Giro 2018: Stage 8, PRAIA A MARE - MONTEVERGINE DI MERCOGLIANO 12 May 2018 / Saturday / 209 km *Spoi

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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    M.R.M. wrote:
    That is really cool. Did you remember that just off the top of your dome?
    I'm no Shakespeare expert, but that's one of the phrases I know from old Bill. I had to google the exact quote. I've never read or seen Julius Caesar. Similarly I know 'Beware the Ides of March' and 'Et tu Brute'
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    RichN95 wrote:
    M.R.M. wrote:
    That is really cool. Did you remember that just off the top of your dome?
    I'm no Shakespeare expert, but that's one of the phrases I know from old Bill. I had to google the exact quote. I've never read or seen Julius Caesar. Similarly I know 'Beware the Ides of March' and 'Et tu Brute'

    I think my favourite line from that play is:

    "Infamy, infamy....They've all got it in for me"
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  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,108
    RichN95 wrote:
    Maybe I'm giving him to way to much credit here, but it might be an allusion to or a phrase borrowed from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."

    That was my immediate thought - it's one of those quotes you know even if you couldn't attribute it to a particular source.
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  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,183
    Froome beware the Ides of May (stage 10 on Tuesday). It looks innocuous though.
  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Oh and as far as the pasta goes:-
    CUCINA
    Pasta fresca (cavatelli, orecchiette, fusilli); secondi piatti a base di carne alla brace; Torrone.
    http://www.giroditalia.it/it/tappa/tappa-8-2018/turistica/arrivo/
    Flip me.
    I imagine you were doing your best but the Gazzetta is based in Milan. It's like expecting a London-based newspaper to get the local culinary delights of up the Aberdeen-Inverness area correct (if there are any up there).
    kleinstroker wrote:
    Those Italians! Raisins... in Pasta?
    It's the fruit-meat combination of the sauce which is the delight, an idea common in many cooking cultures. Even in the UK one occasionally mixes fruit with meat = cranberries with turkey.

    One of the best pasta dishes I ever had was a sort of dry bolognese (so with very little tomato sauce) but a lot of cinnamon. The combination of minced meat and sweet cinnamon with spaghetti was great.

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