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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 8:57 am
Kind of weird, but I did not enjoy this episode at all. Maybe it IS the teams, I dunno. Peter and Sarah. Boy, the camera crew did not do him a favor when he was eating the cracker or whatever, while waiting for the bus. I kind of think he has this "I'm handsome so I can do whatever I want and everyone will let me do it" attitude. And funny, but I kind of thought he was a bit good looking until the first episode. His personality totally negates any good looks he may have. David and Mary. Those two are not long for this race. They really need to play smarter. David was right... the crocs would've been faster (no matter how close the rice powder was). Mary needs to pretend she's on Fear Factor and confront things head on. I really don't see them avoiding elimination next week unless they get a LOT of help from others. Lyn and Karlyn. I just don't like their attitude. Haven't from day one. Rob and Kimberly. Whatever. Erwin and Godwin. They seem to actually be there for the race, too. Enjoying the experience. I kind of hope they make it to the finals. Although I could've smacked 'em, I give 'em props for sharing the flight info on their earlier flight. I think those two would have to wrestle with the morality of not sharing info versus sharing (and possibly putting themselves at a disadvantage). Tyler and James. These two, too, seem to be enjoying the ride. They need to smarten up a bit, though. They've not necessarily made the right decisions, although I think they have also had some of the worst luck with cab drivers. Dustin and Kandice. I think these two are actually doing a good job... taking advantage of other teams' weaknesses (or slowness) when it benefits them. And they are playing smart. On a personal note, I'd really like for an all female team to win for a change!
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Wilsonatmd
Member
01-23-2001
| Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 9:39 am
you know....this might be an awesome idea for TAR all-stars.... Have the teams line up at the start, but then just before the start and previously not known to them, split them up and randomly pair them back up (so no original team is together)....to compensate, the prize would then be a million dollars for each person on the winning team.... just imagine Colin and Myrna, BJ and Christie, Freddy and Teri, Ian and Kendra, among other wild pairs.....
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 12:42 pm
Colin and Myrna...that is so scary! BJ and Kendra...can you imagine as uptight as she is being paired with him? And Rob and one of the gay guys?
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 2:28 pm
I loved the Phil Tshirts the brothers were wearing. 
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 3:09 pm
Flo and Jonathon (of Jon/Victoria) *Shudder*
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Necie
Member
09-07-2006
| Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 3:45 pm
We just think we have seen some wacky pairs! Put some of them people together that you guys have mentioned and it could be freak city!
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 7:56 pm
Oh! Oh! That would be so much fun. Can I be paired up with one of the hippy boys, please?
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Thursday, October 19, 2006 - 8:21 am
Adam and Colin.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, October 19, 2006 - 9:59 pm
quote:Flo and Jonathon (of Jon/Victoria) *Shudder*
Here's an even bigger shudder.....Flo and Victoria. Or lets make it even worse....Flo and Kayte! 
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Mybbusername
Member
08-22-2002
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 5:30 am
Jonathan and Victoria just had their first child a week or two ago. It is with great discipline that I make no comment!
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 6:57 am
Flo and Jonathan. (Since Victoria is obviously not available.)
