nicknames.

the killer.
the cobra.
the professor.
the lion king.
the little prince.
the puma.
il falco.
the cricket.
il pirata.
ale-jet.
the badger.
the cannibal.
and so on...

seems like all the good ones are taken.
but there is one.

so, i am reserving it now.

fyi everyone; when i turn pro, it's the unicorn.
got that?



no if's, and's, or but's about it.

as a pop-quiz, first one to correctly identify all above listed nicknames gets a giant trophy!

amazing.

vladimir karpets.

good, bad, or ugly?

the ali g show is fantastic.
you know ali g right?

well you should.
you have probably at least heard of borat.

well, sacha baron cohen created 3 characters for his tv series 'da ali g show', that he uses to interview people:
ali g; an under-educated hip-hopper, borat; a backwoods kazakhstani reporter, and bruno; a gay austrian fashionista.

hilarity ensues.
like so:




well, his 3rd feature film is now in the works, but it might suck.

the ali g movie was a stinker. but for whatever reason they made it a scripted movie, not a series of interviews like the show. it didn't work.

borat was a hit.
a big hit.
it followed the formula.

so now the third character is getting a film. how will bruno be?

will borats success, and cohen's fame take away from the kamikaze style of interview that cohen is known for...
bruno is a pretty freakin funny character, but i don't know how it'll translate if everyone interviewed knows they're being made fun of...

what you think, gentle reader?

here's a bruno clip from the show for reference.

erik zabel.

"It doesn't make any difference whether it happened one time or over two years, the point is that it was forbidden to dope, and I doped. I doped, I lied and I apologize for that."

He was unable to control his voice or hold back his tears when he spoke of his son Rick. "My son rides, too, and I don't want him to go through what I went through," said the four-time winner of Milano-Sanremo.

- erik zabel, from cyclingnews.

well.

that settles that.

zabel, aldag, ullrich, basso, landis, hamilton, andreau, heras, etc, etc.

will lance fess up?