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Title: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 June, 2021, 12:43:12 am
Poo ur gosh doesn’t time fly when you’re having Type 2 fun, eh?  Seems like only yesterday that we at P@nd3m1c Pr0duckt10nzTM® put the final face mask on the jolly spiffing Socially Distanced Tour Ov France 2020 and yet here we all are again for up-to-the-minute hour reportage, potentially libellous falsehoods, and cruel and heartless defamation of Manx Minnow TV's Tiny P Kennaugh.

Those idle buggers at Vsquared haven’t yet seen fit to tell us whether we’re going to get a return to 2019-stylee coverage i.e. sans TV's the C Boardmen but with the Usual Suspects actually in La Belle France and radio's M Smith and victims guests in the dungeon broom cupboard in Londonton, or whether they will again be confined in Sir Henry Rawlinson's prisoner-of-war camp in Kent with only celebrated non-wooden curlifckr TV's D Friebe to hold the selfie stick fort and attempt to decipher the cryptic utterances of S “yeh. er.” Yates in Abroad, where the FOREIGNS come from.  You may, however, rest assured that our coverage may contain:

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Or not.

Because the thieving bastards at Microsith have decreed that Excel for FruitCoSlabs now requires a subscription, we are using Mr Google's spreadsheet SCIENCE to generate all the table-formatting Stuffs that only appears to you, Constant Reader, if we've fscked things up at the poof-redding stage.  Hopefully this will work as advertised as otherwise our SCIENCE Minion will start whinging and making unrealistic demands for outlandish Stuffs like a wage, the keys to the Netflix account, a Maserati “just like TV's Super D Millar's” and pictures of Syrah Poulidor-Featherstonehaugh in a State of Undress an extra rat-onna-stick on the rest days.

If you want sensible discussion you know where to find it, which is to say Not Here (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=119637.0).  Please read the safety instructions for this thread on the card in the seat pocket in front of you.  The value of the thread may go up as well as down, but probably won't.  Please familiarise yourselves with the location of your nearest emergency exit from the thread.  No animals will be harmed in the making this thread except TV's *** Boulting.  Do not open the doors while the thread is in motion.  Le singe est dans l'arbre, l'ours est dans la fôret and your lifejacket is on top of Mont Ventoux.

E Shrdlu
pp. Le Roi Christian I d'ASO

1: Eleanor of Aquitaine and Roy “Chubby” Brown are currently appearing in “The Leopard In Autumn” at the Alhambra Theatre, Catford
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: TheLurker on 25 June, 2021, 08:56:59 am
Ahhh, all's well with the world.

However, this does seem like an opportune moment to press for  P@nd3m1c Pr0duckt10nzTM®  to provide coverage of The Spanish Race as well.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 June, 2021, 10:03:19 am
While we would in principle be happy to cover thee Vuelta ov Spaign-o, and although it doesn’t clash with our holibobs* which in our case this year we have not got, ITV4 only do a highlights show and we ent about to sell our collective soul to BeardTV or DingoVision.  It wouldn’t be the same without *** and Super D anyway.

* Were it not for the continuing Coronalurgi fckery the Tour ov France Stuffs would have gone all to pot too, because this Unit would have been in Stornoway for the first week.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: spesh on 25 June, 2021, 12:28:28 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 25 June, 2021, 12:43:12 am
<purged, by order of the Inquisition>

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<purged by the Cheka>

Now, the v. important question is...


Is that merely Bruce "The Air Raid Siren" Dickinson, front man for a popular beat combo, or The Bruce Dickinson, wot haz a fever and a percussive prescription?

Inquiring minds, and all that...
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 June, 2021, 06:04:48 pm
It's the Bruce Dickinson who:
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: spesh on 25 June, 2021, 06:23:48 pm
 :thumbsup: ;D
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Pingu on 25 June, 2021, 10:03:33 pm
Crazy!
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 June, 2021, 10:20:35 pm
Lol!
I have learned something new about typesetting.
And B)
No chimney boi, sob!
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Pingu on 25 June, 2021, 10:58:41 pm
This is going to be super full gas for sure.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 June, 2021, 01:23:09 am
I expect some of the mountain stages to be super hard but the riders will take it one day at a time as there is still a long way to go for sure and anything* can happen.