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Okapi
Member
08-22-2006
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 9:13 am
I would love to see Kris and Jon back. Anyone know if they are still together? They were adorable and were good competitors.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 9:58 am
Okapi, I wish I knew that too. I actually went online a couple of weeks ago seeing if there were any updates on their relationship and couldn't find anything. They were my all-time favorite couple and they seemed to truly enjoy the race, plus grow closer to one another on the way. As I remember they were long-distance dating but after the Race I truly hoped they would end up getting married. They were a great couple. You could see not only his attraction to her but his admiration and respect for her growing as they went through the race.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 10:11 am
I think I have a little OCD..I think this was published about a year after TAR. 'Unbelievable experience' Jon Buehler and Kris Perkins say 'Amazing Race' brought them closer than they ever imagined By Luanne J. Hunt Correspondent Pack light and bring plenty of power bars. Jon Buehler and his girlfriend Kris Perkins, a former Long Beach resident, say that's the best advice they can give the next group of contestants for the CBS television reality show "The Amazing Race." Buehler and Perkins should know. They finished second last season on the show, which sends couples on a grueling race around the world, vying for a $1 million prize. The show's seventh season kicks off at 9 tonight on CBS, where the contestants will begin their journey in Long Beach. "You're in all different climates, and you have to carry everything with you," said Buehler, 29. "You have to pack light but be very strategic with what you bring. We took our backpacks, terrain shoes, all-weather jackets, power bars and very lightweight sleeping bags. The sleeping bags came in so handy." Along with enduring extreme temperatures, Buehler and Perkins also had to adjust to very little sleep and a lack of nutritious food. The couple, who live in Scottsdale, Ariz., say they were hungry most of the time and survived primarily on bread, water and power bars. "We dreamed about fruit," said Buehler, who auditioned for the show with Perkins last spring. "They" d have a full meal prepared for us at the pit stops, but after eating only bread and water for several days, our stomachs couldn't adjust to the food. All we craved was an apple or an orange, and we were so happy when we'd be somewhere they were available." Last season, "The Amazing Race" began in Chicago in August and continued on to China, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, France, Hungary, Germany, Senegal, Sweden, Norway and Iceland. During each leg of the race, each couple had to complete various tasks that would either point them to clues or pit them against each other for a chance to take the lead. Some of the tasks included spray painting a car, rummaging through 165,000 articles of clothing to find the match to the outfit on a mannequin and using a unique key given to them to find the specific lock it opened out of 3,000 fastened at the top of a mountain. Various modes of transportation were used to get each couple to the next leg, including buses, cabs, trains and planes. Along the way, there were detours to slow down the teams. At the final destination of each race, called a pit stop, each team had to clock in. The last team to arrive at the pit stop was eliminated. There were also what are referred to as roadblocks. A roadblock is a task that only one member of the team may participate in. For Buehler and Perkins, it was spicy soup. "I chose to eat the soup in Budapest, Hungary," said Buehler, co-owner of the Scottsdale nightclub 6. "Out of everything I had to do, that was the hardest challenge for me. It tasted like a big bowl of Tabasco sauce. It was so hot. Later, when we watched the show, we saw that they dumped in a full bottle of Tabasco sauce in each bowl." Although Buehler and Perkins lost the race to a couple from Miami, Buehler said there were times it looked like they might win. They were in second when they reached Africa, but Perkins pulled them from behind when she aced the salt harvesting contest. The contestants had to harvest salt from the bottom of a lake, place it in buckets and carry it to the shore. The person who brought the most buckets to the shore in the allotted time won. "We are very competitive people and we wanted to win," said Buehler, a native of Walnut Creek. "Our goal was to finish the race and not be eliminated. But we knew in order to do that we had to stay tight and work together. People all around us were losing it, but we tried to deflect all the negativity and do what we needed to do." Buehler and Perkins say "The Amazing Race" experience brought them closer than they would have imagined. The couple, who moved in together after the show, met in early 2004 at Buehler's nightclub. Perkins was living in Long Beach and frequently visited Scottsdale with her girlfriends. She says 6 was one of their favorite spots to hang out. "We saw each other and that was it," said Perkins, 30, a former corporate trainer for the Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery in Long Beach. Along with their huge appetites for adventure, Buehler and Perkins also share a great interest in sports. Buehler, who graduated from Arizona State University with a bachelor of arts in marketing, was on the school's swimming team. In high school in Des Moines, Iowa, Perkins ran track, swam and played softball. The couple agree that their athletic abilities gave them an edge on "The Amazing Race." "You're in all these crazy situations, so you have to be in shape," said Buehler. "One time, Kris had to wash a window on a 45-story skyscraper just to find a clue. And she jumped out of a plane in Hawaii. We trained really hard before we started the race." Being on "The Amazing Race" not only tested Buehler and Perkins' physical stamina, but also their intellectual prowess. They were forced to interact with other cultures, so they had to have at least some knowledge of foreign languages. For instance, there was one task in China where the teams had to find a textile factory and search through 10 bolts of fabric using a light table to find two Chinese characters stamped within two of the bolts. Once the characters were found, they had to cut them out to trade for their next clue. This task required the teams to interact with factory workers, as well as cab drivers. "You have to be extremely open-minded when you (interact with) these other cultures," said Buehler. "We had a lot of respect for them, and I think you gain a lot when they see that. They are definitely more open and receptive to you." Now that the race is over, Buehler and Perkins say they've had a little difficulty adjusting to daily life. According to Perkins, living in the real world seems boring compared to the adventure they were on. But they are making plans for the future and hope to start a new career writing for travel magazines. And they are looking forward to enjoying the trips they were awarded for finishing in second place — an Alaskan cruise, a Caribbean cruise, a European vacation and a Caribbean vacation. 