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Sean
Member
02-26-2011
| Sunday, October 02, 2011 - 6:39 pm
Here is my recap: Amazing Race Recap: “Don’t ‘Dude’ Me, Dude…It’s A Double Elimination“ http://sfurfaro.blogspot.com/2011/10/amazing-race-recap-dont-dude-me-dudeits.html
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Nerovh
Member
06-12-2005
| Sunday, October 02, 2011 - 6:45 pm
I'm not surprised that Jenna is such a poor sport. I'm probably in the minority, but I've never liked her after the way she and that other girl Heidi ostracized Christi on Survivor. I admire the fact that Jenna has supported Ethan through his illness, but she has just never come across to me as all that nice of a person. I like Ethan, but I am glad to see Marcus and his wife stay over them. Marcus was cracking me up during tonight's show.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, October 02, 2011 - 7:03 pm
I'm bummed for Ethan. He's got such a wonderful attitude I really admire him. He's quite a guy. Jenna... well she's been there for him and for his mom, and that's to her credit, otherwise... meh.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, October 02, 2011 - 7:07 pm
Pippin, a TAR fan who knows that the race is starting would enter search terms (#AmazingRace, #TAR, etc) and be able to monitor Twitter for potential activity pretty easily.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, October 02, 2011 - 7:14 pm
Tish, did they say that the guys that found it knew it was from someone on the race? If not then they wouldnt put a hashtag in their post referencing TAR.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, October 02, 2011 - 7:22 pm
It appears so, Pamy--here's the NYTimes article: link But even the hashtag isn't important: I just searched twitter for "Amazing Race" and got tons of results, most related to the show and some unrelated.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-02-2002
| Sunday, October 02, 2011 - 7:32 pm
I'm sad to see Ethan Philiminated. Jenna, well, she didn't have time to win me over, so I'm not surprised she would have sour grapes. She thinks she's _all that_. My opinion of her hasn't changed. I like that TAR seems to making the game a bit harder for them. Pay attention people! LOL @ Wilsonatmd.
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Amy
Member
07-10-2002
| Sunday, October 02, 2011 - 7:49 pm
I wouldn't be surprised if one of the camera crew gave the lost passport to the guy and prompted him. Any normal person would have given the passport to the gas station employees in case the person came back for it. The whole incident seemed a little fishy to me.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-02-2002
| Sunday, October 02, 2011 - 8:12 pm
The passport thing doesn't seem fishy to me. The guy gave directions to another team, so he saw teams, obviously knew what was going on (that it was TAR). Excited about that and finding the passport, tweeted about it. We get excited when we see stars, see shows being filmed, etc. Camera crews following them around is a huge tip off!
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Kappy
Member
06-28-2002
| Sunday, October 02, 2011 - 8:16 pm
Wow - Were Justin & Jennifer this negative with each other last week? I think of all the people who want to be on this show and TAR picks a team like this? And then we have to listen to the bickering for how long? Please let them be next to go or at least stop showing them. I always though Jenna was spoiled brat on Survivor and frankly never understood what a positive person like Ethan would see in her. Glad she's gone. I love the rest of the teams - very positive, enjoying the experience. Well, except for Cindy. She definitely has achievement issues. The other teams were grateful for still being in the race while she just couldn't let her disappointment go.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, October 02, 2011 - 8:17 pm
The passport thing seems a little suspect but I guess it's plausible. Jenna and Ethan never seemed that into the race from the beginning. Not nearly as bad as Jordan but they didn't seem to have a lot of enthusiasm. This isn't meant as criticism on my part but more of an observation. I liked Ethan on Survivor, I admire what he has overcome and I appreciate that Jenna has stood by him.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, October 02, 2011 - 9:44 pm
Ahhhh ty Tish! Makes sense now. They knew they were racers because of the other team that came into the station. Jennifer cant leave fast enough. I had to ffwd her, she was giving me a headache. I will mute whenever she is on. Her poor brother.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, October 02, 2011 - 10:26 pm
