Thursday, December 2, 2010

Edmonton at Toronto December 2 2010

Gene was pulling out all the stops tonight with five jaw dropping GPP's. The last three were especially groan worthy. I often wonder if he sits in his hotel room for hours on end trying to come up with this stuff while everyone else is out having fun.

GPP pick of the night, Pun 2: The Vest


Pun 1: Opening

Pun 2: The Vest

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Pun 3: Sam Gagner and his dad as a Maple Leaf

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Pun 4: Taylor Hall and his agent Bobby Orr

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Pun 5: Luke Schenn and Justin Bieber

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On a side note, I've decided not to type out the puns going forward for two reasons:
1. The art of a really bad pun is all in the delivery. This is not captured very well when just reading the pun in text form.
2. It takes a long time and it's already hectic enough getting the videos uploaded. If I felt it had more value I might make the time, but I don't think it does. Agree? Disagree? Thought Justin Beiber was a brand of womens undergarments? Leave a comment and let me know.

The next two Oilers games are on CBC and then TSN. So Gene won't be up to bat again until Friday December 10 when the Tampa Bay Lightning visit Rexall place. That's a lot of Gene free time between now and then so perhaps we'll take a look and see if we can dig up some classic Gene moments on YouTube. If you have any favorites, please feel free to leave them in the comments section.

If you start to get a little weak in the knees from Gene withdrawls between now and December 10, don't fret. There is a streak of 8, count them EIGHT Sportsnet broadcasts in a row leading through Christmas till December 28th. Forget the 12 days of Christmas, how about the 8 games of Gene-mas (groans all around).

Monday, November 29, 2010

Edmonton at Ottawa November 29 2010

I couldn't have asked for a much better set of puns for my first GPP video post. Gene is money in the bank with a pun trifecta in Canada's national capital city.


GPP pick of the night, Pun 1: The nations capital (barely beat out Pun 2, the stache comment put it over the edge).


Pun 1: The nations capital
Gene: "It is in Ottawa where you will find parliament hill and the leaders of our great nation. Edmonton is working on their own leaders. Whether they wear the C, or fit the future to a tee. You always keep an eye out for those with special skills and they’ve even thrown in some foreign content to help out. As you can never have enough players stached away to do whats best for the nation of Oiler believers. Tonight it is a tough hill to climb as Edmonton begins their three game Eastern swing in the capital of Canada."


Pun 2: Politically correct
Gene: "We’re in Ottawa so we have to be politically correct. Upstairs we go to two guys who’s wardrobe is Conservative, who’s opinions are Liberal and who go to the washroom before the game. That way they don’t have to ND....Pee!"


Pun 3: Alfredsson and Federer
Gene: "When Daniel Alfredsson hit the 1000 game plateau for his career his wife decided to setup a trip. The trip was to the all England club where the two of them enjoyed the Wimbledon. Now not only did they watch some great tennis but the Alfredssons had the chance to meet Roger Federer who on again off again is the number one player in the world and they had a chance to spend about 20 minutes talking tennis with him but they were pretty quiet about it because they didn’t want to make a racquet."

GPP most wanted list

Topping my most wanted list is a video or picture of Gene wearing that hot dog costume around Halloween a year or two back interviewing Kelly Buchberger. I'm paraphrasing here but the line was something like 'this is a hotdog, interviewing a burger' *groans all around*. Well done Gene'o, well done.

I've setup the PVR for tonight's broadcast so here is hoping Gene drops at least one epic GPP for the first video post. Until I figure out a better way I'll just be video taping pointing the camera at the screen. It'll do for now anyway.

So it begins

Me and a few cohorts were chatting about the epic nature of the "Gene Principe pun™" (hence forth refereed to as GPP). Puns so bad they are good. Puns so corny they pop. Puns so amazingly horrible they make you want to curl up into the fetal position and cry. Puns so shocking that only a Princ(ip)e could come up with them.

I did some searching around the interwebs and was surprised (mortified really) that there was no GPP resource available for his growing throng of fans. So here we are. The idea behind this blog is to track GPP's on Rogers Sportsnet West broadcasts of Edmonton Oilers games. I'll try to post a video of as many GPP's as I can after each Oilers Sportsnet broadcast. I've been known to have the attention span of a ferret so we'll see how long this actually lasts, but if there is enough interest I'll give an honest effort.

If you have any to GPP's to share, please leave a comment or send me an email and I'll get it posted ASAP.

Welcome to Prince of Puns. Let the madness begin.