Fifty Plus (50+) - A Big Black Dog

ran out in front of Sandy Casar causing him to crash and he still won today's stage of the TDF.

woof! woof!

First of all the dog was a mid sized dog, second of all the dog was brown and finally Sandy Casar broke the duck. I really don't now what that last part means but Paul Sherwin said it so it must be true.

Brit-Speak, maybe?

I think he broke the duck when he won the stage, because he had never done it before, although he might have also done when he hit the dog, perhaps never having done that before either.

First of all the dog was a mid sized dog, second of all the dog was brown and finally Sandy Casar broke the duck. I really don't now what that last part means but Paul Sherwin said it so it must be true.

hmmmmm...............you sound like someone else on the board.

But you do agree that it was a dog:p?

hmmmmm...............you sound like someone else on the board.

But you do agree that it was a dog:p?

(I'm afraid to ask who he's referring to, in case it's me. But if it's not me, could someone clarify this?)

(I'm afraid to ask who he's referring to, in case it's me. But if it's not me, could someone clarify this?)

Clarify what? I'm confused...

Did he break a dog or a duck?

I understood he was booted from the TDF for using performance-enhancing ducks.

You would think people would keep their ducks on a leash.

One of these days, I'm going to learn to speak English. (http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bre2.htm)

One of these days, I'm going to learn to speak English. (http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bre2.htm)

Well, why didn't he just say, "He got off the schnied." Anyone from Brooklyn would unnerstan' dat.

With appreciation to Dogbait...

Q. Where does break one’s duck come from and what does it mean?”

A. It’s not as cruel as it sounds. It’s not the duck that’s being broken, but a duck’s egg. These days the expression can be used in almost any game that involves a score of some sort but originally — back in Victorian times — it related solely to cricket. It seems to have been English public-school slang of the 1850s to call a score of nought against a player’s name a duck’s egg — presumably a duck rather than a chicken because a duck’s egg is bigger and more prominent.

It’s only in comparatively recent times that the expression has broadened to other games and to the performance of whole teams rather than individual players. In the report you quote, it means that the soccer team concerned has won a match, that their count of wins has moved off zero, an extension that is so figurative as to suggest it might be a misunderstanding of the original meaning. Though the expression is known from all cricket-playing English-speaking countries, it’s only in British usage, I think, that you can apply it generally to achieving some particular feat for the first time.

Clarify what? I'm confused...

I was thinking I talked about dogs too much, and I didn't know who he was talking about, which usually means it's me.:o

I 'll take dogs any day over idiots in cars or a bunch of thieves.

ran out in front of Sandy Casar causing him to crash and he still won today's stage of the TDF.I'd call it a victory in the War on Terriers. :)

With appreciation to Dogbait...

Q. Where does break one’s duck come from and what does it mean?”

A. It’s not as cruel as it sounds. It’s not the duck that’s being broken, but a duck’s egg. These days the expression can be used in almost any game that involves a score of some sort but originally — back in Victorian times — it related solely to cricket. It seems to have been English public-school slang of the 1850s to call a score of nought against a player’s name a duck’s egg — presumably a duck rather than a chicken because a duck’s egg is bigger and more prominent.

It’s only in comparatively recent times that the expression has broadened to other games and to the performance of whole teams rather than individual players. In the report you quote, it means that the soccer team concerned has won a match, that their count of wins has moved off zero, an extension that is so figurative as to suggest it might be a misunderstanding of the original meaning. Though the expression is known from all cricket-playing English-speaking countries, it’s only in British usage, I think, that you can apply it generally to achieving some particular feat for the first time.
So, did he break a duck, a dog or a cricket?
And, I'm kinda afraid to ask but how did he blow a hole in the rear of his shorts?

Fist time in this tour that a French lab failed in an attempt to eliminate a stage winner. ;)

So, it was a Chatenay-Malabry. I thought it was a Black Lab.