Remember? (Random Bruins Related Junk)

[McGarnagle]

Remember the Shawmut Center?

CMGI Field.

 

[smithformeragent]

CMGI Field.

Sophomore year in economics class, I bought so much fake stock in CMGI due to them getting the naming rights for the stadium.

 

[TP]

I know @Boston Bruno and I were regulars on the boston.com bruins chat board. We had many good times and fights with visitors.

Anyone on there in the late 90's/early 2000s?

 

[smithformeragent]

I know @Boston Bruno and I were regulars on the boston.com bruins chat board. We had many good times and fights with visitors.

Anyone on there in the late 90's/early 2000s?

I was RolstonRules

 

[Don Cherry]

I know @Boston Bruno and I were regulars on the boston.com bruins chat board. We had many good times and fights with visitors.

Anyone on there in the late 90's/early 2000s?

I was a frequent flyer there as well as the ESPN board. No "Big Bad Bruins" alumni here? I know of three or four for sure that are here.

 

[Boston Bruno]

I know @Boston Bruno and I were regulars on the boston.com bruins chat board. We had many good times and fights with visitors.

Anyone on there in the late 90's/early 2000s?

I don't know you. Drink too much Zima before you posted?

 

[GordonHowe]

Reminds me of some more KPD nicknames:

Let 'em in Lacher
Surfin' John Blue
And who remembers the player that had "the amazing technicolor 5 hole"

And not a nickname, but when a guy has a 0-0-0 line, he still occasionally refers to it as "the full Thornton", a reference to that forgettable series right before the lockout where Thornton toughed it out out with torn rib cartilage and wasn't able to produce in the 7 games.

That might have been the series where Dupes wrote the scathing article the morning of game 7 about the fact that Thornton should be stripped of his captaincy. The catalyst was the fact that he didn't speak to the media after game 6. Love Dupes, but I still ****es me off.

OT: "The Lachness Monster" became "Let 'em In Lacher." Throw him away, not interesting anymore. Next!

And Thornton should be "stripped of his captaincy." Not because he had a poor series, but because he wouldn't meet with prick media types like KPD. How dare he?

I always hated DuPont. Still do.

 

[GordonHowe]

Remember the Shawmut Center?

Remember "the Fleece Center"?

 

[GordonHowe]

I know @Boston Bruno and I were regulars on the boston.com bruins chat board. We had many good times and fights with visitors.

Anyone on there in the late 90's/early 2000s?

I posted, though not under this moniker. No mods, I'm sure.

 

[smithformeragent]

I posted, though not under this moniker. No mods, I'm sure.

Sounds like paradise honestly.

 

[GordonHowe]

Sounds like paradise honestly.

That depends on your definition of paradise. A verbal knife fight in the alley or relatively civil discourse? I prefer the latter, but that's me.

 

[smithformeragent]

That depends on your definition of paradise. A verbal knife fight in the alley or relatively civil discourse? I prefer the latter, but that's me.

This is the crux of what I’ve been teaching in Civics lately. The delicate balance between liberty and order.

 

[McGarnagle]

Sophomore year in economics class, I bought so much fake stock in CMGI due to them getting the naming rights for the stadium.

Good job, good effort.

 

[BMC]

Yep. I was mod for a short time around these parts.



I’m not sure but they were fun.

Anybody remember the old message board on the Bruins site?

I do. It was the Wild, Wild West in there, much tougher crowd than here

 

[BMC]

Does anyone remember the old "Big Bad Bruins" board? I think that one was maybe five years before this one. It was kind of rowdy and I think totally unmoderated. Lots of fun, however.

you mean the old bb.com? You bet I remember that place. I "met" a lot of people who eventually made their way over here

 

[BMC]

I know @Boston Bruno and I were regulars on the boston.com bruins chat board. We had many good times and fights with visitors.

Anyone on there in the late 90's/early 2000s?

Yup- me, @Lady Rhian, @WickedBruinsGirl to name a few. Damn that place was wild!

 

[Don Cherry]

you mean the old bb.com? You bet I remember that place. I "met" a lot of people who eventually made their way over here

Nope. This was Big Bad Bruins. I know there's at least five of us here.

 

[aguineapig]

He only had a cup of coffee but Richie LeDuc had cooler hair and stache than Derek. Remember watching Don Kirschner's Rock Concert and Guess Who singer [Burton Cummings?] had on an Orr jersey. And Richie had cooler hair than him too.

 

[Don Cherry]

He only had a cup of coffee but Richie LeDuc had cooler hair and stache than Derek. Remember watching Don Kirschner's Rock Concert and Guess Who singer [Burton Cummings?] had on an Orr jersey. And Richie had cooler hair than him too.

I think there was a Rich Leduc with the Nordiques back in the early-mid 80s. Same one?

 

[Si Hopkins]

I know @Boston Bruno and I were regulars on the boston.com bruins chat board. We had many good times and fights with visitors.

Anyone on there in the late 90's/early 2000s?

I didn't get to the Boston.com board until 2005 and was a regular until 07 or so when it mostly died. It was pretty crazy. I remember people complaining wildly about HFboards as a place for snobs. I think back then you had to ask to be let in to HFboards?

 

[aguineapig]

Richie Leduc played with Gretz in Indy after jumping to WHA. Scored a goal and The Great One registered his first pro point with assist. Played with No'diques in maiden NHL season netting 21 goals

 

[GordonHowe]

This is the crux of what I’ve been teaching in Civics lately. The delicate balance between liberty and order.

You are a high school teacher? And you teach civics?

If so, OT: Let's talk.

My impression has been that American high schools no longer teach civics, which (to me) amounts to societal suicide. I very much hope the pendulum is swinging back the other way.

 

[smithformeragent]

You are a high school teacher? And you teach civics?

If so, OT: Let's talk.

My impression has been that American high schools no longer teach civics, which (to me) amounts to societal suicide. I very much hope the pendulum is swinging back the other way.

We can take this to the OT thread, but the school I teach at is US History based. The students are required to take five credits in history/social studies to graduate. I teach US History and Civics. By comparison, at the traditional public school, they need 2.5 credits in social studies.

 

[GordonHowe]

We can take this to the OT thread, but the school I teach at is US History based. The students are required to take five credits in history/social studies to graduate. I teach US History and Civics. By comparison, at the traditional public school, they need 2.5 credits in social studies.

I see. Can someone point us (or me) to the appropriate OT thread, or must I create one?

Any help appreciated.

 

[smithformeragent]

I see. Can someone point us (or me) to the appropriate OT thread, or must I create one?

Any help appreciated.

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