The balloon eventually crashes near the Greenville, inhabited only by girl-Mites (boy-Mites had left for the Kite Town where they can carry out freely their boyish activities), who took balloonists to the hospital to care for them. Gunky waves to Dunno from the ground but Dunno shuns him. By this time, half the town still does not believe the balloon will be able to fly, but the balloon successfully rises off the ground, and all the shorties of Flower Town cheer. The day of the departure comes, and Doono, Dunno, and fourteen other Mites come on board. Everyone helps with preparations except for Dunno, who is too busy bossing everyone around and providing useless advice. The parachutes and other supplies are loaded, and sixteen seats are accommodated for. A large rubber balloon is then inflated, fastened to the basket, and filled with hot air.

He and his friends begin extracting rubber, weaving the basket, and making emergency parachutes out of dandelions. He then gets into a fight with his best friend Gunky for not ending his friendships with the girl-shorties Pee-Wee and Tinkle (generally, boy-Mites did not like girl-Mites, and vice versa).ĭoono proposes to build a hot air balloon and go on an adventure. Next, ignoring the warnings of Swifty, Dunno crashes Bendum and Twistum's car into the Cucumber River and ends up in the hospital. Then he proceeds to try music, art, and poetry, but his unorthodox endeavors only irritate his friends, and he is forced to quit. First, he becomes convinced that the sun is falling and manages to scare half the town before Doono, Dunno's brainy antithesis (his name is derived from the Russian ' знаю', I know) clears everything up. In Flower Town, Dunno gets into heaps of trouble. The illustration for The Adventures of Dunno and his Friends. In Nosov's universe, each shorty occupies his/her own niche in the community and is named accordingly. All fruits and vegetables growing in Flower Town are, however, their regular size, so the Shorties invent sophisticated methods of growing and harvesting them. They are described to be sized like 'medium cucumbers', a quality that has earned them the name 'shorties' or 'mites'. The three fairy tale novels follow the adventures of the little fictional childlike people living in 'Flower Town'. simplified Chinese: 小无知 traditional Chinese: 小無知.Wellens currently leads the classification on 64 points, but over stages 18, 19 and 20, there are four HC climbs, worth a potential 160 points, so I don't think we'll be seeing him in the polka dots in Paris (though presumably one of the GC boys will take the win on Val Thorens, so more realistically 120 points for someone like Ciccone or Barguil to go for to make the title his - or maybe Bardet has been sandbagging so far, taking it easy in the knowledge that he could still win the polka dots with a flourish on the final three stages). He was a thoroughly deserving winner of the spotty jumper.īesides which, all the HC climbs above 2000m are given double points this year, which weights the competition towards the true climbing specialists, and against those who go points-harvesting on cat 3 & 4 climbs. The polka dots in particular encourage flamboyant, exciting racing - I always had mixed feelings about Voeckler but there's no doubt he was a popular rider.Īlso giving the lie to your assessment is the fact that Alaphilippe won two stages last year, one of which featured two 1st category climbs, the other three 1st cat and an HC. I think these minor jerseys only justify their existence if they're won by someone other than the overall winner, and the format allows someone to go for glory who doesn't have a genuine shot at GC.

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