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Pippin04
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10-26-2007

Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 6:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pippin04 a private message Print Post    
Andy & Tommy finish the shoes and get clue to go to cathederal square and have to figure out the clue is on the dresses or necklaces.

Pippin04
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10-26-2007

Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 6:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pippin04 a private message Print Post    
Ernie & Cindy and Jeremy & Sandy both told shoes are not correct.

Amani & Marcus get clue. Maybe they were right to do the fillet.

Pippin04
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10-26-2007

Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 6:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pippin04 a private message Print Post    
Andy & Tommy think the clue is balboa and leave the square.

Jeremy & Sandy and Ernie & Cindy both leave. Cindy is being Cindy and being stressed.

Amani & Marcus also find the clue to be Balboa.

Pippin04
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10-26-2007

Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 6:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pippin04 a private message Print Post    
Andy & Tommy going to find statue of balboa on balboa avenue.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 6:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
Looks to me like Andy and Tommy are practically done.

Pippin04
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10-26-2007

Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 6:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pippin04 a private message Print Post    
Amani & Marcus decide not to leave but continue to look for clue.

Andy & Tommy arrive at the balboa statue and there is nothing there.

Pippin04
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10-26-2007

Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 6:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pippin04 a private message Print Post    
Ernie & Cindy think it is Balboa.

Jeremy & Sandy copied a picture of a building and showed the taxi driver. The driver taking them to building.

Amani & Marcus going to Balboa avenue.

Jeremy & Sandy 's taxi driver spoke to the other drivers and they are all going to the same place buy they did not say if it is the correct place. It is Andy & Tommy know where to go and leave the square.

Jeremy & Sandy find Phil so they are in the right pace. They win a trip. Ernie & Cindy are team number two. Amani & Marcus are team number three.

Andy & Tommy have been eliminated. Really good sports about it.

Spoiler below is about the pms I sent out. Do not look if you do not want to know.

Spoiler
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i guess the spoilers I posted last week were a little off.


Pippin04
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10-26-2007

Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 6:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pippin04 a private message Print Post    
next week.....final show. who will win. The dating couple. the over achievers or the comeback kid.

Pippin04
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10-26-2007

Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 7:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pippin04 a private message Print Post    
Night all.

Gldnlvr
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08-03-2007

Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 7:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Gldnlvr a private message Print Post    
We have been to the Indian Village that they went to tonight in Panama. We rode in those same long canoes. All I thought about when Jeremy and Sandy ran aground was that there were crocodiles in the water.

Surprised that the snowboarders are out. I would love to see the cleaned up version of the long haired one.

Jag2000
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07-01-2009

Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 7:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jag2000 a private message Print Post    
I think the Snowboarders being soo far ahead can be a disadvantage as well as an advantage. The other 3 teams had taxi drivers who were giving each other information and they had the same drivers since the tight rope challenge. It gave them all a huge advantage. Sorry to see the SBs gone. Now...GO AMANI & MARCUS!!!!

Chicagolooper
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05-09-2004

Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 8:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chicagolooper a private message Print Post    
After watching the season thus far, I felt that the producers made a HUGE improvement in making the tasks more fair and equitable, more dependent on team talent and skill than chance - until Panama. Honestly, I wasn't a fan of the Snowboarders at first, but they came to grow on me and I enjoyed watching them really work hard to get to where they are.

I personally feel that the taxi drivers talking on the phone had more to do with the outcome of this leg than the actual competitors. Had the competitors had to rely on their own skills and direct the Taxi drivers, I think the outcome would have been far different. If my supposition is correct, it would have been Jeremy & Sandy winning anyway - so I am cool with that. But I think that Andy and Tommy were the only other team to know what to tell their taxi driver and, in my mind, they should have been second. But we all saw what happened with the taxi drivers talking.

I hope the producers take note and improve upon this going forward. For example, in addition to the location of the pit stop, perhaps they could have been required to seek out a secret password that had to be taken to the pit stop, negating any blind following. I am really sorry to see Andy Tommy go - they were super competitors and earned their way every step of the way.

I still enjoy the show, but perhaps others here will agree that this could have played out a whole lot clearer than it ended up.

Sean
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02-26-2011

Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 8:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sean a private message Print Post    
Here is my recap of Sunday's Episode:

Amazing Race Recap: “Cab Collusion In Panama”

http://sfurfaro.blogspot.com/2011/12/amazing-race-recap-cab-collusion-in.html

Brenda1966
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07-02-2002

Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 8:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Brenda1966 a private message Print Post    
So bummed to see the snow boarders go and two clueless teams benefit from cabbies chatting. I guess that's the way it goes, and the boarders went out classy, like they were the entire race.