* See “The Bumper Book of Race Abandonment” by R Porte, pp. 397, pub. Grabber & Grabber, rrp. £29.99
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Ham on 26 June, 2021, 07:52:09 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 25 June, 2021, 10:20:35 pm
Lol!
I have learned something new about typesetting.
And B)
No chimney boi, sob!

Whereas I haz learned something about typecasting.  From Bethany's mum, obv.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 June, 2021, 12:28:11 pm
TV's Super D Millar thinks PBP is about “seven hundred, eight hundred kilometres”.  Anyone on Twitter want to correct him?
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 June, 2021, 05:26:33 pm
Stage 1: Brest -> Landerneau
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La Thing Course will be along later.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 June, 2021, 10:06:06 pm
La Thing Course: Brest -> Landerneau

Yes, we know La Course took place before stage 1 of Le Tour, but we're pretending it didn't for dramatic purposes…

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Mr Google's spreadsheet SCIENCE is taking a bit of getting used to and has some very annoying foibles.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Pingu on 26 June, 2021, 10:52:12 pm
Teh ladeez did the bastardy last climb 4 times  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 June, 2021, 11:07:31 pm
Yes, that was particularly Bad on someone's part.  Probably Evil C Boardman.  Apparently the race was supposed to be:
but the thoughtless natives decided to have some local elections, so things got changed.  The first hit* for “La Course 2021” on a FWSE was still showing it as being tomorrow as late as Thursday night :facepalm:

* Not a site affiliated with ASO…
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 June, 2021, 11:36:13 am
P@nd3m1c Pr0duckt10nzTM® notes with disapproval that ITV4s coverage of today’s festivities doesn’t start until an hour after le Roi Christian I waves his little fleg.  Which means *** and Super D again taunting us poor saps with tales of Stuffs they witnessed while we did not.

Bah!
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: nuttycyclist on 27 June, 2021, 12:04:18 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 27 June, 2021, 11:36:13 am
P@nd3m1c Pr0duckt10nzTM® notes with disapproval that ITV4s coverage of today’s festivities doesn’t start until an hour after le Roi Christian I waves his little fleg.  Which means *** and Super D again taunting us poor saps with tales of Stuffs they witnessed while we did not.

Bah!

As it time for my lunch, I have put ITV4 highlights on, this was as per my PLAN when I got up.

Miss Nutty immediately got her violin out for her homework and daily practice.  Commentators, please speak up.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: rogerzilla on 27 June, 2021, 12:17:50 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 26 June, 2021, 01:23:09 am
I expect some of the mountain stages to be super hard but the riders will take it one day at a time as there is still a long way to go for sure and anything* can happen.

* See “The Bumper Book of Race Abandonment” by R Porte, pp. 397, pub. Grabber & Grabber, rrp. £29.99
Ah, for the 1990s, when Cipo' and his 8 lead-out men would rule the first week, then be left leaderless as Super Mario checked the beach weather in Italy and jetted off home.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: rafletcher on 27 June, 2021, 01:15:46 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 27 June, 2021, 12:17:50 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 26 June, 2021, 01:23:09 am
I expect some of the mountain stages to be super hard but the riders will take it one day at a time as there is still a long way to go for sure and anything* can happen.

* See “The Bumper Book of Race Abandonment” by R Porte, pp. 397, pub. Grabber & Grabber, rrp. £29.99
Ah, for the 1990s, when Cipo' and his 8 lead-out men would rule the first week, then be left leaderless as Super Mario checked the beach weather in Italy and jetted off home.

But it was magnificent to watch.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 June, 2021, 05:26:42 pm
Stage 2: Perros-Guirec —> Mûr-de-Bretagne Guerlédan

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Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Beardy on 27 June, 2021, 09:02:11 pm
I haz a complain.
The comprehensive and thoughtful communiques that have been derived by P@nd3m1c Pr0duckt10nzTM® to date on the reporting of a little cycle event in la Francé have been far to thorough, detailed and complete. In short they contains to many wordz of a shaky spear ness and are far too long to be read and understood while one is producing products, flushing for dolphin porpoise of.

Please to be having a wordz in the ear of scribe senior and have him(or her) rite in a more concise and condensed manner.

