What does "Hab" stand for?
pghe...@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
"Hab". My guess is that it is an abbreviation of some French word.
Hockey fans in Louisville, KY? Sure, now that the Derby is over. :-)
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wil...@gw.wmich.edu
> I know this is probably a naive and often-answered question, but what is a
> "Hab". My guess is that it is an abbreviation of some French word.
>
>
Hab (properly Habs) is short for Les Habitants Canadiens.
George Ferguson
In article <1993Jun9...@ulkyvx.louisville.edu> pghe...@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
>I know this is probably a naive and often-answered question, but what is a
>"Hab". My guess is that it is an abbreviation of some French word.
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Ed Cottrill
>I know this is probably a naive and often-answered question, but what is a
>"Hab". My guess is that it is an abbreviation of some French word.
Yes and no. The Montreal Canadians are called the "Habs" in honour of
the continental philosopher Jurgen *Hab*ermas. Readers of Habermas know
that he was one of the first theorists to draw attention to what is
known in continental circles as "the play of the signifier"-- the
attempt to crystalize the meaning of any sign definitively and finally
is continually frustrated as all signs are continually recontextualized.
As Darryl Sittler pointed out, hockey is unique among team sports in
that the play is chaotic, with a great deal of energy being expended for
nothing. In basketball, most plays end in a basket. In football, there
is an orderly drive down the field. Baseball is almost *all*
structure-- the ball is only in play for three minutes out of two and a
half hours. The "signifier" in hockey (the puck) is slippery in every
sense of the word. A single bounce can transform an eloquent series of
plays from something which is meaningful for one team into something
which is meaningful for the other. Of course the only thing that can be
"said" with a puck is said by putting it in one net or the other-- the
chaotic energy of the teams as they fight for control of the signifier
might be likened to a desperate search for words, or self-expression, in
a system of constantly-shifting contexts and circumstances which itself
might be said to symbolize the postmodern condition. By referring to
their team as the "Habs", Montreal fans subtly acknowledge the special
status of their game as a paradigm of postmodernity.
David Stone
>pghe...@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
Well Sir..You have made my evening/morning...Thank You ! Thank You !
Stone
John McBrayne
Cottrill) writes:
|>pghe...@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
|>
|>>I know this is probably a naive and often-answered question, but what is a
|>>"Hab". My guess is that it is an abbreviation of some French word.
|>
|> Yes and no. The Montreal Canadians are called the "Habs" in honour of
|>the continental philosopher Jurgen *Hab*ermas. Readers of Habermas know
|>that he was one of the first theorists to draw attention to what is
|>known in continental circles as "the play of the signifier"-- the
|>attempt to crystalize the meaning of any sign definitively and finally
... blah blah blah ...
|>might be likened to a desperate search for words, or self-expression, in
|>a system of constantly-shifting contexts and circumstances which itself
|>might be said to symbolize the postmodern condition. By referring to
|>their team as the "Habs", Montreal fans subtly acknowledge the special
|>status of their game as a paradigm of postmodernity.
Gosh, and all this time I thought "The Habs" was just a shortened/anglo'd
version of "les Habitants"
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>I know this is probably a naive and often-answered question, but what is a
>"Hab". My guess is that it is an abbreviation of some French word.
>
>Hockey fans in Louisville, KY? Sure, now that the Derby is over. :-)
It's an old latin word for stick ball.
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Mike Eisler
>"Hab". My guess is that it is an abbreviation of some French word.
The term Hab dates back to the 1967 World's Fair (Expo) that
was held in Montreal.
Shortly after the Montreal Expo, the National League of Major League
Baseball awarded Montreal a franchise called the Montreal Expo's, named
after the fair they hosted. A hockey columnist for the Montreal
Gazette, decided that the Canadiens also deserved a nickname from the
fair to, and drew from one of the major exhibits from Expo. This of
course was Habitat a concept for a community of tommorrow, where
portable housing units would connect with each other to make large
apartment-like community structure. So, from Expo '67 we get the
Montreal Expos, and from Habitat, the Montreal Habs.
-Mike Eisler
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wil...@gw.wmich.edu
> In article <1993Jun9...@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>
> pghe...@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
>
>I know this is probably a naive and often-answered question, but what is a
>"Hab". My guess is that it is an abbreviation of some French word.
