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Tuesday, May 28, 2002

'curling wars' is capturing the hearts and kidneys of all canadians! just read these reviews..

"after listening to curling wars my eyesight returned!" - an old man who we blindfolded

"absolutely revolti.... uh, AWESOME!"
- ted danson with a gun at his back

"what, i don't get it?"
- john rycroft


teamtomko is hard at work putting the finishing touches on the music video for curling wars.. watch for it on muchmusic!
Wednesday, May 22, 2002

the worlds first curling dance mix has been released! i suggest you listen to it while driving by high schools with your windows open to improve your image... that's what i've been doing and now instead of throwing rocks at my car they throw dog fetuses which don't dent as much.
speaking of pre-infantiles, the teamtomko guestbook has been filling up with feedback on the recent pee-e-eye issue .... it's a shore thing!

I think you are one sick boy.
thanx doc! now is there anything you can do for this stubborn rash on my palm? it's making it very painful to control my stones
Stefanie Richard is my best friend and she is way too good to be someone like you`s friend.
so you are an illiterate doctor? i guess the provincial standards vary..
anyways i know 'yu' personally and i don't think he'll be happy to hear that... his dim sum is the best
I think you should just lay off the Stefanie infactuation or someone`s gonna have to do something.
uh oh.. i think that was a threat! she bravely signed the guestbook with no email address from a government computer so i know she's got a lot guts, or at least very large hips, or something like that..
It`s one thing to recognize Stefanie for her acheivement but the type of attention you`re giving out is really not cool so why don`t you just lay off
my attention may not be 'hip' or 'cool' or 'the cats meow', but it is focused.. like one of those k-tel stain removers. and as such if i were to 'lay off', my attention might fall on upon of the many overdue bills suffocating my mailbox which could render me penniless

the moral of this story? 'those who live in curling houses shouldn't throw stones'? .. no, that doesn't work.. how about 'do onto others as..'. hey, that's what i've been doing and it hasn't worked. then i guess the moral is 'don't give praise to someone who lives on an island unless you can survive the merciless beatings you'll receive for it'

Tuesday, May 21, 2002

it's two two tuesday today! that's right, i've got two rock bottom priced updates to give away for today only!
first, while i was eating some chicken-covered moose lips this morning as i do every may 21st in accordance to my religion, a large brick came smashing though a window with a note attached. this is the way my mail is delivered ever since the postman learned not to come within 100 feet of me for fear that a conversation might spontaneously erupt.. but today it was different.. the brick had the initial's 'pei' on them and the note smelled of sea salt. here then is the note and my reactions to it

Ryan,
a buddy of mine came across your website and forwarded it over to me.
The whole site?! i find it hard to believe that your 'buddy' could forward over my entire site.. thanks to my second it weighs over 900 cubic neck-pounds
I found it a little strange that you have such a bizarre infatuation with Stefanie, as does she.
my goal is reached... she knows teamtomko exists!
I let Stefanie know about your little shrine and she wasn't completed thrilled about the idea that someone had nothing better to do then to pay homeage to her on a regular basis.
on the contrary, i have lots to do with my time.. such as milking chickens, and creating the worlds first ever curling dance mix! (see the second half of this update)
Although it appears to be relatively harmless, it still seems to be a bit inappropriate for you to be concentrating so much of your time eating rats!
who told you about that?!!
Stefanie is a little unconfortable with the situation, being that she or nobody else here on the Island for that matter has any idea who you guys are.
may i suggest aloe vera for the discomfort? i use it very often on my knees and eyes during the humid winter months and it does wonders
btw, someone on the island does knows teamtomko! check out the guestbook
I'm just a little curious as too why you're focusing so much of your site on Stefanie's career.
well, friend, surely there has been a day when you've been walking down the street and been hit by a runaway swedish polar-hare ... that is the same impact i felt when i first saw the anti-prince of pei
I do have to give you some credit though, it is a pretty creative site, even though alot of it has nothing to do with the sport of curling. Accept I'm a little disappointed that you found it necessary to take a shot at my teams site
if you think the site has nothing to do with curling.. wait till you see my team!
Honestly though, although there is nothing harmful posted about her, Stefanie does feel a little uncomfortable about the whole thing. The fact that you don't know her makes it feel like she has a crazy stalker following her and that's not cool man!
granted that i am crazy, but replace 'stalker' with 'fan' and 'not' with 'kinda' and you'll with the truth2002 award for that statement
So if you don't mind toning down the infatuation or the joke or whatever the hell the whole thing is, she'd probably feel alot better about your website.
Your PEI pal,
J---- -----n
if i have the power to make her feel better then consider it done! .. by the way, how do you pronounce that name?

what better way to start the day then to know that you've reached all the way to the coast of your great country and frightened someone famous.. now i need to fixate on someone from bc.
if your interested, here is my reply to the email


while most people were out at their cabins for may long, drinking and passing gas, teamtomko stayed home and looted their hou... i mean we answered one of curlings oldest questions... how do you get a sober curling team to dance at the bar? the solution is this .. expect a finished version by the weekend. just in time to 'bust a move' for saturday night

