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marqueemoon
07-19-08, 02:33 PM
I caught a little bit of the prime time show yesterday and noticed that Bob has started pronouncing it correctly. What is the world coming to?

stevesurf
07-19-08, 02:53 PM
If VS has told him so, we must now all give everyone the original, correct Bobke pronounciation
malkin
07-19-08, 03:17 PM
Are you going to miss the old days of Tour Day Frants?

DMF
07-22-08, 05:05 PM
No more schlubes or schmenges (sp?) either. Bobke is way too tame this year!
wabbit
07-22-08, 07:09 PM
shmenges...lol

i remember once he used the expression "bling bling tchotchkes"...referring to the swag that riders throw away, bottles etc picked up by spectators.
Kragg
07-22-08, 07:15 PM
I think they told him to calm it down. Takes away all the fun.
f1junkie
07-25-08, 09:54 AM
I noticed this too - last week tried doing a search on why Bobke is selling out. As someone who has ridden the Tour Day Frants and Paris-Roubaix - he can say it however the hell he wants, IMHO.

Go Bob!

I hope next year he pronounces it his usual way. My girlfriend sometimes watches the stages with me, and she laughed when I said, "What happened to Bob Roll?".

Cheers

Dave
Vuroth
07-25-08, 10:39 AM
I did hear him "schluge" at one point, but the lack of tour day frants is a bit sad.
veloGeezer
07-25-08, 11:28 AM
they DID let him speak Italian, though, so maybe that was the deal?

Bob says the Tour de France, and they let him give the stage info in the pre-race in Italian?
ultraman6970
07-25-08, 12:19 PM
Come on dont make fun of the guy and recomend a good dentist for him.