The Toasted Sandwich Pro Challenge will kick off with a prologue in Bibleburg, organizers announced today. It’ll be interesting to see what they use as a course — I recall seeing a couple of proposals online a while back and they all looked like shit to me. But what do I know? I’m only a cyclo-crosser, and a retired one at that.
The local wiseguys have estimated that staging a leg of the Sandwich Challenge could cost as much as $150,000, which is sure to go over well with the locals, who have seen their park crappers closed, streetlights turned off and swimming pools drained in the midst of the ongoing economic downturn. Expect the haters to dominate the comments section under the Gazette story.
One thing’s for sure. The city’s gonna have spend some of that $150K on patching potholes. Add a diving board and a lifeguard to some of ’em and you’ve got yourself a swimming pool, if it ever rains.
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Dear Jesus,
Please bring a plague or some locusts or a storm of frogs to our loving, God-fearing town at the very moment those pajama-wearing euro-queers ride their skinny-tired bicycles past the lightpost at the end of my street that I can’t get fixed until September of 2013, so says my councilman. Those who share this prayer with me will paint American flags over our doors and leave our Tancredo signs up in our yards so that your punishing hardships will pass by our homes. I know you’ll answer this prayer, Jesus, because we are simple, peaceful Christians. Amen.
That’s pretty good, Jeff.
That’s REALLY, REALLY good, Jeff!
You people scare me.
You scared me in the early 90’s when my business meant that I had to fly to Chicago 4 times a year.
Thank God those days are over, my sympathies from Middle Earth, (aka New Zealand).
Take care people, Hilary has just been down here.
Regards,
Hurben
Here in Dysfunction Junction, former host to the Tour of the Moon stage of the Coors Classic, a committee has formed (Wow! a committee!) to see about bringing the Qwisnos back to race around the Colorado National Monument once again in 2012. I wish them the best, but it’ll be an uphill battle (pun intended?): the last time around the race at least had the support of the National Parks people, this time I seriously doubt it. The current superintendent seems to have it in for cyclists, and I’m sure would be thrilled if we all just disappeared from her precious roads. The last thing I suspect she’d want is for that place to be even more popular with the lycra set.
I don’t feel too bad about it, according a page one story in the local paper she also is pissed off at people who commit suicide in her National Monument too. She says they’re hard on her budget. Warm and fuzzy, ain’t she?