And a never-ending chorus of victory chants, supported by small paper-and-stick banners and an emcee on a dais underneath the television screen who dutifully led the crowd in chants in favor of the old country.
This contemptuous coinage is predicated on the assumption that it's the delivery system that matters, relegating what used to be called "art" — writing, music, film, photography, illustration — to the status of filler, stuff to stick between banner ads.
Local restaurants are bedecked with hockey sticks and banners, street murals show players preparing to face off, and the town shrine is a shady long pond beside a pumpkin patch where the first seeds of Canada's national sport were supposedly planted 202 years ago.
Last year sold his Stick Figure banner to Ora, a network owned by billionaire Carlos Slim.
A man from Nassau County said, "They stuck a banner in my hand and I just carried it along.
Most wore matching fanny packs filled with cheering props, like deflated cheer sticks and folded banners.
"At the moment we're seeing a lot [of abuse] from Chelsea fans, so we really need their club to stick their own banner up".
Most experiments with ad-supported calls or music on the Web today still stick with visual banner ads on the Webpage serving the audio.
Around a thousand ragged women, some carrying babies, others banners or sticks, surge towards the railings of the pit-manager's expensive home.
Other highlights included a slightly disturbing 'smiling' ball in a floppy hat that flashed up if you took a hat-trick, more made-up player names than you could poke a stick at, a 'Howzat' banner that appeared every time an appeal went up, dubious signifiers of national culture and densely pixilated bikini girls in the crowd, all of which were endlessly entertaining to a 10 year-old.
Black helmets, no banners, big sticks.
