Admit it, if you had to train for a canoe race, there’d be certain things you’d focus on. And, if the instructions to the race were in a language that you have not been seen using in this particular comic strip, you might not work out that there was more to the canoe race than, say, racing canoes. So, if you were, let’s suppose, in the middle of said canoe race, and making your way toward the big red banner on the other side of the lake and going well, you might not have any reason to suppose that anyone would suddenly reveal that you would shortly be loading a bike in your boat, donning a blindfold, and trying to make your way BACK across the lake on verbal commands.
In fact, you might be stunned at the information.
And you’d want people to cut you a little slack about it, probably.
Well, these guys can beat everyone else blindfolded and with one arm tied behind each other’s backs, so my money’s still on them. Until the ropes come out.
I remember back around 1984 the Hollywood Reporter (we got it at the university library) mentioned some studio bought the rights to make a Sgt. Rock movie. What made me laugh was they wanted the biggest action star of the day to play the titular role.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The thought of him delivering his lines in that Austrian accent while pretending to fight Germans was too much to take serious.
Just reinforces that no combat plan survives first contact with the enemy.
Ego plus a bike, this should be great….
Das iz nut gud……forgotenzee das biker dey haz!
XD
das is the neutral gender, but I think I’d use der (masculine) and definitely not die (feminine) unless I knew for sure the cyclist is a woman.
That made me think… did they schedule and enter a bicyclist for their team? What happens if they get to the bike rendezvous and they have no bicyclist with bike? Do they swipe one? Hm….
I get the impression that the bicycle rendezvous isn’t nearly that formalized. There was talking earlier on about Paste’s team needing to make sure that no one who wasn’t Paste got the spot on their boat. I don’t know what the plans for dealing with a mis-match in numbers are, but I’m sure it’s going to be hilarious.
yeah, that’s better. German sentences seem to pile up everything else and save the verb as a punchline.