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First things first.
Now that the annoyingly noisy contraption is out of the way, we have a situation to attend to.
Not so long ago, one of our enterprising GDTers, Sandviper, decided to apply his creative and technical skills to converting a Seinfeld episode into a Habs spoof. He went through a lot of trouble but essentially, turned all of our favorite Seinfeld characters into Habs staff.
It looked something like this:
Looked like a well-intended, light hearted, harmless concept at the time.
Except ... he forgot to get permission from the Seinfeld folks.
And so, Seinfeld show rightsholders found out and decided they were going to dispatch George to exact payback. George used his architect alter ego and struck at the first GDT he could get his hands on and claimed this Donghabs artwork for himself ...
"Behold the fluid design concept proprietatry to Vandelay Industries!", bragged George.
It didn't end there. He also transposed Donghabs's artwork elsewhere ...
"Claude? Claude? Who da hell is Claude? It's George, dammit!"
Undeterred, Sandviper published another Habs spoof recently using someone else's video segment and is planning on yet another. Same game plan. No permission, no prior dealings, no compensation.
Luckily, we were able to find this review by Sandviper, offering a clear leaning for his next project. He wrote this about the new movie, Ford v. Ferrari:
We dug up the internets to see where he was at in his production progress. This time though, the movie's rightsholders intercepted the work even before completion and added a message ...
Now that the Sandviper saga has been exposed, we turn to yet another fantastical epic tale, that of @Jaffy 27 and the Kabana.
Several posters brought up the infamous incident over the weekend for some reason and it all had to do with a post by Jaffy in a game thread from a while back, which read like this:
It all started when several posters were wandering off as the game was essentially boring, the season was in a tailspin and posters were looking for distractions. Jaffy had started to razz on Subban over several posts, first comparing him to a pylon, then how Subban had chickened out and not hit Plekanec and finally, saying how Subban was turtling in front of his own net.
Predictably, some posters called Jaffy on his Subban attacks and made them personal. We can't see them as they were edited out. Fortunately, Jaffy's reply to one of those attacks, survived -- which is the above post.
The whole thing happened on Feb. 10, 2018: GDT: - A well managed team (NSH) vs A *insert word* managed team (MTL) 2/10/18 7:00pm EST SN, City, TSN 690
What also stands out about Jaffy's post is how several acknowledged that it was going to be memorable at the time it was made and it did produce its lot of jokes within the thread itself. All of a sudden, several of us were making Romanian-themed jokes. A notable comebacker came from W3K:
And then came the PGT, where you guessed it, Romanian references were on full display: Post-Game Talk: - Rinne Stymies Habs Romanian-Style in a Shootout, 3-2
If you look at the OP of the above link, I reprised the best and most hilarious poster reactions to Jaffy's post. It'll provide a flavor of what it was like to post in that thread, saving you from having to read several pages.
There had been this photo of Gallagher viewing an iPad during the game, which of course had a Romanian rationale behind it:
Evidently, most of the PGT was a bonanza of Romanian GF fawning and a variety of references. One poster asked the Mods if he could change his name to "Romanian Girlfriend." A guy.
We had noticed during the GDT that Jaffy had stopped posting. We found out in the PGT that he hadn't even seen the avalanche of responses he had caused -- he had to leave to drive his daughter to a party and had to drive back cause he forgot to drop off wine. He said he didn't want to read the GDT, he had no energy lol. This is where he also revealed that his daughter is Czech, that his then GF was Polish and basically, the Romanian GF was all part of an Eastern Block offensive.
In the PGT, the three stars of the game were awarded. Predictably ...
The story didn't end there. Over time, Jaffy offered other details saying that his Romanian GF "Violeta" had her "boules refaites". Basically, she had breast augmentation surgery done. Why we should have been made aware of this, I don't know but it's right there in past posts.
We ended up looking further into the "Cabana", the infamous restaurant/night joint in Brossard where the Romanian incident had occurred. It was really spelled "Kabana" and looked like this:
Not surprisingly, one of the best pics of its frontage involved police cars. Turns out someone got stabbed inside the Kabana when the above pic was taken. For the record, the restaurant is now closed.
Looking at user comments from several review sites, one individual mentioned how Habs players frequented the Kabana. The interior looked luxurious, so it's not a stretch to imagine the type of clientele it attracted:
Of course, we located some past ads of the Kabana and this spoof was born:
The quotes in green print used in the spoof, were actual Kabana customer reviews: Restaurant Bar Kabana (Now Closed) - 6000 Boulevard de Rome
"Y'a dla poule dans le coin" translates loosely to "there are hot chicks in the joint."
There was a seedy nature to the place. One client got stabbed at the Kabana, another warned of potentially getting stabbed if you went there. The Kabana was reminiscent of this infamous Yelp review:
A parking sign meme was added for good measure:
So what was the Kabana? A restaurant by day that turned into a cruising bar on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights and featured top DJs. And the girls serving drinks were super sexy.
Basically, our friend Jaffy took his then GF to a pick up joint.
Is it any wonder that what happened, happened?
And now you're fully caught up on the Romanian GF saga.
