Who's Ferrari?

[TimC]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 at 01:40 GMT, hippy (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> "mfhor" <[email protected]
>> hippy Wrote:
>> > "mfhor" <[email protected]
>> > <snip much mfhor trueness>
>> >
>> > Sadly, mfhor, she's already left with Mr Cash Money.. $ $
>> >
>> > jaded hippy
>>
>> Trading stories as to the pulchritude of cyclists sighted, Bec from
>
> Dude, like where did you like learn that like crazy
> english man? I'm serious, do you find strange words
> in the dictionary and challenge yourself to use them
> in context? I've never seen "pulchritude" before..
> it sounds kinda horrid. At least someone is fighting
> the new english... 'SMS text'. CU L8R!

tconnors@radium> dict pulchritude
2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

Pulchritude \Pul"chri*tude\, n. [L. pulchritudo, fr. pulcher
beautiful.]
1. That quality of appearance which pleases the eye; beauty;
comeliness; grace; loveliness.
[1913 Webster]

Piercing our heartes with thy pulchritude. --Court
of Love.
[1913 Webster]

2. Attractive moral excellence; moral beauty.
[1913 Webster]

By the pulchritude of their souls make up what is
wanting in the beauty of their bodies. --Ray.
[1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

pulchritude
n : physical beauty (especially of a woman)

I'm assuming the second definition. Moral excellence. Because I am
surely also morally excellent.

--
TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/
That's not a tau-neutrino in my pocket; I've got a hadron.

 

[mfhor]

Dude, like where did you like learn that like crazy
english man? I'm serious, do you find strange words
in the dictionary and challenge yourself to use them
in context? I've never seen "pulchritude" before..
it sounds kinda horrid. At least someone is fighting
the new english... 'SMS text'. CU L8R!

hippy

Well, too many Victorian novels at uni, maybe, or just a way to check out and comment on a girl's/lady's/chick's shape and dimensions without gettin' punched inna mouf. The sort of classy dame who might mind, mind you. My dictionary says 'beauty', but them Victorians were waaay into circumlocution and euphemistic utterance, that fancy Latin, Greek and such I think that just coz it's on a screen, it doesn't have to be bonehead Anglo-Saxon. Chicks dig it too, sometimes. Some chicks.

M "linguistically over-qualified greasemonkey" H

 

[flyingdutch]

noice bikes mfhor!! both also on my dream list.. and in blue too .. sigh...

What's with Blue??? Every second person i know has a blue bike!
Gawd it reminds me of all the nuff-nuff corporates on Collins St who think 'Royal Blue' is a really refreshing and distinct colour aaaaarrrrrggghhhhhh!!!
Not that Im jaded mind,
Besides, your purple bike looks faster

and.. do you hand out mars bars in your satin smoking jacket, er I mean, with your wiliers by chance ???

Dont you mean with your 'Wiliers' hanging out?

And what's with eating Mars Bars. I read somewhere that these are about the single worst thing (apart from a pint of guinness. mmmmm guinnesssss) you could eat mid-ride.
Or was he really just using it as 'bait' ???

 

[mfhor]

noice bikes mfhor!! both also on my dream list.. and in blue too .. sigh... Am going to have to take a walk to your window and muss it up too!! The C50 was in Chapel St before FM opened the new store...

what size is the mortirolo??? maybe I can blow out the mortgage?? hehehe


and.. do you hand out mars bars in your satin smoking jacket, er I mean, with your wiliers by chance ???

Hmm, maybe there's a connotation to 'mars bar' that I don't get - maybe "Come here little girl, I've got a sweetie"? I hope not: if that is the implication, madam, then you are sorely mistaken We do chilled filtered water and Enervit/Powerbars, and the cafe next door does an alright coffee . . . ?

IIRC, it's a 54, we can get all the common sizes, it's not a 1-off. Price is negotiable - wheels, saddle, pedals, etc. depending. We can do it in Dura-Ace, Record, Chorus, Ultegra, or even Centaur or 105 if you really wanted. Now, that really is a sales pitch, something I promised myself I'd never do on the list. Sorry. Won't do it again.

Bad Mark.

