Calling Dan - part två
by lyne on Mar 2, 2009 2:45 PM EST
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Holy smoke!....don't even tell me you are a fan of Big Trouble in Little China
….you remain my hero.
Psst... Steph...
… did you not notice my change in avatar? Or the name of my VDS team “Wing Kong Exchange”?
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
Dan, do you even know if Emilia has green eyes?
Cause otherwise you’re just wasting your time.
"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
Good God is she cute!
"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
good thing I know shes young enough to be my daughter
..like that would matter..
by Christopher See on Mar 3, 2009 1:06 PM EST up reply actions
cute....smart....nice...charming...adorable...
and speaks beautiful english. When she speaks with you she looks right at you…..sooooo Dan ya ready for an Emilia encounter…hmmmm?
he would be struck deaf and dumb on the spot
"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
You know me too well drew...
He’s absolutely right. I am in no way ready for a stunning young Swede to look me directly in the eyes and say “Hi!” let alone anything else.
I will NEVER be ready for such an occurence; but that won’t ever keep me from hoping to have an opportunity to fuck such a meeting up!
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
I have every confidence in you Dan
to fuck that up
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Jimbo...
I thought you weren’t using that word this month…..
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Wait
Is it March already? Fuck…
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I love this ad on CyclingNews...
Obviously they haven’t seen certain animations here on PdC…
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
They're not in your league. Not even close.
Though I do ride Speedplays, so I like the above ad as well.
"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
She looks pretty fast
Daniel, do you feel the need?
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I can't possibly be the only one wanting to make a Giro dell'Emilia joke...
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
SHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Please… we have people trying to study in here.
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
Believe it or not, I have never said shhhhh in my (shortish) career.
But I’m very adept at frogmarching people out of the library who dare to enter with their coffee…..
I would pay good money for pictures of you frogmarching someone...
… (I probably want to rephrase that)
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
*chuckles*
I never smuggled coffee into a unversity library. Never, ever, ever.
Um, well, maybe once or twice.
I also once got in trouble with the guards at your Public Record Office (they changed the name, but you know, that place in Kew) for falling asleep on a document. I was jetlagged. What’s a girl to do?
I hear smuggling coffee into a library is a good cure for that...
… better than smuggling plums into Italy when you’re suppose to be in Mexico.
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
lol, yeah
Though even I would not try to smuggle coffee into a national archive. They are really really picky in such places. They typically search and xray everything, and you can’t carry any bags or well, anything, into the reading rooms. Very strict.
You can ask someone
to smuggle the coffee into the archive for you. Say it’s a pair of cycling shoes, or something.
Bork, bork, bork!
by TheFigurehead on Mar 3, 2009 12:48 PM EST up reply actions
And what makes you think they'd allow cycling shoes in the National Archive?
I’ve never personally been there but if it’s anything like the British Library you can only just about get away with a pencil carried in a clear plastic bag. You should have seen the look on their faces when I tried to take my flute in the manuscripts reading room…. Sometimes however, the security man has been known to be asleep. Such an exciting job, sitting watching people coming in and out all day, clearly.
What the hell did you need a flute in the manuscripts room for?
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
There was this one time, at band camp........
"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
It's such a logical question in your line of work
"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
I needed to call in and do some work on the way to a rehearsal.
The flute is quite pricey and I didn’t want to leave it in the flimsy lockers…I’d love even more to have seen their faces if I’d got the flute (or even better, the piccolo) out of its box and started playing what was on the manuscript ;-)
Ian Anderson...
… famed as the world’s greatest rock floutist…
er… flutist?
fuck…
Flute player.
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
A good example of Ian Anderson's flute playing...
Less wacky by far than the 1970’s appearance of Jethro Tull on Top of the Pops…
My personal favorite Jethro Tull songs: Witches Promise, Overhang, Song for Jeffrey, Skating Away on Thin Ice
I also stand continually astonished how I can post some of the most obscure bizarre shit and someone, someone ALWAYS knows what I’m talking about and appreciates its.
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
Hard to be of a certain age group
and not to appreciate Tull
by Christopher See on Mar 4, 2009 4:50 PM EST up reply actions
lol, yep
Pencil, plastic bag, paper. Not much else.
I’d love to have seen you talk your flute into the ms room. Quality, right there.
there should be a thread
about the requirements in different national libraries. (I can’t believe I just wrote that sentence, good god that’s the lamest sentence ever.) Anyways…at the french one they give you this dope see-through plastic briefcase. You can put pretty much anything you want in it though. It’s in the photocopy rooms where things get interesting: someone does the copying for you and it costs something like .50 euros a page (and they only do one page at a time, not both), because “ça abîme les livres”! OK I’ll shut up now.
by plinytheelder on Mar 5, 2009 10:30 PM EST up reply actions
I can totally understand this...
given my experience of French bookbinding. F***ing horrendous is an understatement. If you actually handle them, they fall apart.
maybe that's why they did it
know your shortcomings I guess ;)
by plinytheelder on Mar 6, 2009 3:05 PM EST up reply actions
Gah
French xeroxing made me crazy. They actually let me do it, but I had to wait for someone to escort me to the xerox machine and stand there while I did it. And the price was ridiculous. They also couldn’t understand why this crazy American was xeroxing so much. Like, dude, I live on the West Coast of the US, do you know how freakin’ much cash it cost me to come here?
