Hippo Birdy

Happy 19th birthday JStaal.....Just two more years.

But you can have all the doughnuts you want until then.


(Funny story, my crazy uncle, well, one of my crazy uncles, but my crazy uncle who lived in Winnipeg for 5 years says that the Canadian doughnuts and beer stereotype is completely accurate... at least among the musicians in the Winnipeg Orchestra. Anyway, when the family went to Windsor on a road trip (don't ask, but there was a dance competition involved) that was sort of the running gag for the whole trip. To this day, I can't say "doughnuts" like an American. I also can't say "do00-nuts" without adding "and beer, eh?" to the end of it in my head.)

This has been your random birthday and brain dump post for the day.


The hockey needs to come back now.

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Hockey World Scandalized as 20-Somethings Loud, Drunk at Bachelor Party

Former cover model Eric Staal and his younger brother Jordan Staal were arrested in Minnesota for being drunk and disorderly at Eric's bachelor party.

Young 20-somethings being loud at a bachelor party? I know, I'm just as shocked as you are:

Both brothers were charged with disorderly conduct and obstructing the legal process, while Jordan was also charged with consumption of alcohol while under 21 years of age. Eric's agent, Rick Curran, said he expected the misdemeanor charges to be reduced or dismissed.

According to a statement released by the Cook County Sheriff's office, after the Sheriff's office received complaints about "screaming, yelling and playing loud music," the group of about 20 was warned "multiple times" before it was ordered to leave the resort by Sheriff's deputies, a Minnesota State Patrol trooper and a U.S. Border Patrol agent at 3 a.m. Monday.

"After leaving the property, the group gathered on Highway 61 and began harassing passing motorists," the Sheriff's office said, at which point 14 members of the group were arrested at approximately 4 a.m. Eric Staal was one of 10 people to spend the night in jail.

I will admit that I'm easily scandalized and I have often been mistaken for a grandmother born in the '30s, rocking back and forth in my rocking chair in outdated pearls and a cardigan while I lecture to anybody who will listen about how the world is going to heck in a handbasket with the children's hippity-hop music and left-winged liberal ideals. But on a 'Clutch My Pearls' scale, this doesn't even rate a 'passing stroke'.

I did find it highly hilarious though, mostly because for some reason I can very easily picture Eric and Jordan Staal harrassing motorists with awkward, drunken white-boy dances off of some obscure road in rural Minnesota.

This just gives me more reason to love the league. The NBA has a dirty official, the NFL has two libraries full of player offenses, soccer (football) is a daily riot waiting to happen and hockey has boys being boys.

Update

Thanks to the NHL Fanhouse, their mugshots are also available for viewing:

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