Thanking you.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Kim on 27 June, 2021, 09:54:18 pm
P@nd3m1c Pr0duckt10nzTM® are giving me 1) a headache  b) attak ov teh asthmas
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 June, 2021, 10:09:59 pm
That’s the malign influence of Evil C Boardman at work.  We tried an exorcism before the 2020 race but to no avail.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 June, 2021, 05:31:37 pm
Stage 3: Lorient —> Pontivy

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Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Pingu on 28 June, 2021, 10:38:57 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/3713/12701332264_2ab4370712_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/kmnDzj)
gin_pennant (https://flic.kr/p/kmnDzj) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 June, 2021, 11:28:20 pm
Lol
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Beardy on 29 June, 2021, 01:09:07 pm
I’d associate that glass shape with a martini rather than gin.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: fimm on 29 June, 2021, 02:32:21 pm
Who or what was Etienne Shrdlu? Is it safe to google?
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Tim Hall on 29 June, 2021, 02:50:46 pm
Quote from: fimm on 29 June, 2021, 02:32:21 pm
Who or what was Etienne Shrdlu? Is it safe to google?
A friend of Lorem Ipsum I reckon.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 June, 2021, 03:12:44 pm
Quote from: fimm on 29 June, 2021, 02:32:21 pm
Who or what was Etienne Shrdlu? Is it safe to google?

Yes. Yes, it is. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etaoin_shrdlu)
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: spesh on 29 June, 2021, 03:22:04 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 29 June, 2021, 03:12:44 pm
Quote from: fimm on 29 June, 2021, 02:32:21 pm
Who or what was Etienne Shrdlu? Is it safe to google?

Yes. Yes, it is. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etaoin_shrdlu)

ObligLehrer: "And this may prove useful to some of you, perhaps, in a bizarre set of circumstances..."
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 June, 2021, 04:53:50 pm
Stage 4: Redon —> Fougères

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Time for foopball. Play up, fellows!
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: fimm on 30 June, 2021, 02:18:01 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 29 June, 2021, 03:12:44 pm
Quote from: fimm on 29 June, 2021, 02:32:21 pm
Who or what was Etienne Shrdlu? Is it safe to google?

Yes. Yes, it is. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etaoin_shrdlu)
Thank you!
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 June, 2021, 05:06:40 pm
Stage 5: Changé —> Laval Espace Mayenne

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Edit: Any errors in positions are down to me reading the wrong caption.  N Powless didn’t pwn M Cattaneo after all.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Pingu on 30 June, 2021, 10:21:43 pm
*** suggested today that you can tumble up the placings  :facepalm:
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 June, 2021, 10:25:08 pm
What does "fruit" mean?
And is M Cattaneo the replacement for M Kitteh?
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 June, 2021, 11:44:22 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 30 June, 2021, 10:25:08 pm
What does "fruit" mean?
And is M Cattaneo the replacement for M Kitteh?

1: Shorthand for performance-enhancing [“Fruit” – Ed]
b) Miaow!  I doubt he’ll get another mention though, unlike M Kitteh, who kept pwning stages.

Edit: I've just realised that Cattaneo is the actual Italian for “new kitteh”.  Slower than the Slow Children crossing the road, me :facepalm:
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: spesh on 01 July, 2021, 01:34:14 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 30 June, 2021, 10:25:08 pm
What does "fruit" mean?

As Monsieur le Mairie says, it's the in-joak for preparations and efficacious medicinal compounds. See these two posts from last year's threads:

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=116717.msg2539947#msg2539947 (P@nd3m1c Pr0duckt10nzTM® thread)

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=113839.msg2539773#msg2539773 (the nominally serious thread)
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Beardy on 01 July, 2021, 09:03:43 am
Quote from: spesh on 01 July, 2021, 01:34:14 am
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 30 June, 2021, 10:25:08 pm
What does "fruit" mean?

As Monsieur le Mairie says, it's the in-joak for preparations and efficacious medicinal compounds. See these two posts from last year's threads:

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=116717.msg2539947#msg2539947 (P@nd3m1c Pr0duckt10nzTM® thread)

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=113839.msg2539773#msg2539773 (the nominally serious thread)
Wait. What? Are you suggesting that the reportage reported by P@nd3m1c Pr0duckt10nzTM® is not entirely serious? I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: spesh on 01 July, 2021, 11:52:49 am
You must be new here. ;D



;)
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 July, 2021, 05:22:51 pm
Stage 6: Tours —> Châteauroux

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Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 July, 2021, 04:48:08 pm
Stage 7: Vierzon —> Le Creusot

