Can you win the TdF if you TT like a Fred?

ilan wrote:
be inconceivable for them to change their whole riding style. The
Schlecks may become the paroxysm now that they are running their own
team.

I did not know its meaning and had to look it up. So, while I am not a
great expert on the correct use of the word paroxysm, I ask: did you
mean paragon? To me that seems to fit better. Anyway, not first use.

On Jun 21, 6:56*am, "A. Dumas" wrote:
ilan wrote:
be inconceivable for them to change their whole riding style. The
Schlecks may become the paroxysm now that they are running their own
team.

I did not know its meaning and had to look it up. So, while I am not a
great expert on the correct use of the word paroxysm, I ask: did you
mean paragon? To me that seems to fit better. Anyway, not first use.

Thanks, paroxysm worked by keeping the reader's attention. I would
have tried to use "avatar" but it has changed its meaning in recent
years.

-ilan

Brad Anders wrote:
Plus that atrocious pink fork. When I saw that poke into the frame, I knew he
was going to get his ass kicked.

Pink forks are too gay to explode.

On Jun 21, 12:56*am, "A. Dumas" wrote:
ilan wrote:

be inconceivable for them to change their whole riding style. The
Schlecks may become the paroxysm now that they are running their own
team.

I did not know its meaning and had to look it up. So, while I am not a
great expert on the correct use of the word paroxysm, I ask: did you
mean paragon? To me that seems to fit better. Anyway, not first use.

Maybe he meant paradigm?

R

I checked - no cyclists named Fred have ever won the Tour de France.

On Jun 21, 6:56*am, "A. Dumas" wrote:
ilan wrote:
be inconceivable for them to change their whole riding style. The
Schlecks may become the paroxysm now that they are running their own
team.

I did not know its meaning and had to look it up. So, while I am not a
great expert on the correct use of the word paroxysm, I ask: did you
mean paragon? To me that seems to fit better. Anyway, not first use.

Looks like I used the French meaning which is appropriate but doesn't
carry over into English: "Le plus haut degré d'un phénomène :
L'incendie était à son paroxysme" .http://www.larousse.com/en/
dictionnaires/francais/paroxysme

-ilan

ilan wrote:
On Jun 21, 6:56 am, "A. Dumas" wrote:
ilan wrote:
be inconceivable for them to change their whole riding style. The
Schlecks may become the paroxysm now that they are running their own
team.
I did not know its meaning and had to look it up. So, while I am not a
great expert on the correct use of the word paroxysm, I ask: did you
mean paragon? To me that seems to fit better. Anyway, not first use.

Looks like I used the French meaning which is appropriate but doesn't
carry over into English: "Le plus haut degré d'un phénomène :
L'incendie était Ã* son paroxysme" .http://www.larousse.com/en/
dictionnaires/francais/paroxysme

Ah right, thanks.

In article
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ilan wrote:

On Jun 21, 6:56Â*am, "A. Dumas" wrote:
ilan wrote:
be inconceivable for them to change their whole riding style. The
Schlecks may become the paroxysm now that they are running their own
team.

I did not know its meaning and had to look it up. So, while I am not a
great expert on the correct use of the word paroxysm, I ask: did you
mean paragon? To me that seems to fit better. Anyway, not first use.

Looks like I used the French meaning which is appropriate but doesn't
carry over into English: "Le plus haut degré d'un phénomène :
L'incendie était Ã* son paroxysme" .http://www.larousse.com/en/
dictionnaires/francais/paroxysme

An etymological dictionary of English tells me
that oxygen has the same root.

3. Paroxysm derives from Medieval French-French
paroxysme, itself perhaps via Medieval Latin from
Medical Greek paroxusmos, from paroxunein, to irritate,
literally to sharpen excessively: para, beyond+oxunein,
to sharpen, from oxus, sharp.

Paragraph 1 for oxygen.
1. French oxygène (Lavoisier, 1786): oxy, from Greek
oxus, sharp, pungent, acid+the element -gène.

--
Old Fritz

Frederick the Great wrote:
Paragraph 1 for oxygen.
1. French oxygène (Lavoisier, 1786): oxy, from Greek
oxus, sharp, pungent, acid+the element -gène.

Although Lavoisier nationalized the discovery.
http://acswebcontent.acs.org/landmarks/landmarks/priestley/index.html

Lavoisier had a point though, dephlogisticated air doesn't sound as cool
as oxygen, if anything it sounds like someone air full of snot globules.

On Jun 21, 9:24*pm, Frederick the Great wrote:
In article
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*ilan wrote:
On Jun 21, 6:56*am, "A. Dumas" wrote:
ilan wrote:
be inconceivable for them to change their whole riding style. The
Schlecks may become the paroxysm now that they are running their own
team.

I did not know its meaning and had to look it up. So, while I am not a
great expert on the correct use of the word paroxysm, I ask: did you
mean paragon? To me that seems to fit better. Anyway, not first use.

Looks like I used the French meaning which is appropriate but doesn't
carry over into English: "Le plus haut degré d'un phénomène :
L'incendie était à son paroxysme" .http://www.larousse.com/en/
dictionnaires/francais/paroxysme

An etymological dictionary of English tells me
that oxygen has the same root.

3. Paroxysm derives from Medieval French-French
paroxysme, itself perhaps via Medieval Latin from
Medical Greek paroxusmos, from paroxunein, to irritate,
literally to sharpen excessively: para, beyond+oxunein,
to sharpen, from oxus, sharp.

Paragraph 1 for oxygen.
1. French oxygène (Lavoisier, 1786): oxy, from Greek
oxus, sharp, pungent, acid+the element -gène.

--
Old Fritz

A good way to figure out such words is to translate to German:
Sauerstoff, since they decided to ditch dead roots. Unfortunately, it
seems to fail for oxymoron.

-ilan