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This week’s Top Ten Hits from
the National Hockey League

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HERE THEY ARE:

This week’s Top Ten Hits
from the National Hockey League

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Here they are……

This week’s Top-10 Hits from the National Hockey League

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THE TRADE DEADLINE FOR THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE was last Tuesday.  Now all the teams’ rosters are set for the remainder of the season and they will be pursuing the playoff slots vigorously.

It will be especially intense this year because most of the teams are bunched  within a few points of each other there are only about 15 to 17 games left to play.

In both conferences there are at least six teams in contention for the final playoff spot.  There will be plenty of good action during the next six weeks.

As a public service, Firegeezer brings you the National Hockey League’s Top-10 Hits for the week ending February 28:

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The La Charrette movie theater, which was known as the smallest cinema in Wales, finally had to shut down its operation recently.

It was started up in 1953 by the late Gwyn Phillips in the little town of Gorseinon near Swansea. The townsfolk had no local cinema to attend during those golden days of the movies, so Phillips purchased an old railway carriage and had it dragged into the yard behind his townhouse and converted it into a 23-seat movie palace.

The scrap railway carriage was brought
up this passage into the back yard.

It has served the community well for over 50 years, lately operated by his widow. But the old railcar has been crumbling and reached a state where it wasn’t feasible to repair it any further. So it announced that it would have to darken its projectors and shut down.

The 23-seat theater served the town
for over 50 years.

A noted BBC film critic, Mark Kermode, heard about it and organized a grand exit for the old flickerhouse. After contacting all the movie moguls in the UK, he arranged for La Charrette’s final screening to be a World Premier of a science-fiction comedy starring Kenneth Branagh and Courtney Cox. And they did it up right, with Mr. Branagh attending the formal affair. They even had the wide, red carpet laid from the street, through the spacing between the houses up to the theater, along with the big searchlight sweeping the sky overhead.

The Red Carpet was rolled out
for the World Premiere

Mark Kermode (l.) and Kenneth Branagh (r.)
pause outside the theater lounge.

This BBC News video report covers the story of the theater’s final night.

Read the BBC story and see more photos HERE.

THERE AREN’T MANY THINGS WORSE THAN CATCHING THE LATE DESK WATCH.  It’s dark outside and you can’t see out the front window.  You’re too far from the tv to watch whatever the rest of the guys are enjoying.  And it’s so darned quiet!

Be alone no more!  Firegeezer will help you through the night.  Just click on THIS LINK and then follow the little blue ball.  Time will just sail on by.  And enjoy the catchy tune, too!

FOR THOSE FOLKS WHO ARE FANS of the hilarious television show Monk, we want to remind you that the famous “Defective Detective” returns to USA Network tonight for the next 8-episode set.

I LOVE A GOOD, HARMLESS PRACTICAL JOKE.  Especially one that everybody enjoys watching and nobody suffers from it.  That’s why I wanted to share this one with you.  Actually, it took place in April of last year, but I just now saw it online.

A group of 80 people dressed in the same clothing style that the employees of Best Buy electronics stores wear.  Then they all went into a large Best Buy store in Manhattan and just walked around the store.

They photographed and video’d the event and it’s hilarious.

Here’s one sample from the report:

I was lingering near the audio equipment at one point when a middle-aged couple asked me if I knew the price of some speakers. I looked for a price tag and then read $99.99 labeled on the shelf by the product. I said “$99.99?” Unsure. And they pointed out, “No. That is the price of the wireless speakers”. “Oh”, I said “Maybe it’s been labeled wrong.” The man said, “Well, do you work here?” I said, “No,” but I thought they looked like good speakers. They looked puzzled.

Just then an actual Best Buy floor clerk approached me:

Employee: “You can’t talk to my customers”.
Simmons: “I’m just having a friendly conversation with these people”
Employee: “But you don’t work here.”
Simmons: “It’s a free country I feel I can speak with anybody I choose.”
Employee: “You’re playing some games.”
Simmons: “I’m just here to shop with my wife.”
Employee: “Yeah, you and your 50 friends?”
Simmons: “I don’t know anybody else here.”
Employee: “Yeah, you’re instigating (sic) our shirts.”

Yes, he said INSTIGATING.

I told him, “I’m only wearing what I wore this morning,” and walked away.

A little while later, an older woman with a handful of products walked past me at one point muttering to herself, “Everyone in this goddamned store is wearing a blue shirt and nobody knows a thing!”

Go to the website HERE and read how they did it, look at the photos, and keep scrolling.  They have several videos posted from the adventure.    But be sure and watch the first one.  It’s precious.  And don’t be afraid to chuckle.