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What have ye? Lordy knows this Giro has presented us with plenty of material to work with. And it ain't even done yet. I'll start:

Centenary race
Rages, awakening ghosts
of millenia

Tag, you're it.

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no place in cycling
ctv sucks

by Sui Juris on May 29, 2009 5:10 PM EDT reply actions  

ctv sucketh

just as hard, if not more than
rolld on that egg

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by crashdan on May 29, 2009 5:48 PM EDT up reply actions  

click on the race link

live racing begins to play
the sun has risen

More Muur...

by Jimbo... on May 29, 2009 7:12 PM EDT up reply actions  

round about ten-ish
I look up and there he is
my son has risen

Long day--bad grammar. That's the way it works.--Lance Armstrong

by majope on May 29, 2009 8:17 PM EDT up reply actions  

Tifosi line roads
cheering favorite rider
disappointment, last

Sometimes I wonder...why is that Frisbee getting bigger?...and then it hits me.

by bethie on May 29, 2009 5:25 PM EDT reply actions  

Danilo go go
Denis Menchov says no no
Basso a no show

by PopUp Rolen on May 29, 2009 5:43 PM EDT reply actions  

The Love of Haiku

Why can’t I never
make this stupid fucking fuck-
ing fucking thing work

Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..

by Frinking on May 29, 2009 5:45 PM EDT reply actions  

Green, White, Red, they are,
The horn-ed socks of evil.
and that one damn tooth.

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by crashdan on May 29, 2009 5:47 PM EDT reply actions  

Crap

I failed math in the 9th grade. What does this mean?

by Sui Juris on May 29, 2009 9:28 PM EDT up reply actions  

The nebulous past,

hides the shining eyed horror,
that is Girbecco.

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by crashdan on May 29, 2009 5:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

didi is passe
Antler man was never cool
Yeti shows grinta

by PopUp Rolen on May 29, 2009 5:48 PM EDT reply actions  

The yeti!

That’s a creature I would like to see more of, cracks me up every time.

Bork, bork, bork!

by TheFigurehead on May 29, 2009 5:56 PM EDT up reply actions  

10 percent grade
just like Mount Vesuvio
legs are bound to blow

by roadside on May 29, 2009 6:07 PM EDT reply actions  

Dropped by DiLuca
Garzelli fights his way back
Suffers public scorn

"Think globally, bike locally."

by SpaceGuy on May 29, 2009 6:16 PM EDT reply actions  

Reflections on what might have been:

Having lost Horner
Astana team cannot lead
Nor can they support

"Think globally, bike locally."

by SpaceGuy on May 29, 2009 6:24 PM EDT reply actions  

Down deep in my heart
I can’t trust the ex-dopers
but hope they are clean.

Long day--bad grammar. That's the way it works.--Lance Armstrong

by majope on May 29, 2009 6:28 PM EDT reply actions  

If you win a race,
Lotto, I’ll buy your silly
Belgian snoring meds.

Long day--bad grammar. That's the way it works.--Lance Armstrong

by majope on May 29, 2009 6:35 PM EDT reply actions  

Philippe Gilbert says,
“Time to pay up, majope.
Enjoy the Silence!”

Long day--bad grammar. That's the way it works.--Lance Armstrong

by majope on May 30, 2009 12:14 PM EDT up reply actions  

The Epic of Girbecco

The nebulous past
hides the shining eyed horror
that is Girbecco

Not dead, not alive
a seething sinister love
questing for your soul

Among the elders
Ancient stories would be told
of colored horn socks

The festering green
The white of your fear filled eye
The sanguinous red

Bloated with moon light
thick red mists shrouding the rim
of Vesuvio

Ancient wickedness
spreading forth as an ulcer
from the crater

Cloven hooved horror
thus birthed volcanically
cannot be unmade

Our souls recoil
The old God descends among
this new mortal throng

A reaper of minds
Girbecco knows nothing, yet
encompasses all

His gloves of shadow
His boots of hardened evil
This, this kit of doom

The hoof at your door
You stand stripped of all reason
Now your mind is gone

The devourer.
The Ancient God consuming;
feasting on the sane.

