I read Cathal Kelly's sports articles in the Globe and Mail - I don't read them for sports news. I read them for his outstanding use of the English language in phrases and expression that are humorous and cynical.
Today the expression is "moist corner".
This is in relation to the Blackhawks waiving Corey Perry for what they called "conduct that is unacceptable" and that "this does not involve any other players or their family members."
Moist corner is not a regular expression. Did you know that you should give your Tarantula a moist corner? And that there are 75 things we love about Texas, specifically "in my mostly moist corner of Texas, it really isn't the heat..."
And then a "moist corner of the humour medical chart..."
A wet corner is a person with bad intentions, an idiot, rude person, ugly place or location. The Urban Dictionary says that moist can be added to an innocent sentence to make it sound dirty. It says that moist is the perfect word to make others uncomfortable.
This is a lot of content packed in one word, and that's what makes Cathal Kelly so remarkable.
Could this be an archetypal son's worst fear? I think so because the rumour headlines are stated like this: "Corey Perry SLEPT with Connor Bedard's Mom".
And how curious that there is the continued reference to the person involved as "Connor Bedard's mom".
What other words are in the headlines? Shocking, disgusting, spicy, crazy and hot rumour. I think "peculiar" is the most accurate adjective so far.
Sports Illustrated's AI-generated journalists and their bad quality stories the revelation on the front page of the Globe and Mail today. Maybe the rumour was started by AI.
We hope that there are no Blackhawk players on this hockey-themed Christmas tree.
