Came home today, checked my mailbox for mail, and pulled out the junk-mail -- some jerk tore off the "No Junk Mail, Please" sticker I had stuck on the box. (I've been too lazy to replace the label. Hey, it takes a lot of effort to pull out a marker pen, a piece of paper...)
Included within the pile of paper junk was a flyer for Canadian Tire (a big retail chain here in Canada, with an emphasis on automotive stuff, and hardware; but they sell just about everything, it seems). While I sat down and enjoyed my 'come-down coffee' I leafed through the mini-magazine, enjoying the ads for things I cannot afford -- even though a lot of items appear to me to be very reasonably priced. One such advert caught my attention: "Replica hockey pucks." Oh, as opposed to "non-replica hockey pucks"? Look, it's a hockey puck or it's not a hockey puck. After that blip, I notice the puck ad is in a little, bottom-of-the-page section titled, "Complete Your Game With The Right Accessories". What? A hockey puck is hardly an "accessory". I've played ice hockey, I know. A "toque" is an accessory! A puck is not!
That ice hockey "accessory" hit me in the face once. I needed stitches. Then I became a man.
(What Woody Allen film has the line, "I need a Valium the size of a hockey puck!"? It's a very funny line, delivered by the man himself.)
2 comments:
I suspect the "game" they're referring to is the pastime of collecting hockey stuff, not actually playing with it. Most of those replica pucks likely won't leave a display case...
Yeah, I admit I was acting stupid; which I'm really good at. What I will do for my art....
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