A rippling wake
insanity clouds your thought
gibbering for him

New worshippers now
singing paens unto him;
unto Girbecco

The sycophants rise
Their minds embracing his love
strangers to themselves

The reaper recedes
the shattered minds and soulless
follow up the rim

His smile never leaves
as they dance over the edge
finding no bottom

Descending the dark
Girbecco attends their fall
Thus ends his Giro

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by crashdan on May 29, 2009 6:53 PM EDT reply actions  

Hmm

Why do I think iambic pentameter would have worked better there?

Girbecco, ha!

by Jen See on May 29, 2009 7:00 PM EDT up reply actions  

chapeau!

My favorite….


Cloven hooved horror
thus birthed volcanically
cannot be unmade

by PopUp Rolen on May 29, 2009 7:15 PM EDT up reply actions  

Wow

How long did that take?

I, too, like the “Cloven hooved horror”

by johnw on May 29, 2009 7:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

Dear Dan

Please consider getting a girlfriend or something. You have too much time on your hands. xo Beth

Sometimes I wonder...why is that Frisbee getting bigger?...and then it hits me.

by bethie on May 29, 2009 7:48 PM EDT up reply actions  

20 minutes max...

… it just writes itself, man.

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by crashdan on May 29, 2009 8:22 PM EDT up reply actions  

you do go so good we no sho' we go no mo'

echo girbecco
you got da nippon verse purse
done sewed up wit silk

by Steno on May 30, 2009 2:04 AM EDT up reply actions  

Epic!

Yours is a strange and fascinating mind crashdan.

by Jens on May 30, 2009 2:04 AM EDT up reply actions  

The blistering sun
Sears the hairless one’s last hope
Monte Petrano

by tgartner on May 29, 2009 7:59 PM EDT reply actions  

Party pooper, me?
I’m tired of Haiku class
Can we graduate?

by sminer on May 29, 2009 10:40 PM EDT reply actions  

Really?

How about you write
“I love haikus” a hundred
times on the chalk board

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by crashdan on May 30, 2009 2:24 AM EDT up reply actions  

I love Haiku’s too
One hundred times I will write
Then we graduate?

by sminer on May 30, 2009 1:29 PM EDT up reply actions  

What a disaster
this Giro has been for my
VDS hopes! Sigh.

Racing for Victory and Free Beer!

by DemonCats on May 29, 2009 11:51 PM EDT reply actions  

Maybe Basso will
come back in September and
reign in Spain. Please God!

Racing for Victory and Free Beer!

by DemonCats on May 29, 2009 11:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

and maybe, Demoncats
monkeys will fly
outofmyass

by Sui Juris on May 30, 2009 12:05 AM EDT up reply actions  

And surprise us all!

See you at the race!

Racing for Victory and Free Beer!

by DemonCats on May 30, 2009 12:25 AM EDT up reply actions  

I for one...

… would not be surprised.

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by crashdan on May 30, 2009 2:25 AM EDT up reply actions  

bop

sastre’s the master
juke-jive di luca munched off
menchov ‘s margin, mo’

by Steno on May 30, 2009 1:57 AM EDT reply actions  

geez

go, gyre and gimble,
go giringiro, gyrate,
geisha gotcha gifts

by Steno on May 30, 2009 2:24 AM EDT reply actions  

Work "momraths outgrabe" into that...

… and you’ll have a winner

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by crashdan on May 30, 2009 2:25 AM EDT up reply actions  

…the momraths outgrabe??
Hell, Lewis Carroll baffles
the fuck out of me.

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by crashdan on May 30, 2009 2:29 AM EDT up reply actions  

giro beautiful
yet i long for maillot jaune
goodbye and farewell

The center of the bottom bracket is the center of the universe.

by bikepig on May 30, 2009 8:59 AM EDT reply actions  

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