I did some work in the Foreign Ministry Archive, which until recently was actually in the Foreign Ministry. Lots of rules. The freakiest was that you had to surrender your passport at the front desk. Um, y’all are going to give that back, right?
at the German nat'l library
they give you a clear plastic bag with STAATSBIBLIOTHEK ZU BERLIN written on it in huge letters, you have to put all your stuff in there, but then when you leave you can walk around Berlin with your STAATSBIBLIOTHEK ZU BERLIN bag and look all cool and shit
by plinytheelder on Mar 6, 2009 3:09 PM EST up reply actions
I have a whole range of these bags.
British Library, Cambridge University Library, Seeley History Library…..they make you look, like, so clever. Especially if you have some extremely pretentious book showing through the plastic (which of course I would never place strategically on purpose…)
mais, vous n'avez pas un stylo et du papier?
Take notes like your foremothers, woman!
[laughter]
Anyone tried the digital scanner pens and miniscanners that they hawk in the inflight magazines? Tempting, those.
lol
did that too :-)
came home with like 200 pages of handwritten notes from one trip.
lots of peeps using digital cameras now. some archives dont’ allow it, but it’s the bomb if they do.
80 pages of notes per essay was my usual figure.
My hand would fall off if I wrote that much now with a pen! We charge people for photographing things in our library…woe betide them if they do it without asking ;-)
lol, who hasn't?
Really, if you haven’t fallen asleep in a library at least once, you haven’t been trying hard enough.
Verily. In fact, I do it most mornings at 9.30, in my own library!
At least until I’ve had my cup of tea. But a warning: a friend of a friend fell asleep in Cambridge University Library and got locked in. It’s a scary place in broad daylight let alone with all the lights out…brrrr.
Gah
I never knew anyone who actually had that happen. Sort of University urban legend, you know? That, and having sex in the stacks. Though I did know someone who did that. In the East Asia section.
Hee hee.
Seriously, there were miles of corridor which only saw human life about once a week, if that. Plenty opportunity for such things you might think, but no, I never found romance in the library. I did once, as a first year, get into a long and deep conversation with a PhD student, alone in the religious history section….but nothing further came of it. There were however all sorts of stories about the number of people who met their future spouses in the library tea room….
What part of the anatomy is the East Asia section?
I’m really curious
"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
hint
It starts with a “V”, ends with an “A” and the word itself makes some men uncomfortable…
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Virginia?
I always thought it was a pretty harmless state.
"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
Did you really just use the word "Verily" in a non-comical fashion?
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
I can't see your picture Dan.
I use the word verily often. Where there’s a simple and ordinary word, find a more obscure one; that’s my motto in life ;-)
Checketh thee upon thy Facebook page...
… for there lies the graven image from above. There, within the confines of thy visage sheaves.
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
This is our concern, Dude
"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
You're just bitching because you didn't come up with Visage Sheaves first.
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
Swounds!
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Wowsers!
Sometimes I really miss Inspector Gadget
"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
Thank goodness I can see you both or I'd never have understood that non posted pic.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
once a week in my experience...
it was one of the only places on campus where we could sleep… The other was student health services. dorms? nope no how no way.
by Christopher See on Mar 3, 2009 11:06 PM EST up reply actions
Let me repeat my advice
DO NOT mention this site to her. It will not help you. In any way.
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Wait a second...
CQRanking.com, you complete me.
by Chris Fontecchio on Mar 2, 2009 6:31 PM EST up reply actions
Wheels turn in Chris' head...
… as he contemplates deleting any and all posts or comments containing keyword “Emilia”
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
Chris is being coy
he knows exactly what I’m talking about
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Damnitty Damn Damn Damn...
BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
Man... I've had devils on my shoulder all night tonight.
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
Now you're just being mean
keep going…
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A cute swede... a place to ruin my meal plan...
Lyne buying me a beer (although she doesn’t know it yet)… waitresses in cowboy hats…
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
This plastic pig you speak of.........
"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
Don't worry Drew...
… either Lyne, I, or Emilia will ride it with photographic evidence.
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
We know
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You have no idea how hard I'm going to ride that thing...
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
Do people really eat that much over there?
Just the starter would keep me going for two days.
Yes they do
If you ever get the chance to visit a “Claimjumper” restaurant, you will be stunned… just google “Chocolate Motherload Cake” and behold…
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We had 5 of us at lunch once try that...
We barely made a dent into it. But, yummy, it was tasty.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Ever been to the Big Texan Steak Ranch?
