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Raenstorm
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07-16-2004

Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 5:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Raenstorm a private message Print Post    
Kaylani & Lisa still fighting at the airport as Kaylani wants to come up with a plane and Lisa says, "What plan? You have no passport, we're not going anywhere."

Ethan & Jenna say they are not going to admit to being on Survivor because there will be a target on their backs. However, a bunch of other teams figure it out and accuse them of being greedy for coming on TAR.

Kaylani is called to the information desk and someone has found her passport. They are happy again and hug the guys who found it and brought it to the airport. Another group of guys asked for directions at the gas station and the guy who had found her passport tweeted about being on the show (because of the asking of directions and that he found a passport). Someone responded to tell him the girl would need it so he brought it to the airport. Happy, the girls book their flight.

In Taipei, the teams have to figure out they are trying to find a billboard that will reveal their next destination.

First group of teams land and on the bus. Marcus admits he doesn't plan to reveal he's a professional football player.

Last set of teams arrive and get on a bus, with Bill & Cathi in last place.

Ethan & Jenna going down a street and not sure what they need to do. They are looking for the race colors. Marcus & Amani looking for the right district. Ethan & Jenna in the right place but they don't see the billboard. Andy & Tommy searching and asking people for clues. Ethan & Jenna right under the billboard and missing it.

Amani & Marcus think it might be the balloons on the billboard but they aren't sure. Justin & Jennifer are reading signs on the road and bickering about it. Amani & Marcus and Jennifer & Justin agree that it might be the billboard so they right it down and ask someone what it means.

Ernie & Cindy writing it down too and asking about it: Confucius Temple.

Ehtan & Jenna ask someone what it says and then he tells her they need to follow the clue when it's a destination.

Another group of girls looks at the billboard but decide it would be more obvious and keep looking.

Jeremy & Sandy get to the Temple first. ROADBLOCK: Who's ready to play telephone?

Have to use payphone to listen to Confucius proverb they have to recite word-for-word to a monk to get next clue.

Other teams arriving now and looking for the telephone. All of the women, except Ethan are doing the task so far. Cindy is on the phone now and dialing the number.

PROVERB: In all things success depends on previous preparation, and without such previous preparation there is sure to be failure.

She repeats it to the monk but gets one word wrong though and has to go back.

Back in the square, two groups of guy teams are getting directions to the Temple. Liz & Marie are confused and have no idea what they are looking for... Bill & Cathi think it might be the tallest building?

Jennifer gets it wrong and has to go back. Cindy gets it wrong again.

Amani gets it wrong too. Ethan gets it wrong. Sandy gets it wrong. Ron can't get it right either. All of them repeating it several times.

Cindy finally gets it right and they get clue. Travel by taxi to next destination.

Jennifer gets it and she and Justin take off. Andy & Tommy and Laurence & Zac arriving now.

Sandy gets it right and she and Jeremy head off.

Liz & Marie finally figure it out and, along with Kaylani & Lisa, they ask someone what it says and head off. Bill & Cathi still can't figure it out.

Lorie
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08-29-2003

Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 5:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lorie a private message Print Post    
ahhhh. Thanks. A friend called right then and I couldn't concentrate on her and the show! I should have let the machine get it!!

Wilsonatmd
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01-23-2001

Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 5:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wilsonatmd a private message Print Post    
Yep, the Hazard is the Speed Bump under another name...

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 5:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
I almost feel bad for the old folks, but that Liz girl...she just seems like she's NEVER going to repeat that phrase correctly.

Raenstorm
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07-16-2004

Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 5:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Raenstorm a private message Print Post    
Back with Bill & Cathi not sure where they are supposed to look.

Andy getting the proverb wrong. Zac also gets it wrong.

Ethan finally gets it right and they head out.

Ernie & Cindy arrive and must join Dragon Boat Race team. One must paddle and one must pound the drum. If they can successfully complete the course, they will get next clue.

Ernie is paddling, Cindy is drumming. They head off down the river on their boat.

Amani finally gets the proverb right and she and Marcus take off, they are in 5th place.

Zac gets it right and he and Laurence are off.

Ron & Bill get it right and head off.

Andy finally gets it right and he and Tommy head off.

Kaylani & Lisa and Liz & Marie finally arrive at the Temple.

