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I'm picturing the Cup tumbling down the conveyor belt along with all the other baggage..
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I don't usualy do this but you have just won the funniest prase of the day contest. But don't hold your breath, it is only 12:40AM.

/Central Time Zone

Goodfella

Yeah, but Brando set up the whole thing.

I once worked for a company that built a fake one for tv commercials. The shipper, which may have been Air Canada, I don't remember, managed to destroy it. We had to rush out some replacement parts for it. I think the shoot was for Molson.

There are rules, of course, about how accurate a replica can be before you'll get sued. It only looked real on tv.

I hate to be "that guy", but on sweet Baby Jebus and All Angels, truly, I did submit this story with a headline that tears 8 different kinds of ass on this one.

/risking banninationizationnesslessness

In other news, I hope NHL locks out. Memo to NHL: about 4 in 100 [American] sports fans cares about your little pasttime. When WNBA playoffs, Arena Football, and Fat Old Men ERRRRRRRRRRRRRR "The Champions' Tour" PGA Golf can each individualy outdraw your "sport", your sport = gay.

Here's a link to some of the misfortunes the cup has been through.Hope it works href="http://www.geocities.com/szczepanczyk/stanley.html">clicky!

/geocities sux

I wonder if the cup would have been allowed on as hand luggage or if that is classed as a weapon :)

Hey look!...I dont know html.....

/doh!

Wanted for questioning:

/obscure?

WD Untrustworthy. If only we were a-votin.

hitmanric

Hey look!...I dont know html.....
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Am I the only person aware of this "Preview before post" feature??? You would think more people would use it, like BillyTheCondescendingSheepherder for his image links. But since I STILL don't have HTML back I guess I don't need it.

Funny. First thing that ran through my head when I read the headline was, "What? The Stanley Cup?"

Stanley Cup is insured for $75,000, but for so many, spending a summer or a day or a moment with arguably the most cherished trophy in sport is, to steal a phrase from a credit card commercial, priceless.

I read somewhere that the Stanley Cup is valued at about $3 million.

Don't worry Crosshair, I lost my HTML'ing skillz for 30 days back in 2002 (god I'm showing my age).

This is nothing compared to the Nickel Trophy rivalry between UND and NDSU The trophy is a 75lb Buffalo Nickle. I got to "pump the Nickel" once, almost broke my toes when I tried to set it down.

Funnier still is the tradition of trying to steal the Nickel. The last time I remember it was by a group of students that went James Bond to get it. They had two lookouts. The other 2 dressed as janitors, snuck into the building with fake work orders, disabled the alarm system, picked the lock, and made off with the 75 lb Nickel without anyone noticing. The story was front page news in the local paper.

does it get taller and taller per year? Do they slap on a new base when the name area gets too small?

/non-hockey fan. Go.....Volleyball!

SerovaJoe

No, they only replace the bottom ring now. When that gets filled up, it comes off and goes to the Hockey Hall of Fame, and a new ring gets put on.

Reminds me of a certain animal from a certain animated series

SerovaJoe

From the Geocities Link

The rings that comprise the base of the Cup are eventually retired to make room for new teams. Older rings are retired to the Hockey Hall of Fame (before we start calling it The Stanley Missile) where all but one of the original rings remain. (One legend says that that missing ring was stolen by a Canadien who melted it into a trophy for Montreal coach Toe Blake. That ring was supposedly targeted because it had the names of the 1929-30 Boston Bruins.)

rosenburger - WD Untrustworthy. If only we were a-votin.

All I ask is for your vote of confidence.

/nuthin.

Can someone PLEASE photoshop a 20ft Stanly Cup. I want to see the "Stanly Missle"

Thanks you guys. Hell, you two shoudl be answering questions over at GA.

Can Air Canada do anything right? The sooner the government and banks stop supporting that piece of crap, the better.

untrustworthy: groovy photoshop.
rickythepenguin: W-T-F?!?!?!?!?! What the frick do the Americans' ignorant lack of interest in hockey have anything the fark do to with the OBVIOUS fact that all the other sports you blathered on about are so SHAMELESSLY freaking GAY compared to hockey. (And you better not freaking disagree with me!)
Hockey is farking Nirvana, and I'm not referring to that crapola grunge band, either.

Wellllll, I GUESS you can disagree with me, but you're a 'connoisseur of poo' if you choose to.

THE STANLEY MISSILE!



/I can't believe I'm doing requests...

Vertiginous!

("sshh- it's only a model")

It's been lost since 1993!
It nearly came home this year, but tragically, it did not.


One things for sure, regardless of any exhibition games, gold (that really counts) will be returning here shortly.

It's a bird.
It's a plane.


It's super mario

Untrustworthy...oh, you chose such an appropriate name.

It was not lost. Somebody from the airline stole it and it will be on ebay in a couple of days.

Oh, this is American football, I thought this was about real football...

/no relevance whatsoever, but what's a sport thread without some Euro trash whininess?

LEAFS SUCK!

/just in case anyone didn't already know.

If Air Canada can't even get the Stanley Cup from one side of the country to the other without Farking it up, then our luggage is pretty much screwed.

The most important non-religious artifact in Canada

What important religious artifacts does Canada have?

STAAAAANLEEEY!!!!

WTF are they saying "non-religious object"?

The cup is *the* most religious artifact in Canada.

Fort St John makes Fark!

http://www.northeasttimes.com/2004/0520/cup.html


some bits from said linkage

The Stanley Cup weighs 32 pounds and stands 35 inches tall, with a 54-inch circumference.
Stanleys original bowl, currently residing inside the Hockey Hall of Fame, measures 7 inches high and more than 11 inches in diameter

Forgot who asked about this:

Chris Nilan, who won the Stanley Cup with the Canadiens in 1986, had his infant son baptized in the cups bowl.


And my presonal fave:

Perhaps the player with the most disregard for the dignity of the Stanley Cup was Mark Messier. A five-time cup winner, Messier accompanied the cup to adult nightclubs in and around Edmonton and New York.

in a related story: "Scientists Discover Some People Believe Canada Has Important Artifacts."

The RevHairless

And my presonal fave:

Perhaps the player with the most disregard for the dignity of the Stanley Cup was Mark Messier. A five-time cup winner, Messier accompanied the cup to adult nightclubs in and around Edmonton and New York.

They make it sound like the cup wanted to go to the club and Messier just "went along". Lord Stanley liked lapdances I heard...

untrustworthy

Thanks for the PS, that made my day.

Hey, just make sure they get it back for the next season in 2007

Syberpud

Lord Stanley liked lapdances I heard...



Well, who doesn't?!?!?!