Tour de France
About Tour de France
The Tour de France is an annual men's multiple-stage road cycling race held primarily in France. It is the oldest and most prestigious of the three Grand Tours, which include the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España.
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There is a team of two men whose job is to go along the length of the route of the Tour de France, and their job is to draw butterflies out of penises that people have graffitied on the road.
from No Such Thing As A Safe Toothpick, 2021-07-09 at 00:19:31 · read transcript
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To his cycling machine and he's he's attached the canvas to rollers and as he cycled the scenery rushes past him that's amazing that's so exciting outside because you can buy cycling machines now where you can see on a video like the Tour de France or whatever wherever you're going so this is basically that this is that that's very cool I found a really similar thing okay so I think the the treadmill one of its first uses was four horses as in.
191: No Such Thing As A Cannibal Squirrel, 2017-11-10 · listen
He'd rigged it up to his cycling machine. He's attached the canvas to rollers. As he cycled, the scenery rushes past him. That's amazing. He's like cycling outside. Because you can buy cycling machines. now where you can see on a video like the Tour de France or whatever you're going. This is basically that. This is that. That's very cool. I found a really similar thing.
No Such Thing As A Cannibal Squirrel, 2017-11-10 · listen
There was another guy who, one of the main guys, there was some contaminated food that he was given, which was a chicken leg containing a sleeping pill, and that meant that he fell off his bike because he fell asleep on his bike. No. Wow. There was a thing about how badly all the teams behaved during the early tours. This is from a book called Tour de France, A Cultural History by Christopher Thompson. I've read a bit of it. It's very good, very funny.
219: No Such Thing As Jeremiah Wingdings, 2018-06-01 · listen
That's what I read that. If they fall behind in the swarm, whoever's behind will chew them up. That is a terrible... That happens in the Tour de France as well, actually. One really important thing of this locust swarm in the 1870s and 1880s is what did the farmers do? Because basically all of their crops were taken. They had no way of making any money, but also they had no food because all the crops have been eaten by locusts.
No Such Thing As Jiminy's Cricket Shop, 2021-07-30 · listen
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