Riley Nash commits to Cornell

[ithacat]

Has anyone heard if Riley made the U18 team? Also, has anyone found the NPR story about the lockout that interviewed young Riley?

[ebilmes]

[quote ithacat]Also, has anyone found the NPR story about the lockout that interviewed young Riley?[/quote]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4113001

Edit: It's after 4 minutes in.

[redhair34]

[quote ithacat]Has anyone heard if Riley made the U18 team? [/quote]

I'm pretty sure the roster hasn't been released yet.

[Roy 82]

[quote ebilmes][quote ithacat]Also, has anyone found the NPR story about the lockout that interviewed young Riley?[/quote]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4113001

Edit: It's after 4 minutes in.[/quote]

Eeeeeeek!
"....many sports fans in the United States could care less....."

My faith in NPR has been shaken. (It's the off season. We can now complain about grammar and incorrect word usage)

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I am guessing that Riley, who according to the report, sided with management in the lockout, will not be joining the ILR school.

[calgARI '07]

[quote Roy 82]
I am guessing that Riley, who according to the report, sided with management in the lockout, will not be joining the ILR school.[/quote]

Well Bettman speaks for the owners and he want to ILR.  I go to ILR and certainly side with the owners.

[KeithK]

[quote calgARI '07][quote Roy 82]
I am guessing that Riley, who according to the report, sided with management in the lockout, will not be joining the ILR school.[/quote]

Well Bettman speaks for the owners and he want to ILR.  I go to ILR and certainly side with the owners.[/quote]
"Labor relations" applies to both sides.  Whether or not it's taught that way at a leftist institution like Cornell is a totally different issue :-).

[Trotsky]

[quote KeithK]"Labor relations" applies to both sides.  Whether or not it's taught that way at a leftist institution like Cornell is a totally different issue :-).[/quote]What are you talking about?  There are dedicated classes to "workers' rights" *and* "strategies of exploitation."  ;-)

IIRC there have been several high level union negotiations where the top guy on each side was a Cornell alumnus.

[ftyuv]

[quote Roy 82]
Eeeeeeek!
"....many sports fans in the United States could care less....."

My faith in NPR has been shaken. (It's the off season. We can now complain about grammar and incorrect word usage)[/quote]

Omfg, don't even get me started.  What's that, you already have?  Well then...

That usage is perfectly valid and is an obvious use of irony.  As Bender once sang so eloquently:  "The use of words expressing something other than their literal intention -- now that is irony!"

I don't recall ever fighting Godzilla, but that is so what I would have done.

[billhoward]

[quote ugarte][quote billhoward][quote ugarte]If his flame doesn't last it is only because he shone brightly while he was here.[/quote]

Nice turn of phrase in a sport whose big tent also embraces Don Cherry. You were an English major with a minor in Haiku? Or was somebody humming Elton John and Candle in the Wind in a public place and try as hard as you could to dislodge Sir Elton, "Your candle's burned out long before your legend ever will" was wedged in too tight?[/quote]
I was just parroting the cliched crap that they say in eulogies when the editor of the high school paper dies at 17.[/quote]
From you, the tongue-in-cheek was apparent. Indeed, they always say that about kids who check out in high school. They all had plans to change the world; not a one was going to manage the local Radio Shack because he liked having the big ring of keys jangling on Sansabelt slacks. To wit, an NJ boy checked out a couple months back in an auto accident and took a coupole friends with him, plus the oncoming school bus driver (who barely got mentioned because she was in her 60s). In addition to the usual candle-flame-snuffed line, a relative or friend mentioned he was such a good driver. The kid had had his license two weeks.

But meanwhile the point remains: Better we have him for two years than none. Nobody's pissed at Nieuwendyk for his three-and-done.

[Trotsky]

[quote ftyuv]That usage is perfectly valid and is an obvious use of irony.[/quote]I hereby claim every grammatical, syntax and spelling error I make for the rest of my life as ironic.

Amendment: I would also like to extend this.  I hereby claim every financial, personal, social, artistic, error of judgment I will make as ironic.  Beeeej is working on a way to make this a legal defense against and and all negative consequences of my mistakes.  I will then claim my use of his services without pay as "the height of irony."

[Trotsky]

[quote ftyuv]That usage is perfectly valid and is an obvious use of irony.[/quote]I hereby claim every grammatical, syntax and spelling error I make for the rest of my life as ironic.

Amendment: I would also like to extend this.  I hereby claim every financial, personal, social, artistic, fasiohn, and object choice error of judgment I will make as ironic.  Beeeej is working on a way to make this a legal defense against and and all negative consequences of my mistakes.  I will then claim my use of his services without pay as "the height of irony."

[ugarte]

[quote Trotsky][quote ftyuv]That usage is perfectly valid and is an obvious use of irony.[/quote]I hereby claim every grammatical, syntax and spelling error I make for the rest of my life as ironic.

Amendment: I would also like to extend this.  I hereby claim every financial, personal, social, artistic, fasiohn, and object choice error of judgment I will make as ironic.  Beeeej is working on a way to make this a legal defense against and and all negative consequences of my mistakes.  I will then claim my use of his services without pay as "the height of irony."[/quote]
Intentional double-posting? Excellent use of a literary device.

[ugarte]

[quote billhoward]because he liked having the big ring of keys jangling on Sansabelt slacks.[/quote]
I'm not sure you know what "Sansabelt" slacks are. Good luck getting a ring of keys to "jangle on" this.

Also, I wasn't an English major. I apparently studied at the Karl Marx Intstitute for Worker Empowerment and Confiscatory Revolution.

[Beeeej]

[quote Trotsky][quote ftyuv]That usage is perfectly valid and is an obvious use of irony.[/quote]I hereby claim every grammatical, syntax and spelling error I make for the rest of my life as ironic.

Amendment: I would also like to extend this.  I hereby claim every financial, personal, social, artistic, fasiohn, and object choice error of judgment I will make as ironic.  Beeeej is working on a way to make this a legal defense against and and all negative consequences of my mistakes.  I will then claim my use of his services without pay as "the height of irony."[/quote]

It's all part of my commitment to pro bonehead work.

[ftyuv]

[quote Trotsky][quote ftyuv]That usage is perfectly valid and is an obvious use of irony.[/quote]I hereby claim every grammatical, syntax and spelling error I make for the rest of my life as ironic.

Amendment: I would also like to extend this.  I hereby claim every financial, personal, social, artistic, fasiohn, and object choice error of judgment I will make as ironic.  Beeeej is working on a way to make this a legal defense against and and all negative consequences of my mistakes.  I will then claim my use of his services without pay as "the height of irony."[/quote]
I counter your snide hyperbole with one of my own:  I assume you've never said "yeah, right" when in fact you meant "no."

People can say "yeah, right!" without the Grammar 5-0 jumping on them because everyone knows it's an ironic phrase.  Why can't you extend that simple courtesy to "I could care less?"  Let's break it down a little bit:  it's a common phrase;  it's always used to mean the opposite of its literal interpretation;  it's often used in contexts where one would expect irony (specifically, where one disparaging something).  If people ever used "I could care less" to actually mean that they could really care less, maybe you'd have a point that it's a mistake.  I don't think I've ever heard that, though.  So, all said, the expression seems to me like a pretty obvious candidate for irony.