Does he smell like Didi Senft?

"Joseba Beloki is back on the roads of the Tour de France, two years after
his fatal fall down the slopes of the Col de la Rochette"

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 15:10:15 +0200, Robert Chung wrote:
"Joseba Beloki is back on the roads of the Tour de France, two years after
his fatal fall down the slopes of the Col de la Rochette"

Virtually fatal. Figuratively fatal?

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Ewoud Dronkert wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 15:10:15 +0200, Robert Chung wrote:
"Joseba Beloki is back on the roads of the Tour de France, two years
after his fatal fall down the slopes of the Col de la Rochette"

Virtually fatal. Figuratively fatal?

Well, it does explain why he hasn't been able to win.

Robert Chung wrote:
"Joseba Beloki is back on the roads of the Tour de France, two years
after his fatal fall down the slopes of the Col de la Rochette"

Jeff Jones wrote:
This doesn't answer your question, but fatal does not always mean ending in
death :-)

You must be a Windoze user.

Donald Munro wrote:
Robert Chung wrote:

"Joseba Beloki is back on the roads of the Tour de France, two years
after his fatal fall down the slopes of the Col de la Rochette"


Jeff Jones wrote:

This doesn't answer your question, but fatal does not always mean ending in
death :-)


You must be a Windoze user.


Worse. I think he's a dictionary user.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fatal

Ewoud Dronkert wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 15:10:15 +0200, Robert Chung wrote:

"Joseba Beloki is back on the roads of the Tour de France, two years after
his fatal fall down the slopes of the Col de la Rochette"


Virtually fatal. Figuratively fatal?


Semi-fatal.

"Tim Lines" wrote in message
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Donald Munro wrote:
Robert Chung wrote:

"Joseba Beloki is back on the roads of the Tour de France, two years
after his fatal fall down the slopes of the Col de la Rochette"


Jeff Jones wrote:
This doesn't answer your question, but fatal does not always mean ending
in
death :-)


You must be a Windoze user.


Worse. I think he's a dictionary user.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fatal

Not all that many people would be so eager to criticize word use of an
editor. But on RBR you can find just about anything.

Tom Kunich wrote:

Not all that many people would be so eager to criticize word use of an
editor. But on RBR you can find just about anything.


I think people have just been having a little fun with Jeff ever since
he made the peleton literally explode a while back.

For the record, Jeff's explanation and the dictionary definition came as
surprise to me, too. So I learned something new today.

Jeff Jones wrote:
Robert Chung wrote:
"Joseba Beloki is back on the roads of the Tour de France, two years
after his fatal fall down the slopes of the Col de la Rochette"

This doesn't answer your question, but fatal does not always mean
ending in death :-)

Damn. I didn't know that. That was a fatal error.

In article ,
"Robert Chung" wrote:

Jeff Jones wrote:
Robert Chung wrote:
"Joseba Beloki is back on the roads of the Tour de France, two years
after his fatal fall down the slopes of the Col de la Rochette"

This doesn't answer your question, but fatal does not always mean
ending in death :-)

Damn. I didn't know that. That was a fatal error.

Dictionary definitions be damned. This is an inept usage of the
language, as seen by the amount of confusion on this thread.

In normal usage, I have only ever seen "fatal" mean "potentially deadly"
(as opposed to the well-understood meaning of "death-causing") in the
sense of describing a possible future consequence. For example, you
might speak of a particular quantity of a drug as being a fatal dose, or
of a future action bearing fatal consequences. But before this usage, I
had not heard another example of a non-death-causing incident described,
after the fact, as fatal, except in a metaphorical sense ("the TT
results were fatal to Ullrich's GC chances.")

ObBike: "The TT results today were a fatal blow to the GC chances of all
but one rider." This means:

A) All but one rider cannot possibly win GC.
B) All but one rider is unlikely to win GC.
C) All but one rider died.
D) The peleton literally exploded.

Discuss,

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