I'm rooting for Marcus and Amani now!

Lycanthrope
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09-19-2002

Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 8:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lycanthrope a private message Print Post    
Unpredictable stuff like what happened on the show tonight are what makes the show great. Its the human factor. I wouldn't have it any other way.

I enjoyed the snowboarders, but if they'd gone on to win it would have been the most un-thrilling finish of any AR because they were such favorites.

3 couples being in the finals is very cool. I'm rooting for Marcus and Amani, but I won't be sad to see any of them win. They all deserve it.

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 8:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
Thanks for the spoilers, can't wait to watch in 15mins.

I'm not sorry to hear the snowboarders are gone. They've taken plenty of prizes, so they're not going home empty handed.

Now the last three teams IMO are more evenly matched. Should make the finale more exciting. I'm still rooting for Marcus & Amani, but will be contented with any of the teams winning.

Roblover
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05-17-2011

Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 8:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roblover a private message Print Post    
It "felt" to me like cheating when the cab drivers shared the info with other driver's, whose passengers did not know where they were going, BUT I guess it is like "follow that cab", which isn't cheating, so that is why it was okay. It just "felt" wrong to me and I was sad that the snowboarders didn't get the information only because they were ahead of the other teams. I like all the teams so I am okay with any outcome.

I REALLY admire the women walking the tightrope! I am afraid the race would have come to an end if I had to do that task. I was disappointed at Andy when he was yelling at Sandy when she was trying to do the task. First time I saw either of the snowboarders do anything that was not nice.

Vsmart
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02-10-2003

Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 10:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vsmart a private message Print Post    
Andy caused the bad karma.

Roblover
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05-17-2011

Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 11:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roblover a private message Print Post    
You know I really thought that, Vsmart, when Andy was yelling at her. Silly, but I did.

Amy
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07-10-2002

Monday, December 05, 2011 - 12:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Amy a private message Print Post    
I am seriously disappointed in tonight's episode.
I truly believe that the snowboarders would have most likely been second had the taxi drivers not talked. As for comparing what happened to asking the taxi driver to follow the cab in front of them it is so not the same thing. Jeremy and Sandy kept trying to stop their driver from giving the other two drivers the information on the pit stop, not to mention the other teams had no clue when their drivers decided to take them somewhere other than where they had asked to be taken.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, December 05, 2011 - 1:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
12/04/2011 Leg 11 - Brussels, Belgium -Panama City, Panama

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Sandy(33)
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Ernie(29)
Cindy(30)
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Amani(36)
Marcus(30)
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Andy(30)
Tommy(32)
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Dubai
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2 Ford Mustangs
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Bill(63)
Cathi(62)
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Laurence(48)
Zac(19)
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Justin(31)
Jennifer(26)
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Liz(24)
Marie(24)
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Kaylani(33)
Lisa(32)
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Ethan(37)
Jenna(30)
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Ron(44)
Bill(49)
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1 Hazard - As last to find first clue at beginning of leg 1, Kaylani and Lisa must complete a Hazard Task before the end of the leg. To add to the excitement Kaylani drops her passport in a gas station near the starting point but it is gone when they go back. Luck of the showgirls.. someone who realized Amazing Race was going through tweeted someone and took the passport to LAX where they paged Kaylani, so the team made the second flight out. The Hazard task required them to go to a certain building and one of them (Kaylani) had to bungee jump in a mall.

2 EXPRESS PASS allows a team to skip or abandon any task at any one time through the 8th leg of the race. Ernie and Cindy won the EP in Taipei at the end of Leg 1.

3 Non Elimination Leg.

Leg 1 was an NEL, thus saving Bill and Cathi, who came in last.

Leg 4 was an NEL, thus saving Liz and Marie, who came in last.

Leg 6 was an NEL, thus saving Marcus and Amani, who came in last.

4 SPEED BUMP - A task that must be performed only by the last place team on the next leg after they come in last during a NEL.

Bill and Cindi were last in NEL in the first leg, so had to perform a Speed Bump in Leg 2. AND the next leg will be a double elimination leg.. so Bill and Cathi will have to be at least in 9th place next round to stay in the race.

Liz and Marie were last to the pit stop in Leg 4 and thus had to complete a Speed Bump task in Leg 5. Their task was to clean up after and wash an elephant.

Marcus and Amani were last to the pit stop in Leg 6 and had to complete a Speed Bump task in Leg 7. This task consisted of solving a slide puzzle to create a picture of the new flag of Malawi.

