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We Love David Duffield Reader Submissions Part 1d
Posted October 12, 2009 by admin in David Duffield, Giro d'Italia, tour de france | 1 comment

From: Simon
Subject: David Duffield

Looking through your duffieldisms I didn't notice one of his favourites: "he parts his hair with a chamois leather" - used to described the hair style of riders such as pantani or lutenburger

cheers Simon

Thanks Simon.. There are quite a few of us in the Agreeable World that also part our hair with a chamois leather. How we yearn for the days when we could grow a mullet like that stylish Mr Brochard!

From: Jonathon
Subject: David Duffield

Another "Duffieldism" for you. As Francois Simon was struggling to stay with the lead group on the way to Alpe d'Huez, he was apparently "playing the accordian", meaning he was going in and out of the bunch.

Long may DD's commentary continue.

Regards, Jon.

Accordians, banjos...perhaps this has something to do with skiffle? Someone else (Simon I think) pointed out that "O'Grady has gone off the back playing the accordian" as well. Perhaps we can get a band together with a tea chest bass.

From: Brian
Subject: David Duffield

Great page, guys!

My own addition to this tribute concerns poor Dave's debilitating psychiatric disorder whereby he cannot help stressing the 2nd syllable of any foreign word. This is most noticeable with:

Bartoli (we hear ‘bar-TOE-li’ instead of ‘BAR-to-li’)
Fassa Bortolo (we hear ‘bor-TOE-lo’ instead of ‘BOR-to-lo’)
CSC Tiscali (we hear ‘tis-CAR-li’ instead of ‘TIS-ca-li’)

Dave... please please please visit your neighbouring Eurosport Italian commentator and get a crash course in pronunciation.

Brian.

One of the things that I particularly like about Dave is his ability to mangle beautiful foreign languages. Its a skill I try to employ when I go on holiday as it always makes conversing with the locals a bit more fun. Also do you notice how he tells us that Lance Armstrong recovered from "testular cancer". Perhaps he doesn't like mentioning that part of the body on air which seems strange as Semen often gets a mention when the Bonjour riders are on screen.

From: Juliet (Via Agreeable Chris)
Subject: Duffieldballs

Are you collecting these?
One yesterday was:
"It was raining - wet water falling out of the sky"
Juliet

Thanks Juliet, thats up there with "washing the roads dry". You know, I think there's something amazingly attractive about a woman who collects duffieldisms.

From: Nick
Subject: Club Dinners

I went to the Welsh CA BAR lunch a couple of years ago and Duffers was the guest speaker. Typical of the man, it was just like one of his commentaries - a fine start and then slowly deteriorating into over excitement punctuated by lots of Ah's, Er's, Um's etc. He then got really wound up during the Q & A session after (it was just after the "Festina" affair) when his hatred (quite rightly) of any form of doping became evident.

Nice man though - met him in the car park afterwards. He'd left his wife in the car for the best part (sorry thick end) of 3 hours!!

Well worth getting for the club bash though.

Nick

Thanks for the account Nick. Don't suppose you got a picture of him did you? Left his wife in the car!?! So we'd only have to pay for one meal ticket if we could get him to come to our dinner. We will have to look into that.

From: Gary & Geoff
Subject: Duffers

You forgot to mention the following :
"Pursuiters Hooter" Big Nose
"Lashaid" spelt phonetically Off The Back
David Duffield is the Dogs Bo**ocks, good work fella long may you reign.

He is indeed! I think "lashaid" comes from the French verb Lache (sp?) which according to its use on Radio Tour means "to go out the back"