The Canadiens logo, if you see it up close, has both a C and an H on it. The
C, obviously, is for Canadiens. The H is for Habitants. Les Habitants
Canadiens means, approximately, The Ones Who Live In Canada.
Glenn...@engr.usask.ca
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>The Canadiens logo, if you see it up close, has both a C and an H on it. The
>C, obviously, is for Canadiens. The H is for Habitants. Les Habitants
>Canadiens means, approximately, The Ones Who Live In Canada.
From the FAQ:
8. Answers to some frequently asked questions:
Q: Why are the Montreal Canadiens called the Habs?
A: According to the magazine "Les Canadiens" (Number 2 of the 92-93
season), the following is the origin of the nickname "Habitants/Habs":
"Partial credit for this nickname actually goes to an American.
Reporter Tex Rickard had picked up on a rumour (a false one, of course)
someone had told him about the 'H' on the Canadiens' uniform. It seems
that someone mentioned that it stood for "habitant", a French word that in
those days was used to denote the farmers of Quebec.
"'This guy told Tex that the French-speaking players on the team came
from the country, and since they were "farmers", they were therefore
"habitants!"' recalls Camille Desroches. 'Habs' is simply a short form of
the word."
"That was back in the mid-twenties. The Canadiens had just won the
1923-24 Stanley Cup, and two teams from New York were just joining the NHL
(the Americans in 25 and the Rangers in 26). To understand Rickard's
thinking, it helps to remember that this was also a period of intense
development in a number of more remote regions of Quebec..."
Q: Why is the Montreal Canadiens logo a large C with an H within it?
A: In 1914-15, the Canadiens logo consisted of C with an A within it to
signify Club Athletique Canadien (CAC). The next year, CAC no longer
existed and it was changed to what it is now. The logo is actually CHC
that is written on the Canadiens' jersey. It stands for "Club de Hockey
Canadien".
Nicholas Duncan
No the nickname is much older than that. The Habitat was actaully
named after the Habs (a place for Hab fans to live: Habitat). The
story of the Habs nickname is much, much stranger.
Actually, one of the early radio announcers of the Canadiens,
George "the toothbrush" Philby had a bit of a speach impediment.
When the Canadiens were still a very young franchise and had not
won their first Stanley Cup, he said they "Habn't got a chance"
of winning the cup. Well it turned out that they did win that
year and in order to mock poor George, the fans all started calling
the team the Habs, since they not only Hab a chance, they actually Hab
the cup.
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Darin Ranger Jason Brown
Conference All-Stars for this past year. Also, please include the team
they played for as well as their number. Mention who were were the
starters and reserves as well please. I'm trying to create these two
teams for WGH3 and will post here when they are finished.
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Also, if you could describe thir uniforms as well.
Richard Park, FPD
Jeff Bird
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>In article <m1f648...@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>, m...@teal.Eng.Sun.COM (Mike Eisler) writes:
>|> In article <1993Jun9...@ulkyvx.louisville.edu> pghe...@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
>|> >I know this is probably a naive and often-answered question, but what is a
>|> >"Hab". My guess is that it is an abbreviation of some French word.
>|>
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Funny, I remember my uncle, who was in World War II, telling a different story:
As the First Canadian Division swept through Holland in the spring of
1945 with the Germans on the run, there was often time to kill while
waiting for supply lines to catch up. The Canadiens had won the cup
in '44 and many of the boys were stationed in England then practicing
for D-Day so they were able to keep somewhat up to date with occasional
reports on the BBC. Now however, they were in combat and had
very little news from this side of the Atlantic. Of course the Americans
and Brits fighting with them would just look back with puzzled stares
when asked if they had heard anything about the Stanley Cup, the Canadiens,
or the Leafs. So some enterprising technicians from XI Signal Corps decided
to try to pick up the BBC. Of course they couldn't tamper with their own
radios but there were enough captured German radios, Habersschmidt X-3's,
laying around. They found that if they took 2 such "Habs", tied the IF stages
together and rigged up a 4M antenna, that they could actually pick up the
CBC from Canada! Word of the Habs system spread throughout the Division,
and soon every Company had several. But word of mouth being what it was, soon
when someone said it was time to turn on the Habs, others assumed they meant
the Canadiens. And the word stuck!
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Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary
Habile adj: having general skill: ABLE, SKILLFUL
(also)
Habitual adj: (4) inherent in an individual
(1) having the nature of habit
So....
a group of individuals who are inherently skillful by nature
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