taste-testing blog: May 2014

Oh, they're so proud now,

those Canadiens -

they're so proud!

And yet - they've accomplished absolutely nothing.

But that's another story...

Yeah, really...

Because, here, today,

on our ever-popular

ever-reliable

and ever-amusing

taste-testing blog

we aim only to assess

what the true nature of being Canadian

(or a Canadien - same thing, right?)

is aaaaaaaaall about...!

In order to do so,

we have got to watch some more

videographical evidence...

The one truly telling song-and-video
about this sorry misbegotten bunch of Habitants
HAS GOT to be this first one here,
courtesy of my pals
Dominic & Martin...

Perhaps even more telling, however,
this one right here:

Or is it all about ''poor taste - less filling''

as we may paraphrase

from that old beer commercial time has forgotten

here revamped and rebooted

for the new beer consuming age...

One cannot omit the Loco trio from this,
surely...

Some bimbos, tarts and floozies, now;
for that is what all the CH female fans truly are...

And a fourth line trio now...
(Ils ne savent même pas conjuguer
''meilleures'' avec ''chansons'' -
au pluriel, svp, parce qu'il y en a trois...!)

and how about this pathetic attempt
both at singing as at being funny...
One that reeks of envy of a better team and greater city!

You may - may - want to buy into this propaganda
even now that it is so obviously,
so painfully (for them)
NOT TRUE...

Or this sorry excuse for rapping
-seriously, even Pitbull is better than this-
that invokes the only real CHance to win they have got:
les fantômes du Forum...
which has now been turned into a Cineplex;
but that's another story!
(Oh, there are cameos in here
by the very few celebrities that actually
love that CH: that guy from LOTR
and some local actress who gets bit parts...
Well, Boston has Michael J. Fox
Ben Affleck and Izabella Scorupco!
So, there...!)

As a bonus choice here,
we include the following:
the pre-game ''show'' that preceded
the pivotal game 3 in that series
opposing the Presidents Trophy Champion Boston Bruins
and the lowly Montreal Canadiens,
who last won anything at all 21 years ago
- and counting...!
The pre-game show was supposed to inspire,
to awe the crowds and TV viewers alike,
as well as all the players involved:
it sure as hell was specifically geared towards
motivating the Canadiens players,
especially with that ''passing the torch'' thing
- having a kid come out on skates carrying it... !
Let's watch now...

All that bogus (nearly-paganistic) crap failed miserably in the end
as the Canadiens might have taken that game, 4-2,
but they failed to score a single goal in the very next one,
game 4 -again ''at home'' where that torch is, pourtant-
and the Boston Bruins scored the lone goal then,
within the first ten minutes of overtime,
to win game 4 by a 1-0 score.
And then game 5 was all Bruins,
ending 4-2 (however, all experts agreed that
it could have easily ended 7-2...)
and a 3-2 series lead for Boston!
The Canadiens were suddenly facing elimination!
What was the Canadiens' true motivation then?
Hatred and unbridled jealousy!
That and only that motivated and inspired
that sorry rag-tag bunch of mercenaries
to impede the Boston Bruins machine
from accessing the next round
in game 6 (the only game
that anyone could rightfully assess
that the Bruins were not ''in it''... for the Bruins
made the mistake of underestimating
the acrimonious hatred of their rivals,
evident in everything the Habs coach
would ever have to say, in-between games...
nothing like the B's coach.)
and that very same rancorous hatred,
that hateful will to topple the true champion
and ruin the worthier team's run,
carried these hateful Habs
to a 2-1 (not counting a lucky bounce)
steal in game 7...

Afterwards, they failed to muster anything at all
lacking both the motivation and physical stamina,
and they fell in the next round
to an opponent Boston would have owned...

The damn, pathetic, envious Habs
complained that the Boston Bruins didn't respect them;
it is not the Bruins' fault that you have trouble
mounting any sort of combativité
against any given opponent:
whilst the Boston Bruins
play with the same emotion/aggression
against all comers!
The Boston Bruins' work ethic
is the same against ALL:
it is not a lack of respect, you fools:
it is legitimate, genuine, raw
will to win.
Something the Habitants lack
whenever they do not have that
typical, pernicious
mischievous Montreal motivation
to go and ruin the party of thy immediate
superior neighbour to the south: Boston!
You always had it against Boston
because of a definite sentiment
of inferiority -
which is totally legitimate, mind you...
Boston is a better town,
more prosperous than Montreal,
far less polluted,
more in harmony with both
the economic reality of the day
as well as the environmental concerns
of our times...
Boston has always one-upped Montreal
in any and all areas:
which is why it is so important for the latter
to topple the former in one lone area:
ice hockey.
And yet:
Boston is still known
as the Hub of Hockey.
What is Montreal known as?
The town that has nothing else
going for it BUT hockey!
There is nothing else going on there;
while Boston has everything else.
And more!

Yes, folks - Montreal has serious Boston envy!

Don't believe the Dobermann of the newsworld about this -
believe Luminous!

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Labels: Boston, simulpost

The double duty involved in maintaining a presence on both a Vimeo channel and a You Tube channel gave rise to the following, ah, luminous predicament verily: two videos which are really one, however they differ in their soundtrack and in some other tiny little luminous way as well...

Your mission: watch them both and - vote! Let us know, as per usual, which one you truly prefer... Note: you may want to watch this full screen, in order to catch all the differences...!

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And let not the fact that the latter one is affiliated with Blogger here

influence your decision in the least... please!

Sorry for those of you that, upon catching glance
of the mere title of this post, were expecting a
blood-soaked battle to the death
opposing your Luminous host
to any and all types of
Luminous opposition

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