….News to me…..I have to check this out….be right back……ok, according to Canadian historian Jean-Patrice Martel..…extensive references to hockey in Britain led him and fellow authors to think the game was first played in the U.K…..the name Hockey has no clear origin….it’s first known mention is from the 1773 book called “Juvenile Sports and Pastimes by Richard Johnson..…the belief that “Hockey” was mentioned in a 1363 proclamation by King Edward III of England is based on modern translations of the proclamation which was originally written in Latin..…stick and ball games date back to pre-Christian times..…which included Hurling, Shinty and versions of Field Hockey, Ijcoif and Bandie Ball….a similar game called Knattleikr..…had been played for thousands of years by the Norse (as documented in the Icelandic Sagas)….British soldiers and immigrants to Canada and the States brought their stick and ball games with them and played them on ice and snow during the winter….and was considered a morning sport….now that’s one side of the coin….here’s the other side….the history of Black Canadians has either been forgotten, deliberately destroyed or conveniently ignored….most historians have viewed it as irrelevant….therefore as for the roots of Canadian Hockey records, it has been based solely and maintained by white historians..…the roots of early Canadian hockey originated with the North American Indians….and African-Canadians..…it was Black hockey players during the latter half of the nineteenth century whose style of play and innovations helped shaped the sport….effectively changing the game of hockey forever..…they can only date Black hockey back to the early 1870’s but Black hockey history in Nova Scotia has parallel roots going back almost 100 years..…with the first reports of it being played in 1815 in the isolated region of Northwest Arm, south of Halifax….the area was the site of a small Black enclave….four families originating from the Chesapeake Bay area with a total of 15 children relocated in this area….were these the children among the first Canadians to play the game of hockey?….no one really knows..…but the coincidence between the date of the Northwest Arm’s Black settlement and the first records of hockey being played in the area are worthy of reflection.
NEW STUDY EXPLAINS WHY BASS INSTRUMENTS ARE FUNDAMENTAL TO MUSIC….You have got to be kidding me….you “Stupid Study People” spent millions to realize….now days…a song sucks…if there isn’t any bottom to it?…Jaco Pastorius, Donald “Duck Dunn, Rick James, Louis Johnson must be rolling in their graves with laughter….and Victor Bailey, Flea, Stanley Clarke, Bootsy Collins, Ron Carter, Larry Graham, Anthony Jackson, Alphonso Johnson, Igor Kljujic, Mark King, Abraham Laboriel, Marcus Miller, Meshell Ndegeocello, George Porter Jr., Prince, Partick Scales, Doug Wimbish, Victor Wooten, Raoul Walton and Francis Prestia are probably telling all of you to…. “KISS IT!”
THE CAT IN THE HAT ON AGING…I cannot see…I cannot pee…I cannot chew…I cannot screw…Oh my God what can I do?…my memory shrinks…my hearing stinks…no sense of smell…I look like hell…my mood is bad – can you tell?…my body’s drooping…have trouble pooping…the golden years have come at last…the golden years can kiss my ass.
DISTURBING VIDEO SHOWS BLACK FEMALE STUDENT BODY SLAMMED AND DRAGGED ACROSS CLASSROOM BY WHITE POLICE OFFICER…..Now I don’t know what she said..…or did for him to act like that..…but I watched the video..…and he approached her..…snatched her up and slammed her to the floor….and then dragged her out of the classroom..…and that’s pretty disturbing….and I think unnecessary….a student approached him and questioned him….the officer said, “I’ll put you in jail next”….one thing I do know is this….if that had been my child….I’d be in jail for assault on a police officer.
MEET THE WORLD’S OLDEST DANCE CREW…With a collective age of 81…Hip Op-eration are officially the world’s oldest dance crew…a survey from the Royal Academy of Dance…found the older you get, the less embarrassed you are to get up and dance….their classes cater towards those over 50…the 22 members ages range from 68 to 96-years old…the crew started off with a flash mob performance in Auckland, New Zealand in 2012 and had 1.5 million hits on You Tube…since then they have performed at the World Hip Hop Championship in Las Vegas, in New Zealand’s hip hop championships twice and performed in the Taipei Arena to an audience of 15,000….they’re using hip hop as a vehicle to form stronger connections with younger people and also promote an attitude change in our society towards aged people….amongst the 22 members…four use mobility aids…several are deaf and one is legally blind….but that doesn’t stop them from dancing….and they made the Guinness World Records as being the oldest hip hop dancers….you have to watch the video…major props to them!
THIS GUY ENDED UP HAVING THE TIME OF HIS LIFE AFTER DRUNKENLY BOOKING A TRIP TO BRAZIL…..Yes I’ve woken up after a long night of drinking and don’t remember much..…but I’ve never done this one….Jamie Ather went out one night in Glasgow and got wasted….so wasted that he used his debit card and booked a flight to Rio….and didn’t remember doing it….he said it never crossed his mind to travel to South America…..he tried to get his money back from the airline….but due to the fact that airlines do now have a “Sorry I was drunk when I did it” clause….guess what they said?….right….so he said “what the hell”….and took the flight..…he went hiking in Machu Picchu….had cocktails on the Copacabana Beach and partied in Rio….spent time at a sloth sanctuary in Northern Brazil, documented his trip on Instagram….and had the best time of his life.