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I loved it when he coined the phrase. Aussies have to have the most coulouful version of the English language! lol:

16:42 - Matt Lloyd (Continued)

The Australian coined the phrase “bleeding carrots” – a term that he used to describe the Euskaltel team in the first week. “The only thing I couldn’t understand about the race,” he told LeTour.fr, “is that you could be riding along on a nondescript section of road, and there they’d be lying on the ground like a bleeding carrot. Often they would crash but they seemed to do it again to make sure that their wounds didn’t heal…”


1,192 posted on 07/25/2010 7:54:40 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Sure I've heard of grits. I just never actually *seen* a grit before.)
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OMG, Matt Lloyd has a second career waiting for him on the standup circuit if he wants it.ROFL.


1,195 posted on 07/25/2010 8:04:00 AM PDT by leilani
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