Hubby is relaxing on our couch watching sports and happened to flip the channel briefly to hockey. I don't know anything about hockey except that whenever I've attended a live game, I'm surrounded by belligerent drunks as two teams of heavily padded men beat the snot out of each other. And that's why when I heard the term "icing" I had to stop and ponder it for a moment. I mean, icing doesn't sound like a very manly term for a rough and tumble game.
Can you imagine if off-sides in soccer was called "meringuing"? What about if a false start in football was "frosting"? Or if a foul in basketball was called a "ganache"?
I know, I know-- icing refers to the ice which hockey is played on. But I can't help but conjure up images of buttercream and whipped fudge when I hear it. Makes me giggle. Yeah, hockey just lost a few macho points in my book for that one.
Ha ha! When I hear the term "icing" I think of people being killed...you know, "Yeah boss, we iced him. He's got cement boots on down in the river." Therefore, the act would be icing :-) Gosh, did we grow up on different sides of the train tracks?
ReplyDeleteActually, I like both of your "takes" on the term! Grandpa Noll used to explain hockey like this, "So I showed up for the fight and a hockey game eventually broke out!" :)
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