers (3-2 win).
After knocking off both the Pittsburgh Penguins and Buffalo Sabres in five games, the Flyers met a veteran Rangers team led by Mark Messier and Wayne Gretzky. With Philadelphia holding a 2-1 series lead, the Flyers called on captain Eric Lindros to get a stranglehold on the series. With the score tied at 2 in the final seconds of regulation, the Big E beat Mike Richter for a power-play goal to win the game and lead the Flyers to a series win over the Rangers. This game would mark the pinnacle of postseason success for Lindros in Philadelphia. Lindros scored 12 playoff goals in 19 games that year, leading the Flyers to the Stanley Cup finals, where they were swept by the Red Wings.

9. May 11, 1989: Game 6, Wales Conference finals vs. Montreal (4-2 loss)
A bitter series against the top-seeded Montreal Canadiens hit a boiling point that led to one of the most infamous moments in Flyers playoff history. In Game 1, Chris Chelios hit Brian Propp into the boards with a high elbow. Propp suffered a head injury, left the ice on a stretcher and missed Game 2; Chelios wasn't penalized on the play. Ten days later, in Game 6, with the Habs just two minutes away from eliminating the Flyers, Ron Hextall charged out of his net on an offside and attacked an unsuspecting Chelios. The ensuing scrum saw a total of 37 minutes in penalties, including a five-minute attempting-to-injure match penalty to Hextall. Hextall's vigilante justice didn't go unnoticed by the league, which suspended him an additional 12 games to begin the next season. To add insult to injury, Chelios scored the series-clinching goal later in Game 6, the last playoff game the Flyers would play for six years.

8. May 6, 1976: Game 5, semifinals vs. Boston (6-3 win)
Reggie Leach followed his 61-goal regular season by scoring at least one goal in nine of the Flyers' first 11 playoff games that year. In one of those games, Toronto Maple Leafs center Darryl Sittler tied an NHL record by scoring five goals. Leach, not to be outdone, equaled that playoff record with his own five-goal game against the Bruins. Leach had Bruins goalie Gilles Gilbert at his mercy that night, scoring at will: low glove, from behind the net, 5-hole and on the backhand. Leach scored in all three periods, including a natural hat trick in a 15-minute span in the second period. It was one of the greatest playoff performances by a Flyer during one of the greatest individual streaks in league history. The Flyers won the game 6-3 and the series in six games. Though Philadelphia was swept by the Canadiens in the Stanley Cup finals, Leach earned playoff MVP honors and left his place in the NHL record books.

7. May 13, 1975: Game 7, semifinals vs. New York Islanders (4-1 win)
After winning the Cup a year earlier, the Flyers began the 1975 playoffs with seven straight wins, sweeping the Maple Leafs in the quarterfinals and going up 3-0 against the Islanders. Then things got interesting. The Islanders had just come back from a three-game deficit to shock the Penguins in seven and were now facing elimination against the Flyers. They fought back again. Philadelphia lost games 4, 5 and 6, scoring just five goals combined. Suddenly, the defending champion Flyers faced a one-game showdown, with a spot in the final on the line.

Philly wasted little time setting the tone, when Gary Dornhoefer scored just 19 seconds into the game. Two minutes later Rick MacLeish gave the Flyers a 2-0 lead. Philadelphia limited the Islanders to 15 shots on goal and survived a scare, winning 4-1. After the game, Islander goalie Glenn "Chico" Resch complained that anthem singer Kate Smith, who sent the Spectrum into a frenzy with her rendition of "God Bless America," threw him off his pregame routine. "She was singing right in my crease," Resch said. Smith boomed the anthem three more times that postseason, all before Flyers home wins, and Philadelphia won its second straight Stanley Cup.

6. April 11, 1989: Game 5, Patrick Division semifinals vs. Washington (8-5 win)
Leading by two goals, shorthanded with just a minute to play in the game, Ron Hextall made NHL history again. Two seasons earlier, Hextall had become the first NHL goalie to score by shooting the puck into the opposing net during a regular-season game. In this game, the enigmatic 24-year-old became the first NHL goalie ever to score a playoff goal. With Caps goalie Pete Peeters pulled, Hextall corralled a Scott Stevens dump-in behind his net and, from his goal line, rifled a high shot that landed at the far blue line and slid into the corner of the Capitals' empty net. Though he allowed four goals on the first 23 shots he faced, Hextall picked up the win and a place in the NHL record books. The Flyers beat the Caps in six games.

