Red Necks Try (hi)Jacking Brazenly.
Do Texans not use articles for rivers? That is weird.
I'm distraught that I never noticed the full pattern.
Colored Lava Guards Tony's Nieces and Grandnieces.
Real
Nerdy
Texans
Sing
[the] Blues
Copyright
Lawyers
Gobble
Steaks.
Never
Rice.
1: Clogs noir should totally be a genre of Dutch movies.
Rednecks Never Take Short Baths
Crap, LSG Never Reunited.
Oops, the streets go LGS. Rats. back to the drawing board.
4: The east-west numbered streets used to be named for trees and were in order from hardest to softest wood. I kid you not. (The nuts of these trees, they hang low.)
I was wondering why the Sabine did not make it--but it is there as a short street one block to the east of Red River (but for the pattern the really should be reversed).
So SRNTSB, maybe. Add "Some" in front of 6.1.
I didn't even know the Sabine was a river. Score one for the geography nerd.
What, are we flowing streams of chopped liver?
I have wondered if Chicago-area students have an easier time with American history because of the Presidential crib they have from the street names.
Texans use articles for rivers (see Washington-on-the-Brazos), SK was just being clipped.
Jeez, just learn the rivers.
I can't think of the Lavaca without adding the word "treacherous." I suppose I share this with Texans of a certain age.
In Lawrence, Kansas, streets are named after states, in the order that the states joined the union.
There's a stretch of South Providence where the streets are named after states in no discernable order.
In downtown Lincoln, the East/West streets are named after letters of the alphabet, in the order of the alphabet. The North/South streets are named after positive integers. It's really easy.
20: Next you'll be telling me to remember the order of the planets without referencing my very excellent mother.
There's a place in France where the naked ladies dance.
There is a Normal Blvd and it does curve, but it doesn't follow the bell curve. I'm trying to get them to extend it and make the right shape.
Yeah, we're on a numbers and letters grid too. For April Fools, I want to mix them up down one of the thoroughfares.
Randy Robin
Needed
Topping;
Sailor Jerry's
Butt was
Clean.
Larry's
Gaydar
Said "Ahoy there",
but Nobody
Rogered Gene.
28 wins because I remembered it after one reading.
6.2 reminds me that one of the Cincy street acronyms is ""Big Strong Men Will Very Rarely Eat Pork," with some of them being tree streets but I'm not sure why. There's a small stretch of tree streets in my town, but again I don't know that there's much rationale for the names.
Really
Never
Tiring,
the Scent
of Bacon.
Copyright
Lawyers
Gobble
Steaks.
Never
Rice.
28 is nice and memorable, but it doesn't follow the rule about including Congress if you don't break the acronym - unless you regard each of the two sentences as a separate acronym?
I can't see how to introduce Congress without breaking the rhythmic flow, though.
I'm flattered by 31 et al (sitcom character: in full effect) but 28 is the best so far.
32.last: "Sailor Jerry's/ Butt Came/Clean"? Congress doesn't get its own line, and it makes slightly less sense, but it's something.
Why are we all saying "acronym" when "mnemonic" seems to be the concept?
Sailor Jerry's Butt Caught Cream?
What could be more wholesome than cycling? (Er, doping scandals apart.) Bloody great finish today!
Ranger Rick Needs Two SoJu Bottles
Caesar, Let's Go Sack New Rome
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I can't figure out where to put this as all the threads are pretty on track, but I just need to say: AGH!!! NO, I DO NOT WANT TO SEE STUPID PHOTO-COLLAGES EXPLAINING WHY THE DENVER SHOOTING WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED IF WE ALL JUST CARRIED CONCEALED WEAPONS! A POX ON YOU!
I should just block said person but I actually like them when they're not talking about guns. If only we could have a Facebook filter for topics rather than just 'friends' - it would really help my resolution not to get into political debates there.
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41: Yes, if only everybody had been armed in a dark, crowded theater full of panicked people running around after a smoke grenade had been set off, tragedy could surely have been averted.
