NHL awards ceremony TONIGHT

In honor of the hockey Oscars that are will be aired tonight on Versus, where hometown hockey heroes Alexander Ovechkin, Nicky Backstrom and Bruce Boudreau hope to bring back four trophies to Kettler, Vocabulary Shenanigans tips it's hat to Wayne's World, the book, for it's Top Ten Hockey Terms that sound dirty but aren't:

10 - On top of the crease.
9 - Spearing
8 - High sticking
7 - Penalty box
6 - Power play
5 - Dump and chase
4 - Wrap around goal
3 - Slipped it between the pads
2 - Putting your hand on a girl's breast
1 - Puck

And can't forget the guys over at Inside College Hockey and their "Things Found on Cocktail Napkin" list

• The Sin Bin
• Pulling the Goalie
• Touch-up Offsides
• In the Crease
• Holding the Stick
• Butt-Ending
• Change on the Fly
• Third Man In
• Hand Pass
• Dump and Chase

We'd like to add to the list:
-5- hole
- high sticking
-penetrate the zone
-poke check
-takes it deep
-2 man advantage

Needless to say, members of the VS team will be watching tonight, hoping that our guys bring some pretty stuff back to the Phonebooth.

What about you? Got any hockey related terms to add to the list of giggle-worth words?

When technology goes bad: Twittering

Our online source of all the important info known to man, Wikipedia, defines Twittering: Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (or "tweets"; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter web site, via the Twitter web site, short message service (SMS), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook.

We here at Vocabulary Shenanigans think otherwise, especially when uttered by some poor Cap Hill staff who thinks it's cool to be connected to every social networking site available, but in fact, it just makes them sound completely unconnected to the real world.

It's especially funny when taken out of context or as defined by Urban Dictionary: Twitter--female perineum; that area of the anatomy between the the twat and the shitter.

"DUDE! I'm twittering" just makes us giggle, no matter what.