{"id":3401,"date":"2010-11-23T12:17:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T17:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2010-11-23T12:17:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T17:17:53","slug":"maurice-the-rocket-richard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/3401","title":{"rendered":"Maurice “The Rocket” Richard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two minutes in the sin bin assessed on all readers of this blog – for looking so good. And you, yes you there cutie, you get a 5 minute major.<\/p>\n

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I wish I could find my (pre-digital) pictures of the Maurice Richard statue I took when in Montreal with the Design Student (other photographic subjects: crooked knives in the Hudson Bay Company Museum, capybaras in the Biodome – none of this should shock you). One thing that shouldn’t have surprised me – The Rocket’s full name is Joseph Henri Maurice Richard, Sr. I once worked at a manufacturing facility in New Hampshire with a group of older Franco-American men. We’d worked together for a couple years before I – culturally ignorant as I was – discovered that they ALL had the same first name. Ben’s full name was Joseph Benjamin\u00a0 X, Roger’s was Joseph Roger Y, etc.\u00a0 See also – Boom Boom Geoffrion<\/a> and The Pocket Rocket<\/a>. Bah, cultural homogenization – it’s been a long time since I’ve heard a sentence construction like, “Up the hill, the car she went.”<\/p>\n

Spoiler – video below is a minute and a half of introduction and six minutes of standing ovation.<\/p>\n

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Grecian Formula via LGM.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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