Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Tour de France 11: Carcassonne to Montpellier - Whirling on Empty

A flat day, which should be easy except for the cross winds.

Cross winds: Grrr!! Phooo!

Vello: This is more difficult than I had anticipated.

David: Yes look at Nairo Quintana over there. He looks sour.

Marx: I hear he thinks these cross winds are dangerous.

Vello: They are. Escargot, anyone?

David: Thank you. Yum. Belle is certainly a thoughtful provider.

He sucks out the spicy little snail, and throws away the snail shell.

It flies up in the wind.

Cross winds: Grrr! Phoo!! Empty!

Arthur and Pablo had planned to try harder today.

But now they are stuck in an echelon.

Arthur: This is boring.

Pablo: Shall I film you?

Arthur: What, now?

Pablo (getting his phone out): Sweezus wants footage.

Arthur: But I'm not wearing the jacket.

Pablo: Where is it?

Arthur: I lost it.

Pablo: You didn't tell Sweezus that.

Arthur: Well he's still got one. So's Gaius.

Pablo: Apparently Kathmandu is on his case.

Arthur: He shouldn't have promised to upload a video of us in the snow catching a Baw Baw.

Pablo: He said it was you.

Arthur: Maybe it was.

Cross wind: Grrr! Phoo!! Bulubblbbl!

Gaius (coming up behind them, in his Kathmandu jacket): I don't like this wind, lads.

Pablo: Mind if I film you?

Gaius: What for?

Pablo: For a video. Make break, and I'll do it.

Gaius: Easier said than done.

Pablo: Take a Risk! Remember the Sticky Note.

Gaius: Hmm. I don't recall a Sticky Note about taking a risk.

Arthur (who wrote it): Does a beast
                                     On the way to the table
                                       Via the slaughterhouse
                                         Dream of fine herbs?

Gaius: That make very little sense.

Peter Sagan (passing, and pedalling even faster): Who cares about sense? We are artists, not actors!

Chris Froome (following Peter Sagan): Not actors!

Geraint Thomas: Not actors!

Maciej Bodnar (Sagan's team mate): On the way to the table! Fine herbs!

The empty snail shell (from earlier) whirls over the course, tossed by the wind, all the way to Montpellier.


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