5. May 28, 1987: Game 6, Stanley Cup finals vs. Edmonton (3-2 win)
Facing elimination at home against the juggernaut known as the Edmonton Oilers, things were looking bleak for the Flyers early on. A Kevin Lowe shorthanded goal followed by a Kevin McClelland goal minutes later gave the Oilers a 2-0 lead just 15 minutes into the game. The intensity was building and things got chippy with seven roughing minors and four high-sticking penalties handed out in the first period. In the second period, rugged forward Lindsay Carson got the Flyers on the board, beating Grant Fuhr in the 5-hole. Then, with less than seven minutes left in the third period, a power-play goal by Brian Propp tied the game at 2.

With the crowd pumped up, the Flyers went on the attack. Less than two minutes after Propp's goal, J.J. Daigneault wired a shot from the point through a Scott Mellanby screen to give the Flyers a 3-2 lead. Ron Hextall then shut the door, making 30 saves to preserve the win and forcing a seventh and deciding game in Edmonton for the Stanley Cup. The Flyers lost Game 7 by a score of 3-1, but the comeback Game 6 by this injury-riddled underdog team, against the star-studded Oilers, is remembered as one of the most courageous efforts in team history.

4. May 9, 1974: Game 2, Stanley Cup finals vs. Boston (3-2 OT win)
Two nights earlier, the Flyers had been beaten by the talented and experienced Boston Bruins in their Stanley Cup finals debut. Most hockey experts thought nothing short of a miracle would permit the Flyers to wrestle the Stanley Cup away from a Bruins team led by Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito. In Game 2, Bobby Clarke elevated his play to cement his place as one of the game's all-time great leaders.

With the score tied at 2 in overtime and Philadelphia facing the prospect of trailing 2-0 in the series, Clarke took a pass from Bill Flett and backhanded the puck at the Bruins' net. Gilles Gilbert made the first save, but Clarke followed the rebound and on his forehand buried the game winner to tie the series at 1. Clarke's second goal of the game was arguably the most important one he ever scored in a Flyers uniform. His overtime celebratory leap left an indelible mark on Flyers fans and paved the way for the first Stanley Cup championship in Philadelphia.

3. May 4, 2000: Game 4, Eastern Conference semifinals vs. Pittsburgh (2-1 five OT win)
This, the most recent time the Flyers and Penguins met in the postseason, produced one of the most memorable games in playoff history. In the fifth overtime period, Keith Primeau, who had been scoreless in the series, made a rush down the boards, put a great fake on Darius Kasparaitis and beat Ron Tugnutt over his shoulder with a bullet wrist shot. Primeau's first career overtime playoff goal tied the series at two games and ended the third-longest game in NHL history. The Flyers carried the momentum and won the series in six games, despite the fact that the Penguins had won the first two games of the series in Philadelphia.

2. May 20, 1975: Game 3, Stanley Cup finals vs. Buffalo (5-4 loss)
Leading two games to none heading toward a second straight Stanley Cup title, the Flyers hit a wall -- a wall of fog. It was a warm spring night for Game 3 in Buffalo, a warmth that permeated the air throughout Buffalo Memorial Auditorium and created a heavy fog around the ice surface. Visibility was limited. Five goals were scored in the first period, including two by the Sabres on just six shots. The game went to overtime, where Rene Robert beat Bernie Parent, who couldn't find the puck through the fog. This game will forever be dubbed the Fog Game. Exactly one week later, back in Buffalo, Parent erased the Fog Game from everyone's memory by shutting out the Sabres 2-0 to win a second straight Stanley Cup for Philadelphia. Parent's playoff-record fifth shutout earned him a second straight Conn Smythe Trophy.

1. May 19, 1974: Game 6, Stanley Cup finals vs. Boston (1-0 win)
The 1974 finals pitted the Broad Street Bullies against a stacked Boston team that led the league in wins and boasted the NHL's top four scorers from the regular season, including Esposito and Orr. Still, the Flyers weren't intimidated. Led by the trio of Clarke, Bill Barber and Rick MacLeish, Philadelphia took a 3-1 series lead. The Bruins dominated in Game 5, winning at home 5-1, setting the stage for the series to return to Philly for Game 6.

