Question about TdF Stage 18 results

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:57:07 -0600, wrote:


Alas, as a famous poetess [1] might have written . . .

Ode to Walter Beneteau, Last Place'd

And did young Walter falter,
And did young Walter crash.
And did sad hearts thicken,
As Walter's bike went smash?

No; such was not the gaudy fate
Of Young Walter Beneteau;
Though sad hearts round him thickened,
He had not even stubbed his toe.

No fatigue cracks did rack his frame,
Nor collisions mar his eight-oh-oh;
Not these impaired the sacred name
Of Walter Beneteau.

Despised heat struck not with woe
That noble rider's urge to go,
Nor stomach troubles laid him low,
Young Walter Beneteau.

O no. Then list with tearful eye,
And all your garments rend.
His soul did from the peloton fly
By flatting at the end.

They pumped him up and sent him on;
Alas it was too late;
His hopes of 131st place
Had been utterly erased.

http://www.velonews.com/tour2006/new...s/10529.0.html

Cheers,

Emmeline Grangerford

[1] http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minst...oems/1190.html

Nice work, Emmie. It has come to my notice that the introduction of a
little rhyme into an rbt thread has the same effect as a pump barrel
jammed into a bicycle's front wheel.

Perhaps you would bring your considerable talent to the various helmet
threads here that want for a similar end.
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