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Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Sunday, November 13, 2011 - 8:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
LOVED the bunnies -and loved seeing Marcus give the bunny a pep talk before running along side him. We weren't sad to see Lawrence go either.

Supergranny
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02-03-2005

Sunday, November 13, 2011 - 8:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Supergranny a private message Print Post    
My bunny was named Chopper and he thought he was a cat! I can hardly wait to see the bunny hops!!

Brenda1966
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07-02-2002

Sunday, November 13, 2011 - 8:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Brenda1966 a private message Print Post    
We had a bunny named Benjamin when I was a pre-teen, but I was just not interested. He lived outside and I think the dog played with him more than us kids. We were fools!

Callasin
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06-21-2005

Sunday, November 13, 2011 - 10:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Callasin a private message Print Post    
We had bunnies named Ben and Jerry. I loved the bunny hurdles.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, November 13, 2011 - 10:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
11/13/2011 Leg 08 Malawi - Copenhagen, Denmark

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Ernie(29)
Cindy(30)
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   L8
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B/C
 Express
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trip to Fiji
 
Bill(63)
Cathi(62)
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C4
L24 L8:
UT
L/Z
   
Andy(30)
Tommy(32)
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0103    02.50A5
T4
    trip to
Ireland
trip to
Dubai
$5Keach
trip to
Br VI
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Amani(36)
Marcus(30)
0507 09060601070404    05.25A4
M5
L74   trip to
Bali
 
Jeremy(35)
Sandy(33)
0205 0603030804
03
0605    04.50J5
S3
      
Laurence(48)
Zac(19)
0608 0201 0270406040506    04.38L4
Z5
  L7:
UT
M/A
  L8
Justin(31)
Jennifer(26)
0306 0804020401
02
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Je4
     L7
Liz(24)
Marie(24)
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L54    L5
Kaylani(33)
Lisa(32)
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L1
 L11   L3
Ethan(37)
Jenna(30)
0409 10          07.00E2
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     L2
Ron(44)
Bill(49)
0811          09.50R1
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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.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, November 13, 2011 - 10:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
The bunnies were awesome!! And I'm glad Ernie and Cindy U Turned Bill and Cathi, because I am not sure Bill and Cathi would have used the U Turn otherwise and that had to slow Zac and Laurance down a bit, though clearly the long time at the dance and apparently the longer time stuck in traffic going the wrong way probably did them in.

I guess Andy and Tommy can let someone else win if there is no prize involved.. makes sense since they will leave at virtually the same time next let anyway.

Jeremy and Sandy were lucky.. they failed to really get the clue at the tower, went the wrong way and probably only got to stay in because of Laurance going the wrong way.

If Laurance had been as nice as he was when they were eliminated, I might be sorry they didn't beat out bickering Jeremy. But.. nah..

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, November 13, 2011 - 11:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Sean, loved the rabbit jumping video! I'm guessing that the rabbits used on tonight's show were snickering at how easy this was for them..

Kappy
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06-28-2002

Sunday, November 13, 2011 - 11:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kappy a private message Print Post    
So glad to see Laurence gone!

Ernie & Cindy are a cute couple but I can't handle her whining. They didn't have the win "STOLEN" from them last time. They lost it all on their own.

Love Bill & Cathi and Andy & Tommy and I was so happy for Armani and Marcus that they caught up the way they did! Loved those bunnies!!

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Monday, November 14, 2011 - 3:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
I'm good with Laurence being gone. Liked Zac, but sorry kid! Grateful that Laurence was in 'the driver's seat' when they lost. Otherwise poor Zac would have heard his Dad saying "I could have driven better!!!" for the rest of his life.

Glad Amani & Marcus managed to come from behind to save their game. Marcus' pep talk to his bunny was 'priceless'! Too funny, but it worked.

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Monday, November 14, 2011 - 4:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
Ernie and Cindy still saying they were 'robbed' of last weeks's first place! They ran slower than the surfers. There was no theft involved.

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Monday, November 14, 2011 - 4:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
Also, as cute as those bunnie were, they make very smelly pets.

Those guys must have been trained to get a food reward at the end of the obstacle course.

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Monday, November 14, 2011 - 5:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
Sandy was driving me crazy with her "huh" "what" "huh" to Jeremy as he mumbled about her stupidity. She got them lost! What did she think he was talking about!