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And over here
they used to talk of three Shredded Wheat. It’s like life, only in black and white.
If you're gonna shoot, shoot.
Don’t talk.
"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
There are two kinds of spurs my friend... those that come in by the door...
… and those that come in by the window.
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
I toyed with the idea of naming my VDS squadra
‘Il Brutto" DS’d by Tuco Benidicto Juan Maria Ramirez.
Who the hell is that?
One bastard goes in; another one comes out!
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
2000 years
and you can’t find one broad to fit the bill? C’mon Dave you must be doing something seriously wrong!
There are others, to be sure.
There are always others. You seem to be one to know the difficulties between men and women. How seldom it works out.
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
Nah...we would have just ended up calling you The Rat
"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
Hey Crashdan...
She speaks too. Watch the video and she is featured about half way through. :-)
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Damn
That fine cyclist is quite something… hmmmmm…. Daniel, if you fuck this up… well… then I will be very, very, very unhappy with you and will torment you to the end times. Or not… And Jens, please elaborate on how it is that all of you Swedes speak and write absolutely perfect English? I mean she does say “Ja” a lot, which is fucking adorable by the way… but you guys do actually use your Swedish, right? I mean, you speak Swedish at home and at work? You are not just fucking with all of us, right?
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Jimbo, another reminder that you are in the month of March. LOL!
But seriously Jens, you do actually speak Swedish at some point, right?
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Ok... Ok... I understand that Brad Huff has spent his time in the minors...
… give the glasses back to Ricco you douche.
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
Back off Dan... :-)
Brad can wear whatever glasses he wants and please don’t ever compare him to Ricco. He is hands above where Ricco could ever hope to be as a person. And besides, have you watched some of his videos for TOC? Good entertaining stuff.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Si, I know, but....
that interview should make up for it. At least a wee bit, no? LOL :-)
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
You want some beef jerkey?
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Lionel? Is that you?
ma booley, ma booley, ma booley, HA!
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ok
What can you tell me about Copperopolis RR. Doing it for the first time this year. Is it as bad a course as everyone says?
descent is very bumpy
There’s a bumpy climb and a bumpy descent. Check your stem bolts ;-) I wouldn’t ride super light wheels, but you don’t need to do anything silly in that department. Some pretty spots on the course. Can be windy.
Go to abbiorca.com – they have a bunch of pictures from previous years. Always a good way to see a course before you ride it.
Hard race, but not impossible. Ride within your limits in terms of bike handling and have fun.
good stuff, thanks
pretty sure I’ll be needing to use the descent to catch back on, unless I can talk one of my teammates into bringing a rope. Looks hard, which is good.
Seems we have a new word for the lexicon: Danilia
Dan and Emilia sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Only isn’t she about 20 years younger than Dan? Hmmmm…..
Damn right she is
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15 years to be exact...
… and … do you have a problem with that Zoe? Because I can assuredly tell you where I stand on the subject…
… in line at the fake ID merchant… getting Ms. Fahlin a Montana driver’s license.
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
Ricky, I'm a driver's wife.
I. Don’t. Work.
"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
I like to picture Jesus with Angel Wings, singing lead vocal for Lynyrd Skynyrd,
with an all angel choir.
And I’m in the front row, hammered drunk.
"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
Hi, I'm Lance Armstrong.
If you don’t chew Big Red then fuck you.
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
Everything's a fucking travesty with you!
Whoops, wrong movie – force of habit.
"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
Pffft...fucking amatuer
"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
Let me ask you something Daniel.
When you’re not feeling real well, does anyone ever say to you “sounds like somebody’s got a case of the mondays?”
No…shit no, man! I believe a person would get thier ass kicked sayin’ something like tha.
"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
You know what, Drewd
if you want Daniel to wear 37 pieces of flair, like your pretty boy over there, Jens, why don’t you just make the minimum 37 pieces of flair?
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Don't tell my employer...
… but I AM turning into Peter Gibbons. It’s happening… and I can’t stop it.
Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?
um, yeah...
I’m gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Saturday.
Oh, and yeah…I’m gonna need you to come in on Sunday, too, un-kay? We’re short some people this week and we gotta play catch-up, un-kay? thaaaaanks.
Yes, but
Mr. Lumberg told me to talk to accounting and accounting told me to talk to Mr. Lumberg
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I want my stapler...
they tried giving me a Bostitch and I said “no, I don’t want a Bostitch. I want my red Swingline.”
I still haven't received my paycheck
and he took my stapler and he never brought it back and then they moved my desk to storage room B and there was garbage on it…
Don't mess with the stapler...
Someone borrowed mine at work and everyone was like, ooooh, put that back and quick. ha ha.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
sounds like my current job
It’s a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don’t see another dime; so where’s the motivation? And here’s something else, Bob: I have eight different bosses right now.
So Lynn...it looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.
"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
Bingo
"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
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