And the answer is … oh, she is the absolute coolest.
Last week at the Fisherman’s Wharf DopeFest, she offered my wife and I tickets for a San Jose Shark’s game. It seems she has season’s tickets and she and her hubby were not attending this particular game. Out of nothing but the goodness of her heart, she offered them to me.
I’ve thanked her in person, and I would just like to publicly announce what a truly nice person she is and thank her one more time, just because.
Mrs. Batty and I had a great time at the game last night. The Sharks were playing the Buffalo Sabers, my de facto home team (I being born in Niagara Falls). Unfortunately, the Sabers lost, BUT … it was a very exciting game to watch. The final score was 2-1. Buffalo pulled their goalie for the last 3 minutes of the game. Six skaters put on a furious attack only to be thwarted by San Jose’s stalwart defense and more than a few spectacular saves.
So, once again, Sue Duhnym, thanks for providing my wife and I a wonderful evening, thank you , thank you, thank you. You are da man, so to speak.
She’s not as cool as I believed initially. In fact, my immediate response to seeing this thread was to run the concept of Sue Duhnym through my handy mass spectrometer. Turns out, she’s only 46.728% cool. The remaining portions of Sue break down as follows:
I can’t even explain how grateful I am to her hospitality in inviting NorCal dopers to her birthday bash, even though Demo and I regretfully could not make it. And now her Superbowl party, which we are eagerly looking forward to.
For me in particular, moving across country and not having any friends to speak of around here, the NorCal Dopers, and Sue especially, have truly been a God send.
Thank you Sue!
Oh, and I agree with Coldie, Sue does have some killer eyes!
Yep, as I’ve said before, Sue, you’re pretty damn cool. Now it’s official - an entire thread dedicated to your coolness. And I wanna see some of the pictures from your Goth years. Hopefully you’ll have some handy at the Super Bowl party.
That game was my lead art last night. Used a picture of Evgeni Nabokov stopping a shot by Doug Gilmour. It was kind of a weird picture, because I guess Nabokov was so far out of the crease that the goal itself wasn’t visible behind him – you kind of get used to the notion that, if you’re running a picture of a goalie, the goal is generally going to be there. I wrote the headline “San Jose trumps Buffalo” even when it was in the second period, and hoped the Sharks wouldn’t allow a tie (or lose), because I didn’t feel like going back and changing it – and, of course, it’s just not the most satisfying thing in the world to announce a tie in 80-POINT TYPE.
I was disappointed that Miroslav Satan didn’t do anything of note. It’s juvenile, yes, but I will NEVER get tired of reading about Satan scoring a power-play goal.
Very much so. She was like a little kid when we walked up the stairs and looked down at the rink … “It’s so close, where are our seats, TV makes the rink look bigger, let’s get hot dogs, hurry, hurry it’s starting, I hope we catch a puck, ooh look at the cool laser lights, wow those guys are big, who should we root for …” for about a 20 minute stretch, I couldn’t get a word in edge-wize.
And I’d just like to point out that I am not actually an attention-whore. Until there is actual money changing hands I am but a humble attention-slut.
There was a Fisherman’s Wharf Dopefest last week? Obviously I’ve been dropped from the A list.
But that’s ok, Sue’s so cool I obviously couldn’t be on the same list as her.
In fact she is so cool that she isn’t even going to bat an eyelash when I announce that Baglady and I have gone vegetarian with the new year and her offered dish at the Super Bowl party will have to be declined (unless she has gone to any great work on it, in which case Baglady and I will eat it happily since the decision was based on things other than ideology).
Further she is so cool that that Baglady has strong reservations about allowing me in Sue’s presence unaccompanied. Which, sadly, may have to be the case as she has a conflict with the Super Bowl Party.
In extremis, she is so cool that if the Raider’s make the Super Bowl she will allow guests (but not me) to show up at her Super Bowl party in full “Black Hole” ragalia. The rest of the guests will then point at laugh at them for looking a bit silly.
Hey ob:
You and Baglady are at the top of my list!
The get-together last week was very, very spontaneous, like less than 24 hrs notice spontaneous. See Jack’s Sanity for the Unemployed thread. I’m too lazy to look for it, sorry. But you were missed.
Looking forward to seeing you guys at Sue’s party.
