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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 07-23-10 | 02:29 PM
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https://www.theonion.com/articles/mas...-france,17771/

BF was clearly an inspiration for this article.
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Old 07-23-10 | 02:48 PM
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how has this not been mentioned on versus? damn drivers!
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Old 07-23-10 | 02:50 PM
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i dont think its true....plus, versus is "unsafe" for my computer, it gets blocked, wtf VERSUS!!!!
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Old 07-23-10 | 02:52 PM
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i dont think its true....plus, versus is "unsafe" for my computer, it gets blocked, wtf VERSUS!!!!
I think you're wrong. The Onion is a very creditable news source, right up there with Fox News.
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Old 07-23-10 | 02:59 PM
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My apologies then.

wonder why no one else has reported on this.
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Old 07-23-10 | 03:13 PM
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My apologies then.

wonder why no one else has reported on this.

Because you are not supposed to post spoilers here! Now you did it!
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Old 07-23-10 | 03:15 PM
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oh man.....

My apologies then.

Wonder why i posted a spoiler?
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Old 07-23-10 | 03:39 PM
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As of Friday morning, French police had no concrete clues as to the identity of the hit-and-run driver. Greg LeMond and Floyd Landis have accounted for their whereabouts at the time of the incident, though police have not yet ruled them out as possible suspects. However, Interpol officials said they may have detected a pattern in recent international sporting events.
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Old 07-23-10 | 03:44 PM
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Old 07-23-10 | 03:47 PM
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Seems they left the job to spoof the TdF to their least imaginative writing team.
Could have been sooo much better. (I am sure BF could have done a better job)
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Old 07-23-10 | 03:47 PM
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Greg LeMond and Floyd Landis have accounted for their whereabouts at the time of the incident, though police have not yet ruled them out as possible suspects.

damn you beat me to it!
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Old 07-23-10 | 03:48 PM
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tho i'd bet that landis is more likely to be the victim of a hit and run than the perpetrator.
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Old 07-23-10 | 03:59 PM
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Usually The Onion does a much better job than this. I only found the last two sentences to be funny.
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Old 07-23-10 | 04:05 PM
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Unfortunately, it's a little too close to a real incident for my tastes....

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24943229/

And yes, that incident was beaten to death on BF when it happened.
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Old 07-23-10 | 05:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Daytrip
https://www.theonion.com/articles/mas...-france,17771/
BF was clearly an inspiration for this article.


Looks like they just cut and pasted from BF....
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Old 07-23-10 | 06:24 PM
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^^^^I think that's the point. Subtle.
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Old 07-23-10 | 06:38 PM
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I thought this one from a couple years ago was much funnier.

https://www.theonion.com/articles/non...e-france,2268/
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Old 07-23-10 | 07:03 PM
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I agree, much funnier. But as someone said, I think you could pretty much lift the hit-and-run one from the 41--though I didn't see any references to shooting out his back window with your 9mm or kicking his side-view mirror off.
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Old 07-23-10 | 07:13 PM
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Even by BF standards, it was very weak. And those guys get paid?
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Originally Posted by flaco
I thought this one from a couple years ago was much funnier.

https://www.theonion.com/articles/non...e-france,2268/
you would be correct.
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Old 07-23-10 | 07:23 PM
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The Onion was funny for about two weeks back in 1996 before geek irony was completely worn out.
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Old 07-23-10 | 07:25 PM
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That article fails.
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Old 07-23-10 | 07:27 PM
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My daughter thinks Andy Schleck is cute but after the language he used in the quote I wouldn't let her date him.
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Old 07-23-10 | 07:41 PM
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Of few of you guys are making me work hard at my analytical skillz to decipher if you are truly this ignorant, but entertaining either way.
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Old 07-23-10 | 10:08 PM
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A few of you guys are making me work hard at my analytical skillz to decipher if you are truly this ignorant, but entertaining either way.
+1

Best response so far.
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