Some interesting observations that have come my way in the last 24 hours:
1) Lidl, the cut-price supermarket chain, have an aftershave brand called Eruption.
2) A message on the Dead Runners message forum, that somehow sums up what we love about Americans: “A great Tour De France, but I have a question regarding the yellow jersey. Do they wash it between wearings? Or is there more than one? Honestly, all I can think about when someone new takes the lead is the disgusting image of putting on a jersey that someone else has cycled and sweated in for all those miles…”
Has anyone else noticed that Americans are either obsessional about health and personal hygiene, or else obese, burger-guzzling Jerry Springer fodder? It’s an interesting polarisation. Anyway, someone had better send those cyclists a few bottles of Eruption.
3) You have to feel sorry for Denis Law, the great 1960s Scottish footballer. When I was a student in Manchester, “Denis” was a local word for cannabis/marijuana. It was rhyming slang: Denis Law – draw (“draw” being the normal colloquialism). I’ve just learnt that “a Denis Law” is now Mancunian slang for a bisexual, on the grounds that he played for both Manchester United and Manchester City.
Poor old Denis. Ha ha!!
