seems to be some talk of a possible triathlon team competition (friendly of course) between Slowtwitch.com and TNO. Sounds like fun.

SSHHHHHH!!!!Ironclm just stated she knows how to use a riders crop!!!!You trying to get me whipped!!!

You 'da man!

you gotta be joking. TNO with their 20 min long runs vs. slowtwitch with its marathon-before-breakfast,-century-during-lunch crowd. Can any of the TNO crowd do anything over a sprint? I like trash talkin more than actual competition, and just in case, i bring a full leg splint to races, so if i lose, i just strap it on and say something like, "yeah, i broke my femur the other day, but i thought i would still race." makes a 20 min 5k look good, and you get to continue trash talking. : )

"I'll bring a full leg splint to races"

Dat's nutin, I broke me spine in tree places and I til finitched.

I know you're kidding, but but I thought I'd point out that there are more than a few people who frequent TNO that can really kick ass. Some used to post here quite a bit but have left for whatever reason.

you must be real popular at parties... "call the police, he's killed the joke!"

Are you kidding? Here's how it would play out:

Some dude at TNO would bring some unstickered, unpainted piece of carbon porn and leave it at the entry to the transition. All of the ST'ers would be unable to pass it without arguing for 45 minutes about make, aerodynamics, and whether or not the thing would fit properly. Meanwhile the race would go off and not even a relay of Ben in FL, Record 10 Ti and, well, I don't even know if there are any runners here - Julian maybe- would be able to catch the first place TNO'er.

Our only hope would be to put up signs that say "This way to fight Cerveloguy" or "TNT Pre-race meeting over here" and hope they get lost!

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Just because some of us like to frequent the TNO board, don't make the mistake of thinking that we only do sprints and that we are all "slow". Not the case at all.

ok, its everyone paying attention. I'll gonna speak real slow and explain this. It. was. a. joke. See, jokes are funny for a variety of reasons. Some jokes are funny because the outcome of the joke is different from the expected outcome in a funny way (a priest, a rabbi, and a cleric walk into a bar, the bartender looks at them and says, "what is this, a joke?"). Other jokes, commonly refered to as satire, play on stereotypes and preconceived notions about a group of people such as this blonde joke:

"Walking up to his favorite club, a man notices a cute blonde crying in the entrance way. Being the gentleman that he was, he asked her what was wrong. Sucking up her tears, she pointed to a sign by the door: "You must be 21 years of age to enter" "that's the 7th club I've been to tonight that had that stupid rule." Feeling sorry for her, knowing what a great club it is, he askes her how many years it is until she's 21. Wiping away tears, she responds." That's just it. I'm 22. Kinda shitty that you can only go clubbing for 1 year, huh?"

Not all blondes are stupid, and we as a society know that, but the joke is still funny. now, my previous post... a joke... would be considered one of these types of jokes. Jokes can be used to form a type of comraderie amung a group of people, like amung the slowtwitch group. Can you spot another joke? maybe the post youre reading right now. Thats right, this is caustic sarcasm....

"only do sprints and that we are all "slow".

There is such a thing as people who only do sprints and are fast. Not saying I'm one of them but not everybody wants to go long. Personally, I'd rather be fast in sprints than slow in IM any day.

Wow, that was funny!

Hey, Did ya get a chance to catch our thread over at TNO called "Triathlon humor"? Well it's reall funny too.... Even had a Slowtwitch specific joke of sorts there.

yeah, i think leaving out a nice bike might ruin us all, especially if it has the elusive DA bar-end shifters. Though, come to think of it, i have no idea how any of us make it out of T1. Seems to me, everyone would be asking for advice on their aero position, or giving advice on it. I for one would be stuck on which wheels to use (disc, deep section, or mid v?), and constantly adjusting the seat height. I like the TNT reference.

This is not related to triathlon at all, but is hilarious, a british children's show filled with sexual innuendos:

http://content.collegehumor.com/...a/movies/rainbow.wmv

ok, i checked out TNO, and found the thread where the ST v. TNO tri was proposed, I wont say anything, but will just offer some direct quotes:

"Besides we'd have cuter outfits anyway. "

"...pink bikes"

though that last one was from Hid, is that the same Hid that posts on ST? I dont think any of the above posts on TNO are adding to their credibility at all... =)

I think it was that joke thing you spoke of earlier....we know of jokes too over there, even have little smiley faces.

the "cuter outfits" thing just reminds me of the women i see at the gym who have $200 of matching workout gear, then spend the whole time flirting with the guys who work there. It was a funny mental image, one of them talkin smack about triathlon

Some of us just don't have th build to do an IM (just yet). But man, toe the line with me in the shorter stuff and you best be buckling your seatbelt. What I got goes fast but it don't last long. Besides..the shorter races get done first..and to the massage tent/food line sooner. so go ahead and go long..just be prepared to wait in line while I get a post race rub down. Next!

Kentiger, this is a triathlon discussion, please try to keep it clean. Really, we don't need to know about your inadequacies.....

Wow! That was easy. It's always fun to kid a kidder :) You know, you really shouldn't take us TNO'ers so seriously. We're (or at least me) are just out having fun like everyone else.

HA! Somebody made a crack about a 20-minute 5k being a joke. Well, I guess my 5k is a joke, because I've yet to crack 20.

I do run a lot -- just not very fast.

"you must be real popular at parties... "call the police, he's killed the joke!" "

Crap. It's usually at times like these where my friends call me a "douchebag".