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Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 July, 2021, 08:32:34 pm
Yay! 1st sighting of S Geschke & hiz hipsta beard – coming in with P Roglič. And a llama by the roadside.  Isn’t that dangerous?
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Pingu on 02 July, 2021, 09:52:06 pm
You don't get Ikea references on ITV4.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 July, 2021, 05:32:56 pm
Stage 8: Oyonnax —> Le Grand-Bornand

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Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 July, 2021, 01:35:44 pm
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Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Pingu on 04 July, 2021, 05:30:22 pm
Today Tiny P informed us that knees are important in cycling. Thanks mate  :thumbsup:  ::-)
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 July, 2021, 05:51:51 pm
Stage 9: Cluzes —> Tignes

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Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Pingu on 04 July, 2021, 10:33:12 pm
Bingly-bongly cows  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 July, 2021, 09:28:56 pm
Rest Da 1: Tignes

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Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 July, 2021, 05:25:25 pm
Stage 10: Albertville —> Valence

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Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Beardy on 06 July, 2021, 09:37:07 pm
No menshun ov teh nutter isn’t the flop flips? I mean he is pwning teh Tour without teh nedez ov teh taem doubledeckers nor nuffin.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 July, 2021, 11:55:48 pm
I ent seen him and nor, AFAICT, have *** & Super D :D
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 July, 2021, 05:36:47 pm
Stage 11: Sorgues —> Malaucène

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Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 July, 2021, 10:38:30 pm
TP Kennaugh and M Rendall were pishing themselves loling at P Rolland's cock up.

Also, I haven't seen Uran being interviewed before but he went right up in my estimation today. He's a happy perky wee soul :D
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Pingu on 07 July, 2021, 10:44:14 pm
Best hope for vautours is now the Pairofknees.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 July, 2021, 10:45:42 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 07 July, 2021, 10:38:30 pm
TP Kennaugh and M Rendall were pishing themselves loling at P Rolland's cock up.

Also, I haven't seen Uran being interviewed before but he went right up in my estimation today. He's a happy perky wee soul :D

Must be where Bethany (11) gets her sunny nature from…

Edit: Some goon on the BBC has just called today’s stage winner “W00t Van Art” :D
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 July, 2021, 09:25:19 am
I am kicking myself for missing the “Me And Bradley McGee” joke, starring Super D Millar as the narrator of the story of how he and B McGee sang the blues on the summit of Mont Ventoux :facepalm:
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Pingu on 08 July, 2021, 11:40:24 am
Doh! The song crossed my mind but I didn't think anything more of it  ::-)
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 July, 2021, 05:08:10 pm
Stage 12: Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux —> Nîmes

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Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 July, 2021, 07:49:22 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 06 July, 2021, 09:37:07 pm
No menshun ov teh nutter isn’t the flop flips? I mean he is pwning teh Tour without teh nedez ov teh taem doubledeckers nor nuffin.

He’s finally attracted the attention of TV's D Friebe on tonight’s highlights show.  Though he’s not just any random nutter but rather a pro for TEFE Hippo.  Currently in Andorra.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Pingu on 08 July, 2021, 08:55:50 pm
Quote from: H Sweeny
I'm teh Sweeny and I ain't had my gel yet - you're nicked!
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 July, 2021, 12:55:57 am
Quote from: Pingu on 08 July, 2021, 08:55:50 pm
Quote from: H Sweeny
I'm teh Sweeny and I ain't had my gel yet - you're nicked!

 ;D
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 July, 2021, 05:24:14 pm
Stage 13: Nîmes —> Carcassone

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Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 July, 2021, 09:58:39 pm
The Tarasque kept me amused for ages.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 July, 2021, 11:46:09 pm
They had to have a shitvert break after that story or Nice C Boardman would have corpsed.  While St. Martha (of Bethany) is credited with having seen off la Tarasque I haven’t been able to find a mention of her Pricklepig Army anywhere else.  I am starting to suspect M Rendell of Making It Up…

I don’t think she looked like this either:

(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/typemoon/images/2/2d/RulerMarthaStage1.png)
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Beardy on 10 July, 2021, 08:34:58 am
I don’t think anybody looks or looked like that. Ever.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 July, 2021, 09:24:00 am
I think there’s someone not dissimilar – albeit with about 500% more makeup – who crops up during the shitvert breaks on the live coverage.  On the bit exhorting us to watch Fuck Island.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 July, 2021, 02:09:16 pm
TV's M Rendell has recently informed us that Pierre Rolland is a French Frenchman with a French name :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 July, 2021, 04:55:07 pm
Stage 14: Carcassone —> Quillan

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Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Beardy on 10 July, 2021, 09:09:30 pm
You know, reading the output of reporter reporting on behalf of P@nd3m1c Pr0duckt10nzTM® sometimes reminds me of one of the works of that grate author of the Science Fiction Ian M Banks. The one with the klerkwerk eagle birb in picture form in the front.

