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BigTuna wrote: Incorrect. The leaves aren't named after "Leaves", they're named after a specific army unit. Therefore it's "leaves".

"After taking control on Valentine's Day 1927, Smythe immediately renamed the team the Maple leaves. The Maple leaves say that the name was chosen in honour of the Maple Leaf Regiment from World War I;"

Everyone saying "Leaves" is wrong. You don't use plural form on a specific group name.

Hmmmmm..... and which regiment would that be?

In WWI, the Canadian regiments in the BEF were numbered - their regimental names either being used before or after the Great War. Even so, no 'Maple Leaf Regiment' or even 'The Maple Leaf Regiment' (ie-like The Ontario Regiment or le Régiment de Hull) comes to mind either from the militia or regular force rolls. Even a colloquial nickname like 'The Maple leaves' seems a tad week-old fishy to me , because if there was such a connection - even with a now-defunct unit, the inheriting regiment and the regimental association would have made hay out of this a looooooooong time ago. Do you even know the names of what army regiments operate in Toronto? I'll give you a hint - all of them are reserve units.

Pull something official out of the Directorate of History and Heritage or the War Museum as proof and I might buy it and stand corrected, but this sounds like typical revisionist history fabrication to back up the myopic, 'Centre-of-the Universe & We-are-Canada' tripe of a blasphemous mythology that spews out of that festering cesspool.

I Like Doc's version - Maple Leavings, indeed.

BT...buffool. Or morang or both..

Maple droppings

Lancer wrote:

BigTuna wrote: Incorrect. The leaves aren't named after "Leaves", they're named after a specific army unit. Therefore it's "leaves".

"After taking control on Valentine's Day 1927, Smythe immediately renamed the team the Maple leaves. The Maple leaves say that the name was chosen in honour of the Maple Leaf Regiment from World War I;"

Everyone saying "Leaves" is wrong. You don't use plural form on a specific group name.

Hmmmmm..... and which regiment would that be?

In WWI, the Canadian regiments in the BEF were numbered - their regimental names either being used before or after the Great War. Even so, no 'Maple Leaf Regiment' or even 'The Maple Leaf Regiment' (ie-like The Ontario Regiment or le Régiment de Hull) comes to mind either from the militia or regular force rolls. Even a colloquial nickname like 'The Maple leaves' seems a tad week-old fishy to me , because if there was such a connection - even with a now-defunct unit, the inheriting regiment and the regimental association would have made hay out of this a looooooooong time ago. Do you even know the names of what army regiments operate in Toronto? I'll give you a hint - all of them are reserve units.

Pull something official out of the Directorate of History and Heritage or the War Museum as proof and I might buy it and stand corrected, but this sounds like typical revisionist history fabrication to back up the myopic, 'Centre-of-the Universe & We-are-Canada' tripe of a blasphemous mythology that spews out of that festering cesspool.

I Like Doc's version - Maple Leavings, indeed.

"Although it is not known as to why he changed the name to Maple leaves, here was Smythe's reasoning:

“The Maple Leaf to us, was the badge of courage, the badge that meant home. It was the badge that reminded us all of our exploits and the different difficulties we got into and the different accomplishments we made. It was a badge that meant more to us than any other badge that we could think of... so we chose it... hoping that the possession of this badge would mean something to the team that wore it and when they skated out on the ice with this badge on their chest... they would wear it with honour and pride and courage, the way it had been worn by the soldiers of the first Great War in the Canadian Army."" - http://mapleleafs.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=42182

Given how they have played in my life time, they definitely are the "leaves", with the exception of Wendel Clark.

BigTuna wrote: Yeah let's change the subject since I've owned all of you again.

When you say again...is this what you are referring to?

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10023&start=1080#p199690

Strangelove wrote:... is Phil wearing Nazem's shirt, is that a typo?

Depends which side of the bus you're on.

Topper wrote:

Strangelove wrote:... is Phil wearing Nazem's shirt, is that a typo?

Depends which side of the bus you're on.

BADA BOOM!!!

Lancer wrote:

BigTuna wrote: Incorrect. The leaves aren't named after "Leaves", they're named after a specific army unit. Therefore it's "leaves".

"After taking control on Valentine's Day 1927, Smythe immediately renamed the team the Maple leaves. The Maple leaves say that the name was chosen in honour of the Maple Leaf Regiment from World War I;"

Everyone saying "Leaves" is wrong. You don't use plural form on a specific group name.

Hmmmmm..... and which regiment would that be?

