"Kiwi Gill" wrote: "manish" wrote just putting it out there Wot? Again? All right.... stick...it....over....there....please....thankyou..... Oi - not there - you're crushing me jelly sangwitch Put it on the table please ! -- The Canadian Curmudgeon (in Calgary) End global warming ~ eliminate the cause ~ Gore Suzuki !

...: Mudge wrote: Think what a ton of bricks would do to the bleeding fire exits - can't have that now, can we ??? These are hypothetical bricks Mudgyboy. The word was 'like' a ton of bricks. But, them hypotherietical bricks can still make one helluva pile so they can. -- The Canadian Curmudgeon (in Calgary) End global warming ~ eliminate the cause ~ Gore Suzuki !

...way way way over there please, out of the way? Thankyou... He can't leave it there cos it will impede the fire exits. Health and Safety will be down on us like a ton of bricks. Think what a ton of bricks would do to the bleeding fire exits - can't have that now, can we ??? -- The Canadian Curmudgeon (in Calgary) End global warming ~ eliminate the cause ~ Gore Suzuki !

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... countries world-wide. Once again you yanks hijack a word in common usage and misuse it for something idiotic. You have an interesting definition of "Yanks" here that apparently includes Canadians. Or perhaps you missed that the N in NHL means Canada, and not the US? "N" stands for Canada and not "USA" - how could I have missed that...

..., Toronto St. Patricks, Ottawa Senators, and Hamilton Tigers in 1924. The "nation" involved is Canada, but Canadian teams have been in the minority since 1926, when three American teams joined and made it six American and four Canadian. (Yes, there were teams before the "Original Six", only two of which (Montreal and Toronto) have actually ...

... World Cup. It seems the Rugby World Cup will do, too -- as far as I can tell, their qualification process is at least superficially similar to that of the FIFA World Cup. None of American, Canadian, Australian, or Gaelic football has an event called "World Cup," so I couldn't possibly be referring to any of those. OK, so I only had two choices - my question was warrented. ;-)

... to attract spectators elsewhere). MLB (baseball) and the NHL (hockey) both have extensive networks of minor league teams for developing young players post-high school. At the high-school level, the NHL also has an extensive network of junior leagues for Canadian players of that age, though the other sports (including hockey, with some exceptions, in the US) rely on high school teams.

.... What/which football world cup? Association football, as in FIFA World Cup. It seems the Rugby World Cup will do, too -- as far as I can tell, their qualification process is at least superficially similar to that of the FIFA World Cup. None of American, Canadian, Australian, or Gaelic football has an event called "World Cup," so I couldn't possibly be referring to any of those.

... 30 teams are now based in the US). Historically, of course, the NHL was about 80%% Canadian and 20%% American, but starting in the 1980s players started coming over from Europe. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the number of European players skyrocketed. Nowadays, as I recall, Canadians make up roughly 60%% of the NHL, Americans 15%%, and Europeans 25%%. For several years, ...