I often questions if struggling through that prose was worth the effort as well  ;D
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Pingu on 10 July, 2021, 10:33:55 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 10 July, 2021, 09:09:30 pm
...grate author of the Science Fiction Ian M Banks....

Not to be confused with Iain M Banks  :P

Quote from: Beardy on 10 July, 2021, 09:09:30 pm
...The one with the klerkwerk eagle birb in picture form in the front...

Not a vautour - bah!
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Beardy on 10 July, 2021, 11:22:41 pm
Quote from: Pingu on 10 July, 2021, 10:33:55 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 10 July, 2021, 09:09:30 pm
...grate author of the Science Fiction Ian M Banks....

Not to be confused with Iain M Banks  :P
Damn!  :facepalm:
Quote

Quote from: Beardy on 10 July, 2021, 09:09:30 pm
...The one with the klerkwerk eagle birb in picture form in the front...

Not a vautour - bah!
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Kim on 10 July, 2021, 11:24:38 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 10 July, 2021, 09:09:30 pm
You know, reading the output of reporter reporting on behalf of P@nd3m1c Pr0duckt10nzTM® sometimes reminds me of one of the works of that grate author of the Science Fiction Ian M Banks. The one with the klerkwerk eagle birb in picture form in the front.

I often questions if struggling through that prose was worth the effort as well  ;D

I struggled through the whole thing then discovered the second half of the book was the English translation.   :-[ :facepalm:
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 July, 2021, 12:17:02 am
Feersum Endjinn.  A splendid thing, especially the bits with slofs in ;D
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Beardy on 11 July, 2021, 11:22:17 am
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 11 July, 2021, 12:17:02 am
Feersum Endjinn.  A splendid thing, especially the bits with slofs in ;D
This.
This explains a lot.   ::-)
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 July, 2021, 06:09:20 pm
Stage 15: Céret —> Andorre-La-Vieille

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Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 July, 2021, 09:52:14 pm
Bah, it's not really a gote track if it's been covered in tarmac. Where's the fun/evil in that?
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 July, 2021, 09:59:39 pm
Evil C Boardman would doubtless have preferred a proper goat track; Richie Porte probably would not.  And Dan Martin would have called Christian Prudhomme a cunt on live television.  Again.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Pingu on 11 July, 2021, 10:07:47 pm
Dan Martin's wife would've told him not to get b0rked like in the Giro.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 July, 2021, 09:07:48 pm
Rest Da 2: Andorre

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Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 July, 2021, 02:33:21 pm
Rubbish weather today. Not much chance of vautours >:(
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Beardy on 13 July, 2021, 02:55:02 pm
It’s brightening up now, as my dear old granny would have said.  ;D
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 July, 2021, 02:57:42 pm
According to TV's M Rendell, J Vingegaard “has been a revolution on this Giro d'Italia”.  I think he needs rebooting.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Beardy on 13 July, 2021, 03:10:34 pm
When electronic telex machines first started to replace the purely mechanical ones, we adopted the phrase ‘power recycled’ as a fault clear description, largely because it was shorter to write and sounded vaguely more technical than power turned off and turned on again. I think this should be adopted for the required action on Tour colmantators because ‘rebooting’ makes it sound like they have some processing capability.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 July, 2021, 05:47:43 pm
Stage 16: Pas De La Case —> Saint-Gaudens

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Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Pingu on 13 July, 2021, 09:34:21 pm
Fingers crossed for vautours tomorrow.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 July, 2021, 12:30:26 am
Hopefully the weather will improve, coz no sensible vautour was going to be out on a day like today (Tuesday).
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 July, 2021, 01:40:56 pm
VAUTOUR! VAUTOUR!!1! Or at least some kind of big brown birb. Sadly appeared while *** wasn’t on duty, but Nice C confidently stated that it wasn’t a brown BEAR.