Sunday, May 19, 2002

the weekend may be long, but that doesn't mean this update has to be. teamtomko went to see star trek: version 2 and took some bootleg pictures to share with our internet fans.
The crowds were terrifying... countless thousands of sweaty star wars nerds dressed up as daywalker and r2d2. i can only guess where they stored their lightsabers once the movie started...

first the previews... what better way to start then with the teamtomko quality actor, pretty boy tom cruise. i think his new movie is called "i'm carrying a picture alone again" .. or something very close. when asked about his recent weight gain he replied "the script called for a heavier man" .. right. it has nothing to do with your breakup with kidman and all the saigon-whores you've been dating.
next the preview for the new matrix movie appeared on the screen. I'm a huge matrix fan so there isn't much i can say about this except PLEASE REPLACE KEANU WITH CARTER RYCROFT ... at least then when neo has to cry in the movie, we'll know that he really is crying like a baby.
finally a very short teaser for something popped up .. i managed to get a picture of it .. but now i wish i hadn't
yup, that's yoda lightsabering. i never knew that he could move like that.. i wrote a little song about it..
i said lil' yoda, you just don't know
the way you fight so fast across the floor
i mean you cost so much to render onscreen
to the point where cgi makes all the dough

i hope you are all enjoying your may long weekend.. and may the force be with you.

Thursday, May 16, 2002

in the brief time that teamtomko has been a link on curling.ca, we have amassed more hits than all the other team links combined! i attribute this mostly to the blue elf i freed from a bear trap last week (which actually turned out to be a malnourished midget), but i also feel that the magic of teamtomko, and in particular his holiness grandmaster double t has much to do with our eSuccess...


his holiness grandmaster double t

his holiness was forged in the space between ice and granite long ago, but came to life again while teamtomko stunk up hibbing, mn. during our first game grandmaster double t appeared briefly as teamtomko threw their last rock in the last end (the opposition had hammer). having seen the apparition several times before, teamtomko simply ignored it's presence, but the other team was caught in the headlights of his equilibrium-altering bowel-emptying stare. they then tried to get teamtomko to forfeit the game for having had divine intervention on their side. instead, teamtomko vomited heavily into the air creating a barf-screen which they used to slip unnoticed out of the area with the w

Monday, May 13, 2002

the dominos have begun to fall as more mainstream curling websites add teamtomko.com to their links. however it seems to be getting harder and harder to convince them to do so. this morning the webmaster of curling.ca said he would add us if i could defeat him in a game of liars dice...

the game is played much like islam kickboxing, except instead of throwing punches at your opponents head, you throw 'liars' dice from a baby blue cup. the goal is to fit your opponent inside your cup. The cups are made from the same material that nasa uses for the 'fat ass-tronaut' line of clothing coming out this june, which can stretch its surface area over 2000 times.
it took over 4 hours of play, and 3 cases of adult diapers, but in the end the day was mine!
there are two other websites in the section that teamtomko has been added.. and i need 545 hits to have teamtomko.com be first in the lineup. your mission is to keep adding hits to the the teamtomko.com link until we have a dominating lead.. godspeed!

Sunday, May 12, 2002
when i was a young boy my father always said "son, no clever arrangement of bad eggs ever made a good omelet.. so pick your team wisely" and would then throw boiling oil at me to keep me on my toes. as i sat in the hospital motionless waiting for the burns to heal i would think about what the old man said and now that i'm grown the team that i've drugged and blackmailed to curl for me now are all grade-a and all natural. our summer training will set us miles (or at least an arm's length) ahead of the competition.
in addition to our goals to be the worlds physically largest curling team, teamtomko also wants to be the number one team website on the planet. The good people at curling.com have acknowledged this and added teamtomko to their mens links section.
there are 13 other mens teams in that section. i've visited each of the other website and done a small review. The good news is, if the best curling websites are in canada, then teamtomko is looking pretty good.
i gave each website a rating from 'open flash on skips last rock' to 'end ender' .. your comments in the guestbook would be appreciated

in other news, my idol stefanie richard is in the news again for her outstanding community involvement!

rival team website info
Team Fox

their website is simple, yet revolting. i think they must be from Australia since their website is said to be "down under" or something.
Pros: the simple, clean page design attracts a lot of runaway teens
Cons: too many words to read for the average runaway
Rating: open flash on skips last rock

Guy Hemmings

guy has a salmon flavored website, but someone forgot to remove the bones! broken links, half-complete pages, and phrases such as "Simply by sending a question your question to Guy by filling this form" make reading this site equal to taking 3 hits of highschool-quality acid.
Pros: guy is a great guy who does great things for curling in Canada
Cons: the french are evil
Rating: draw through the house facing 3 biters
Team Korte

team cortney is all business. There are less than 30 words on their entire site, with 50% of their content being links to other, more exciting curling websites.
Pros: the picture of them on the main page is blurry so you can't see their faces
Cons: they are sponsored by compaq, so i'll probably get a virus for printing this review
Rating: hogline violation on an open draw

Kevin Martin Curling

brilliant! utter and complete magnificence!!