M "roll up, roll up, get your Mars Bars . . . err . . . bikes 'ere" H

 

[warrwych]

What's with Blue??? Every second person i know has a blue bike!
Gawd it reminds me of all the nuff-nuff corporates on Collins St who think 'Royal Blue' is a really refreshing and distinct colour aaaaarrrrrggghhhhhh!!!
Not that Im jaded mind,
Besides, your purple bike looks faster



Dont you mean with your 'Wiliers' hanging out?

And what's with eating Mars Bars. I read somewhere that these are about the single worst thing (apart from a pint of guinness. mmmmm guinnesssss) you could eat mid-ride.
Or was he really just using it as 'bait' ???

heheh so long as you keep ur dogma to urself..

blue is a diluted shade of purple Dutchy!! and thanks for the thumbs up on my bewdiful cannon.. I do just leeeeerv her so!!! She has seen my thru many an interesting ride and has looked after my pulchritudinous self very well indeed. Just a pity she looks faster than my legs can make her.

Mars Bars = bait dude - more sofistikated than boiled lollies and yup, totally agree on the chunder value of mars bars (and a steaming latte) mid hard/long ride.

 

[warrwych]

Hmm, maybe there's a connotation to 'mars bar' that I don't get - maybe "Come here little girl, I've got a sweetie"? I hope not: if that is the implication, madam, then you are sorely mistaken We do chilled filtered water and Enervit/Powerbars, and the cafe next door does an alright coffee . . . ?

IIRC, it's a 54, we can get all the common sizes, it's not a 1-off. Price is negotiable - wheels, saddle, pedals, etc. depending. We can do it in Dura-Ace, Record, Chorus, Ultegra, or even Centaur or 105 if you really wanted. Now, that really is a sales pitch, something I promised myself I'd never do on the list. Sorry. Won't do it again.

Bad Mark.

M "roll up, roll up, get your Mars Bars . . . err . . . bikes 'ere" H

hehehehe methinks you've spent too long in the toybox er shop mfhor or perhaps I am becoming a little too twisted in my lonely old age here in the sticks?? BTW boiled lollies really dont crack it..

and sounds like you can do a deal for me!!!! Once I have my dually and bank account primed for the next bike, I will hunt you down Mr not-so-LBSman!! hehehe (Sorry to have made you compromise yourself listwise tho - wasn't intentional - I may be twisted but not so devious )

 

[TimC]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 at 02:27 GMT, mfhor (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> Well, too many Victorian novels at uni, maybe, or just a way to check
> out and comment on a girl's/lady's/chick's shape and dimensions without
> gettin' punched inna mouf. The sort of classy dame who might mind, mind
> you. My dictionary says 'beauty', but them Victorians were waaay into
> circumlocution and euphemistic utterance, that fancy Latin, Greek and

You mean their words were sesquipedalian?

> such I think that just coz it's on a screen, it doesn't have to be
> bonehead Anglo-Saxon. Chicks dig it too, sometimes. Some chicks.
>
> M "linguistically over-qualified greasemonkey" H

I think siggy has something to say.

--
TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/
The prolonged application of polysyllabic vocabulary infallibly
exercises a deleterious influence on the fecundity of expression,
rendering the ultimate tendancy apocryphal. --unk

 

[mfhor]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 at 02:27 GMT, mfhor (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> Well, too many Victorian novels at uni, maybe, or just a way to check
> out and comment on a girl's/lady's/chick's shape and dimensions without
> gettin' punched inna mouf. The sort of classy dame who might mind, mind
> you. My dictionary says 'beauty', but them Victorians were waaay into
> circumlocution and euphemistic utterance, that fancy Latin, Greek and

You mean their words were sesquipedalian?

> such I think that just coz it's on a screen, it doesn't have to be
> bonehead Anglo-Saxon. Chicks dig it too, sometimes. Some chicks.
>
> M "linguistically over-qualified greasemonkey" H

I think siggy has something to say.

--
TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/
The prolonged application of polysyllabic vocabulary infallibly
exercises a deleterious influence on the fecundity of expression,
rendering the ultimate tendancy apocryphal. --unk

I wish *I* was sesquipedalian, but then I'd have to buy new knicks . . .

