Excuse List

[Lantern Rouge]

With all these sprinters shooting blanks these days, what we need to speed up the interviews with
the Media, and to standardize the moans and bitches that the likes of McWhiner are spewing out is a
formally approved ~Excuse List~

Something like:

(1) I couldn't get on a wheel;

(2) My lead out man firked up;

(3) I got boxed in;

(4) There were too many ~no hoper~ wankerz in the way

(5) Petacchi has to be on somethin';

(6) etc.; etc.;

Then McWhiner, and others of his ilk, could just ride by the Press Corps and shout ''Numer 3
today mate.''

[Edward Waffle]

Lantern Rouge wrote in message ...
>With all these sprinters shooting blanks these days, what we need to speed up the interviews with
>the Media, and to standardize the moans and bitches that the likes of McWhiner are spewing out is a
>formally approved ~Excuse List~
>
>Something like:
>
>(1) I couldn't get on a wheel;
>
>(2) My lead out man firked up;
>
>(3) I got boxed in;
>
>(4) There were too many ~no hoper~ wankerz in the way
>
>(5) Petacchi has to be on somethin';
>
>(6) etc.; etc.;
>
>Then McWhiner, and others of his ilk, could just ride by the Press Corps and shout ''Numer 3
>today mate.''

Why not? Just about everyone involved in any sport on a national or international level who deals
with the press has a list of cliches ready to recite when asked.

Usually two lists--one (like that above) to explain failure, the other for success.