A couple of you have asked about the labels that appear on this site so I thought I would provide a little explanation. If you haven’t noticed them they appear at the bottom of each post, depending on the length of the post you may need to scroll down the page to see them. Basically, they are meant as a search tool so a reader can click on a label and all posts that have that label will be shown on one page, newest first. This site (Blogger) is also owned by Google so labels also serve as search terms for doing a Google search. So you could be anywhere on the web and type in one of these labels in the Google search box and theoretically you would find this site in the search results.
Let’s look at the labels, the first one shown is “Fleet Racing” and it has a number 5 next to it. The 5 means that I have labeled 5 different posts on this site “Fleet Racing”, click it and all five will show on one page. Googling that same term ends up with 1.5 million results, the first of mine are on the second page of google results. The next most popular label on my blog is “Sailing Sucks – 4”. This is a better example for doing a google search because there are many less results. Why would an avid sailor say that sailing sucks? I bet most avid sailors, especially racers, can come up with their own answer to that!
The Sailing Sucks thing has been a personal joke with Kim and I. It actually started with hockey. We have season tickets for the Tampa Bay Lightning, the NHL team here in Tampa. A couple of years ago we went to a game that ended up being one of those really disappointing losses. We along with thousands of other people were filing out of the arena and the mood was really somber. It seemed that almost nobody was talking, you could have heard a pin drop even though there were people all around, in every direction. After a while Kim mutters the words “Hockey Sucks” and out comes the bottom lip and a classic pouty face. I reply “Yeah, We hate hockey” and we had a good laugh at it. It was one of those moments that just kind of sticks with you. Now, whenever a game goes poorly one of us is bound to say “Hockey Sucks.’
Needless to say this little joke has carried over to our sailing as well. So after a bad race, blowing a start, getting T-boned, etc the phrase “Sailing Sucks” is usually not far behind, usually followed by a chuckle or two. It seems we have been in a little “slump” this past year on Pig Pen so the words are spoken a little more often than we’d like.
Hopefully, I will soon be able to start a new label like; “Sailing is Awesome” or something similar….
6 comments:
missing that first shift sucks too! so does shrimping your chute... that really sucks! port tacking the fleet is excellent!
Just reading your Lightning hockey blog at Flying Scot. As a wee lad I played hockey. 5 a m we'd practice at Brown's Meehan Auditorium, so I always encourage Fred to take in the college hockey - nothing is more fun in the world than the energy in that college rink. Anyway, when the 'ning started at Tropicana Field, St Pete, the team had history's largest-ever attendances for an NHL game, due to the size of the b-ball stadium. Many times I'd kick two 25-yard field goals in FanLand for two free $9 tickets to the next home game. Gave away a lot of tickets, but went to a lot of games too, and even paid sometimes - a hell of a lot of fun. In Tampa we'd sometimes shell out mad jack to sit down close - left, behind the goal, but the biggest cash we ever paid was to be close behind the penalty boxes for a packed Boston Bruins game. Visibility so near the glass was terrible, but the entertainment factor w as high, especially as more liquid refreshment was inhaled by the people around us - 50 / 50 Lightning fan / Bruin fan. Middle of the third period, the guy next to me grabbed the guy above and behind him, and using gravity with a beer-fueled tug threw him onto the guy in front and below. Game on! Security into the stands! There was so much punching and puking the game was stopped, and ten minutes later the TV cameras took a shot below of wifey and me with 18 newly-emptied seats 360 degrees around us. Love the Lightning, C
Those things do suck, but not as much as capsizing and breaking a spar. That really sucks!
winning a regatta is excellent...then swamping afterwards realy sucks.
Swamping is not fun... but if the Sailing Gods were to offer me a deal that was "you can win the regatta but afterwards you get swamped" I'd have to take it!
I guess I'm getting desparate and little swamping won't hurt the PIG.
i'm starting a "flip that pig" campaign...do it!!!
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