Paging Mr. St. Helier...

Yesterday, a professional bicycle race ran right past the front door of my employer here in Reading, Pennsylvania. The winner was one Greg Henderson from...New Zealand! I used to think you guys were just good at racing boats 8-)

One question; will I be seeing you in next year's race?

Dan-O (bring the Cloudy Bay SB!)

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"Dan The Man" wrote .....

A pretty handy bike rider - not quite in the league of Armstrong and the top Europeans, but he makes a good living.

Actually, he nearly didn't make it to the start line, having been held up at (US) immigration, being strip searched - to ensure he wasn't carrying contraband Stelvins - right Dick Neidich ???????

We are usually good at any sport where - (a) We are sitting down (canoeing; equestrian; cycling; motor racing (Scott Dixon!); or (b) There is a large amount of gratuitous violence (rugby union) ;-)

As it happens, I won my first cycling championship way back in 1963, and although I would never have made the elite ranks, I was verging on national representation until I was struck by a motor vehicle whilst competing in Australia - the resulting broken arm, leg and ribs ruling me out of the sport for long enough for me to lose that "killer instinct" required for all sportsmen competing at the top of their game.

Now I restrict my physical activity to fighting with champagne corks !!!!

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st.helier

(c) The highest mountain on earth is involved.

M.

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Michael Pronay

Ah - that place in Denmark, right?

Cheers

Nils Gustaf

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Nils Gustaf Lindgren

Denmark? Not Netherlands?

M.

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Michael Pronay

(d) We are pretty good at cricket, too, but that's in a class of it's own, and doesn't fit any of the above criteria. Explaining it to Americans as a variant of baseball where you don't have to run has been known to produce some enlightenment - but only when there is some good wine available to assist the process.

--brian

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Brian Boutel

Mr. Boutel - You must be Cantabrian - pretty good at cricket?

Are you talking about NZers?

Pretty good? - sorry Brian - remove those rose tinted spectacles!!!!!

The words "pretty" and "good" should be reserved for such tasty morsels as the Evers-Swindell sisters and Sarah Ulmer!

"Brian Boutel" wrote ....

Isn't using the words "American" and "enlightenment" in the same sentence slightly oxymoronic?

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st.helier
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Nils Gustaf Lindgren

Aye, certainly not the 'Caps. Let's wait for them to find a couple of bowlers (the sort who're fit from time to time) and some batsmen with spine, then they might be fairly decent. :)

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Not any more than any other stereotype.

Dana

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Dana H. Myers

Nils Gustaf Lindgren skrev i ZKAig.4410$ snipped-for-privacy@newsb.telia.net dette:

Excuse me, but You seem to understate this figure considerably: The highest point (I prefere the term 'peak') is impressing 172.54 meter!!! (however this is achieved as a result of some digging in the bronze age)

Why has swedes always this condescending attitude just because somone has left a heap of gravel called Kebnekaise in their backyard.

regards Jan

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Anders Tørneskog

"Ed Rasimus" skrev i melding news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

Oh, that's why there are so many bright Americans? ... Anders

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Anders Tørneskog

Salut/Hi st.helier,

le/on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:39:38 +1200, tu disais/you said:-

Took the words out of my mouth.

On the other hand You make some pleasant wines. A far more serious form of sportt than hitting a leather wrapped ball of cord with a bizarrely shaped piece of willow.

Mind you, it's no more obscure than Australian rules football which has far more in common with mountain climbing that the noble game of "Soccer".

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