In WWI, the Canadian regiments in the BEF were numbered - their regimental names either being used before or after the Great War. Even so, no 'Maple Leaf Regiment' or even 'The Maple Leaf Regiment' (ie-like The Ontario Regiment or le Régiment de Hull) comes to mind either from the militia or regular force rolls. Even a colloquial nickname like 'The Maple leaves' seems a tad week-old fishy to me , because if there was such a connection - even with a now-defunct unit, the inheriting regiment and the regimental association would have made hay out of this a looooooooong time ago. Do you even know the names of what army regiments operate in Toronto? I'll give you a hint - all of them are reserve units.

Pull something official out of the Directorate of History and Heritage or the War Museum as proof and I might buy it and stand corrected, but this sounds like typical revisionist history fabrication to back up the myopic, 'Centre-of-the Universe & We-are-Canada' tripe of a blasphemous mythology that spews out of that festering cesspool.

I Like Doc's version - Maple Leavings, indeed.

Why would I have to do that? Just google the quotes by the people who named the team. That should be proof enough. How is it Revisionist history when quotes are given at the time the team was named?

And why are you bringing up army units in Toronto? Why do you think it has to be named after a Toronto unit. No one has ever claimed it was. The unit wasn't named "Toronto Maple leaves", it was just Maple leaves.

BigTuna wrote: Why would I have to do that? Just google the quotes by the people who named the team. That should be proof enough. How is it Revisionist history when quotes are given at the time the team was named?

And why are you bringing up army units in Toronto? Why do you think it has to be named after a Toronto unit. No one has ever claimed it was. The unit wasn't named "Toronto Maple leaves", it was just Maple leaves.

If you do your research, it is more likely the team was named after brass buttons.

Buttons - leaves.

Strangelove wrote:http://instagram.com/p/sYKGoPpFAI/?modal=true

OMG Nazem is almost as Fat as Phil!!!

Guess shaving is too much like work for these two.

OINK OINK!!

"Hogtown" indeed....

Who is the dude beside Kadri ?

Forget Kadri being fat . Do some fucking manscaping amigo. The big perm of chest hair went out in the 70's. Then he rocks a wife beater to top it off. Wow....cover that shit up bra.

A Cabbie's advice



A man returns home a day early from a business trip after midnight.

While en route home, he asks the cabbie if he would be a witness.

The man suspects his wife is having an affair and he wants to catch her in the act.


For $100 tip, in addition to the cab fare from the Toronto airport, the cabbie agrees.

Quietly arriving home, the husband and cabbie tiptoe into the bedroom.


The husband switches on the lights, yanks the blanket back and there is his

wife in bed with another man!


The husband puts a gun to the naked man's head.

The wife shouts, 'Don't do it! I lied when I told you I inherited money.
HE paid for the Corvette I gave you.
HE paid for our new Mercedes Benz convertible.
HE paid for your Maple Leaves season tickets.
HE paid for your Argo season tickets.
HE paid for our cottage in the Muskokas.
HE paid for our speed boat.
HE paid for your country club membership and HE even pays for your monthly
dues!'

Shaking his head from side-to-side, the husband lowers the gun. He looks
over at the cabbie and says, 'What would you do?'

The cabbie replies, "I'd cover his ass with that blanket before he catches
a cold.....and give him back the Leaves tickets!!"

Blob Mckenzie wrote: Who is the dude beside Kadri ?

His sheikh?

BigTuna wrote: And why are you bringing up army units in Toronto? Why do you think it has to be named after a Toronto unit. No one has ever claimed it was. The unit wasn't named "Toronto Maple leaves", it was just Maple leaves.

ummmmmmmm.........

BigTuna wrote:The Maple leaves say that the name was chosen in honour of the Maple Leaf Regiment from World War I.

....because you just claimed that it was. Do you even try anymore???

How about you google the definition of the word 'regiment'? BTW, no 'Maple Leaf Regiment' ever existed - anywhere - in Canada. Fuck me, but Granatstein is right - you guys don't even know your own nation's history. That's okay - I mean, the Great War only 100 years on and it happened, like, soooo far away from even the hinterlands of civilization like, say, Ajax eh there my myopic hogtown chum? I mean, why take the time learning history when you can make up shit as you go to suit your bilious, egocentric infantile worldview like the rest of the odious clag from the 'T.O.'?

Now if, as a fellow earlier quoted, Smythe decided to take on the badge of 'the Maple Leaf' well, to be certain, a number of Canadian regiments in the Great War had the maple leaf as the background for their cap brass. Only natural coming from the centre of the universe to highjack a national emblem and claim it as its own because - you know - Torontonians are the only true representatives of Canada and well, it's only meet and right, eh wot?

You know they offer night school classes where you live, right?