New Podcast 2/6/08
Posted in Podcast on 06. Feb, 2008
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Before Lent begins, we gorge on a Feedback-only podacast.
10 emails keep us occupied for well over an hour.Tim wants to know if he should be a sandbagger, Andy Zipp’s us an email, Brett wonders if there is a connection between obscurity and quality, Jim is an American and wants us to speak like one too, type A Chip picks up cycling, it’s all in the details for Tim, Kip J. needs music advice for hosting a rave in Michigan, shimanodog asks us to please not refer anymore bike racers to work at bike shops, Moab man drops some serious lbs. and stretches his chain, another John (not Jon, Jonathon, Johnathon) needs wheels.
Listerner Feedback Award – it was a tough choice this week – is a pair of DeFeet Slipstreams.
Courtesy of the OED:
Kit:
2. a. A collection of articles (called articles of kit) forming part of the equipment of a soldier, and carried in a valise or knapsack; also, the valise containing these, or this with its contents; sometimes = outfit, ‘turn-out’, uniform.
c. The outfit of tools required by a workman
3. colloq. A number of things or persons viewed as a whole; a set, lot, collection; esp. in phr. the whole kit. Also, the whole kit and boiling (boodle, caboodle, cargo). (Cf. CABOODLE.) U.S.
kit-haddock, an inferior sort of haddock, sent away in kits for curing;
DRAFT ADDITIONS MARCH 2006
kit, n.1
* Brit. colloq. Clothes, clothing. Chiefly in to get one’s kit off and variants: to undress, strip.
T. Thorne Bloomsbury Dict. of Contemporary Slang (1990) 296/2 records an oral use from 1987.
1989 Smash Hits 1-14 Nov. 4/2 (caption) Here we see Debbie with her group Blondie. She still hasn’t whipped her kit off! 1990 Viz Dec. 4/2, I wonder whether she has ever got her kit off in a film, and if so, is it available on video? 1999 R. T. DAVIES Queer as Folk: Scripts Episode 1 18 (stage direct.) Stuart and Nathan, kit off, on the bed, necking away. 2004 D. KING Pornographer Diaries vi. 81 It’s a different sort of rush from when you take a bird home and she gets her kit off for the first time.
Looks like the RSS feed isn’t working. It was downloading through itunes for a bit and then disappeared.
I had the same problem as well, ended up just streaming off the website…sure that made the IT people at my office really happy.
I unsubscribed & re-subscribed and it’s coming in fine now. Must’ve been on my end.
You can Also get it under Missingsaddle in itunes to. and i will betting up the podcast “In The Saddle” later today. check it out!
From wikipedia:
SRAM Corporation is a privately held bicycle component manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1987.[1] The correct pronunciation of SRAM is sram.[2] SRAM is an acronym comprising the names of its founders, Scott, Ray, and Sam, where Ray is the middle name of company head Stan Day.[3]
Outfit vs. Kit vs….
Double J’s,
A friend, when I started road cycling, summed it up about cycling clothing.
I quote him, “Mark, there is a fine line, between an outfit and a getup, that guy right there (pointing to another rider on the road) is wearing a getUP”.
I put these getUP’s in the same category as people who wear their helmet backwards or still are wearing their 70’s white helmet.
Talk Topic: “friendliness” of Cyclocross racers vs. road racers
Any one know what the blog was? I thought I heard metlzerwerks.com.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KITT
Here’s a thread that’s sure to annoy any “kit” hater . . .
http://forums.cervelo.com/forums/t/905.aspx
http://mexlerwerks.blogspot.com/
Not only do they use the term “kit” in the Cervelo link, but also use the British spelling of the word favourite.
Ok not to be a hater but the guy from the left coast who calls himself a Flahute also talked about long hours on the trainer! Ahh errr this seems like an oxymoron to me you’re either in your basemant on your trainer cause you can’t take the weather or you’re a flahute and you brave the elements no matter what the condtions. I won’t be a hater so don’t be a Flahute poser!
Zen-John,
I saw a car with a “PHAEDRS” tag on the way home today. Unfortunately my Treo 755p’s puny 1.3M camera made a mess of my attempt to capture the image. Add to that the fact that the jackass was weaving through traffic like BMW driver often do. There was no hope. Clearly Quality doid not pervade his every thought and action as it should.
I had to wonder if that guy talks about DEVO and contantly quotes Stars and Watercarries and The Impossible Hour?
Are they related symptoms? Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s funny.
Kit’s OK w/ me. Outfit and getup sound wrong. Ensemble is right out.
You can’t be Flahute’n on a trainer unless it is outdoors in the rain/snow with a big fan on and the rotten neighbor kids are throwing mud and rocks at you.
Apparently BMWs can fly over traffic, not just weave through it. http://jalopnik.com/350252/bmw-m5-crash-details-emerge
Ouch, at least they were spared dad’s punishment.
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This just in:
1,2,3,4,5 and in a suprise reversal 6 all confirm:
“More potty farts from the Two Johns”
We are eagerly awaiting 7’s take on this developing situation. More at 11.
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We get the same problem over in the UK but mainly with luxury 4 by 4 drivers thinking they own the road.