Tweets of the Week: Tiny tots, Argonauts and Jens is BACK!

Funny, cruel, odd, personal … you get it all on Twitter. Each week, we’ll have a rundown of some of our favourite tweets. Here are the tweets for the week ending 1st April 2012.

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Is this how many Rondes this little fan thinks Tommeke can win?

Iljo Keisse caught his teammate on TV, mesmerising a tiny fan … I know, honey, sometimes I want to lick the screen when he’s on too …

But it’s not all cute kids who love the Ronde. Superheroes and fairy-tale characters do too, by the look of it. (Apparently these guys support BMC. In front of a Liquigas bus. How could you tell?) Is that purple thing in the background supposed to be a Teletubby?

Yes, it was all Flanders, all the time last week. And we even have a picture of the King of Belgium opening the race.

Hang on, who is that? The King of Belgium? That’s not the King of Belgium. THIS is the King of Belgium …

But my favourite Flanders tweet was from Ted King. Simple. Charming. To the point.

Head-banging and car-pulling … Jensie is BACK!

And he’s been gone too long! What I love about the way Jens Voigt tweets is he tells a story in about 30 tweets right in a row. And then another story … So it’s like a little play, right there in your twitterstream. This week, he tells us his dark rock secret …

Looks like he had a touch of the Fabianese in that last tweet but that’s okay … I’m sure Fab doesn’t mind sharing. Then Jens tells us about his car blowing up.

He put his daughters in a taxi and called a tow truck.

And he waited … and he waited … and he waited. While tweeting about the fact that only two people stopped but couldn’t help. Time was a tickin’, Jens had places to be … where the hell was the tow truck? And then he had an idea …

Love it – “I mean I am Jens Voigt” … That you are, sir, and we’re happy to have you back, singing like a little songbird on Twitter.

Sartorial statements

Or should I say Fashion Questions … okay, what the hell is Ivan Basso wearing? It’s like Spiderman but not, he is on some sort of stealth mission or … or what? Hey, did he get separated from those fans we saw earlier in front of the Liquigas bus?! Mystery solved …

If Basso was some sort of parallel-universe Spiderman, then here are the Argonauts …

“Shield your eyes, Mother, these boys are showing out!” Yes, um, leaves little to the imagination, these shorts. I must say, however, the kit looked good during Ronde. What it’ll look like when it’s raining, well, that would bring a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘riding immodestly’. (Doing the rain dance now …)

Is the truce over? Is the Hansen/Henderson Twitter war about to resume?

Fingers crossed! We’ve been missing Adam Hansen – as have a few others, including Mr Henderson.

UCI Overlord was concerned as well, and got this intriguing reply from Mr Hansen:

I think that’s the Twitter equivalent of “I’ve been out stocking up on supplies for my homemade bunker because I’ll need them when all hell breaks loose.” I reckon his little bunker would be full of power bars and energy gels … and maybe some cookies. I reckon he can be sneaky when he puts his mind to it …

But I must end on some Henderson words of wisdom – possibly for Hansen! My vow to ask myself “What would Greg Henderson do?” when something pisses me off is turning out quite nicely. I still haven’t been punched yet! But these are words that will live on, long after my experiment is over …