How does one pronounce Merckx?

[Luigi de Guzman]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:55:56 -0700, Ryan Cousineau <[email protected]>
wrote:

>>
>> The next big thing-which, considering how the road racing scene seems
>> to be developing these days, we may never see--is a man winning all
>> three: the Giro, the Tour, and the Vuelta *in the same year*. So far
>> as I'm aware, that has never happened.
>
>The problem isn't the way the scene is developing, it's the sheer
>insanity of the task. For the GC riders, pushing through even one grand
>tour is a body-busting exercise. It leaves your body depleted and in
>severe need of recovery. There isn't enough time between races to get
>enough recovery.
>
>Compounding that is the issue of peaking. To take the well-known example
>of Lance, his training schedule has him starting to do serious racing
>around the middle or end of the Giro. It has him starting to turn into a
>ten-pounds-heavier non-racer around the start of the Vuelta. Changing
>either plan (and that's about the same plan most serious GC riders use)
>will probably hurt that rider.


So we'll never see the triple crown won in our lifetimes, alas.

Maybe Armstrong will do the Eddy thing and attempt a World Hour
Record. That would be cool.

>
>Next year, the Pro Tour is going to change things significantly. It will
>require Pro Tour teams to contest all three GTs (and other events
>totalling 140 days of racing) and to field at least 2 of their top 5
>riders at each event. I don't think this will lead to any one rider
>seriously attempting the triple crown, but it will mean USPS is going to
>the Giro!

That would be cool. Lance in Pink? Wonder what Miss Sheryl would have
to say about that.

-Luigi

 

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the black rose <[email protected]> wrote in news:YytMc.93796
[email protected]:

> LOL. I highly recommend to anyone, Never look in a mirror while wearing
> a helmet. You *will* be shocked. *snorfle*

Especially if you're forced, like me, to wear the special XXXL versions
like the Bell "Kinghead" or Giro "Atlas." I have a black Kinghead and I
look like that Dark Helmet guy in the Spaceballs movie, minus the flaps
around the back and sides.

--
Mike Barrs

 

[Rick Onanian]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:03:15 GMT, "bfd" <[email protected]> wrote:
>You mean as in ARM-STRONG....

His name is misspelled and mispronounced. It's actually "Legstrong".
--
Rick Onanian

 

[Rick Onanian]

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 13:33:44 GMT, the black rose
<[email protected]> wrote:
>LOL. I highly recommend to anyone, Never look in a mirror while wearing
>a helmet. You *will* be shocked. *snorfle*

The effect is different on women. I've found, while looking at
women, the helmet tends to have no effect on younger women, while
women who aren't "younger" often look like it with the helmet on.
--
Rick Onanian

 

[Ryan Cousineau]

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] wrote:

> Ryan Cousineau <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Next year, the Pro Tour is going to change things significantly. It will
> > require Pro Tour teams to contest all three GTs (and other events
> > totalling 140 days of racing) and to field at least 2 of their top 5
> > riders at each event. I don't think this will lead to any one rider
> > seriously attempting the triple crown, but it will mean USPS is going to
> > the Giro!
>
> Team USPS isn't going to exist next year.
>
> ~S

True enough. Team Discovery presented by Berry Floor is going to the
Giro!

If they actually use that ugly black and white design they showed at the
press conference, though...ugh!

--
Ryan Cousineau, [email protected] http://www.wiredcola.com
President, Fabrizio Mazzoleni Fan Club

 

[the black rose]

Rick Onanian wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 13:33:44 GMT, the black rose
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>LOL. I highly recommend to anyone, Never look in a mirror while wearing
>>a helmet. You *will* be shocked. *snorfle*
>
>
> The effect is different on women. I've found, while looking at
> women, the helmet tends to have no effect on younger women, while
> women who aren't "younger" often look like it with the helmet on.

