Question about TdF Stage 18 results



On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:57:07 -0600, [email protected] wrote:


>Alas, as a famous poetess [1] might have written . . .
>
>Ode to Walter Beneteau, Last Place'd
>
>And did young Walter falter,
>And did young Walter crash.
>And did sad hearts thicken,
>As Walter's bike went smash?
>
>No; such was not the gaudy fate
>Of Young Walter Beneteau;
>Though sad hearts round him thickened,
>He had not even stubbed his toe.
>
>No fatigue cracks did rack his frame,
>Nor collisions mar his eight-oh-oh;
>Not these impaired the sacred name
>Of Walter Beneteau.
>
>Despised heat struck not with woe
>That noble rider's urge to go,
>Nor stomach troubles laid him low,
>Young Walter Beneteau.
>
>O no. Then list with tearful eye,
>And all your garments rend.
>His soul did from the peloton fly
>By flatting at the end.
>
>They pumped him up and sent him on;
>Alas it was too late;
>His hopes of 131st place
>Had been utterly erased.
>
>http://www.velonews.com/tour2006/news/articles/10529.0.html
>
>Cheers,
>
>Emmeline Grangerford
>
>[1] http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1190.html


Nice work, Emmie. It has come to my notice that the introduction of a
little rhyme into an rbt thread has the same effect as a pump barrel
jammed into a bicycle's front wheel.

Perhaps you would bring your considerable talent to the various helmet
threads here that want for a similar end.
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