The Leafs in Six Words or Less
One of the more interesting books I read this year is Smith Magazine's Not Quite What I was Planning. The magazine asked people to submit a six word memoir and collected some of the best in a book. These memoirs demonstrate just how powerful six well chosen words can be.
A small sample:
"I still make coffee for two."
"Found true love, married someone else"
"Adopted? Are you fucking shitting me?"
"Brought it to a boil, often" (Mario Batali)
"Well, I thought it was funny." (Stephen Colbert)
About every 10 days or so, I post five questions over at uber Leaf blog Pension Plan Puppets. This week, I asked the readers at PPP to sum up their relationship with the Leafs in six words or less.
As usual, they rose to the challenge with some fantastic responses, here's a sample:
Whole-hearted, long-suffering love and devotion - Karina
I was saved by the Barilkosphere - Archimedes
One Day They’ll Love Me Back - PPP
Because easy love is for suckers - Jaredfromlondon
Vengeance will be ours to savour - Blindfolded Tank Driver
Leaf junkie, no hope of recovery - Blurr1974
Value the journey, not the destination - floridaLEAF
Old team moved, stunk, hello Toronto - Chemmy
One Cup please, in my lifetime - Sergei Puckizin
I’d rather stay in Saturday night - Leaf in Habland
Pure, undying loyalty. Or a disease - Leaf Fan Stuck in Ottawa
You had me at Bill Berg - Godd Till
No recent Cups, one coming soon - Aschendancy
Here's mine:
From Sittler to Sundin, still waiting
Would love to hear yours...
Wendel should have killed Kerry Fraser.
ReplyDeleteUntil death do us part.
ReplyDeleteMy other tribe, you've adopted me.
ReplyDeleteMy hatred is hereditary, I'm sorry
ReplyDeleteCan't support Senators; parents not related.
ReplyDeleteCame for glory, stayed for hope.
ReplyDeleteIt's something to get drunk to.
ReplyDeleteKeon, Sittler, Clark and Sundin. Next?
ReplyDeleteI'm really glad you did this. I thought the 6-word answers were hilarious, especially when read all together. Good stuff.
ReplyDeleteDon't know who came up with this one but it's also pretty good: The Passion That Unites Us All.
Leafs fan via truculent osmosis.
ReplyDeleteCame for Wendel, stayed for Schenn
ReplyDeleteHope dies with Leafs in October.
ReplyDeleteBorn. No Cup. Died. No Cup.
ReplyDeleteOh wait, memoir not obit. Oh well, they work either way.
ReplyDeleteLooking back, I shoulda looked elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteSalming, greatest Leaf. Second best Swede.
ReplyDeleteWendel should have killed the Kings.
ReplyDeleteFrom womb to grave: A fan
ReplyDeleteIt will all be worth it.
ReplyDelete"I count as well as Ferguson trades."
ReplyDeleteSuicide is painless, Leafs are not.
ReplyDeleteGot Leaf tattoo. Looking for sandpaper.
ReplyDeleteEventually I got into soccer.
ReplyDeleteThe cash in that unites us
ReplyDeleteplease dont let hamilton win first
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