Now that the annoyingly noisy contraption is out of the way, we have a situation to attend to.
Not so long ago, one of our enterprising GDTers, Sandviper, decided to apply his creative and technical skills to converting a Seinfeld episode into a Habs spoof. He went through a lot of trouble but essentially, turned all of our favorite Seinfeld characters into Habs staff.
It looked something like this:
Looked like a well-intended, light hearted, harmless concept at the time.
Except ... he forgot to get permission from the Seinfeld folks.
And so, Seinfeld show rightsholders found out and decided they were going to dispatch George to exact payback. George used his architect alter ego and struck at the first GDT he could get his hands on and claimed this Donghabs artwork for himself ...
"Behold the fluid design concept proprietatry to Vandelay Industries!", bragged George.
It didn't end there. He also transposed Donghabs's artwork elsewhere ...
"Claude? Claude? Who da hell is Claude? It's George, dammit!"
Undeterred, Sandviper published another Habs spoof recently using someone else's video segment and is planning on yet another. Same game plan. No permission, no prior dealings, no compensation.
Luckily, we were able to find this review by Sandviper, offering a clear leaning for his next project. He wrote this about the new movie, Ford v. Ferrari:
We dug up the internets to see where he was at in his production progress. This time though, the movie's rightsholders intercepted the work even before completion and added a message ...
Now that the Sandviper saga has been exposed, we turn to yet another fantastical epic tale, that of @Jaffy 27 and the Kabana.
Several posters brought up the infamous incident over the weekend for some reason and it all had to do with a post by Jaffy in a game thread from a while back, which read like this:
It all started when several posters were wandering off as the game was essentially boring, the season was in a tailspin and posters were looking for distractions. Jaffy had started to razz on Subban over several posts, first comparing him to a pylon, then how Subban had chickened out and not hit Plekanec and finally, saying how Subban was turtling in front of his own net.
Predictably, some posters called Jaffy on his Subban attacks and made them personal. We can't see them as they were edited out. Fortunately, Jaffy's reply to one of those attacks, survived -- which is the above post.
The whole thing happened on Feb. 10, 2018: GDT: - A well managed team (NSH) vs A *insert word* managed team (MTL) 2/10/18 7:00pm EST SN, City, TSN 690
What also stands out about Jaffy's post is how several acknowledged that it was going to be memorable at the time it was made and it did produce its lot of jokes within the thread itself. All of a sudden, several of us were making Romanian-themed jokes. A notable comebacker came from W3K:
And then came the PGT, where you guessed it, Romanian references were on full display: Post-Game Talk: - Rinne Stymies Habs Romanian-Style in a Shootout, 3-2
If you look at the OP of the above link, I reprised the best and most hilarious poster reactions to Jaffy's post. It'll provide a flavor of what it was like to post in that thread, saving you from having to read several pages.
There had been this photo of Gallagher viewing an iPad during the game, which of course had a Romanian rationale behind it:
Evidently, most of the PGT was a bonanza of Romanian GF fawning and a variety of references. One poster asked the Mods if he could change his name to "Romanian Girlfriend." A guy.
We had noticed during the GDT that Jaffy had stopped posting. We found out in the PGT that he hadn't even seen the avalanche of responses he had caused -- he had to leave to drive his daughter to a party and had to drive back cause he forgot to drop off wine. He said he didn't want to read the GDT, he had no energy lol. This is where he also revealed that his daughter is Czech, that his then GF was Polish and basically, the Romanian GF was all part of an Eastern Block offensive.
In the PGT, the three stars of the game were awarded. Predictably ...
The story didn't end there. Over time, Jaffy offered other details saying that his Romanian GF "Violeta" had her "boules refaites". Basically, she had breast augmentation surgery done. Why we should have been made aware of this, I don't know but it's right there in past posts.
We ended up looking further into the "Cabana", the infamous restaurant/night joint in Brossard where the Romanian incident had occurred. It was really spelled "Kabana" and looked like this:
Not surprisingly, one of the best pics of its frontage involved police cars. Turns out someone got stabbed inside the Kabana when the above pic was taken. For the record, the restaurant is now closed.
Looking at user comments from several review sites, one individual mentioned how Habs players frequented the Kabana. The interior looked luxurious, so it's not a stretch to imagine the type of clientele it attracted:
Of course, we located some past ads of the Kabana and this spoof was born:
The quotes in green print used in the spoof, were actual Kabana customer reviews: Restaurant Bar Kabana (Now Closed) - 6000 Boulevard de Rome
"Y'a dla poule dans le coin" translates loosely to "there are hot chicks in the joint."
There was a seedy nature to the place. One client got stabbed at the Kabana, another warned of potentially getting stabbed if you went there. The Kabana was reminiscent of this infamous Yelp review:
A parking sign meme was added for good measure:
So what was the Kabana? A restaurant by day that turned into a cruising bar on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights and featured top DJs. And the girls serving drinks were super sexy.
Basically, our friend Jaffy took his then GF to a pick up joint.
Is it any wonder that what happened, happened?
And now you're fully caught up on the Romanian GF saga.
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