M "doesn't everyone?" H

 

[Richard Sherratt]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 01:40:20 GMT, "hippy" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>"mfhor" <[email protected]
>> hippy Wrote:
>> > "mfhor" <[email protected]
>> > <snip much mfhor trueness>
>> >
>> > Sadly, mfhor, she's already left with Mr Cash Money.. $ $
>> >
>> > jaded hippy
>>
>> Trading stories as to the pulchritude of cyclists sighted, Bec from
>
>Dude, like where did you like learn that like crazy
>english man? I'm serious, do you find strange words
>in the dictionary and challenge yourself to use them
>in context? I've never seen "pulchritude" before..
>it sounds kinda horrid. At least someone is fighting
>the new english... 'SMS text'. CU L8R!

It's a good word.

I rather like "callipygian".

--
Regards.
Richard.

 

[LotteBum]

Is this another episode of 'Let's see who can impress the girls'?

I have a few things to say:

1. My 2004 - and even my 1992 - Corolla is WAY more reliable than any Ferrari (aren't they known to be fairly unreliable pieces of shite?).

2. I have to be honest - I'm not super keen on Colnagos. My ultegra equipped Scattante does the job perfectly fine. I pass plenty of folks on better bikes and I'm a fat *******. Besides, you'd have to jump the said sugar daddy, wouldn't you? That's a nasty thought.


3. My sewage engineer boyfriend is way better than McEwen. And I'd rather he doesn't know all kinds of poetry and Latin speech - because I don't.

That's my 2c worth.

 

[mfhor]

Is this another episode of 'Let's see who can impress the girls'?

I have a few things to say:

1. My 2004 - and even my 1992 - Corolla is WAY more reliable than any Ferrari (aren't they known to be fairly unreliable pieces of shite?).

2. I have to be honest - I'm not super keen on Colnagos. My ultegra equipped Scattante does the job perfectly fine. I pass plenty of folks on better bikes and I'm a fat *******. Besides, you'd have to jump the said sugar daddy, wouldn't you? That's a nasty thought.


3. My sewage engineer boyfriend is way better than McEwen. And I'd rather he doesn't know all kinds of poetry and Latin speech - because I don't.

That's my 2c worth.

Doesn't Scattante mean something analogous to "poo" in Italian?

<Joke in poor taste> Does it have anything to do with said b/f's occupation? </joke in poor taste>

No, you're right. Sugar daddies are liable to melt in hot water. And their cars (like the bikes of certain cycling showponies) spend a lot of time in the (bike)shop.

And what's wrong with knowing more than several words, mademoiselle? I find that they help me convey my meaning and intention to all and sundry, without which, I fear, I should be impelled to fall back upon grunts and physical violence to express myself.

M "sorry to insult your bike, but people pass people on bikes all the time" H

 

[mfhor]

Who's Ferrari what that next to the starting line at the Portarlington leg of the Bay Series last Fri? Robbie McEwen's?

powinc

BTW, while I've got my grammar nerd's pocket protector on, it's 'Whose' when you are talking about possession of an object or quality.

Initially I thought the thread was about the infamous Dr Michele Ferrari, Lance's pusher (oohh! wash my mouth out!). "Who's" is short for "Who is".

Grammatical pedantry. Isn't it fun?

M "English teacher by night, bike shop schmuck by day" H

 

[flyingdutch]

BTW, while I've got my grammar nerd's pocket protector on, it's 'Whose' when you are talking about possession of an object or quality.

Initially I thought the thread was about the infamous Dr Michele Ferrari, Lance's pusher (oohh! wash my mouth out!). "Who's" is short for "Who is".

Grammatical pedantry. Isn't it fun?

M "English teacher by night, bike shop schmuck by day" H

jeeez. i thawt those lil' uppy bits stood for...

"Look out. Here comes the letter 't' !"

F "sick of idiot-clients capitalising every word simply cos they think everything is IMPORTANT" D

 

[DJ]

> pulchritude
> n : physical beauty (especially of a woman)
>
>mmmmmm interesting!! I think I might try this one on the
>Mrs........nah..what's the point, she'll just say "what've you done, what
>do you want"????? she just won't
>understand................rolleyes

DJ

 

[byron27]

Riding along Beach Road on Sat morning, EVERY and I mean EVERY (like 7 in a row) bunch that rode past had a Colnago sitting at the back.

Nuff said!

aw cmon, leave off on the colnago!

while im always prone to a good generalisation every so often (in relation to say, triathletes for example), i ride a colnago, got it second hand and cheap and do not sit at the back of the bunch (except when im creeping after that extra beer at friday after workies). I know, there are plenty of tossers on colnagos but geez, im sure there are heaps on giants, eddy mercx's, etc (another generalisation). so lets not beat up on poor ernesto. He looks so frail in photos how could you sully his name!
Pick on eddy instead. He is big enough to look after himself and take the arrows of criticism!......or even greg lemond.

