Two things:

1.)  According to a search of the archives, Ed is the first HOCKEY-Ler to use
the phrase 'bon vivant' in a posting.

2.)  Perhaps we can designate the Red Sox an honorary college hockey team for
the duration of the World Series.

-- Erik

> Tomorrow morning we are attending a bat mitzvah, with the reception in
> the evening.  This is highly problematic for the celebrants, who are Red
> Sox season ticket holders.  It is my understanding that there will be
> many TV sets at the reception hall tomorrow night.  I also have a black
> tie affair scheduled for Thursday evening at 6:00 (I am quite the bon
> vivant), which is Game 5.  I plan on leaving right at 8pm.
>
> Mandatory college hockey content:  I was unable to attend the 1997
> Frozen Four because my cousin's son was celebrating his bar mitzvah that
> day.  I spent the entire reception at the bar watching the game on ESPN.
> I don't know who was more upset that day -- me watching my Terriers lose
> to NoDak, or the boy's parents watching me spend the entire reception at
> the bar.
>
> The fact of the matter is that there are few things in life that matter
> more than the Red Sox.  Come to think of it, I can't think of anything
> that matters more than the Red Sox.  Just as in six degrees of
> separation, everything in life connects back to the Red Sox, even
> Hockey-L.  Did you know that there is a long-standing subscriber to this
> list whose father was the executor of Tom Yawkey's estate?  I am
> convinced that if the Red Sox ever do win the World Series,
> Massachusetts will sink into the ocean.