Tour de France - What I've learned during this year's tour...

Cavemen like to boogie!!!!

and they are world travelers.

I first saw this one in Prague. It works my glutes.

...every time it's on i still cannot tell you the product"
1. You know, I saw the Saab commercial with an attractive woman driving it, whizzing by, as I fast forwarded the commercials in my DVR. It doesn't make me want to buy a Saab; it makes me think cute chicks drive Saabs.:love:

2. Also, I don't like the Geico caveman talkling about glutes and then shaking his hairy @ss at me. :lol:

Did I just say that?

I've learned that my 32 years of speaking German have left me unable to pronounce "Kirchen" correctly.

Thanks Phil... "Many people are pronouncing it Kir-shen, which is incorrect, as it is a German name, and so it's Kir-Ken."

No.

It isn't.

They're both wrong.

Your pedantry is a total shamWOW!

Your pedantry is a total shamWOW!


heheh well done, sir :)

*applauds

Bob must be married to a nymphomaniac.

Has he been looking dehydrated lately?

1. Winning the yellow jersery can come down to how fast you take a wiz on the side of the road. (That's why its the YELLOW jersey!)

I also learned that if you get a yellow jersey, and then lose it, they don't make you give back the yellow bike (yes, Mr. Valverde, I'm looking at you.)

Also, it's not good luck to keep it, even if you can (yeah, still looking at you, Valverde.)

I also learned that if you get a yellow jersey, and then lose it, they don't make you give back the yellow bike (yes, Mr. Valverde, I'm looking at you.)

Also, it's not good luck to keep it, even if you can (yeah, still looking at you, Valverde.)

Yeah that yellow bike was not for wearing the yellow jersey, it's for being the national champion of Spain.
You might notice it is RED and yellow :fred:

Weeeelll... color me stupid on that one then.

Didn't realize they went so far as to do national champion color-themed bikes, but there you go.

Has he been looking dehydrated lately?

She always seems to be smiling...I guess we all need a "Bob"!! :D

For the record, I find the commercial complaints oddly heartening. The first time I watched the Tour on OLN Canada, they had 3 sponsors - Bowflex, Subaru and Cervelo.

Nobody else had a single commercial for the whole tour.

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No Festina Watch commercials? We had them every break.



Which may explain the chronograph on my wrist.

Bob must be married to a nymphomaniac.

Think back to the earlier commercials in the series - she always did have this glazed, stupid, almost drugged look about her. Maybe, "f****d her brains out" isn't just a figure of speech.

If I shop around for the right insurance company, I won't have to ride my bike anymore. (this one's gotta take the cake for worst choice of ad placement)

I still don't know what a mojito is but I do like that music and the booty shakin'.


The Pyrenees are granite and the Alps are limestone. :thumb:

Flo turns me on... Kinda like staring at a car wreck. (shudder)
JB

Here's a word to the wise: the unique thing about French is how individual syllables are not given a particular stress in the same way that they are in other languages. If you knew anything about French instead of making ridiculous comments about something you clearly know nothing about, then you would have noticed that Phil Liggett, far from Anglicizing French words and names, actually gives them enough of a Gallic reading to satisfy any French-speaker who might be listening. While he may indeed be inconsistent now and then (though I haven't noticed myself), on the whole he does an excellent job on French names as a non-native speaker of French. Your criticisms are misplaced and ignorant.

Tell that to the people of Case dePAHrn and AHgrituBBLE, (aka agree-too-bell) as well the residents of the AHriyedj.

And I am sure the riders at the tete de la coarse would be happy to know how to correctly pronounce that.

She always seems to be smiling...I guess we all need a "Bob"!! :D

Think back to the earlier commercials in the series - she always did have this glazed, stupid, almost drugged look about her. Maybe, "f****d her brains out" isn't just a figure of speech.

:lol: Up until reading these posts, I thought Suzie was referring to Bob Roll! :lol:

:lol: Up until reading these posts, I thought Suzie was referring to Bob Roll! :lol:

:roflmao2: I guess I should have been a little more clear. Maybe we should nickname Bob Roll and call him "Enzite Bob"!!

Flo turns me on... Kinda like staring at a car wreck. (shudder)
JBIt's the big tricked-out nametag that does it... :D

:roflmao2: I guess I should have been a little more clear. Maybe we should nickname Bob Roll and call him "Enzite Bob"!!

And you thought it was bad when he was waving only his hands around while talking...

And you thought it was bad when he was waving only his hands around while talking...


Too much information! :roflmao:

"Suit son gravite." (sp?)

French rider crashes around 72K to go today and the guys toss out this little gem.

Phil remembers first hearing this on race radio in the late '70's. He said the guy who went into the "suit son gravite" came back into the race bandaged up like the Invisible Man.

That if you have schizophrenia, there is a job waiting for you at Versus in the programing department.

