My Rumble Squad

Picture this: You are in a fight. Don't question what the fight is about. That doesn't matter in this situation. What matters is that you are out numbered and you need a buddy to fight along side you. Who would you pick.


Now this person doesn't have to be your friend. They just have to be able to fight well. You don't have to decide who you would want in this hypothetical fight, I will just show you my top picks for my right hand puncher.


Zdeno Chara from the Boston Bruins


I have never met this fine fellow. I have only seen him on television. But when you are about a foot taller than all the other hockey players on the ice, you know that he can at least overpower them all. Hit can hit, he can jab and he can beat people with a stick very well while keeping his balance. Wait, come to think of it, I could have, on my team...

One angry puncher

Every single hockey player in the who can punch while on skates


These guys can punch. I sometimes lose my balance walking up stairs, but these guys stay afloat while skating on ice. Let me remind you people of something, hockey players fight each other at the same time on ice. That is some crazy stuff right there! Just think of what they can do on the ground.

In the face!

The first albino I can find


Let's face it, we've seen this coming for a long time. Albinos are the new kids with glasses. You just don't want to punch them. This is where albinos have an advantage. They will roundhouse kick the unsuspecting victims in the face to show them that albinos don't mess around. My first pick out of the albino pool would be the rapper Brother Ali a.k.a. Jason Newman mainly because he is the only albino I know of.

Brother Ali is very close to Muhammed Ali

Any one of my high school gym class teachers (Except for one)


I don't know what one does when they are not working as a gym class teacher, but it seems to almost always involve working out for an extended period of time. In school, we used to imaginarily pair up teachers in a fight to guess which one would win. Whenever we got to gym teachers, we would have to pair up two normal teachers against them to make it seem fair. I aced gym class. Ha ha!

Honestly, this could be any one of my gym teachers

Well those are my top picks of people for my rumble squad. They are bunch of lean, mean, fighting machines. I feel that I could do well in a fight with any of these people on my team because I know that they would have my back.


So my question to you is, who would you choose to have in a fight along side you? (Pokemon don't count, yet)


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The News One Year Late

I am writing this post about the news of the time that I am living in. I am writing in April of 2011. Think of this as your quiz of what happened one year ago. can you remember everything? Did something change? Who knows? I don't know. I won't change the news because something drastically happened. It would ruin the magic.

What really got me interested in doing this is that I was reminded of the Balloon Boy incident that seeming happened eons ago. I thought to myself, "Was that really the news back then? Why did we care so much?" So now I am going to write out the news that has been circulating around recently so test yourself about how much you knew and how much you thought you knew.

• The United States almost had a government shut down because of a lack of a budget plan
• The Buffalo Sabres lost the third game of the first round playoffs to the Philadelphia Flyers. They are 1-2 in the series. I am worried (Update: they lost 4-3)
• The NFL is having a lockout. There is no agreement on collective bargaining
• Prince William is scheduled to marry Kate Middleton on April 29
• In Libya there is a huge uproar about Muammar Gaddafi's violence. The U.S has fired missiles and enforced a no fly zone
• An egyptian cobra escaped from the Bronx Zoo but was returned. It had a pretty funny twitter page
• Back to that government shutdown thing, the U.S. has agreed to cut millions of dollars from their budget
• NHL and NBA playoffs are starting
• Charl Schwartzel won the Masters golf tournament at Augusta National
• Lady Gaga came out with two songs called, "Born This Way" and "Judas"
• In the midwest of the United States, it snowed
• Baseball in America is in full swing and it seems the entire season has already been decided
• I saw a squirrel fall out of a tree on top of an unaware duck. The cat that was standing nearby seemed unimpressed
• Japan just suffered the largest earthquake ever recorded and a nuclear power plant crisis. And then another earthquake hit Japan again.

This was the news of the time. How much did you remember? You probably didn't hear about this stuff the first time, but I somewhat did. My view of the news is skewed right now. I'm agitated by the Sabres' loss, Japan, and my loss of my awesome saltine supply.