35 Roving Ninjas Topple Strong Blockade
Clever Little Girl Saves Newborn Rabbit
42: Exactly. Also, the meme compares it to a recent event where an armed man stopped a bank robbery in Florida, and then pouts about gun laws. FL and CO have THE SAME EXACT CONCEALED CARRY LAW! (Ie, by permit. Probably easier to get one in FL, but I'd be surprised if it was hard in CO.)
Also, I'm sad about what happened. :(
35: Good point. Now where's your contribution?
35
Red
Necked
Turtles
Sun
Bathing
Can
Lounge
Gaily
Singing
Nursery
Rhymes
39: I've not been able to keep up with the race much this year*. Will try to catch the time trial though. It's all over but the gloating by the Brits . (Not that that hasn't started already.)
*been busy and have not been helped by the Tour website being pretty useless this year. Unless there is some very obvious way to get prior stage results that I am missing.
For something more HOMESy
ReNT JoBs
ColLaGe An oGre
San and Rio excluded.
At 35, Retired Ninja Turtles Started Juvenile Bookstore. Cowabunga! Could Leo Get Some Awesome New Readers Going?
48.last: velonews or steephill.tv?
Randy
New
TAs
Search
Bars,
Catching
Looks
Gone
Sour.
Next
Round.
51: Thanks, I will try one of those. Assumed there was some better third-party site but in the past the Tour one had been pretty decent.
35 Rapid Nose-Toe Strokes just Before Congress:
Conception Largely Guaranteed, Says a New Report
http://www.itv.com/tourdefrance/ or http://www.cyclingnews.com/tour-de-france ?
We're celebrating, not gloating!
Not so wholesome:
Rosy
Nipples
Topping
Silky
Bras
Can
Catch
Lazy
Guys
Suddenly
Needing
Roses
55.2: I'm a Yank; I know gloating.
Good point. Now where's your contribution?
Comment 1. Did it not make it past your initial screening process?
57 - oh all right, I'm gloating like mad *insert huge grinning smiley*
I also discovered this week that pro-cycling fanfic exists, but all the good Bradley Wiggins/David Millar stuff is friend-locked on livejournal. And even I wasn't desperate enough to bother getting in.
Honey, why don't you ever tell me when you come are gloating?
Because you're never around.
If Wiggins wins it's an amazing achievement. On top of his already impressive other-tours/Olympics haul. The Guardian liveblog comments are amusing. Lots of haters.
61: Yes, I never really thought he would be the sort competing for the whole Tour. Not sure when he became such a good climber.
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I didn't think I cared that my mom and I have a shitty book agent. But she just emailed and said she's leaving the agency to stay at home with her soon-to-be-arriving new baby. And now I'm actually feeling really bummed that I can't send her my new project when it's finished. (I'll send an email asking for a referral, but I seriously doubt she'll respond - like I said, she's a shitty agent.)
I had been saying "I don't know if I'll bother sending it to her" but my emotional reaction to this news proves that I actually believed I'd send it, and that I (egotistically) assumed she would love it. Damn.
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I still remember 40 two hours later. FWIW.
re: 62
Maybe. We don't know that for sure. Wiggins is great at maintaining a really high tempo, all the time. He's the guy with all the Olympic medals. Froome seems, on the basis of one single acceleration on one stage and not much else, to have a faster turn of speed on the hills.
I guess we'll see tomorrow. Wiggins pissed all over everyone in the last time trial. Also, Froome has freaky arms.
67: on several stages! But yeah I mean I think Froome has been very canny (career-wise) about making himself seem faster in ways that don't actually require him to be faster over the long haul. Still, how awesome would it be (for everybody but Cadel) if BMC ditched Cadel and picked up Froome and next year it was Froome/van Garderen vs. Wiggins/??? Way awesome, I say.
Here's a plan of Austin from 1873 showing the original grid with trees by rivers.
65: totally sucks. Your book would be awesome.