*shrug* I don't look my age anyway. I've always looked 10 years
younger. I got carded buying alcohol until I was 40. It's more of a
curse than anything else; women my age don't take me seriously because
they assume I'm 10 years younger. My mother was the same way, and after
I was fully adult, we were often mistaken for sisters. I know that most
women envy it, but I honestly wish I just looked my age.

-km

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[the black rose]

Ryan Cousineau wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] wrote:
>
>
>>Ryan Cousineau <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Next year, the Pro Tour is going to change things significantly. It will
>>>require Pro Tour teams to contest all three GTs (and other events
>>>totalling 140 days of racing) and to field at least 2 of their top 5
>>>riders at each event. I don't think this will lead to any one rider
>>>seriously attempting the triple crown, but it will mean USPS is going to
>>>the Giro!
>>
>>Team USPS isn't going to exist next year.
>>
>>~S
>
>
> True enough. Team Discovery presented by Berry Floor is going to the
> Giro!
>
> If they actually use that ugly black and white design they showed at the
> press conference, though...ugh!

Ew, yes. I'm kind of glad to know I'm not the only one who disliked it.

-km

--
the black rose
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[The Real Bev]

the black rose wrote:
>
> Rick Onanian wrote:
> > On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 13:33:44 GMT, the black rose
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>LOL. I highly recommend to anyone, Never look in a mirror while wearing
> >>a helmet. You *will* be shocked. *snorfle*
> >
> > The effect is different on women. I've found, while looking at
> > women, the helmet tends to have no effect on younger women, while
> > women who aren't "younger" often look like it with the helmet on.

The black helicopters from the cosmetics industry are circling above you
even as we speak. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

> *shrug* I don't look my age anyway. I've always looked 10 years
> younger. I got carded buying alcohol until I was 40. It's more of a
> curse than anything else; women my age don't take me seriously because
> they assume I'm 10 years younger. My mother was the same way, and after
> I was fully adult, we were often mistaken for sisters. I know that most
> women envy it, but I honestly wish I just looked my age.

Now tell us that no matter how much you eat you just never manage to
gain any weight and that when you go to Vegas you just can't manage to
lose so much as a dime. Then tell us your real name and address so we
can hunt you down and kill you.

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[Bill Davidson]

the black rose wrote:
>>*shrug* I don't look my age anyway. I've always looked 10 years
>>younger. I got carded buying alcohol until I was 40. It's more of a
>>curse than anything else; women my age don't take me seriously because
>>they assume I'm 10 years younger. My mother was the same way, and after
>>I was fully adult, we were often mistaken for sisters. I know that most
>>women envy it, but I honestly wish I just looked my age.

The Real Bev wrote:
> Now tell us that no matter how much you eat you just never manage to
> gain any weight and that when you go to Vegas you just can't manage to
> lose so much as a dime. Then tell us your real name and address so we
> can hunt you down and kill you.

I'm 40. I still get carded; especially at bars. Supermarkets and
liquor stores are finally starting to card me only rarely. The bright
lights show that little bit of grey. I've even been carded in the
last year for a lottery ticket (I was wearing my helmet at the time
though). I've had a few people who met me recently be shocked to
learn that I'm 40. The common guess seems to be 28-29.

Until I actually did hit 29-30 I could eat anything I wanted and not
gain weight. I worked in a fast food restaurant for 4 years and
didn't gain weight (I wore 28W-36L pants back then). 30 changed all
that .

I've always lost consistently in Vegas though if that makes you feel
any better.

 

[Luigi de Guzman]

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:08:32 -0700, Bill Davidson
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I've had a few people who met me recently be shocked to
>learn that I'm 40. The common guess seems to be 28-29.


Since I was 17, everybody's guessed me to be 24.

Now I'm 23, and everybody guesses I'm 24.

I wonder what happens when I'm as old as I seem?