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Some Dude Created an Application for Prom

I give props to this guy. He did this very well. I was searching for examples of Google Docs for an application I was creating and I came across this (In short, I did not write this):

I don't know if you can read it all. It might be too small for you. It was for me. You can find it using this link.


This is something I would do now that I think of it. Why didn't I?


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Apparently British

I just realized I have been doing something wrong my whole life. When I first heard about my mistake, I was shocked. I felt like a total loser. I was spelling gray wrong.

Up until now, I have been spelling gray "grey," which I thought was just fine. I realized my mistake when I was typing an email to someone that was talking about "grey eyes." The person I sent the email to replied saying, "Don't you mean 'gray?'" This was where I found out that I was un-American and that this was borderline treason. As it turns out, there are a lot of things that are different when it comes to British vs. American. In fact, there is a Wikipedia page on this subject. It states:

American and British English differences

This is one of a series of articles about the differences between American English and British English, which, for the purposes of these articles, are defined as follows:

Differences between

• American and British English
•  American English
•  British English
• Computing
• Keyboards
• Orthography
• Spelling
• Speech
• Accent
• Pronunciation
• Vocabulary
• American words not widely used in Britain
• British words not widely used in America
• Words having different meanings in British and American English:
• Works with different titles in the UK and US

American English (AmE) is the form of English used in the United States. It includes all English dialects used within the United States.

British English (BrE) is the form of English used in the United Kingdom. It includes all English dialects used within the United Kingdom.

Written forms of American and British English as found in newspapers and textbooks vary little in their essential features, with only occasional noticeable differences in comparable media (comparing American newspapers with British newspapers, for example). This kind of formal English, particularly written English, is often called 'standard English'. An unofficial standard for spoken American English has also developed, as a result of mass media and geographic and social mobility, and broadly describes the English typically heard from network newscasters, commonly referred to as non-regional diction, although local newscasters tend toward more parochial forms of speech. Despite this unofficial standard, regional variations of American English have not only persisted but have actually intensified, according to linguist William Labov.

Regional dialects in the United States typically reflect the elements of the language of the main immigrant groups in any particular region of the country, especially in terms of pronunciation and vernacular vocabulary. Scholars have mapped at least four major regional variations of spoken American English: Northern, Southern, Midland, and Western.[4] After the American Civil War, the settlement of the western territories by migrants from the east led to dialect mixing and levelling, so that regional dialects are most strongly differentiated in the eastern parts of the country that were settled earlier. Localized dialects also exist with quite distinct variations, such as in Southern Appalachia and New York.

The spoken forms of British English vary considerably, reflecting a long history of dialect development amid isolated populations. Dialects and accents vary not only among the countries in the United Kingdom, England, Northern Ireland, Scotlandand Wales, but also within these individual countries.

There are also differences in the English spoken by different groups of people in any particular region. Received Pronunciation(RP) has traditionally been regarded as proper English; this is also referred to as "BBC English" or "the Queen's English". The BBC and other broadcasters now intentionally use a mix of presenters with a variety of British accents and dialects, and the concept of "proper English" is now far less prevalent.

British and American English are the reference norms for English as spoken, written, and taught in the rest of the world. For instance the English-speaking members of the Commonwealth often closely follow British English forms while many new American English forms quickly become familiar outside of the United States. Although most dialects of English used in the former British Empire outside of North America are, to various extents, based on British English, most of the countries concerned have developed their own unique dialects, particularly with respect to pronunciation, idioms and vocabulary. Chief among other English dialects are Canadian English, based on the English of United Empire Loyalists who left the 13 Colonies,and Australian English, which rank third and fourth innumber of native speakers.

You can find the rest of the article here. It is very exciting and you will probably learn many differences between Great Britain and the United States.

On an unrelated note, I find myself randomly saying "sorry" in a Canadian accent. If anyone has any thoughts on that, please let me know.

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