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Monday, November 14, 2011 - 6:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
Amani and Marcus seem to work together so well. She appeared to pick up the dancing quickly, and both of them were super rabbit handlers!

Lilfair
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07-09-2003

Monday, November 14, 2011 - 7:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lilfair a private message Print Post    
Another great show and the bunnies were a great watch. A&M are such fun people to watch run the race. Love the snowboarders too.

Auntiemike
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09-17-2001

Monday, November 14, 2011 - 7:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Auntiemike a private message Print Post    
I love the snow boarders, always so upbeat and polite. They really seem to be enjoying this whole experience. Mature too. I also like A & M. They are also mature in their relationship and how they work together. I am rooting for them to go far. And, as annoying as Cathy's voice can be, I do think she and her husband work together well also and always seem surprised that they make it to the mat without elimination.

Glad to see Dad Laurence go. What an unpleasant man. His son is nice and deserves more encouragement and acknowledgement. To me Jeremy and Sandy are "blah" and can go any time. I get a little annoyed with Cindy too but they keep hanging in there.

I love this show. Denmark was beautiful!

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Monday, November 14, 2011 - 7:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
Dogdoc, in answer to your question above re: times they leave for the start of the next leg, I read somewhere a few years back that sometimes they leave 12 hours later and sometimes they leave 24 hours later.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Monday, November 14, 2011 - 7:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
I guess I dislike Cindy so much that it left a bad taste in my mouth with using the U-Turn just so she could win first place. I would have laughed my ass off if there wasn't a prize for first place on this leg.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Monday, November 14, 2011 - 8:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
Did anyone else think it strange that Ernie chose to do the dancing task? Historically on the race the women do the less physical tasks...makes me think that Cindy is clueless at dancing as her personality is annoying.

Laurance can always blame Zac for not telling him to go the wrong direction. Knowing Laurance he will find some way to blame Zac for something. So glad it wasn't a NEL.

Scooterrific
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07-08-2005

Monday, November 14, 2011 - 8:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scooterrific a private message Print Post    
I wasn't a Laurence fan...but I did find him supportive of Zac during the dancing task. I thought their exit was graceful.

Lycanthrope
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09-19-2002

Monday, November 14, 2011 - 9:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lycanthrope a private message Print Post    
I enjoyed this episode on a few different fronts.

The rabbits were cute.

Amani and Marcus persevered and stayed in the race, proving sometimes the good guy does get a few breaks.

Finding out that Bill & Cathi have been together since middle school was kinda cool.

It's good Lawrence is out, but he wasn't as annoying this episode as in past ones.

I don't find Cindy as annoying as some people; I think she's very driven and that comes from her upbringing. I've known people like her. She won't relax until the race is over, and she'll continue to annoy people. Such is life, I suppose.

Whoami
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08-02-2001

Monday, November 14, 2011 - 11:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Hmmm....nobody responded to my sharing of Danny Kaye and the Copenhagen song. Either I'm older than dirt and am the only one who remembers Danny Kaye (and his movies), or everyone was overwhelmed by bunnies.

Gotta agree though, those bunnies were really cute! And I hope Bill/Cathi keep plugging along. I really like them. Andy/Tommy too.

Cindy looked a bit like a kid with her hand caught in the cookie jar, and was trying to justify why her hand was in the cookie jar. Hey, if you want to win a leg so badly you have to use the tools of the game to stick it to another team, then just man up and say so.

Bye bye Laurence. Sorry to say I won't miss you at all. I hope you have a chance to watch yourself and realize how often you belittle your poor son. You've got a good kid there, so someone did something right in raising him. Just take notice once in a while, OK?

Lycanthrope
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09-19-2002

Monday, November 14, 2011 - 12:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lycanthrope a private message Print Post    
Sorry, Who, I know who Danny Kaye is but I have no clue about the song you referenced.

Islandgirl
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05-10-2011

Monday, November 14, 2011 - 12:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Islandgirl a private message Print Post    
You're not alone Whoami. I'm still hearing Wonderful Copenhagen in my head. Thanks for the link to the words.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Monday, November 14, 2011 - 12:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
WHO I hadn't read upthread so I didn't see your post. Not only do I adore Danny Kaye to pieces, but I know and enjoy the song. :-)

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Monday, November 14, 2011 - 1:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
Sorry WHO, I'm with Lycanthrope - I know who Danny Kaye is but I have no clue about the song.