Edit: M Rendell says “red kite”; Super D Millar says “vautour”.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Salvatore on 14 July, 2021, 04:58:11 pm
GCN/Eurosport agree with Super D.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: SteveC on 14 July, 2021, 05:20:01 pm
If it's the one I caught on ITV4 shortly after Mr Larrington posted, it wasn't a kite.
I was thinking either vautour or aigle, but I didn't get a very good look
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 July, 2021, 06:07:45 pm
Stage 17: Muret —> Saint-Lary-Soulan Col Du Portet

Soz 4 teh laet; Miss von Brandenburg foned just b4 I started poof-redein'…

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Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Pingu on 15 July, 2021, 12:17:35 am
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 14 July, 2021, 01:40:56 pm
VAUTOUR! VAUTOUR!!1! Or at least some kind of big brown birb. Sadly appeared while *** wasn’t on duty, but Nice C confidently stated that it wasn’t a brown BEAR.

Edit: M Rendell says “red kite”; Super D Millar says “vautour”.

The first one I saw was a red kite (not a bear). The second pair were vautours  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 July, 2021, 12:57:26 am
At least they were all:

Three pigeons and a solitary poxy heron do not a Tour ov France make.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 July, 2021, 02:51:46 pm
Those two birbs were definitely vautours :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 July, 2021, 05:25:41 pm
Stage 18: Pau —> Luz Ardiden

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Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Pingu on 15 July, 2021, 09:38:07 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 15 July, 2021, 02:51:46 pm
Those two birbs were definitely vautours :thumbsup:

w00t!
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 July, 2021, 10:03:52 pm
Quote from: Pingu on 15 July, 2021, 09:38:07 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 15 July, 2021, 02:51:46 pm
Those two birbs were definitely vautours :thumbsup:

w00t!
Poels or Van Aert?
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Andrew Br on 15 July, 2021, 11:43:55 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 15 July, 2021, 10:03:52 pm
Quote from: Pingu on 15 July, 2021, 09:38:07 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 15 July, 2021, 02:51:46 pm
Those two birbs were definitely vautours :thumbsup:

w00t!
Poels or Van Aert?

Yuo've gut sume uf yuor vuwels wrung Mrs Pingo.

Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Beardy on 16 July, 2021, 01:39:11 pm
The shitverts really do go on don’t they. It seems someone is selling BEARS which I think I’d quite like. Not sure where I’d keep it though.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 July, 2021, 03:07:40 pm
In ian's back garden?
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 July, 2021, 04:43:08 pm
Stage 19: Mourenx —> Libourne

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Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Pingu on 16 July, 2021, 11:32:09 pm
Quote from: P@nd3m1c Pr0duckt10nz
llamas in teh mist*

Reminds me of Peli ex otp and I pootling up the Tourmaline after Mrs P and Woolly had taken the autobus. Only it was cows not llamas. Otherwise it was exactly the same.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 July, 2021, 12:41:07 am
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6WJOa7XMAMt3xy?format=jpg)

Hopefully the picture shows up…
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Kim on 17 July, 2021, 12:42:22 am
Majestik
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Pingu on 17 July, 2021, 01:10:12 am
Freaky the way they are all sat down  :demon:
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Pingu on 17 July, 2021, 01:11:26 am
Wot Mrs P & I saw:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/2562/3757552599_b7e07acd90_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/6J3rtD)
La Mongie (https://flic.kr/p/6J3rtD) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Beardy on 17 July, 2021, 01:16:04 am
They’re not cows thought  ???
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 July, 2021, 01:27:21 am
Same places, same llamas?  You had better weather though.

Also, shouldn’t the caption be LlaMangie?

The natty vicuña one, please.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Pingu on 17 July, 2021, 01:42:54 am
Soz.

The pic refers to a previous ascent of the Tourmaline from the amazing cow/mist story.
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 July, 2021, 05:37:18 pm
Stage 20: Libourne —> Saint-Émilion

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Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 July, 2021, 07:44:20 pm
Stage 21: Chatou —> Paris Champs-Élysées

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Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Pingu on 19 July, 2021, 12:25:25 am
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Etienne Shrdlu Presents… TdF 2021
Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 July, 2021, 03:17:25 pm
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