5 DOUBLE ELIMINATION ROUND. Two teams will be eliminated. Round 2.


6 Round two. At the end of the detour tasks, teams were told to take the money they earned and donate it at an orphanage, where they would get a token and proceed to the pit stop. However, there was a sign on the table telling them to ALSO donate ALL money they had. This sign was missed by most teams, who then had to go back on foot to the orphanage, donate and return to the pitstop.. and this changed the order and caused one team (Ethan and Jenna) down to last two, and thus eliminated. Kaylani and Lisa did notice the sign, so, while being one of the last two teams to the pitstop, they lived to run another leg.

7 Laurence and Zac were team # 1 but incurred a 15 minute penalty for using four buckets to draw water, instead of the two buckets specified in the clue. This dropped them to second place behind Andy and Tommy.

8 Justin and Jennifer were team #1,but forgot to pay their truck driver, so Andy and Tommy took over first place while they had to return to pay the driver. They just made it back to be team #2.

Bill and Cindy also failed to pay their driver, so it seemed that they might have been ahead of the second arrival of Justin and Jennifer and the first arrival of Jeremy and Sandy.

Thus Bill and Cindy dropped from third to sixth (just beating out Marcus and Amani) and Jeremy and Sandy went from fourth to third.

Legs 7 and 8 included the opportunity for two teams to U-Turn another team.

In Leg 7, Laurance and Zac chose to U-Turn Marcus and Amani, but Marcus and Amani were ahead of them, so there was no effect on them.

In Leg 8, Ernie and Cindy U-Turned Bill and Cathi, which meant Bill and Cathi had to complete both options of the Roadblock.

Bill and Cathi chose to U-Turn Laurance and Zac.

9 To Be Continued.

At the Pit Stop for Leg 9, Marcus and Amani arrived first, were awarded a trip to Panama and then told by Phil to take this clue and continue on. We didn't get the rest of that leg until the next week's show. It was not an elimination round but was also not NEL, so Bill and Cathi
avoided a Speed Bump task.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, December 05, 2011 - 1:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I think the race has often been moved along or slowed down by cab drivers.. Andy and Tommy are popular but they ran out of luck.. they started the leg 34 min ahead of the next team and almost an hour ahead of the last team, so it must have taken them a really long time to figure out their mistake on the TinTin task; had there been multiple trains or flights they wouldn't have been able to rush off the plane and get a 20-40 minute advantage in Panama, but they got it and also were the first on the high wire, which was also a one at a time situation. So at that point they had had advantage all the way, despite failing to get the first task correct the first time.

I know it is frustrating when cabs are a factor but it seems to happen every season.. not a sudden plot against Andy and Tommy. This time there were good and helpful drivers instead of bad ones .. well actually Amani and Marcus' driver took them to the wrong Detour task, but in the end had they been first to that dance clue, they might have suffered the same fate as Andy and Tommy, being in the wrong place when other drivers conferred with each other.

And yes, that was pretty mean of Andy to try to jinx Sandy when he certainly knew she was terrified.

They did win 4 trips, over $12,000 each in cash and a new custom Mustang, plus seeming to have a totally great time together. I'm sure they will be travelling to the next stops as decoys too. It could be lots worse. Kind of hard for me to be THAT bummed for them.

I liked that Cindy was so happy for Jeremy and Sandy to win a leg, their first win. And then the first two teams were so happy for Marcus and Amani.

(lol, or just relieved that Andy and Tommy were out)

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, December 05, 2011 - 1:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Think how often cabs follow other cabs.. is that cheating? This time they used phones but they could have just followed each other. Though oddly enough, Juan and his cab, with Ernie and Cindy, were in the lead for awhile.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, December 05, 2011 - 2:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Sean.. you cleared up one thing for me.. that the Snowboarders switched cabs after the Panama Canal..

Otherwise, I think probably their original cabbie would have been in on the phone calls, possibly.

I think if I had had to walk across that wire I too would have taken on a Chicago accent and I haven't lived there, ever.. maybe I'd have found my childhood Detroit accent?


And actually yes I thought Cindy was happy for J/S and it was also nice she gave Amani pointers for how to walk on the wire. Much nicer than yelling as someone to make them more nervous.

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Monday, December 05, 2011 - 5:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
That crossing on the wire was horrible. I don't see how anybody was able to do that, fear of heights or not.

It seemed very dangerous. How could they rescue someone if they froze in the middle of the crossing?

I was for the snow boarders until Andy tried to mess with Sandy as she crossed the wire.