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2008 Tour de France : Stage 9 : Toulouse - Bagnères-de-Bigorre 224.0 km Sunday July13

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Old 14-07.-2008, 08:50 PM   #106
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Do you write Mills and Boon romantic novels by any chance?

I think I am missing what is implied by this.
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I think I am missing what is implied by this.
I think he was having a go at your flowery prose.
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And romantic notions as to how good a climber Hincapie is.
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I think he was having a go at your flowery prose.

Whoosh. I'll see if google has translation from flowery prose to aussie.
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Whoosh. I'll see if google has translation from flowery prose to aussie.


I think you'll find that Drongo, for one, does flowery prose pretty well. Some Aussies are quite fluent.
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I think you'll find that Drongo, for one, does flowery prose pretty well. Some Aussies are quite fluent.


Some would say I'm flowery, others that I'm full of shit.

They're not mutually exclusive, I suppose.

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