Politics | 10/12/2008 10:46 am

Hockey Fans Booed 'Hockey Mom' Sarah Palin at Flyers' Game (Video)

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Sarah Palin before dropping the puck
New York Rangers' Scott Gomez, left,
and Philadelphia Flyers' Mike Richards, right/ AP

The self-proclaimed "hockey mom" was booed by hockey fans in Philadelphia last night.

Sarah Palin did not receive the warmest welcome before she dropped the ceremonial puck at Saturday’s NHL hockey game between the New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers. The Republican vice presidential candidate’s visit was one day after a legislative probe concluded that she abused her power as Alaska’s governor, CNN reported. The report probing Palin’s firing of Alaska’s public safety commissioner found that Palin violated a state’s ethic’s law — which prohibit using public office for personal benefit — when she tried to get Mike Wooten fired. Wooten was a state trooper and Palin’s sister’s ex-husband. The investigation also stated that Palin’s firing of the commisioner Walter Monegan was authorized.

"Flyers’ fans, please welcome the best-known hockey mom in the United States," the announcer said. Watch the YouTube clip below to see what happened next:

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People in Pennsylvania have lost thousands of steel and other manufacturing jobs. So, it’s no surprise they’re not fond of the “conservative” Republicans, who’ve blown trillions of dollars in the Bush and Ray-gun eras.

By James the Game on 10/12/2008 12:02 pm

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H-mmmm….”Ceremonial Puck”. Now that’s an introduction I’d like to hear…”and now, ladies and gentlemen…. you know her,you love her…. please give a very warm Muskogee welcome to… Ceremonial Puck!” So far the pucking appears to have been rather unceremonious….

By georgia fatwood on 10/12/2008 1:35 pm

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Ohh Georgia—ROFLMAO-

By f p on 10/12/2008 1:46 pm

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Muskogee, Georgia? Muskogee? Are you there? You must be Cherokee then, to think like you do. (I nearly died trying to fly in there in a storm one day!) ;-))

By C jay on 10/13/2008 12:27 am

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Wasn’t Ceremonial Puck a character in “A Mid-Ceremonial Night’s Dream”? I think Robin Goodfellow played the part.

By Steve R on 11/12/2008 11:27 pm

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Yes…I’m sure you’re right about that…..Don’t look now, but she’s still pucking….I was surprised to find your post in a month old stale thread but I find that when I want to speak to someone about something totally off thread, it’s ok to tuck a bit of irrelevance into the waybacks…..I think it was rocky rocky or countrywoman who sent me to a site for inveterate punsters…I was there for about four days straight…let me know if you have a rainy day to squander…I’ll try to find the link…. I think puns are right up there with duct tape in terms of what keeps the world safe for human habitation…I’ve not been on this site or anywhere else with any regularity since the dust settled from Nov. 4th….Relief and exhaustion and time to catch up on a little ironing from the 90’s…….

By georgia fatwood on 11/13/2008 11:56 am

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Hi, Georgia. I’ve been out for awhile, and am still trying to catch up. I had not even noticed the month on the timestamps. Oops. Don Rickles used to call people a hockey puck. I think Sarah Palin fits the profile. Puns and I go way back. When I was little, it was good for laughs. Now, it is one of the tools I use to exercise my brain. Puns, double-entendre, Words that have multiple meanings, multiple words with the same meaning, and the manipulation of them all exercise my verbal agility beyond the everyday conversation. That and Wheel of Fortune. I started using movie trivia and acting careers to exercise my memory, but that can be subject to periods of apathy. If you find that link, please post it. I have a nephew that shares my fondness of puns, though he is only a punster in training.

By Steve R on 11/13/2008 6:25 pm

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I am tech challenged so I’ll have to get those out somehow…I don’t know how to cut and stick…don’t try to tell me how…It’s on my list for my 13 year old tutor next week…She’s had her Apple for five years, makes movies, knows how Garage Band works and is working on the great southern teeny-bop novel….Lordy…. My dad was a devoted punster….He really thought punning was high art…we had what we called the “groaner scale”…the louder the groans, the more points the punster got…..pretty arbitrary but effective….And if anyone slapped their forehead and fell on the kitchen table in a groaning heap….well, that was over the moon…. I’ll get back to you and Punster, j.g.

By georgia fatwood on 11/13/2008 7:01 pm

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Wow, Georgia. A 13 year old girl as a tutor. That touches girls in computing, a fine way to strengthen a relationship, and expanding your own skills. …Lordy… Your “tutor” sounds amazing. I could never get my mom to learn anything about computers but the very minimum at the very last minute, no matter how useful or important it was to her. Stubborn. I remember on one vacation, seems like a lifetime ago, when we were visiting a dam. My mom (who never ever swears) picked up a pamphlet and announced that it had “a map of the whole dam area.” She did not realize what it sounded like, but you know I could not let that slide. Might have been the biggest laugh she ever got. We all laughed to the point of tears. Sounds like I would have liked your dad. Sorry about the “was”. You must miss him. You must have grown up in a pretty happy home. I’ll be watching for the link. I have taken patience past virtue and on to character flaw, so do not worry about time. ;-)

By Steve R on 11/14/2008 10:11 pm

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This computer is so much more organized and sensible than I am…After a rather fruitless search of bookmark folders, I looked in “funnies” and sure enough….I’m hoping I can type in the address… http://www.punofthedaay.com I’ve only scratched the surface on the links that can be followed there…I did see that, sure enough, under “what is a pun?”, they talk about groaning as requisite….. Gonna see if this works…

By georgia fatwood on 11/15/2008 9:09 am

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Spelled it wrong…! But go anyway for the links…..It’ll ask if you spelled it wrong, of course…. http://www.punoftheday.com http://www.en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Beard http://www.en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Latin_proverbs#V The Henry Beard modern Latin quotes sound so nice when you say them…..A refined way to say bad things…. I like the dam story…I get it….My mom could make herself say the first letter of a bad word….but only after she was very old and so were we…I guess she thought we could handle it at that point….. I think rocky rocky told me about aptonyms….they’re in wikipedia also….and…. http://www.wordsmith.org/anu/ Hope these work… After an absolute internet absence of ten years, my brother, an Apple whizbang, gave me this with the following instruction(singular)….”here’s where you turn it on….gotta get back to Chattanooga….call me…” This was soon after wowOwow started…I spent the better part of three months ADTRH….Alice Down the Rabbit Hole….Wish I’d found the punsters earlier….I managed to spend a morning on the Fountain Pen Network and another learning the best way to polish chrome on a Chambers stove ….ADTRH…..Big time…. If you weren’t here early on, you might go to Her Tube and look for “Computer Trouble” with French and Saunders…I think it was late May ….. Best to you and punster neff….

By georgia fatwood on 11/15/2008 9:35 am

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Thanks for the links, georgia. I look forward to checking them out. Here’s a little something that might tickle your fancy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulwer-Lytton_Fiction_Contest I do not remember how I ran across it, many gigabytes under the bridge since then. When you mentioned antonyms, it reminded me of the contest and something else I ran across: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome To think how dry English classes were back in grade school.

By Steve R on 11/15/2008 9:59 pm

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Ok Sarah can we now say: but… but… they’re not one of us???

By f p on 10/12/2008 1:48 pm

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Thanks fp… Since I don’t seem to be the only one diligently working to elevate procrastination to the level of high art….. A rowdy chum….Bella Bartalk…taught me this tongue-twister…. “I’m a fig pucker. I puck figs. I’m the best fig pucker that ever pucked a fig.” Go ahead..five times…fast… It was all I could do to type it properly…..

By georgia fatwood on 10/12/2008 2:08 pm