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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, October 23, 2011 - 8:55 pm
Thanks Mak1 and Videomic. Much appreciated!
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Sunday, October 23, 2011 - 9:26 pm
That seems so unfair for the twins to run out of money. I didn't notice them being short on money until it was time to pay for the cab and the bus ticket. Why would the cab driver insist on so much money if it wasn't fair? A driver makes so much difference in this race. Zach's dad was a downer mate this time.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, October 23, 2011 - 9:44 pm
Thanks Mic!!!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, October 23, 2011 - 10:01 pm
10/23/2011 Leg 05 onesia - Phuket, Thailand (Koh Panyi Village) - Bangkok, Thailand
team | 13 | 25/6 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | avg | RB | SB | HZ | U turn | FF | prizes | E | Amani(36) Marcus(30) | 05 | 07 09 | 06 | 06 | 01 | | | | | | | | 05.40 | A3 M3 | | | | | trip to Bali | | Bill(63) Cathi(62) | 113 | 03 07 | 07 | 07 | 02 | | | | | | | | 06.80 | B4 C2 | L24 | | | | | | Ernie(29) Cindy(30) | 01 | 01 04 | 05 | 05 | 03 | | | | | | | | 03.60 | E3 C3 | | | | | Express Pass2 | | Justin(31) Jennifer(26) | 03 | 06 08 | 04 | 02 | 04 | | | | | | | | 04.20 | Ju3 Je3 | | | | | | | Andy(30) Tommy(32) | 07 | 04 01 | 0201 | 01 | 05 | | | | | | | | 03.00 | A3 T3 | | | | | trip to Ireland trip to Dubai $5Keach | | Laurence(48) Zac(19) | 06 | 08 02 | 01027 | 04 | 06 | | | | | | | | 04.00 | L2 Z4 | | | | | | | Jeremy(35) Sandy(33) | 02 | 05 06 | 03 | 03 | 08 | | | | | | | | 04.40 | J4 S2 | | | | | | | Liz(24) Marie(24) | 10 | 02 05 | 08 | 083 | 09 | | | | | | | | 07.00 | L2 M4 | L54 | | | | | L5 | Kaylani(33) Lisa(32) | 09 | 10 03 | 09 | | | | | | | | | | 07.00 | K1 L1 | | L11 | | | | L3 | Ethan(37) Jenna(30) | 04 | 09 10 | | | | | | | | | | | 07.00 | E2 J0 | | | | | | L2 | Ron(44) Bill(49) | 08 | 11 | | | | | | | | | | | 09.50 | R1 B1 | | | | | | L2 | | 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. 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. 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. 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.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, October 23, 2011 - 10:05 pm
Wow.. Laurance underthought (and overrode his son about taking notes) and overthought (and lost them a HUGE lead, probably, on the bus. And what is with teams just deciding to take off running if they have money left.. I don't think any team but the twins could have gotten the free cabs, but I'm glad they did.. it would have been such a grueling end and horrible way to come in last. And a couple of other teams also having to go back.. just a comedy of errors this week.
Cindy Cathi, once again, proves that if there is something of a hole to fall in, she will fall..at least she was already going to get wet. The elephants were cool ..
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, October 23, 2011 - 10:07 pm
Oh and Jeremy and Sandy were very sweet to each other when they thought they might be out of the race. Especially after he took off running. And I couldn't believe A/T not only running but then handing their clue to someone..
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, October 23, 2011 - 10:13 pm
Rosie, the twins didn't exchange their money for Thai money so they only had the amount given to them when they left the pitstop. Others presumably still had money left that they did exchange.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Sunday, October 23, 2011 - 10:59 pm
I wish I'd paid more attention to the first half, because I was totally lost by half way through. Why were the taxis drivers asking for so much money (the ones who wanted $150)? Was it because it was in $ and the drivers didn't realise how much it was, or was it a long way away?
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Granjan
Member
05-10-2011
| Sunday, October 23, 2011 - 11:58 pm
I was very impressed with the twins. Even though they had such bad luck, they stayed positive. Also, it was a joy to see how delighted they were with the elephants, and even with the extra task. I was almost as amused by the dad and son this episode as when they were "lost at sea"!