 

[LotteBum]

Speaking of Eddy Mercx, I heard a story about a rep here in Brisbane who told his son (Axl isn't it?) "Your dad was a B grader!". Apparently he didn't like hearing that.

Sometimes, having balls would be so great.

 

[nitrous]

Speaking of tossers, I'm sure you'll also find plenty of them driving Ferrari's.

Got nothing against Colnago's Think they're great bikes. Only problem is they are TOO great for 95% of the people who ride them. But, if you've got the cash and want the best then who's going to stop you.

 

[warrwych]

Is this another episode of 'Let's see who can impress the girls'?

I have a few things to say:

1. My 2004 - and even my 1992 - Corolla is WAY more reliable than any Ferrari (aren't they known to be fairly unreliable pieces of shite?).

2. I have to be honest - I'm not super keen on Colnagos. My ultegra equipped Scattante does the job perfectly fine. I pass plenty of folks on better bikes and I'm a fat *******. Besides, you'd have to jump the said sugar daddy, wouldn't you? That's a nasty thought.


3. My sewage engineer boyfriend is way better than McEwen. And I'd rather he doesn't know all kinds of poetry and Latin speech - because I don't.

That's my 2c worth.

Sheesh!.. No .. it's another episode of "I am bored at work so let's have some fun!!!"

sigh.... pass me a mars bar someone!!! thanks

 

[Richard Sherratt]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:28:14 +1100, warrwych
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>LotteBum Wrote:
>> Is this another episode of 'Let's see who can impress the girls'?

No. It was an inquiry about who owned a car.

>> I have a few things to say:

Good for you.

>> 1. My 2004 - and even my 1992 - Corolla is WAY more reliable than any
>> Ferrari

And you have the stats to back it up?

>>(aren't they known to be fairly unreliable pieces of shite?).

No.

HTH

>> 2. I have to be honest - I'm not super keen on Colnagos.

Why not? They've been making nice bikes for a long time. And their
current stuff is really rather good. Have a go on a C50 with a good
groupset and some good wheels and see what you think

>>My ultegra
>> equipped Scattante does the job perfectly fine.

That's good. I've got an Ultegra equipped Reynolds 531c bike from 1988
and it still does the job fine. It doesn't do it as well as my 2001
Chorus equipped Scapin Pro-Team with the nifty WoundUp forks,
asymmetric curved seat stays and asymmetric chain stays, but, hey!,
that's progress and engineering for you.

>> I pass plenty of folks
>> on better bikes and I'm a fat *******. Besides, you'd have to jump the
>> said sugar daddy, wouldn't you? That's a nasty thought.

Who says the Ferrari isn't owned by a chick?

>> 3. My sewage engineer boyfriend is way better than McEwen.

Good for you He's a lucky guy to have someone who feels about him
like you do.

But when it comes to bike racing, McEwen is a class act. He's not just
fast, he's smart.

>> And I'd
>> rather he doesn't know all kinds of poetry and Latin speech - because I
>> don't.

I'm sure he could come up with something dead sexy in Latin that would
rock your socks. The Romans were a pretty horny lot.

--
Regards.
Richard.

 

[kyra]

Doesn't Scattante mean something analogous to "poo" in Italian?

<Joke in poor taste> Does it have anything to do with said b/f's occupation? </joke in poor taste>

No, you're right. Sugar daddies are liable to melt in hot water. And their cars (like the bikes of certain cycling showponies) spend a lot of time in the (bike)shop.

And what's wrong with knowing more than several words, mademoiselle? I find that they help me convey my meaning and intention to all and sundry, without which, I fear, I should be impelled to fall back upon grunts and physical violence to express myself.

M "sorry to insult your bike, but people pass people on bikes all the time" H

Mfhor... that bike shop you are refering to is the one I picked up my Pinarello from... the Fassa Bortolo Galileo... awesome machine that! my only issue is getting onto the big cog is tricky sometimes, it doesn't want to shift up... i'll bring it in when i get back in town...

Did Don manage to get any size 5 Fassa Bortolo shorts in? I was after them.

thanks.