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Joe: Watch the "Tour de Dorks" comments. (In fact, try it.) You harshed my mellow, especially after having just come in from a hot 40 miler.
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At my workplace, I am literally surrounded by spandex-clad, long distance riders with unnaturally grotesque-sized calves and incredibly funny-looking footwear. I cut no slack for the bicycle boys and their silly sew-ups. In return, they fart in my general direction.

Haha. And I thought it was just me. I mean really....when did byciclists decide they needed to look as ridiculous as figure skaters?

"Tour de Stud Muffins"- I am on the floor, laughing!
That which was harshed has been mellowed by a fine sense of humor. And then there is Joe...

Nose job

A cleaning crew rappels down Jefferson's face on Mount Rushmore, S.D., before powerwashing the third president.
Soon he'll be shinier than a newly minted nickel.

Surviving on pennies per day

Seventy-six-year-old Huang Xiuzhen picks tea leaves on a plantation in Anshun, China. The government-owned plantation pays one yuan (12 cents) for every kilo of leaves, and some younger workers can pluck 30 kilos per day. Huang averages just two or three. This is what happens when you privatize Social Security.

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This is what happens when you privatize Social Security.

Yeah, SS should be eliminated altogether.

The great leap forward

Skateboarder Danny Way, 31, from Encinitas, California, drops his board as he attempts to sail over the Great Wall of China.

Here's mud in your eye

Crowds watch the 'Mud Pit Belly Flop' at the 10th annual 'Redneck Games' at Buckeye Park in East Dublin, Georgia. (AFP/Jeff Haynes)

Management school

A reveller is tossed by a calf after the fourth bull run in a bullring in Pamplona, Spain, July 10, 2005. REUTERS/Pablo Sanchez

Never do I tire of those bull-horn-up-the-ass photos.

A female red Panda inspects its new habitat at the Chinese area of the Buenos Aires' zoo. (AFP/Daniel Garcia)

A nose for news

Dan Thomas of WEAR-TV in Pensacola, Fla., retrieves equipment from his station's satellite truck, which got caught in Hurricane Dennis' path on Navarre Beach.

Horse sense

In Mongolia, child jockeys are among the participants in a 26km horse race at the annual Nadam festival, at Zuunmod.

Finger food

Frozen bananas help keep a baby ring-tailed lemur cool at the Dublin Zoo.

Spokes persons

Cyclists clutter up the oncoming lane as they ride by a lake during the tenth stage of the 92nd Tour de France cycling race between Grenoble and Courchevel. (AFP/Franck Fife)

Life: ephemeral and prized above all else.

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...picture of an Indian woman mourning a relative killed in the Asian tsunami was taken in Tamil Nadu on 28 December.

BBC world press photograph awards 2004

Joe obviously has a secret love for cycling, because he keeps posting about it...

Bicycles rock...

Bathing Beauties n'All

The Italian synchronized swim team practices their routine in preparation for the 2005 XI FINA World Championships that will take place at the Parc Jean-Drapeau from 16 July-31 July in Montreal, Canada. Court is the swimmer on the left. (AFP/Timothy A. Clary)

On the left? As in the one in lead... or from the back the one closest to the camera, or from the front the one furthest from the photographer?