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Monday, October 24, 2011 - 4:20 am
Tntit, I thought I saw the elephant guide show up behind the snow boarders later on. It would have been dangerous to expect the boarders to guide the elephant alone, even though the elephant knew where it was going.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, October 24, 2011 - 5:20 am
Yes, Dogdoc, I saw the mahout on the ground as well, so I knew the guys were safe, but all the other handlers stayed ON the elephants as far as I saw. Those big guys were really sure-footed over all those rocks and such!
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Monday, October 24, 2011 - 5:54 am
I had no idea that elephants could travel so well over rough terrain. People were so generous giving Liz and Marie free cab rides. Nice to see.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, October 24, 2011 - 7:59 am
It is Cathy (older woman) who keeps falling (and I noticed and laughed about that too). Cindy is the overly type A Asian woman. And wasn't it Zac who thought they had to get off the bus? By the way, Laurence was horriblely derisive to him about the task where he had to go back and take notes on the placement of the characters on the little gold houses. I liked this task where each member of the team had to do something by themselves.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, October 24, 2011 - 10:45 am
Jimmer, didn't Hannibal take horses over mountains? (I have tha image tucked way back in my brain..) AHA.. this is from wikipedia Hannibal and his men crossing the Alps.
Picture from wikipedia entry on Hannibal (the general, not the cannibal)
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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Monday, October 24, 2011 - 10:46 am
I don't remember clearly who thought they needed to get off the bus Zak or Lawrence. Lawrence showed his true colors yesterday in his attitude toward his son. Tsk tsk just when I was liking them. Go Andy and Tommy, dudes! I thought the twins were genuinely sweet regarding washing the elephants and going home. I'll miss the unison talking though.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, October 24, 2011 - 10:51 am
Thanks for that correction, Roxip. My brain did a switch of names, there.. Well it was certainly Laurance who kept saying they couldn't be on a first class bus.. And it was Laurence who scoffed at the mere idea of taking notes.. He had me sort of convinced and that made me think Ernie and Cindy would be penalized but.. no, they just got a better bus..
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Monday, October 24, 2011 - 11:03 am
This was again a favorite episode for me to recognize places Jim and I have been to... We went to where they raise the baby elephants...Jim bought me this huge bunch of bananas to feed them. I went into the pen thinking I was going to hand them out one by one. Ha!! I was surrounded and they took them away from me immediately..I ended up covered with baby elephant snot. Jim just stood there laughing and forgot to even take a picture of it!! The house at the pit stop...we got to go thru it and it is gorgeous. I remember thinking "Wow I could live like this"
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, October 24, 2011 - 11:10 am
Thanks Seamonkey. I wasn't sure about that one although I thought originally it was Zac, but I've been wrong before...LOL! More than once. I had to look on the Cathy/Cindy thing. That woman is CLUMSY! I would have questioned the bus thing too.
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Cpaaa04
Member
06-14-2011
| Monday, October 24, 2011 - 11:10 am
I agree with Seamonkey on Cindy and Ernie. I thought they were going to be penalized too. Maybe I missed something in the clue that told them they couldn't use a first class bus. Seamonkey I wanted to ask you what you were referring to in your earlier post about "And what is with teams just deciding to take off running when they have money left...". Was that about Cindy and Ernie and the taxi driver?
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Monday, October 24, 2011 - 11:20 am
Cpaaa, there was nothing in the clue that said they couldn't use a first class bus. Phil told them at the pit stop it only applies to flights. BTW, I never cared for Laurence after his daughter went missing while sailing around the world. There is something about him (probably his parenting skills) that just rubs me the wrong way.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Monday, October 24, 2011 - 11:28 am
That must have been a lot of fun, Supergranny! Does anyone know whether the taxi drivers were ripping the contestants off, charging so much money, or had they travelled many miles?
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, October 24, 2011 - 11:39 am
did cindy reassemble the shrine? I thought her dh did and they would get penalty...also thought marcus did the water part but his wife did the other part..thoguht clue said same person had to do both
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Monday, October 24, 2011 - 11:44 am
Pamy cindy's hubby did because she retrieved the clue in the water. Clue said the one that didn't do the first part must do the 2nd part.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, October 24, 2011 - 12:01 pm
Okay, let me just check this out (because I want to make sure my googling skills are correct)...Laurence's daughter didn't die though...is that Abby you are talking about?
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, October 24, 2011 - 12:03 pm
ty scoots!
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