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by Jen See on Feb 22, 2009 9:46 PM EST
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Veloki does us proud!
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Oh Gav,
You’re the bestest.
"I didn't look for him and I didn't see him. If you base your race on another rider, most of the time you lose."
Tom Boonen
Contain them?
I was thinking, “only hope to tag on and suck their wheel for the fun!”
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Hey gang, just made it back home!
Thanks Gav for posting it! My iPhone battery was totally used up today! But boy was it worth it.
Oh yeah, I haven’t even checked. Who won? LOL!
Nice
Worthy of a snuggie nomination for sure!
Ha. Excellent.
Good work!
"....Up Sestriere on a rental clunker in jeans and loafers? Brother, lemme buy you a beer."
by Rolls on Feb 22, 2009 10:34 PM EST reply actions
Nice work youse guys....
….but it’s on the wrong side of the road :-)
i see snakes, I see snakes!!
errrr....am i supposed to sign this??
Home again
Thanks to all for, well, everything…
And BTW, the official Cafe policy is to adopt \o/ as our ubiquitous tag. Crashdan has the leftover chalk and promises to start tagging the streets of LA until the symbol goes viral. This is how we get to the big time.
CQRanking.com, you complete me.
by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 23, 2009 1:52 AM EST reply actions
You missed some huge shout out from CTV today.
Martin was helping me prepare the group for the Classics drinking game. :-)
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
nice!
CQRanking.com, you complete me.
by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 23, 2009 2:00 AM EST up reply actions
lol
originally it referred to Leif Hoste’s tendency to wave his arms around in the breakaway.
it is currently evolving into a non-specific sign of joyous exuberance and future podium cafe trademark.
do try to keep up ;-)
Whoa
I really thought it was the hands-in-the air bike race victory salute!
I’m still gonna pretend that’s what it is. The Hoste arm-waving thing is too hard to explain!
"....Up Sestriere on a rental clunker in jeans and loafers? Brother, lemme buy you a beer."
by Rolls on Feb 23, 2009 6:18 PM EST up reply actions
It's both
the ambiguity serves our purposes well. Twice the chances of going viral!
CQRanking.com, you complete me.
by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 23, 2009 6:20 PM EST up reply actions
OK good, got it!
"....Up Sestriere on a rental clunker in jeans and loafers? Brother, lemme buy you a beer."
by Rolls on Feb 23, 2009 6:24 PM EST up reply actions
I have nearly four full buckets of road chalk left...
… I was thinking of tagging the intersection of Fourth and Wilshire here at work with a \o/ so large it would be visible from the International Space Station.
Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc.
you found them?
damn. I was hoping that it would be Dan and his Amazing Technicolor Interior before you realized that I’d stashed chalk in your backseat without mentioning it . . .
Daniel... he was Sui's favorite son...
… of all the family, Daniel was the special one…
So Sui bought… his son some chalk…
Some multi-colored chalk to use…
When Daniel chalked “JENS!” on the street…
Boonen turned a shade of green…
His fantastic JENS! sure took the biscuit…
Quite the smoothest tagging in the district…
Boonen's a shark... choking on Livestrong chalk and FAIL. Go Cav!
Nice
I love the original musical but you could be on to something big here Crashdan. A musical about cycling. Sounds great!
Courage! Strength! Determination! Suffering!
A heroic tale of cyclinghood in its prime!
Sounds very Wagner
Lots of Viking women in breastplates and such.
Not that that’s a bad thing.
"I didn't look for him and I didn't see him. If you base your race on another rider, most of the time you lose."
Tom Boonen
OOHH!!
I just saw Sui Juris on TV!
CQRanking.com, you complete me.
by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 23, 2009 2:33 AM EST reply actions
My lovely DVR was all messed up as Versus wait to get time back on track until the 1 am replay.
So pissy. The first highlight was way off the time set for the show, the 2nd highlight, was cut in 1/2. Had I not assumed I’d be able to get the 2nd one, I would not have deleted the first and could’ve pieced them together. Damn Versus.
BUT… :-) They showed you in the shots, I think at the end as the riders came through the finish. I know it was you, no doubts there at all, but I’m doubting at what point in time I saw it. You looked fabulous of course!
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Bummer on the tivo.
You are so famous now. Make sure to check it out!
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
My cat
He’s very nice.
CQRanking.com, you complete me.
by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 23, 2009 9:32 AM EST up reply actions
Dang. And Gav feeds that while you're away?
Note to self… don’t mess with Gav. Ever.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
lol, yeah
We have a full managerie here at the Cafe headquarters. Coppi and Bartali are currently asleep in front of the heater. Rough life.
That’s Danilo. He requires special handling.
Ahem
I thought we agreed it’s “Coppi e Bartali”. The whole reason I let them stay at your place is so they can learn Italian…
CQRanking.com, you complete me.
by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 23, 2009 12:02 PM EST up reply actions
lol
We’re working on it. In between naps, that is. Sheesh, first Coppi falls asleep, then Bartali. It’s terribly difficult to get anything done around here.
The ends to which you go to please Chris
and he still gripes. Jeesh. I think you deserve some hazard pay for this one though. “Special handling,” yeah, okay. If that’s what you call it. ha ha!
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Bah!
Wouldn’t stand a chance against the Hello Kitty kitten.
Bork, bork, bork!
by TheFigurehead on Feb 23, 2009 4:01 PM EST up reply actions
In a contest
of awfulness, that’s true.
CQRanking.com, you complete me.
by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 23, 2009 6:22 PM EST up reply actions
But what does:
Veloki does us proud.. mean.. Is it just Veloki makes us proud said in another form?
Some say the best things in life, are one the inside.
Yeah... sort of... it's an American English idiom...
To “do someone proud” means to act in a fashion that that person would be proud of. For instance, me taking Emilia Fahlin on a date would do all of male humanity proud.
Boonen's a shark... choking on Livestrong chalk and FAIL. Go Cav!
Also has the connotation that the person who does you proud is a credit to you.
So if Veloki does us proud, it’s not just that we feel proud of her, but that she represents us well to the rest of the world.
Google is my domestique.
She could take you home to meet her dad
you’ve probably got a lot in common.
She's got a pulse... I've got a pulse... we're both bipedal...
Boonen's a shark... choking on Livestrong chalk and FAIL. Go Cav!
But, you lack in the
“looking good wrapped in a Swedish flag and white bibshorts” department.
I take that back…you may look good, but not THAT good.
If you had joined us in Cali, drank as much as we did, he just might.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Apples and Oranges...
You could say the same about Emilia Fahlin in full racing leathers.
Well… no… ok you couldn’t…
In fact… Steph? Lyne? Next time you think you’ll be in the Merced area… I have a set of full racing leathers to lend you… Hell, Emilia would probably get her knee down at Buttonwillow before me…
Behold… Letizia Marchetti of the factory Ducati racing team at Mugello last year during the MotoGP Italian Grand Prix…
Boonen's a shark... choking on Livestrong chalk and FAIL. Go Cav!
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