10-14-2013, 03:10 PM
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#41
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: On your last nerve...:D
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The greatest achievement of my life so far? Escaping the horrific abuse leveled at me (and my brothers) by my parents. Surviving it. Making sure I'm healthy enough not to perpetuate that cycle with my own children. Everything else is gravy.
Greatest achievement today? Toss up between getting the husband person to clean out the garage and the hugely satisfying dump I took a few hours ago.
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10-14-2013, 03:11 PM
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#42
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Silicon Valley
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dissentowner - winner of the thread
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10-14-2013, 03:12 PM
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#43
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: SW Ontario
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Minnie
The greatest achievement of my life so far? Escaping the horrific abuse leveled at me (and my brothers) by my parents. Surviving it. Making sure I'm healthy enough not to perpetuate that cycle with my own children. Everything else is gravy.
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Sorry to hear you had to endure that.
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10-14-2013, 03:12 PM
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#44
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First Line Centre
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Finishing school and getting a job I actually enjoy
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10-14-2013, 03:23 PM
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#45
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NOT a cool kid
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Calgary
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1) Graduating University in Business, after being told by a high school counselor, I would never be more then a ditch digger.
2) Maintain a close group of buddies I have had my entire life.
3) Made it to Greece (life dream)
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10-14-2013, 03:24 PM
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#46
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#1 Goaltender
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Minnie
The greatest achievement of my life so far? Escaping the horrific abuse leveled at me (and my brothers) by my parents. Surviving it. Making sure I'm healthy enough not to perpetuate that cycle with my own children. Everything else is gravy.
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Now *that* is an accomplishment. My father lacked a WHOLE LOT in parenting skills, but I do have to give him credit for not passing on what he was brought up with. I do know that the older men in my father's life when he was growing up were mostly racist alcoholics... I do have to give credit where it is due as I was not raised to think those things were normal behaviours.
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10-14-2013, 03:25 PM
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#47
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Behind Enemy Lines
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I'm still out yet trying to accomplish something great.
I'll let you all know when I do 
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10-14-2013, 03:26 PM
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#48
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Calgary AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Minnie
Greatest achievement today? Toss up between getting the husband person to clean out the garage and the hugely satisfying dump I took a few hours ago.
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10-14-2013, 03:27 PM
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#49
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: On your last nerve...:D
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10-14-2013, 03:42 PM
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#50
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Franchise Player
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I haven't played hockey since high school (and I really was never great), but in my final year of midget, in one of my last games, I scored a goal that I could only dream of.
I was playing defence, and I had possession of the puck at around our blue line, breaking out. Since nobody can catch a pass, I decided to take it into the offensive zone by myself. At around the red line, I avoided a check from one of their forwards, entered the zone, deked the first defenceman by putting the puck in-between his feet (from my forehand to my backhand). The second defender started skating forward after he saw me make his teammate look silly, and from my backhand, put the puck in-between his feet to catch it on my forehand (I was at around the hashmarks at this point). I quickly took a shot, pick the top right corner off the post. I didn't even see the puck go in, I just heard the ping.
If there's one thing in my life I wish I had video evidence of, it would be this.
And so it's all been downhill forom there.
Last edited by Ashasx; 10-17-2013 at 05:38 PM.
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10-14-2013, 05:10 PM
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#51
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Minnie
The greatest achievement of my life so far? Escaping the horrific abuse leveled at me (and my brothers) by my parents. Surviving it. Making sure I'm healthy enough not to perpetuate that cycle with my own children. Everything else is gravy.
Greatest achievement today? Toss up between getting the husband person to clean out the garage and the hugely satisfying dump I took a few hours ago.
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10-14-2013, 05:20 PM
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#52
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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Last edited by Dion; 10-14-2013 at 05:54 PM.
Reason: Too personal
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10-14-2013, 05:25 PM
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#53
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Originally Posted by troutman
My kids are my Stanley Cups.
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So, you lift them over your head while skating around a rink; fill them with alcohol; spend one day a year with them; and try to leverage their presence into sex with random hot women? That makes having children sound like fun.
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10-14-2013, 05:41 PM
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#54
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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Forgot to include the Hole in One I got in 1994 on the Douglasdale golf course.
The downside was the $340 bar tab I had when the night was over. My dad, his buddies and my friends sure knew how to drink back then 
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10-14-2013, 06:21 PM
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#55
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Victoria
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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
Is that an achievement or awesomely fantastic good luck?
Unless you had to go at it every hour, every day of the year...
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The way I see it...
With the chances for fertility that this couple had, assuming they wanted a child, the emotional duress they must have been under would have been extraordinary.
I know couples who stress immensely over getting pregnant in a years time span; I could only imagine what a couple with those odds would endure.
Otherwise, I know what you mean. For some people, it "just happens".
Belated Congratulations, Trailer Fire.
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10-14-2013, 06:47 PM
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#56
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by DownInFlames
That's like saying walking is an achievement because some people are in wheelchairs.
Just having a kid shouldn't be enough reason to be proud, but being a good parent absolutely should be.
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That made me laugh out loud. I have almost no sense of humour whatsoever. Well done.
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10-14-2013, 06:57 PM
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#57
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Nice try, NSA
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Probably the time I stopped a guy who was dressed like a teddy bear from robbing a bank.
It's kind of a long, boring story though.
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10-14-2013, 07:00 PM
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#58
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Cleveland, OH (Grew up in Calgary)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Crazy Bacon Legs
Probably the time I stopped a guy who was dressed like a teddy bear from robbing a bank.
It's kind of a long, boring story though.
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I figured yours would be the day you discovered that magic hockey stick.
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10-14-2013, 07:32 PM
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#59
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Lifetime Suspension
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dion
Forgot to include the Hole in One I got in 1994 on the Douglasdale golf course.
The downside was the $340 bar tab I had when the night was over. My dad, his buddies and my friends sure knew how to drink back then
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Jesus, did they give you that or did you have to frame it yourself? Mine was a stupid plastic trophy from Rothmans cigarette company of all people!
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10-14-2013, 07:43 PM
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#60
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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Quote:
Originally Posted by T@T
Jesus, did they give you that or did you have to frame it yourself? Mine was a stupid plastic trophy from Rothmans cigarette company of all people!
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The certificate and bag tag came from Johnnie Walker. I took that and my score card and got it framed years later. Still have the golf ball I used hidden away somwhere
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