What We Learned
by Jen See on Jan 31, 2011 1:19 PM EST
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Welcome to our new Monday feature. Feel like you missed something huge last week? Been asleep in a cave? Not up to date on all the happs? We are so totally on your team.
Last week:
We learned never to trust 'becco-knife wielding Swedes during VDS season.
Also, you should go pick your teams now.
Lampre has very bright pink kits, and while their ship may still be tilty, they did win their first Italian race of the season.
Sometimes rumors turn out to be right.
Contador is innocent and the rules are wrong. Also, the UCI called us inappropriate. That stung.
Flinstones vitamins, breakfast of champions.
We have new World Champions! Marianne Vos adds a fourth World cyclocross title to her collection, while Zdenek Stybar won the men's race. The fainting couch was urgently needed in London.
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"Monday feature" Gav?
What? Didja finally give up on Wednesdays?
Cycling is the reason for my life - D. Bennati
LOL
This is different than the sometimes Wednesday feature. Also, Chris is doing this one too. Which sorta helps guarantee that it will stay on Monday ;)
uh oh
Also, to be on the safe side, I recommend just not trusting Swedes, period. Except Emma. And Emilia.
If cobble delusions are wrong, who wants to be right? -JFS PGH
by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 31, 2011 4:26 PM EST up reply actions
This might be good advice, yes.
What about fish? Can we trust fish? Because I’m worried about that one.
fish are slippery little buggers
hard to catch me, much less to trust em..
Anyone who has every thought a working Photojournalist has a glam job needs to rethink...
by Christopher See on Jan 31, 2011 5:24 PM EST up reply actions
If they have an adipose fin
then you can trust them. Just don’t touch them, because it’s $25,000 per violation.
If cobble delusions are wrong, who wants to be right? -JFS PGH
by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 31, 2011 5:57 PM EST up reply actions
only wild fish
hatchery fish, I think they just sit around all day.
If cobble delusions are wrong, who wants to be right? -JFS PGH
by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 31, 2011 6:46 PM EST up reply actions
Swedish fish hatch?
Does that mean there are also Swedish minnows? And for that matter, in Sweden, do they just call them fish? Or is that ‘fisk’? ‘Fiskar’? Inquiring minds want to know.
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
One fisk, many fiskar
We call them godisfisk (candy fish) or Malacofisk.
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Feb 1, 2011 3:18 AM EST up reply actions
Thank you!
I wondered over fisk/fiskar because in English, the plural of ‘fish’ is ‘fish,’ so it’s not instantly clear when one buys a bag labeled Swedish Fish whether we are purchasing multiples of one fish or one bag o’ many fish. To my mind, Swedish Fish is plural, but then again, when I buy a bag of Milky Way bars, they aren’t labeled ‘Milky Ways.’
I had to look up Malaco, and for those who might be interested, it’s the Swedish company that makes them (although for the North American market they’ve been licensed to Cadbury Adams in Canada). The flavor of the red ones is rumored to be lingonberry. They do not contain gelatin, and their tagline is ‘A Friend You Can Eat.’
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
Oddly enough
malaka means something completely different in greek.
Are you happy for me to keep custody of the couch for the moment? It can be handy.
Albertina <——- still epically happy, with the Czech national anthem stuck in her internal juke box.
De cross gaat door!
by Albertina on Jan 31, 2011 5:19 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Czech National Anthem?
Is that the one that goes Mana Mana Doo Doo Da Do Do?
Will you lend it to me if one of the two Carrots I have in my VDS team win please?
This is your fault BTW Albertina…those little carrots have got me.
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
Oh of course! I don't own it...I can have it shipped in the blink of an eye!
Aww, you love my carrots? I am so touched! May I ask which ones you have? :)
De cross gaat door!
Igor of course...I'll join you on the fainting couch if he crashes again...and Miguel M (I can't even remember his last name),
but he’s young and he worked like a dog on the climbs at the TDU, so he won my heart. He also didn’t fall off :)
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
Ah yes, young Miguel is a great worker. Zorionak on your new found taste for carrots.
And the fainting couch is big enough for two, but he will not be crashing this year. I have issued a warning.
De cross gaat door!
His surname is Minguez...this might be the last time you hear it...
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
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