When you win the Stanley Cup and retire from professional hockey, you can throw frozen cow chips at the Medicine Hat Mall! That's what Calgary Flame right winger (his position, not his politics) Lanny McDonald did in the Summer of 1982 or 1983.  Actually, it was before he won the Stanley Cup.  But all's fair in love and cow chip chucking, right? I know.  I was there that Saturday morning, in Medicine Hat, which Kipling described as having "all hell for a basement".  Kipling was referring to the natural gas trapped in the shale. But as hot as Medicine Hat gets in the summer, and with all of the sand flies buzzing about, you want to make sure the cow chips are frozen, and that you hold your frozen cow chip competition early in the morning.