Jennifer is horrible but her brother seems to do a bit of button pushing; can hardly blame him if he has lived with her all his life.. wow. Cindy was just beating up on herself and it looks like she continues to be, um, less than relaxed next week as well.. too bad, because I like that team. This WAS somewhat unusual to, I think, add information on a sign that didn't seem to be in their clue, but some teams did notice and they were rewarded. But ack.. Kaylani and Lisa once again sort of live via a fluke, since they would have been eliminated without that... And of course there was super bunching which allowed Bill and Cathi to lose a more than 4 to 6 hour gap behind other teams, then bunching on the train and they managed to get the first cab in a line that didn't seem to allow for passing.. which put them first to the tasks.. making it easier for them to overcome the speed bump.. they would have been third if they had read that sign. At least the loser lodge situation is usually quite nice on this race, so Ethan and Jenna can hopefully relax and Bill and Ron seem like really nice guys so it won't be a snark fest. (until Jennifer arrives.. lol) Pamy, I was hoping Jennifer would miss the train, or something.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, October 02, 2011 - 10:26 pm
10/02/2011 Leg 02 Taipei, Taiwan - Yogyakarta, Indonesia
team | 13 | 25/6 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | avg | RB | SB | HZ | U turn | FF | prizes | E | Andy(30) Tommy(32) | 07 | 04 01 | | | | | | | | | | | 04.00 | A0 T2 | | | | | trip to Ireland | | Laurence(48) Zac(19) | 06 | 08 02 | | | | | | | | | | | 07.00 | L0 Z2 | | | | | | | Kaylani(33) Lisa(32) | 09 | 10 03 | | | | | | | | | | | 06.00 | K1 L1 | | L11 | | | | | Ernie(29) Cindy(30) | 01 | 01 04 | | | | | | | | | | | 02.50 | E0 C2 | | | | | Express Pass2 | | Liz(24) Marie(24) | 10 | 02 05 | | | | | | | | | | | 07.50 | L1 M1 | | | | | | | Jeremy(35) Sandy(33) | 02 | 05 06 | | | | | | | | | | | 04.00 | J1 S1 | | | | | | | Bill(63) Cathi(62) | 113 | 03 07 | | | | | | | | | | | 09.00 | B1 C1 | L24 | | | | | | Justin(31) Jennifer(26) | 03 | 06 08 | | | | | | | | | | | 05.50 | Ju1 Je1 | | | | | | | Amani(36) Marcus(30) | 05 | 07 09 | | | | | | | | | | | 05.00 | A1 M1 | | | | | | | 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. 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. 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.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, October 02, 2011 - 10:49 pm
Sean, hope you feel better really soon.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, October 02, 2011 - 11:04 pm
The thing that made passportgate kind of ok for me was that if normal people had found the passport and turned it in.. I mean what if some poor soul just dropped their passport and they were NOT on Amazing Race? They come back to the gas station and someone has taken their passport to LAX.. ack. But the girls did go back to the station where one would have expected it to be turned in.. Still they were very lucky.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Monday, October 03, 2011 - 4:53 am
Good job Raen and Sean. Sean, I was upset about the baby on the scooter but I didn't notice a kid in front of the driver. I couldn't see a kid in the picture you posted. How big is he. I think I might not have read the sign at the orphange either. I would have been looking at the kids.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Monday, October 03, 2011 - 6:23 am
I really want to see Justin and Jennifer gone. Last night I was just sitting there saying "why on earth would these 2 sign up for something like this???? It's like they can't stand each other" Wow talk about negative energy.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, October 03, 2011 - 8:49 am
Oh yay! I am so glad Jenna and Ethan are gone, and I can once again watch one of my favorite shows. I'm sorry but I just wasn't happy to see a couple who already won a crapload of $$ from CBS enter yet ANOTHER CBS contest, and I was boycotting the show. I didn't even realize they were eliminated last night. I never could stand Jenna nor could I see what Ethan saw in her past her $1M and fake boobs. So they wouldn't have been my fave team anyways whether or not they were recycled contestants. I have no clue who anyone else is, so I'll shut about anyone else's negative energy until I catch up next week! 
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Spoton
Member
09-16-2005
| Monday, October 03, 2011 - 9:51 am
And at the polar opposite end of Jennifer's "negative energy" we have Andy and Tommy, the perputally positive pair of Dudes! I was very happy to see them find the money clue at the orphage. Cudos to the happy dudes!
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Monday, October 03, 2011 - 9:53 am
I'm with ya there Spoton 
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, October 03, 2011 - 10:02 am
I think one reaason the "Dudes" saw the clue was that they are way more relaxed as they do stuff. Everyone else is in fourth gear all the time and so focused they might as well be wearing blinders. Really bright people do a lot of what is called - or at least used to be called in my teaching days - "incidental learning."
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Monday, October 03, 2011 - 10:15 am
Anyone know when we get to see Elimination Station videos?
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, October 03, 2011 - 11:09 am
We never got them last year did we? Or was that on Survivor and Ponderosa? I hope we get them this year.
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Beth4freedom
Member
10-24-2003
| Monday, October 03, 2011 - 12:07 pm
I only got to see the last 20 minutes, and was sad to see Ethan and Jenna eliminated. Guess I will have to tune in their syndicated health show to see them; it's on 11am Saturdays around here, but I have yet to see it.
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