-Luigi

 

[The Real Bev]

Bill Davidson wrote:
>
> the black rose wrote:
> >>*shrug* I don't look my age anyway. I've always looked 10 years
> >>younger. I got carded buying alcohol until I was 40. It's more of a
> >>curse than anything else; women my age don't take me seriously because
> >>they assume I'm 10 years younger. My mother was the same way, and after
> >>I was fully adult, we were often mistaken for sisters. I know that most
> >>women envy it, but I honestly wish I just looked my age.
>
> The Real Bev wrote:
> > Now tell us that no matter how much you eat you just never manage to
> > gain any weight and that when you go to Vegas you just can't manage to
> > lose so much as a dime. Then tell us your real name and address so we
> > can hunt you down and kill you.
>
> I'm 40. I still get carded; especially at bars. Supermarkets and
> liquor stores are finally starting to card me only rarely. The bright
> lights show that little bit of grey. I've even been carded in the
> last year for a lottery ticket (I was wearing my helmet at the time
> though). I've had a few people who met me recently be shocked to
> learn that I'm 40. The common guess seems to be 28-29.
>
> Until I actually did hit 29-30 I could eat anything I wanted and not
> gain weight. I worked in a fast food restaurant for 4 years and
> didn't gain weight (I wore 28W-36L pants back then). 30 changed all
> that .
>
> I've always lost consistently in Vegas though if that makes you feel
> any better.

Not really, but enough better that I decided to let you live. Others
may feel differently, though. Watch your back.

--
Cheers,
Bev
----------------------------------------------
"Tough? We drink our urine and eat our dead!"
-- N. Heilweil

 

[Blair P. Houghton]

Luigi de Guzman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>Since I was 17, everybody's guessed me to be 24.
>
>Now I'm 23, and everybody guesses I'm 24.
>
>I wonder what happens when I'm as old as I seem?

You roll over to 0.

--Blair
"Lucky you."

 

[Blair P. Houghton]

Bill Davidson <[email protected]> wrote:
>Until I actually did hit 29-30 I could eat anything I wanted and not
>gain weight. I worked in a fast food restaurant for 4 years and
>didn't gain weight (I wore 28W-36L pants back then). 30 changed all
>that .

Not that sad. Think of food as the chemical input that
it is, adn the desire for food as the same as the desire
for every cute girl on the street. You're not going to
get it every time, and if you do it every time it's only
going to be satisfying about a third of the time, so you
don't even try when it's going to be unsatisfying.

I cut down to one big, satisfying meal a day instead of
three small, unsatisfying ones, and take a daily vitamin
to cover any nutritional deficit. I eat anything I want,
and I'm healthier than I've been since the '80s.

>I've always lost consistently in Vegas though if that makes you feel
>any better.

Funny, I've been on a longtime win streak in Vegas. Must
be your money in my pocket.

--Blair
"Do you bet 7-2 offsuit? I'd
advise against it."

 

[the black rose]

The Real Bev wrote:
> The black helicopters from the cosmetics industry are circling above you
> even as we speak. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

....for more reasons than one. I'm extremely allergic to most cosmetics.

> Now tell us that no matter how much you eat you just never manage to
> gain any weight and that when you go to Vegas you just can't manage to
> lose so much as a dime.

Hehe. Sorry to, um, not disappoint you, but I can gain weight just
*looking* at a cheesecake. And I tried the slots at a casino in San
Juan, Puerto Rico, once, used up my quarters and didn't win anything.
Haven't been in a casino since. Gambling just doesn't interest me. Oh,
at one time I bought 4 lotto tickets every week for about a year, a
couple times I won $4, once I won $7, and once I won $31. So that was a
net loss too. I suppose it's gambling of a sort, but I only did it
because my best friend dragged me along every week when she bought her
weekly set of tickets.

> Then tell us your real name and address so we
> can hunt you down and kill you.

Hey, it's not *MY* fault I don't look my age. I really, really wish I
did. But I'm not going to sit under a UV lamp and age my skin either.

My husband is a real baby face. He grew a beard to look his age. Our
children are doomed (at least they're all boys).