Pros: the enigmatic picture of barefoot kevin, and carter rycroft
Cons: it would be nice if they could keep the pages to under 600KB !!
Rating: hit and roll to the pin

Team McAulay

it seems that mcaulay isn't paying the bills.. his site was down when i checked

Pros: i don't have to write a review
Cons: you don't get to read my review
Rating: 1 point, 1 end, and the hammer for each day the site it down
Team Mcmillan

fairly nice looking website.. but since they are overseas i don't feel threatened :)

Pros: they know all the words to 'i would walk 500 miles'
Cons: the site hasn't been updated for 5 months

Rating: qualified through the B side

Team Menard

another frank-a-phone curling team.. The site reminds me of the last time i went golfing. i hit a shot into the trees and when i found the fall i saw that it had hit a bunny and mutilated it. the ooze from it's cracked skull was the same color as the navigation bar on this website.
Pros: if they are french, then they are related to joel gagnon
Cons: their guestbook has been tainted by teamtomko
Rating: draw for one, but raised the other team for 2
Moffatt Team

i was very disappointed when i found out that this ISN'T the same moffatts that sing and get acne. after getting over that i was upset again by number of groupies they have, and how little teamtomko has.
Pros: the tall one looks like our mascot
Cons: their site sucks rotting sheeps intestine
Rating: down by 6 after 2 ends, shook after 4 ends
Team Robinson

a team from pei! i immediately went to the links section to see if i could find the homepage of the goddess of curling, stefanie richard. for the next hour i was hunting, but i couldn't track her down. i was outsmarted again, but i would expect no less from her.. well played, richard.
Pros: they are from the same province as the greatest female curler ever
Cons: they will forever be in her shadow
Rating: i was watching the next sheet
Team Spiring

after befriending teamtomko at the kenora spiel, team spiring has since sent several mail bombs to our mascot. although our mascot informs us that 'big M ain't goin out like dat! shazam and grand-am to the man in the fan!' at which point he threw up on his legs

Pros: their website is non existent
Cons: they aren't 13 year old latino boys
Rating: official burnt the rock .. replay the website
Team Stoughton

the amount of effort poured into this website is slightly less than the amount of rat juice our mascot drinks every day. like many of the other top teams, they stopped updating the site in late november ... i suspect that is when the odorless sea-people i've been dreaming about took control of their bodies

Pros: they spell-cehcked teh entier site
Cons: the picture of garry will scare small children
Rating: threw the wrong color rock

Team Tomko


sick.. absolutely disgusting. so immature and ch... wait a second, that is our site!

Pros: lots of funny pictures
Cons: lots of ugly pictures
Rating: end ender
Don Barcome Jr. Team

yikes! o say can you see, that their 3-year old made the site ..
with memories of the hibbing spiel a sense of patriotism is the primary goal of this website.. althought i have to give them credit for having more words than all the previous websites combined.. too bad the words don't form in to intelligible sentences

Pros: very passionate about .. something
Cons: makes your eyes bleed
Rating: caught something as i let it go
Team Stoeckli

those swiss boys love their curling.. so much so that they have a 7 man team (including coach). their website looks like it was auto-generated by 5 monkeys working at 5 typewriters working for 5 minutes

Pros: the '6 guys in a box' pic in their gallery
Cons: they want to win the 2006 Olympics .. but teamtomko already called dibbs
Rating: sweeping error

Friday, May 10, 2002
just when you think it's time to cover your curling shoes in syrup and mail them back to jamaica for summer storage, the whirlpool company comes up with a new curling event.
in case you missed my review of the last whirlpool 'competition' (and i use that term loosely), you can read it here. a pro-am style tournament works fine in other sports, but in curling the only thing that separates a pro curler from an amature is the amount of beer he drinks before and during each game. teamtomko limits alcohol consumption to under 3 drinks a game in a major event, and under 6 in a minor.
Saturday, May 4, 2002
last night i was exercising my eyes as i watched the kids in the hall perform from the worst possible seat in the theater. they put on a good show, but sadly it was much the same as the one i saw the last time they performed in wibbapeg. but even though it was a re-run, it still made me crap my pants, then slip off my seat while clutching at the intense burning pain in my lungs and small intestine that comes from laughing (or praying) violently. the un-commented pics are up on the 'other pics' section.
teamtomko took to the woods again this morning, and played 16 holes of golf (the first two holes were so cold that technically it was snowshoe hockey) at one of the premier golf courses in the galaxy. we had to book 4 years in advance and agree to give them our firstborn sons in order to have the right to whack our balls from their boxes.
if you guys have nothing to do, check out my rantings on www.projectcolossus.com .. the other website i write updates for. we are making a game for the pc kinda like starcraft, kinda like ultima, kinda like lemmings. i was just reading over some of the old entries and they made me smile



Ryan Tomko (skip)
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Scott Madams (third)
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Tyler Specula (second)
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Dan Cox (lead)
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Our Mascot (fifth)