It's probably not ground breaking news to tell you that Canadians really like hockey. For a very long time, the most common place for Canadians to get their hockey fix was on the CBC's (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) "Hockey Night in Canada".
Originally starting as a radio broadcast in the 1930s and television in 1952, Hockey Night in Canada quickly became synonymous with Canadian hockey. A big part of this was their iconic theme song, The Hockey Song. It had a number of different versions, but was consistently used from 1968 to 2007 when our story takes place.
To be clear, this wasn't a song just known by hockey nuts. It was sometimes referred to as Canada's second national anthem. My high school band played it in a concert. You'd have a difficult time finding a Canadian (even non hockey fans) who wouldn't be able to recognize/ hum it. So the song itself was kind of a big deal.
In 2008 the CBC license to use the song ran out and they begin negotiations to keep using it. The original writer Dolores Claman, is now in her 80s and the talks do not go well. They've already had legal battles regarding this song in 2004, mostly over who had the rights to sell the song as a ringtone. There's already friction and immediately there's disagreements over ownership of the song going forward and how much it's worth. The whole battle is a little murky with both sides blaming the other for being unreasonable. Many people say the song is too iconic and CBC should just pay it, others say Claman is being greedy and unreasonable. Matters are also complicated by the fact that the CBC is a taxpayer funded crown corporation, so there was push back to them paying an exorbitant price for the song.
The CBC eventually announces that they were unable to come to an agreement and that they will begin searching for a new song. They launch a contest website challenging people to submit their own songs, promising a $100,000 reward plus royalties to the winning song. They are flooded with entries (more than 15,000 in a time when composing music and putting it on the internet was a lot harder for an amateur.)
Enter Logan Aube. A teenager with a sense of humor. He creates a song called "Hockey Scores". For anyone unable to listen right now, it's a ear grating mix of crying babies, sheep and gunshots. Logan is also a member of Something Awful , a large internet community who is only too
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For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
I won't be doing that today!
You take away their little brooms
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
It’s pronounced “Noel.”
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Bob
So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."
Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.
Nothing, it just waved
Just to clarify, 12345678
Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...
Notices there's only 2;
Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."
I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.
I was just sitting there doing nothing.
“BOOM”?!