-km

--
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[Rick Onanian]

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:08:32 -0700, Bill Davidson
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Until I actually did hit 29-30 I could eat anything I wanted and not
>gain weight. I worked in a fast food restaurant for 4 years and
>didn't gain weight (I wore 28W-36L pants back then). 30 changed all
>that .

I'm 24 and can eat anything I want and not gain weight. However, I
wear 36W-28L (opposite your 28W-36L) pants (when I can find them);
this does not bode well for my shape as I pass 30 years old...
--
Rick Onanian

 

[the black rose]

Rick Onanian wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:08:32 -0700, Bill Davidson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Until I actually did hit 29-30 I could eat anything I wanted and not
>>gain weight. I worked in a fast food restaurant for 4 years and
>>didn't gain weight (I wore 28W-36L pants back then). 30 changed all
>>that .
>
>
> I'm 24 and can eat anything I want and not gain weight. However, I
> wear 36W-28L (opposite your 28W-36L) pants (when I can find them);
> this does not bode well for my shape as I pass 30 years old...

Keep on cycling. *cracks a whip*

:-D

-km

--
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[Zoot Katz]

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:39:18 -0400,
<[email protected]>, Rick Onanian
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:08:32 -0700, Bill Davidson
><[email protected]> wrote:
>>Until I actually did hit 29-30 I could eat anything I wanted and not
>>gain weight. I worked in a fast food restaurant for 4 years and
>>didn't gain weight (I wore 28W-36L pants back then). 30 changed all
>>that .
>
>I'm 24 and can eat anything I want and not gain weight. However, I
>wear 36W-28L (opposite your 28W-36L) pants (when I can find them);
>this does not bode well for my shape as I pass 30 years old...

I know a retired Royal Marine MP who wears that size and tows multiple
trailers full of sound equipment with his Birdy.

This ain't Kansas.
--
zk

 

[Claire Petersky]

"the black rose" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Rick Onanian wrote:
>
> > I'm 24 and can eat anything I want and not gain weight. However, I
> > wear 36W-28L (opposite your 28W-36L) pants (when I can find them);
> > this does not bode well for my shape as I pass 30 years old...
>
> Keep on cycling. *cracks a whip*

What I'm visualizing is The Black Rose, dressed in just her leg and arm
warmers and maybe a pair of black sunglasses, cracking a whip over Rick's
head while he's clipped in to his pedals on a stationary bike. If you had a
picture of this, you could probably post it to one of those racy
alt.binaries groups.


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[Luigi de Guzman]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:39:18 -0400, Rick Onanian <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:08:32 -0700, Bill Davidson
><[email protected]> wrote:
>>Until I actually did hit 29-30 I could eat anything I wanted and not
>>gain weight. I worked in a fast food restaurant for 4 years and
>>didn't gain weight (I wore 28W-36L pants back then). 30 changed all
>>that .
>
>I'm 24 and can eat anything I want and not gain weight. However, I
>wear 36W-28L (opposite your 28W-36L) pants (when I can find them);
>this does not bode well for my shape as I pass 30 years old...

We're doing it the right way, Rick. We're going backwards.

-Luigi

 

[Luigi de Guzman]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:39:42 -0700, [email protected] (Tom Keats)
wrote:

>I owe my extended youthful vigour to these words of wisdom: "Never
>marry, and teach your grandchildren the same thing."

"I went to see the doctor of philosophy
With a poster of Rasputin, and a beard down to his knee--
He never did marry, or see a B-grade movie,
He graded my performance, he said he could see through me..."
-Indigo Girls

> And also,
>cycling. Maybe never having driven a car has something to do with
>it, too. And, as a bit of a worry-wart, maybe I worry a lot of
>calories away.
>
>I'll probably die of some slow, agonizing, horrible, exotic disease,
>or some sort of freak accident. But not for awhile yet (I hope).

Prayer:

O Lord, grant that I may some day know all of Your mercy and kindness
and love for me.

But not yet.

Amen.

-Luigi