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| QuirtEvans | May 18 2007, 07:05 AM Post #1 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,...00.html?cnn=yes
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| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| sue | May 18 2007, 07:19 AM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Maybe they should just say no Americans in the Tour for a couple of years, till they get their sh*t together, clean themselves up, and give the sport back it's credibility. |
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| DivaDeb | May 18 2007, 09:28 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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a mildly related posting...I was looking back at the history of the Tour. It started in 1903 and was suspended during the years of both the world wars. I visited our new museum yesterday and there was a WW1 era bike. I think if they want to see who the real men are, they ought to haul out the old bikes and make them ride those! |
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| Phlebas | May 18 2007, 09:43 AM Post #4 |
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Bull-Carp
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Sue, The Tour de France has consistently been one of the most corrupt sporting events in a very corrupt sport. It never had much credibility. Landis is a sleaze, IMO, but to say the absense of Americans from the Tour de France would somehow allow it to reacquire credibility it never had does not take into account its history and reputation. |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| sue | May 18 2007, 09:55 AM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Fair enough, I stand corrected. I guess it's because I live in Canada, the European scandals rarely made the news here, but the American ones have, big time, these last few years. |
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