QUACK! QUACK! ...QVACK!

I apologize for the lateness of what I'm sure you were all waiting with bated breath for, but management had some minor issues in making this post happen - so you'll all have to bear with me not being quite as clever and entertaining as Jordi or CapsChick might have been.

So, after the roaring success that was HLOG movie night #1, we set about to top it this past Sunday. While it's arguable that the cheese factor of The Cutting Edge was hard to top, we had more people than last time (Tracy: "yeah... apparently we like mighty ducks more than cutting edge"). Which might help to explain why the first 8 (of an astonishing 80) pages of chat log happen before the movie even starts, and our attempts to end everyone up starting in the same place looked a little like this (so you all know what you're getting into, those who didn't show up yet):

CapsChick: where are we starting??

Steph: haha yeah where are we starting from?

Jordi: EVERYNE READY PAUSE AT EMILIO'S NAME

Rinslet: where are we supposed to pause?

Teka: pause at the name, got it.

Jordi: PAUSE AT EMILIO

Jordi: NAME

Jordi: WITH THE

Jordi: YOU KNOW

Bethany: pause at emilio?

Jordi: COME ONNNNN

Tracy: i think this gets more difficult with more people.

Organization at its finest, in case you doubted.

Finally, though, we did get the movie started and at least most of us were in the same relative place (a fact we spent the first twenty or so minutes reaffirming). I'm going to trust that just about everyone out there knows the story of the Mighty Ducks and not rehash it. While some of us seemed to keep with the hockey spirit and point out things that were almost hockey-relevant (Jordi: "I'm probably the only one who recognise Moreau's number the same as Ethan Moreau's"), others were concerned with...well, other things (CapsChick: "JOSHUA JACKSON"; Sherry: "It's Pacey! He was so cute back then. So much potential gone to waste"; Steph: "haha what, not a fan of the Pacey hair?" Sherry: "Or the Pacey scruff. Or the Pacey-Pacey-ness."). Actually, as a matter of fact, Jordi, who also racked up a Pronger reference, and about a minimum of twenty or so outbursts of "ADAM BANKS" probably made more actual movie-related commentary than the lot of us, despite watching Mighty Ducks 2 instead.

While there were no proper "dirnking" games involved, a number of us did booze it up (which is probably sort of necessary for most people to get through the entirety of the movie at this point) - and we did try to convince Elly that Labatt's is more properly enjoyed with little frilly umbrellas sticking out of it. No word on whether or not this was successful (but we can hope).

Highlights included coining of the term almost as excellent to yell as the famed "TOEPICK" (Elly: "Oh man....I would love to see Ilya in net, smacking the ice with his stick and quacking in a Russian accent"; Teka: "What do ducks say in Russian?"; CapsChick: "Qvack. Qvack. Qvack."), Bethany abandoning the movie to find facebook applications like "vibrating hamster", yet another rocking soundtrack (Steph: "File this undersoundtracks I need to buy. No wait. Soundtracks I need to illegally acquire."), and generally comparing Adam Banks to every hockey player under the sun.

Overall, despite a decided lack of scrunchies, you can't go wrong with a classic and good times were had by all.

Stay tuned for the reshowing of The Cutting Edge sometime this weekend (help me out here someone?), and future showings of such classics as Slapshot, Miracle, and Mystery, Alaska.