'The Amazing Race" was the experience of a lifetime," said Perkins. "I'm so excited for these next people. There are no words to describe what it's like." "Yes," Buehler agrees, "it was an unbelievable experience. And now we're ready to take on the world." — Luanne J. Hunt is a Hesperia freelance writer
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 10:15 am
I don't know, Okapi, but I'd love to see them back, too. That was probably one of the saddest moments in TAR history, watching that train cut right in front of them, so close to the finish line. I'm digging through the interweb right now to see if I can find info on whether they're still together or not.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 10:41 am
LINK What are Kris Perkins and Jon Buehler doing now for a career now that The Amazing Race has finished? Most often the people who are on these shows either win enough money to stop working, they try to stay in the Hollywood spotlight, or they go back to their old jobs, or similar ones. Quite often, Reality TV stars are able to earn a living making appearances, or speaking at events (just look at Survivor's Rob & Amber). Although their 15 minutes of fame may be up, they somehow manage to keep their short list of fans aching to see more of them, and as a result get paid to draw in the crowds at obscure events. Kris and Jon were on a CBS morning show and told the world that they were living together in Arizona, no more long distance relationship. It seems that they have decided to fall back into the general population. Since they are no longer in the public eye their jobs are not public knowledge, nor do they have a fan mailing address. This is no reason to like them any less. They have made the decision to live life as normal people instead of living the crazy life famous people lead. Perhaps we'll see them on a "Where are they now?" episode of The Amazing Race. Here's a link to the CBS page for the Amazing Race Six, the edition Kris Perkins and Jon Buehler were on: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/amazing_race6/ To answer a more recent question on Kris Perkins and Jon Buehler, yes they are still together, and if they're not it's none of your business. The website I got this information from has a date stamp of February 2006.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 4:05 pm
Thanks Karen. They've always been one of my favorite TAR teams!!! I'm glad to read that they are still together. How can anyone forget how when they got cut off by the train, Jon kissing Kris knowing that they were going to lose the race?
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Kc103
Member
07-13-2004
| Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 8:02 pm
I'm not sure if I completely caught how they are working the last place team of the non-elimination weeks this year. David and Mary receive a 30 minute penalty if they don't come in first place next week. Is that the way it works? Or was there something more to it than that? I didn't quite have my full attention on the show last week liked I would have liked to!
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 8:16 pm
Yup, Kc, that's how it works. If they come in first, awesome, they take first and that's that. If they come in 2nd, 3rd, 4th, anything but first, they have to take a half hour penalty. Depending on how bunched up they are, a 30-minute penalty could kill them, no matter what position they ultimately cross the mat at the pit stop.
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 9:07 pm
So much better than begging for money and having nothing but the clothing on their back for the rest of the race. I really hated that part. 'squeek'
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Trueheart
Member
09-12-2006
| Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 9:14 pm
Sorry I was checking out a couple of different TAR threads (on different websites) so I don't remember if I heard this here or not. I really liked Freddy and Kendra. But I read somewhere that they are racist! Is this true? At the time that the show aired I didn't get any outside info on the contestents. Just watched it on TV, so I had never heard of this before!
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Sunday, October 22, 2006 - 3:23 am
I love the idea of a 30 minute penalty for the non-elim leg. I found it repulsive to have Americans begging for money in foreign countries.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, October 22, 2006 - 8:50 am
This is from the CBS promo for tonight's show: quote: Maybe Steven Segal Will See Me and Want Me to Be in One of His Movies One team gets lost while searching for a clue in Kuwait, allowing three other teams to pass them before they get back on track; a new twist to the game gives a penalty to every team that does not finish first on this leg. CC Stereo
Maybe the coal miners won't be so bad off after all.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Sunday, October 22, 2006 - 12:36 pm
Trueheart -- in Freddy and Kendra's season, when they were in Africa, Kendra made a comment along the lines of "ugh, why do these people keep breeding?" I think she was making a comment about the poverty, and why do they keep having children they can't afford? I'm sure there was something else when they were in India, but I don't remember. Whether she meant them to be racist, or if her shock just came off sounding incredibly intolerant, I don't know. But I remember a lot of people were upset by some of her comments.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Monday, October 23, 2006 - 12:24 am
I never got the idea Kendra was racist, just ignorant. Those were not racial comments IMO.
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