sucker•punch [suhk-er-puhnch] v. (used with subject) Slang

To strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.  A cheap shot. 

It has always been said to fight fire with fire.  Not literally, we’re not talking about combustion at the hands of oxidation here, but bullets with bullets, knives with knives etc…  In short, what ever your enemy may combat you with, you should be prepared to retaliate with equal or greater force. Apparently, and previously completely unbeknownst to the author, one can wage war against racial barriers with  glass ceilings.  Who’d of thunk it?  I mean that’s ‘walking into a gun fight with knives’ incarnate.

 I’m just not sure who’s packing the heat. 

*Also, word on the street is that The Colonel’s favorite Modern-day Renaissance Man is out of hiding and ghost-writing speeches.  Needless to say, we’re creeping to the edge of our seats, if the debates are anything like the weigh ins we’re all in for an enticing November.  

 

Sen. John McCain has picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, a senior McCain campaign official told the Prysidential Pryer on Friday.

Sarah Palin’s past occupations, include commercial fishing company owner, outdoor recreational equipment company owner and sports reporter (she’s somehow related to Tina Cervassio)

What do you think…..6 beers?

I haven’t the foggiest idea what those bumbling idiots in the post below are saying or hearing, nor do I care.  Relatively enough, I did however stumble across Teddy’s discarded piece of paper whilst rummaging through his garbage.

Interesting… 

 

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On this day in 1922 Irish National Army commander-in-chief Michael Collins was assassinated in an ambush while en route through County Cork at the village of Béal na mBláth. In memory of this loss, the Plough and Stars Bar, formerly known as an Irish Republican Army hangout, will be hosting a 21 whiskey shot salute to its fallen comrade.

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To paraphrase myself on one of the many facets of my profession: “I sift through more muck than a toothless starving forty-niner ever did.”  And via that crack-whore Miss Serendipity I stumbled across these advertising gems from yesteryears.  Enjoy.  Continue Reading »

The Ministry of Misinformation has just been informed that one of its authors, Prysidential Pryer, has found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut in the ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya.
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HC CSKA Moscow (USSR’s Red Army Team) has been called “the best team to ever take the ice,” but a trip to North America in 1975 and 1976 turned its steel-like, Soviet-swagger into puppy-like, proletariat-pouting. For the Red Army team - on a four-game tour with “exhibition” games against the New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins, and Philadelphia Flyers, respectively - things began well enough on December 28, 1975 with a democracy-depleting drubbing of the Rangers, 7 to 3. Showing how cold the Cold War could be, the Soviets then shocked the free-world with a 3-3 tie to perennial-powerhouse Montreal on New Year’s Eve - in what is considered to be one the finest games ever played. Confusing their opposition with innovative play, the Russian’s and their nuclear transition-attack even bested the likes of “Numbah Fowah” Bobby Orr, as the Bruins fell 5 to 2 on January 8, 1976. Due to such dominance, it appeared that the Soviet-sweep would be complete in three days time - January 11th - in a final state-side clash with the current and two-time Stanley Cup Champion Philadelphia Flyers.

The Red Army Team, however, wasn’t prepared for what hit it as the Flyers - playing before a packed house in “The Cradle of Liberty” - brought every ounce of the hard-nosed, Chevrolet-style American toughness that earned them their moniker: “The Broad Street Bullies.” The “exhibition” - or pride-fueled, ideal-driven clash of nations - was shrouded in tension as the “The Bullies” physical play dampened the Soviet’s up-tempo, finesse game. With the game scoreless late in the first period, Philadelphia’s Ed “Little Jefferson” Van Impe - fresh out of the box after a hooking penalty - crushed Red Army defenseman Valeri “Boo Boo” Kharlamov along with the Russian team’s composure in one savage, American-made body-check. Distraught, CSKA coach Konstantin Loktev - embarrassing all parties involved - pulled his team off the ice and protested the game because no penalty had been called. After a half-hour of bickering between the two teams, the referees, and national hockey officials, the teary-eyed Soviets sulked back onto the ice and - in a capitalist-coup of sorts - weakly yielded to the bruising Flyers, 4 to 1. Summing up the sniveling finale to a heretofore successful North American invasion by HC CSKA Moscow, Milt Dunnell of the Toronto Star wrote, “The Moscow Musketeers had to put a big fat zero on their aptitude test by pulling one the dumbest tricks in sports. They hauled their team off the ice. Loktev wanted his team to know what’s it’s like to play the Flyers in Philly under NHL conditions. Well…that’s what it’s like.”

Philly Pryde Prevails.

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