Q: How are we going to get all this extra make up and this stupid hat to the fight tonight?

A: "THIS IS HOW WE BRING IT!!!"

When it comes to Mike Wallace, the story ends with me putting him in the wall.
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I learned that the GOLF CHANNEL is just one click away and they have not busted anybody there for the 6th EPO generation...

When it comes to Mike Wallace, the story ends with me putting him in the wall.
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Nicely done, sir. Nicely done! :thumb:

I learned that the GOLF CHANNEL is just one click away and they have not busted anybody there for the 6th EPO generation...

But they're not testing

I learned that TdF spectators moon the riders.

I learned that there could be a very scary dark side to the Versus "Enhanced" Programming in the evening:



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............Bob................................Bob on Enzyte (and Rogaine)



And on a related note, apparently Extenze users experience such readily-apparent results that they can be picked out of a crowd for random "man on the street*" interviews.

*no pun intended

Based on seeing the trophy girls, I learned that some French women are gorgeous and some French women sit really far on the other end of the spectrum.

I learned that there could be a very scary dark side to the Versus "Enhanced" Programming in the evening:



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............Bob................................Bob on Enzyte (and Rogaine)



And on a related note, apparently Extenze users experience such readily-apparent results that they can be picked out of a crowd for random "man on the street*" interviews.

*no pun intended


OMFG!! :roflmao2:

If you save $250 on insurance, you can buy a boat, an RV, a motorcycle, a pair of shoes or a big, tricked out nametag.

I wish I was "BOB".

I had no idea my gold jewelry was worth so much money. After overdosing all of my husbands with Enzite and killing them off, I turned in the wedding bands from my first seven marriages and now I am able to purchase a Cervelo or even a tricked out name tag. Being crazy like a fox, I am able to make money from home. I do my "thing." I am the ENFORCER! :D

Excellent post!

There seem to be a lot of classic car auctions on morning TV.

i always like the bowflex ad where the guy says, "i'm 49 years old and I play in a rock band." Like you have to be Powdered toast man to be in a rock band. Has this shmuck ever actually SEEN a rock band?

we get different ads here during the tour...but the bob ads and gold jewelry are on all the time...

Apparantly, 9 and 11 add up to 20.

I learned from the posts here that if there ever was a Nobel prize for mental health the inventors of Tivo would surely be first in line.

Just recently learned that none of you Yanks seem to know Vandevelde is a Yank and nobody is 'rooting' for him.....and also that none of you seem to know that Slipstream and High Road now have new sponsors.

Just recently learned that none of you Yanks seem to know Vandevelde is a Yank and nobody is 'rooting' for him.....and also that none of you seem to know that Slipstream and High Road now have new sponsors.

Yank? I grew up preferring the Orioles. :P

We know well enough about Garmin, Columbia, and where Christian is from. Some of us are hoping he does very well. The way things look after stage 15, he has a shot at making the podium, but I'm afraid to get my hopes up too much.

I've learned that I wouldn't be able to say I've never had a broken bone if I'd have been a bicycle racer.

Just recently learned that none of you Yanks seem to know Vandevelde is a Yank and nobody is 'rooting' for him.....and also that none of you seem to know that Slipstream and High Road now have new sponsors.

That's some pretty brash talk from someone who can't spell "aluminum" and who thinks a baby's "bonnet" is part of a car. You've just been carrying a grudge since that 1776 fiasco! :lol:

That's some pretty brash talk from someone who can't spell "aluminum" and who thinks a baby's "bonnet" is part of a car. You've just been carrying a grudge since that 1776 fiasco! :lol:

Absolutely brilliant. +1000000

I learned I could download the Mojito song and play it on loop in my cube and make work feel like a nightclub in Miami filled with hot babes, only without the Rum buzz, so it's not the same.

I've learned that the pros' average speed up the Galibier is higher than my normal average speed on the flats.

What I still haven't figured out is why that guy pouring the Mike's Hard Lemonade feels it necessary to spill so much of it.

What I still haven't figured out is why that guy pouring the Mike's Hard Lemonade feels it necessary to spill so much of it.


At least theres no soy in it

I got a feeling that Ted will never call his brother back.

At least theres no soy in it

We don't do soy.

As someone fluent in both English and French, I'm not really noticing Phil butchering French. Maybe it's there, but it's not standing out for me.

Any noteworthy examples?

Maybe it's some language(s) other than French he's having problems with?
Yes, it's Spanish. Phil can't pronounce "Chipotle" to save his life, he keeps saying "Chee-pawt-lee".

...and the only reason some people don't realize that VDV is American is they keep call him Van - duh - vel - duh. In American, it's just Van-duh-veld! Duh!

Of course...here in TX we pronounce Guadalupe Gwa-duh-loop with the accent on the Gwa. And San Jacinto has a hard "j", like "jam". And then there's the town of Boerne...Burn-ee. Geez...I could on forever!