Justin & Jennifer in 2nd place. Jennifer drumming and Justin paddling.

Jeremy & Sandy also there. Ernie & Cindy are done and get clue: MMake way to Martyrs' Shrine, the next pit stop.

Jeremy & Sandy in 2nd place with Justin & Jennifer right behind them.

Kaylani & LIsa get the proverb right but they have to go to the Core City Mall and search the 11th floor for their next clue (the Hazard Penalty).

Meanwhile, Bill & Cathi still looking for their clue. They are looking for the exact spot of the district.

Kaylani & Lisa find their clue at the Mall. The Hazard is that one person must bungee jump in the mall. Kaylani is doing it. She says the last time she bungee jumped her harness started to come undone so she's scared as she goes. She does her jump with lots of people looking on...

Liz still wrong on the proverb. Marie getting annoyed at her and telling her she says the same thing every time. We get a montage of her listening and getting it wrong over and over again. Liz tells Marie not to talk to her.

Ernie & Cindy are Team #1. As winners of this leg, they have won Express Pass. They say it feels really awesome to be in first place right now.

Jeremy & Sandy are Team #2.

Justin & Jennifer are Team #3.

Raenstorm
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07-16-2004

Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 5:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Raenstorm a private message Print Post    
We get quick montage of other teams arriving at the Dragon Boat Race and rowing down the river.

Order of those teams: Andy & Tommy, Laurence & Zac, Amani & Marcus

Each of the teams yelling jokingly to each other here.

Andy & Tommy head off in 5th place. L&Z in 6th, and A&M in 7th.

Back with Bill & Cathi. They ask someone to tell them what the billboard says and they finally head to the Temple.

Liz still getting the proverb wrong and Marie frustrated with her.

Gidget
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07-28-2002

Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 5:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Gidget a private message Print Post    
I already hate the show girls who have it "goin on up there". Blech!

Sadiesmom
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03-13-2002

Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 5:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sadiesmom a private message Print Post    
Gee, my show is late - guess I can't read, must watch first

Wilsonatmd
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01-23-2001

Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 5:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wilsonatmd a private message Print Post    
Well I guess that's why they're doing a double elimination...

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 5:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
OMG non elimination leg? the first leg of the race?

Raenstorm
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07-16-2004

Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 5:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Raenstorm a private message Print Post    
Liz finally gets the proverb right and she and Marie head out.

Bill & Cathi arrive at the Temple. Cathi is going to do the task.

Ron & Bill are in the 8th team. Kaylani & Lisa arrive and see Ron & Bill starting the Dragon Boat Race task.

Bill explaining why he has confidence in Cathi. And, as he finishes, she gets the proverb correct. They get clue and head out.

Back at the pit stop. Ethan & Jenna are Team #4.

Ron & Bill finish task with Kaylani & Lisa right behind them.

Amani & Marcus are Team #5.

Liz & Marie starting the boat race.

Laurence & Zac are Team #6, Andy & Tommy are Team #7.

Ron & Bill are Team #8.

Kaylani & Lisa are Team #9. They say they thought it (the race) was over before it began. "I guess that's why they call it The Amazing Race."

Liz & Marie are Team #10.

Cathi says they enjoyed the Race. Bill & Cathi are the last team to arrive. However, this is a non-elimination leg and they are still in the race. Sometime in the next leg, they will encounter a Speed Bump.

For the first time ever, they have a double elimination leg. At the end of the next leg, two teams will be eliminated.

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 6:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
It looked like Cathi got the proverb on the first try.

Lycanthrope
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09-19-2002

Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 6:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lycanthrope a private message Print Post    
I don't dislike any of them, least of all the teams at the back.

Lani and Lisa made a heck of a comeback, and whichever one got the proverb right (can't distinguish the two yet) real quick proved that she is smart.

I seriously hope Bill and Cathi also make a comeback and don't get eliminated next week. I hate it when the older competitors are the first out.

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 7:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
Thanks Raen for such excellent spoiling!

Only 38mins till showtime and I can't wait to watch now!

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 8:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
I forgot to thank Raen for the always excellent spoiling. You always do the most amazing job.