The Bruins badly outplayed Philly in the first period, outshooting them 16-8. But late in the period, on the power play, MacLeish, a former Bruins draft pick, tipped a Moose Dupont shot past Gilles Gilbert to give the Flyers a 1-0 lead. On this night, one goal was enough, as Bernie Parent made save after save, 30 in total, keeping the league's highest-scoring team off the board. Parent earned playoff MVP honors as the Flyers became the first modern expansion team to win the Stanley Cup. Head coach Fred Shero became the toast of the town, and the players each earned a $15,000 playoff bonus for the title.

Semi-live blogging of the Pens-Flyers game!

ladypenguin — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:38:59 -0700

Hello Sugar hockey girls! Since I'm watching the game from home today, I thought I'd try out some (completely Penguins-biased) live updates of the game in progress. If you're watching, feel free to read along and jump in.

First up, sorry for the lack of posts on my end recently. I've been out of town, struggling with a cold and interviewing for a new job (which I'm still waiting to hear about).

We've got about a half an hour to the puck drops...woo hoo!

Pregame
I'm sooo glad the game's on NBC today. My cable package doesn't include Versus, so the last two games I had to watch on my hubby's laptop--he has a SlingBox set up at his parent's house in Indiana, so I watched the feed from their cable. It wasn't the ideal picture, but it worked.

Plus, a lot of talk here in Pittsburgh has been about how biased Versus's announcers have been toward the Flyers, even in games that the Pens dominated. I know hometown fans see things differently, and I don't think it's been quite as bad as some fans make it out to be, but it has been noticeable at times.

Plus there's the whole Comcast owns both Versus and the Flyers and is based in Philly thing.

LadyP's Keys to the Game
-Look for the Flyers to be stronger on the blueline with the return of Timmo Kimonen. Defenseman Braydon Coburn will still miss today's game.
-Evgeni Malkin and his linemates, Ryan Malone and Petr Sykora, need to step up today for the Penguins.
-The Flyers will want to keep the game physical and make the Penguins match them. At the same time, they'll need to stay out of the box.
-The Penguins' Jordan Staal had two goals in the third period in Game 4, a day after flying home to Thunder Bay, Ont., for his grandfather's funeral. Let's see if the 19-year-old can continue his strong performance this afternoon.

3 p.m. and the NBC coverage begins. They just said faceoff will actually be at 3:20 p.m. so we've still got some time.

NBC just showed a stat that the only two teams to lose a series after being up 3-0 were the Red Wings (1942) and the Penguins (1975). Thanks NBC.

Mike Milbury is still in Detroit, so he won't be between the benches today (big from me on that one!)

Wait, who is that interviewing Timomen??? Looks like Mike Milbury inside the Mellon Arena to me!

On the commercial side of things, I'm putting the over-under on those ridiculous Edge Shave Gel commercials at 15. Place your bets now.

First Period
Here we go! Things are sounding loud with the towels waving inside the arena.

Pens win the opening draw and get the first shot of the game.

Wow, this entire game is sponsored by Edge Shave Gel. That's the second in-game segment sponsored by the shave gel. Plus the logo seems permanently imprinted up in the top right corner of the screen.

Penalty Flyers...and wow that was quick! The puck directs off of Ryan Malone's skate and into the net. You know they're reviewing that one.

And it's a goal. Malone from Crosby and Hossa. Penguins 1, Flyers 0

Ooo, lucky bounce there for the Penguins. The Flyers' Jeff Carter threw a puck off the board behind Fleury that almost hit off the goaltender and into the goal.

A lot of back and forth action so far in this game. It seems very quick moving, with some good chances for both teams.

Whoa. Biron went behind the net for the puck and got tangled up at the boards with Ryan Malone. The goalie had to leave his stick and get back in net, which allowed Malkin to poke the puck past him. Penguins 2, Flyers 0

Flyers Scott Hartnell gets sent off for tripping up Fleury behind the goal. The replay shows he took out his legs with his stick behind the knees.

The Flyers kill off the penalty.

The Penguins' Laraque and the Flyers' Hatcher shout at each other, but don't drop the gloves. Still, it revs up the crowd even more.

