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Just the boring blog of a boring person who likes to think she's rather interesting.
About Me
- Deanna
- I am a stay at home mom of a wonderful son. I'm married and have 3 step-children. I used to have have season tickets to the Quad City Flames/Mallards hockey games, and I was known to stand in the area formerly known as the Duck Blind.
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January
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- January 30-Sledgehammer
- January 29-Go Me!!!
- January 29-Chocolate Chess Pie
- January 28-Those darn Californians
- January 26-Nice try
- January 25-Coal
- January 25-My stalker
- January 24-Tuesday's Babysitting
- January 22-Help...
- January 21-Awkward
- January 20-Quote of the night
- January 20-Hockey game
- January 18-Hockey game
- January 16-Quick question before I head off to bed
- January 16-I am never playing hopscotch again
- January 15-Cheese Ball
- January 14-Paper Wallet
- January 14-Pardytime Rules
- January 13-Pardytime
- January 13-About to leave
- January 12-Kinda boring again
- January 11-Hockey game
- January 11-Ok, seriously
- January 9-Hockey Game
- January 9-Slacking off again
- January 7-Babysitting
- January 6-Umm...
- January 5-Ok, so I'm a day late
- January 4-Again
- January 3-Iowa caucus
- January 2-Chicken Fried Rice
- January 1-Biggest Accomplishment of 2007
- January 1-New Year Resolution
- January 1-Happy New Year
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6 comments:
Marlies is the plural of Marley.
So like when Bob and his family would get together for a family reunion - they were the Marlies.
TAKE TWO:
Marlie is a popular name in Toronto, Canada. And since the Toronto Marlies are a bunch of girls, it only seemed fitting...
They could just as easily have been named the Toronto Betties.
TAKE THREE:
Marlies is short for Marlboros. Like in England, they call them ciggies. In Toronto, they call them Marlies.
So, I did some digging...
It turns out I was getting warmer. Marlies is actually short for Marlboroughs. Here, just read this from dictinary.com:
The AHL had a strong presence in Atlantic Canada in the 1980s and 1990s, but by 2004 the St. John's Maple Leafs were the only remaining team in the region. Although the team was extremely popular and had excellent attendance, the desire of the parent Toronto Maple Leafs to reduce travel costs and have a tenant for its Ricoh Coliseum resulted in the team's relocation to Toronto for the 2005-06 season. Previous minor league and junior ventures in Toronto had not met with success, and there was a general feeling that Toronto fans were only interested in the Toronto Maple Leafs, and not other levels of hockey. With the Marlies as the Leafs top affiliate, it was felt that this obstacle could be overcome, however, attendance of barely 2,800 for the Marlies first home playoff game in April 2006 again raised questions about the viability of the franchise.
The team is named after the former Toronto Marlboroughs junior hockey team, but the abbreviated "Marlies" name was chosen to avoid any potential association with the similarly named cigarette brand.
Ummmm...make that from DICTIONARY.com
apparently, I can't spell.
lol. Yeah I looked it up and saw the marlborough thing before I came here. I was JUST about to blog about it. damn. Now I have to think of something else. :o)
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