Kappy
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06-28-2002

Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 11:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kappy a private message Print Post    
Dang! Missed it so thank you, Raen!!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 11:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
09/25/2011 Leg 01 Los Angeles, California - Taipei, Taiwan
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turn
FFprizesE
Ernie(29)
Cindy(30)
01           01.00E0
C1
     Express Pass!2
Jeremy(35)
Sandy(33)
02           02.00J0
S1
      
Justin(31)
Jennifer(26)
03           03.00Ju0
Je1
      
Ethan(37)
Jenna(30)
04           04.00E1
J0
      
Amani(36)
Marcus(30)
05           05.00A1
M0
      
Laurence(48)
Zac(19)
06           06.00L0
Z1
      
Andy(30)
Tommy(32)
07           07.00A0
T1
      
Ron(44)
Bill(49)
08           08.00R1
B0
      
Kaylani(33)
Lisa(32)
09           09.00K0
L1
 L11    
Liz(24)
Marie(24)
10           10.00L1
M0
      
Bill(63)
Cathi(62)
113           11.00B0
C1
L2     


1 Hazard - As last to find first clud 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 Cindi, 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 will have 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.

5 DOUBLE ELIMINATION ROUND. Two teams will be eliminated.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Monday, September 26, 2011 - 11:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
The NY Times has an article about the Twitter rescue last night, with some surprising details: link

September 26, 2011, 12:01 am
Twitter’s ‘Amazing Race’ Assist
By BRIAN STELTER
NYTimes


[...] “We were planning on eliminating this particular team,” said Phil Keoghan, the show’s host, “because there was no way they were going to travel.” A lost passport, he noted, led to a team’s dismissal two years earlier.

But this time, Twitter saved the day. Ryan Storms, a graphic artist and photographer who shares much about his life and promotes his business on Twitter, had been at the gas station and had given directions to Ms. Paliotta and Ms. Tilley. Shortly thereafter, when he spotted the lost passport, he described it on Twitter and wrote, “Looks like I have to look her up on Facebook.”

Mr. Keoghan said Mr. Storms’s messages were spotted right away by an anonymous “uber fan” of the show in Georgia who was apparently monitoring all Twitter mentions of “The Amazing Race.” Such fans act as “Amazing Race” detectives, tracking movements of contestants and discerning who might be winning along the way. The fan quickly replied to Mr. Storms, saying, “She’ll need her passport! Can you get it to LAX?” [...]

Also monitoring online mentions of the show were “Amazing Race” producers in Taiwan. When they saw the passport chatter, they informed counterparts in Los Angeles there might be hope for the team, after all. “The information went all the way to Taiwan before it came back to us,” said Mr. Keoghan, who had hurried to the airport to conduct the elimination.

Mr. Storms hurried to the airport too. “I would hope that if it was me that had lost my passport, someone would have returned it,” he wrote in an e-mail message. He arrived in time, and the close call was turned into a plot point on Sunday’s premiere of the new season. [...]

Nerovh
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06-12-2005

Monday, September 26, 2011 - 1:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nerovh a private message Print Post    
That's a really cool story about the Twitter guy, thanks for posting the link!

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Monday, September 26, 2011 - 1:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
By the way, I think the Vegas showgirl also got her phrase down in one try.

Sean
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02-26-2011

Monday, September 26, 2011 - 7:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sean a private message Print Post    
Here's my recap of the Season Premiere.

Let me know if I should be posting somewhere else other than in the episode threads.

Amazing Race Recap: “I’m Going Nowhere Because You Have No Passport”

http://sfurfaro.blogspot.com/2011/09/amazing-race-recap-im-going-nowhere.html

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Monday, September 26, 2011 - 9:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
Sean I don't recall us having a "Blog" thread here in TAR threads, before you started adding yours. Because it was Jeff & Dalton in the past doing blogs, and (naturally) they aren't doing so for TAR.

Still, it's nice having your link with the associated episode JMO.

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 4:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
Great job Sean. I like the hidden captions.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 8:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
Well, it must have taken some of those teams a loooooooong time to get that phrase right. The couple that came in last said they were looking for the clue (the balloons message) for over four hours before they found it.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 10:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
Didn't they actually leave the area where they were told to go and go to a building because they went to the "highest point?" That was a classic case of overthinking...LOL!