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Skates-pearean tribute

POSTED: Monday, April 23, 2012, 12:22 PM

Seriously, if this isn't worth a power play?

Friends, humans (?), Flyers fans,

Put down your beers;

I come to bury Crosby,

Not to praise him.

The weasel that was Sid is evident;

His value to his team, not so;

So let us leave that whiner.

The noble brutes, ‘us’

Were goodly warriors, ambitious:

And that is not, a grievous fault,

Mischievously, we answered them,

The critics of the press, and Pitt,

For Flyers are good honorable men,

As players all, are honorable men

But Claude Giroux, is best

Sid was no friend, unfaithful,

And a sissy

The Flyers say he was ambitious

And Flyers are all honorable men.

He had brought home some

Glories with his stick

Which glory did the Allegheny swell,

But this, in Crosby,

Was a bit malicious

And when they pushed him hard,

He cried, he fell:

Ambition should be made

Of sterner stuff:

And Crosby was indeed, ambitious;

But he was not an honorable man.

You all did see that on the slippery ice

He was presented with

Lord Stanley’s crown,

And made the evening news,

Was this ambitious?

The brutes, ‘us’, say he was malicious;

But are we sure he even was a ‘man?’

I speak not to dig salt

Into the deep wounds,

The fat birds did indeed go home to die

And Crosby is quite loved,

Not without cause,

They all did love him once,

Not without cause:

All those who live on PA’s ugly side,

O judgment! thou art fled

To brutish beasts,

And men have lost their reason.

Bear with me;

Their hearts are in the coffin

There with Sidney,

While mine is filled

With unsurpassing glee.

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:52 PM, 04/23/2012

this time you get the no originality award.

any fool, and Shakespeare had many of them, can copy and smile.

— PlumberJoe

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:46 PM, 04/23/2012

Flyers victory
Makes the city jubilant
Keeps Flowers busy

— scoobysnacks

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:40 PM, 04/23/2012

Lord Stanley stands tall
Romeo, Juliet pale
Flyers are first love

— PlumberJoe

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:35 PM, 04/23/2012

VERO EST PJ
OMNIA VINCIT AMOR
GRATULATIO

8-)

— Magistra

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:09 PM, 04/23/2012

To choose or not to choose: that was the question;
Whether t'was riskier to let Claude Giroux skate first
Or to start with others against a sea of Penguins
And by opposing lose all?
To lose, to fail,
No way! And by that loss to say we end
All hope of winning Stanley's cup
That we are heirs to?
'Tis a dream devoutly to be wished:
To win and by Giroux's slap shot a dream fulfilled;
Ay there's the Goal!

— Magistra