Violating off-blog, etc., but heebie showed us what she's been working on and it's really wonderful.
Thanks, you guys! I realize it's the most privileged, least sympathetic whine ever, but I really am surprisingly sad about this. The sympathy is appreciated.
71 is cool. I say we bring back Bois d'Arc Street.
I realize it's the most privileged, least sympathetic whine ever
Oh not by a mile.
74: It really is, but my sympathies anyway.
Winner gets to be my new agent!
Is this a 10% kind of deal or a 15% one?
Do I need to do more than not answer emails?
Oh yes! There's a whole laundry list of helpful things you shouldn't do.
28 is nice and memorable, but it doesn't follow the rule about including Congress
I think you'll find 28 does include congress. Implicitly, at least.
Still, how awesome would it be (for everybody but Cadel) if BMC ditched Cadel and picked up Froome and next year it was Froome/van Garderen vs. Wiggins/??? Way awesome, I say.
Yeah, that would be good. Brad said the other day that Froome would win one day and he'd be there to help him ... but I think Froome might want more, sooner, as his reward for showing himself to be such a team player. Although I don't know if he'd want to be relying on van Garderen, who hasn't shown himself to have always had Cadel's back. Will be interesting.
Anyway, back to the gloating. And looking forward to next Saturday.
Sorry Sifu, *who* did you say was faster?
62: Is this the thread where we get to mock Sifu Tweety?
Crap I didn't watch today! Ooooh now I want to know what I missed.
Oh, right, it was the TT. Yeah, I mean, I'm not a bit surprised. I still want to see them go head-to-hea for the GC in one of the major tours.
It's the nature of the TdF. Established team leader, young up-and-coming rider who wants to make the point that he can win in his own right. I don't think anyone really knows how it would pan out head to head, as Wiggins (as team leader) has been in the business, since day one, of a conservative defence of his position. We don't know how much faster he could have gone and how much more time he could have taken out of the other top guys in the GC, or whether he could have done a solo break or two on a flatter stage using his TT ability to take time out of Froome. Or whether Froome could have taken a lot of time out of Wiggins in the mountains. Wiggins wanted to win the race, with the minimum amount of risk. Which he seems to have done, barring accidents.
My dad watches a lot of cycling and can't understand why Froome decided not to go to another team after last year's Tour of Spain. Similar situation: Wiggins was leader, Froome in support, but in that race another guy was out in the lead. Wiggins got dropped and Froome had to stay behind and help him.
Eventually, it became clear before the end of the tour that Froome was stronger so the team let him lead. Froome ended up 2nd, Wiggins 3rd, but it's likely Froome would have won if they'd let him drop Wiggins earlier.
I don't know if Froome would have beaten Wiggins, what with this being a different year and a different tour, but it's clear that - after a few other contenders, like Hesjedal crashed out early - the only way this race could have avoided being as dull as it's been is if Froome and Wiggins could have raced each other.
Also Lemond/Hinault in 1985 and 1986 was a very similar situation. I only know that because it's when I started paying attention to cycling.
And despite my thinking it's been a dull race, it's still a great accomplishment for Wiggins. The two long time trials made it exactly the kind of course he's best suited for and he did everything right to take advantage of that.
(which is to say that I'm not a hater, I just wanted more entertainment)
95.2: Not a particularly mountain-y Tour as well.
96 gets it exactly right. Good for Wiggins; he did a great job and played it exactly right. But (not being British) I found various stage wins and the young rider and green jersey contests more exciting than the GC this year.
Which may just be me saying "I miss widespread doping", I realize.
... except last year's tour was pretty goddamned intense, come to think of it.
Anyhow I do like Wiggins. He swears fun.
And does the best yellow jersey acceptance speech.
Was not at all sure that Cav would do it today, but woo hook'em! Will be gloating all week, and if anyone spoils my gloating next Saturday I will not be happy.
Too bad that lazy Scotsman, Murray, couldn't hold up his part of this summer's Brit domination of minor sports.
