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lakeeffectgirl actual hugs, but the good thing about living in the internet age is that there's always another picture of Mike Richards, so I made her a picspam instead. (Aren't picspams basically the fannish version of hugs anyway?) By way of introduction, a few caveats and whatnot: First, these are not new pictures. (Ha! Like I could ever find Carts or Richie pictures that lakeeffectgirl hasn't already seen.) The idea here was just to put a bunch of pictures together in one place. Secondly, although I snuck in some source citations (because our lives are full of jokes that require citations), this is not a primer. For that, you want either riadsala's fantastic primer/introduction or lakeeffectgirl's extensive primer/timeline. Thirdly, this ends on a tin-hat defying heterosexual note, so if that's not your thing, you might want to skip the last two pictures.
Once upon a time, these two kids played on different hockey teams:
But that didn't stop them from being friends:
Sometimes they gave new meaning to the term "hearteyes":
Sometimes they looked like totally ridiculous dorks:
Sometimes they partied:
Sometimes they looked like they were in a boy band:
Oh, Danny Briere. How did you sneak in there? Well, if we're going to see you with Richie, we should see you with Jeff too:
Richie was there too, that day, on the other boat, in a Rednex Rebellion hat (because that's what Richie wears):
The mere existence of these photos never fails to make me laugh.
Bonus fun fact: Danny and Carts partied together in the summer of 2010, while Richie was in Canada and before Claude moved in. (Source [Note: the source is horribly sexist/misogynistic. As a general rule, avoid all comments at Crossing Broad.])
This is the section of the picspam where we look at miscellaneous pictures of Carts and Richie (fair warning: there are small children in this section):
We will skip the sad part where they were cruelly separated and go right to the part where they got to be together again:
Yes, Mike Richards actually tweeted that. Aren't they the best?
Only when I went to make this picspam did I realize that Richie ducking his head to Carts is a thing he does in general, not just once:
Sometimes they go on dates:
Anyway, eventually, they won everything, because that's what Mike Richards does:
The commentary on this gif on Tumblr is one of the best things ever:
Summer followed by a lockout may mean no hockey, but there's still the glory of Twitter to bring us things like this:
(Source)
Because I know it will makelakeeffectgirl laugh, I will say that, to me, this is the ultimate Jeff Carter is just a dude I can't pick out of a lineup photo. The only way I knew it was Jeff was that Megan tweeted it. You might be wondering to yourself why we're even looking at this, then, and the answer to that is that it's because it only seemed fair to see Jeff and Megan before we end this post with the best picture: happy!drunk!Mike + happy!drunk!Lindsey + Lindsey's cleavage:
(Source)
You're welcome.
lakeeffectgirl actual hugs, but the good thing about living in the internet age is that there's always another picture of Mike Richards, so I made her a picspam instead. (Aren't picspams basically the fannish version of hugs anyway?) By way of introduction, a few caveats and whatnot: First, these are not new pictures. (Ha! Like I could ever find Carts or Richie pictures that lakeeffectgirl hasn't already seen.) The idea here was just to put a bunch of pictures together in one place. Secondly, although I snuck in some source citations (because our lives are full of jokes that require citations), this is not a primer. For that, you want either riadsala's fantastic primer/introduction or lakeeffectgirl's extensive primer/timeline. Thirdly, this ends on a tin-hat defying heterosexual note, so if that's not your thing, you might want to skip the last two pictures.Once upon a time, these two kids played on different hockey teams:
But that didn't stop them from being friends:
We expected to play our whole careers together. I’ve known Jeff since we were 16, probably best friends since we were 18. We lived together and probably spent every day together for a couple years.Eventually, of course, they got to play together:
-Mike Richards (Source)
Sometimes they gave new meaning to the term "hearteyes":
Sometimes they looked like totally ridiculous dorks:
Sometimes they partied:
Sometimes they looked like they were in a boy band:
Oh, Danny Briere. How did you sneak in there? Well, if we're going to see you with Richie, we should see you with Jeff too:
Richie was there too, that day, on the other boat, in a Rednex Rebellion hat (because that's what Richie wears):
The mere existence of these photos never fails to make me laugh.
Bonus fun fact: Danny and Carts partied together in the summer of 2010, while Richie was in Canada and before Claude moved in. (Source [Note: the source is horribly sexist/misogynistic. As a general rule, avoid all comments at Crossing Broad.])
This is the section of the picspam where we look at miscellaneous pictures of Carts and Richie (fair warning: there are small children in this section):
We will skip the sad part where they were cruelly separated and go right to the part where they got to be together again:
Yes, Mike Richards actually tweeted that. Aren't they the best?
Only when I went to make this picspam did I realize that Richie ducking his head to Carts is a thing he does in general, not just once:
Sometimes they go on dates:
Anyway, eventually, they won everything, because that's what Mike Richards does:
The commentary on this gif on Tumblr is one of the best things ever:
puckling: PUT A RING ON IT. PUT A FUCKING RING ON IT MIKE RICHARDS.We have now come to the end of our time together. People who do not want pictures of Carts and Richie with women should skip to the comments now.
missmollyetc: HE PUT A RING, A DUMBASS CAP, AND AN ENTIRE STANLEY CUP ON THAT MAN.
rsadelle: Bringing this back because I keep thinking about it and being delighted.
giganticism: I LOVE THIS ROM COM. IT HAS A GREAT ENDING.
Summer followed by a lockout may mean no hockey, but there's still the glory of Twitter to bring us things like this:
(Source)
Because I know it will make
lakeeffectgirl laugh, I will say that, to me, this is the ultimate Jeff Carter is just a dude I can't pick out of a lineup photo. The only way I knew it was Jeff was that Megan tweeted it. You might be wondering to yourself why we're even looking at this, then, and the answer to that is that it's because it only seemed fair to see Jeff and Megan before we end this post with the best picture: happy!drunk!Mike + happy!drunk!Lindsey + Lindsey's cleavage:(Source)
You're welcome.
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Date: 2012-09-30 01:44 am (UTC)I realized the head-ducking thing happens all the time the other day, but it's even better in a series of gifs. JFC, Mike Richards. Someone should use that in a story.
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Thank you!!
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Date: 2012-09-30 01:51 am (UTC)Someone totally should! I don't know if I want it to be a celebratory ritual thing or a Mike Richards is secretly a sub thing.
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Date: 2012-10-23 06:55 pm (UTC)Also the head-ducking goal celly. Ugggggh just kill me boys, why are you so perfect together.
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Date: 2012-10-24 02:43 am (UTC)The head-ducking! Somewhere there is a blog post that refers to Mike Richards as the "alpha male" of the Carter-Richards duo, which seems so reasonable, and I love how the head-ducking thing turns that around.