First penalty on the Penguins: a hooking call on Ryan Whitney. The Flyers get a power play chance, but fail to score.

End of period. Penguins 2, Flyers 0

First Intermission
By my count, there have been six Edge Shave Gel commercials so far. (I count the Eclipse and Energy as separate commercials, even though they are usually played back to back).

The Penguins really dominated play in the first period. Such a turnaround from their first period in Game 4.

I'm definitely jealous of my brother for having the tickets to the game today...seeing the arena on TV with the crowd so crazy makes me really wish I was there. I missed Game 5 in the Rangers series too, since I was out of town.

Second Period
Ryan Malone got called for high sticking at the end of the first period, so the Flyers will start with a power play on fresh ice. (Not too sure about the call, but those things usually even themselves out.)

The Penguins kill the penalty. Dupuis and Talbot had a chance shorthanded at the end.

Whew. Great save by Fleury there! That was a good scoring chance for the Flyers.

Russia's Aleksey Morozov (in the form of my orange tabby) has now joined in on the live blogging:

Just in time for another Penguins goal!!! Hossa from Crosby and Talbot. Penguins 3, Flyers 0

The Flyers go on another power play, but not for long. Jordan Staal wins the faceoff and then gets pulled down. Four-on-four.

Just after the penalties end, Jeff Carter trips up Evgeni Malkin. Power play Pittsburgh.

Goal! Crosby and Malone deflect a Sergei Gonchar slapshot. Penguins 4, Flyers 0

You can tell the Flyers are frustrated. A couple plays in the last couple of minutes probably could have been called penalties on them.

After taking a closer look at the Pens last goal, they credit Malone with his second of the game.

To quote myself, "Woo!" Jordan Staal charges the front of the net and chips one in. Penguins 5, Flyers 0

The Flyers appear to get their first goal, but the official waves it off. For some reason, they don't even go to video review and the period ends.

End of Period. Penguins 5, Flyers 0

Second Intermission
My count on Edge Shave Gel commercials is up to 8. Not sure if I missed any there...I was busy typing during most of the breaks.

Obviously the Penguins continued to dominate that period. The Flyers will pretty much need a miracle to come back in the third. The Pens have played some pretty good shut down hockey in the third when they have a lead.

Eddie Olzyyk (who seems to be in a pretty bad mood), former Penguins coach and NBC announcer, tries to pretend to be the Flyers coach and offer a logical way that the Flyers can win this game. His colleagues aren't buying it.

Third Period
NBC explains the Flyers non-goal wasn't reviewable because officials deemed a Flyer had prevented Fleury from playing the puck (a call Red Wings fans are familiar with, though in this case it looked like a good call).

Yikes! Hossa's shot (which may or may not have been deflected by Dupuis) finds its way into the goal. Penguins 6, Flyers 0

The traditional "Go home Flyers" chant begins at Mellon Arena.

The Penguins' sixth goal is credited to Pascal Dupuis.

Mellon Arena: "Nananana, Nananana, Hey Hey, Good-bye"

I'm starting to get butterflies. Stanley Cup Finals, baby!!!

Fleury made a couple more big saves.

The Penguins just aren't stopping. It might be more about keeping the Flyers off the scoreboard than scoring at this point, but they're still getting chances. I'm kind of surprised (but impressed) that the Flyers haven't resorted to starting fights.

Power play for the Flyers.

One minute to go.

End of Game. Penguins 6, Flyers 0.

Postgame
First up, let's give credit to the Flyers for a great season. They were at the bottom of the standings a year ago. They play in undoubtedly the toughest division in the Eastern Conference. They came a long way. And like I said a few minutes ago, they took this loss with respect on the ice.

Now let me put my Penguins hat back on.... Beating the Flyers makes this even sweeter for Penguins fans. I really wish I was at the arena right now.

Congratulations to Fleury on the shutout. The Penguins obviously controlled this whole game, but Fleury still made some huge saves.

Sidney Crosby accepts the Prince of Wales trophy without touching the thing.

Someone in my neighborhood is setting off fireworks.

Thanks for reading along guys...can't wait to find out who we'll be playing! The Red Wings and Stars play Game 6 tomorrow in Dallas.

Oh, and I'm going with a final count of 10 on those Edge Shave Gel commercials.