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Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns

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Zenkitty - Jul 27, 2007 4:40:13 pm PDT #682 of 10001

Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

My perfect weekend is so far out of reach, I'll probably just stay home and mope.

I am close to the Jersey Shore, but I won't be going there. I do love Brigantine Island, though. My sister used to have a beach house there. (It's near Atlantic City.)

eta excellent book blurb, paperdol! It would get me to buy it, even if I weren't gonna anyway. Oh, that's what I can do this weekend!

Dana - Jul 27, 2007 4:58:30 pm PDT #683 of 10001

"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Today's crazy Tour de France news:

For the second time, a rider went down because he ran into a dog loose on the road. Dog is fine, rider got back up and got right back on his bike, but not until he skidded about ten feet on his ass.

brenda m - Jul 27, 2007 4:59:46 pm PDT #684 of 10001

If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

WTF is wrong with people?

Dana - Jul 27, 2007 5:00:55 pm PDT #685 of 10001

"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Well, this guy was in the breakaway, which was a good fifteen minutes ahead of the main field. If you want to be charitable, it's possible they didn't expect any riders to be passing at that point.

But really, yeah. Put the damn dog on a leash. Both times, I think they've been lucky that the dogs weren't hurt.

Kat - Jul 27, 2007 5:10:36 pm PDT #686 of 10001

"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Maybe the dogs are doped? Or maybe just the dog owners?

My perfect weekend would be to have Noah and Grace home without durable medical equipment (but we would have air conditioning instead!)

I saw the lovely Polgara today. You all should be jealous.

amych - Jul 27, 2007 5:14:05 pm PDT #687 of 10001

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Or maybe just the dog owners?

I vote this one.

Liese S. - Jul 27, 2007 5:15:49 pm PDT #688 of 10001

"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

This is the nuttiest TdF evah! Aren't you glad you chose this season to pimp me into it?

Dana - Jul 27, 2007 5:18:13 pm PDT #689 of 10001

"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Aren't you glad you chose this season to pimp me into it?

Little did I know! Did you know there's only one other time that the leader has been kicked out in the middle of the Tour? It was in something like 1978, and they caught him with a whole tubing system and someone else's urine. Oops.

amych - Jul 27, 2007 5:20:14 pm PDT #690 of 10001

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

This is the nuttiest TdF evah!

It really is -- and it's a nutty-assed sport. In non-dog-thwacking news, Paul did the stage description in Swahili today, quite fluently, and in what sounded like a lot of detail. (And I though he was impressive for not mangling French!)

Liese S. - Jul 27, 2007 5:22:18 pm PDT #691 of 10001

"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Hee. Whoopsie! That seems very complex. (Ha! Edited to clarify, tubing-based urination seems complex. Although Swahili seems complex, too, in a whole different way.)

Yeah, the SO & I were talking about it and we were all, there's not really any way it could be a bigger scandal. I mean, I guess naked paratroopers could land on the cyclists' heads with cocaine, but short of that...

Anyway, I know people have been talking about it like it's ruining the sport and all that stuff, and I definitely know there are going to be credibility questions and played politics and all that junk. But to me, right now, as a novice? Totally fascinating.

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