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Watching2
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07-07-2001

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 4:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
Is there anyone who isn't so sure it was Rosie who gave all those things to Mary and Dave, but the companies? At the end Rosie made a point to thank them for being so generous. Seems to me Rosie is good at getting others to give out free stuff... like Oprah's fav. things. She doesn't buy all that stuff. It's all donated for free advertising.

Lori
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04-18-2003

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 4:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lori a private message Print Post    
Julie....me too...would love to see a BQ win!

Jimmer...great posts!


Ark
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07-10-2001

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 4:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ark a private message Print Post    
I really wish I liked BQ better. I would love for a girl team to win but these two have done nothing to endear themselves to me. If they win, I won't care. If they're gone next week, I won't care. They just seem like very blah personalities with pretty faces.

Rosie
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11-12-2003

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 5:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
Watching, I think that Rosie sees someone on a show that she likes and decides to have sponsors fund the gifts.

I doubt that the sponsors would come up with this idea on their own. Rosie gets to be the giver and the people she likes get nice things and extra TV time.

It makes for good TV too.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 5:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
Jimmer is smokin' hot on his posts. He's saying everything I want to say, but he says it much more coherent than I ever could.



Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 5:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
LOL - I'm blushing so much my cheeks are burning (not those cheeks!!! )

It's interesting how people can watch the same show and see things so differently.

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 6:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Oh, Jimmer, quit gloating!

good thing ya know I'm kidding, but thought I'd add the disclaimer in case anyone else didn't!

I agree that we all see the same thing differently. I think it's because we all have our own filters (ie, life experiences) that color the way we see the world.

Nerovh
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06-11-2005

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 6:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nerovh a private message Print Post    
Next thing you know, Jimmer will wreck his(?) keyboard, and then on the next leg, leave it for one of us poor unfortunates to post with while he takes a perfectly good one!

Rehtse
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08-17-2005

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 7:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rehtse a private message Print Post    
I don't want the BQs to win. That being said, does anyone remember when the BQs were on their boat after they'd found the flag? Remember how they said hello to all of the six packers? When David and Mary were the only ones who responded to their greeting, the BQs said something to the effect that D/M were the only ones of that set that they would have anything to do with since the others had ignored them.

I frankly don't see the BQs as being mean-spirited or anything like that. They are aggressive (they are, after all, Beauty Queens), but I have never seen them as sore winners.

Anyway, go Chhhhhhhhhhhos!

Trueheart
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09-12-2006

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 7:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Trueheart a private message Print Post    
Jimmer is smokin' hot on his posts.

I second that!

Cinnamongirl
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01-10-2001

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 8:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cinnamongirl a private message Print Post    
If it hasn't been posted already... YouTube Dave and Mary on The View

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdwzxl1baEA

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 8:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
I know others on the show and some ppl here call the moms 'Bamas' every time I hear it I am uncomfortable cuz where I grew up being called a 'Bama' was a big insult

Babyjaxmom
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10-20-2002

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 8:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyjaxmom a private message Print Post    
Wow, thanks, Cinnamongirl! I looked for that clip on You Tube earlier today and couldn't find it. That was great! I don't care if Rosie doesn't give things from her own pocket. It's cool that she gets other people to donate these things. That made me teary when they got the house! Awesome!

Babyjaxmom
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10-20-2002

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 8:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyjaxmom a private message Print Post    
Pamy, why is that an insult? Am I missing something?

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 9:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
it was used as a slang word for low life girls...I know no one here or on the show means it that way but whenever I hear it I kinda gasp inside

Babyjaxmom
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10-20-2002

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 9:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyjaxmom a private message Print Post    
Hmmmmmm, never heard that one before. Thanks, Pamy!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 11:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Thanks for that input, Pamy.. didn't know that.. not that I call them that anyway. The other 6 packers call them Alabama.

I think what I interpret as gloating or in Kar's inimitable words "doggy" behavior, was after they took a different car (and it DID make a difference to me that THEY were the ones who wrecked the car.. it wasn't just that they selected the best car of the lot, but that they were the ones who wrecked the bad one).. I think I'd have respected them more if they had said.. we feel a bit guilty, but not THAT guilty, oh well, but no they had to say something snarky about whoever was in last place. I've erased both copies I had of the show so don't have an actual quote at hand. And when they gloat that they know people will be mad but we don't care (i.e. nyah nyah nyah) and when they said they got the tickets for the models not for the models but just to piss off the Lyns.

Yeah I'd love to see a girl team win, but please, not this one!

I have nothing against beauty queens: my cousin's daughter was Miss Maine and then a print model and even had a bit part in a Wesley Snipes movie and she's as down-to-earth as anyone could be.

And Kar again said what I think, some of them just set off that little snark alarm for me.. and that has never happened with the Chos for me.

As for Rosie choosing David and Mary, it wasn't part of TAR at all.. the only connection with Tar was that was how Rosie came to know about them, their circumstances, wishes, dreams, etc. and Rosie was touched and she arranged for some good things to happen for them. . very much what I opined might happen that might actually be more beneficial than a hunk of money. I'm so happy that they got some family vacations, house, car, computer, cameras.. very very nice. ANd on TAR they won the Bahamas trip, I think that is where they got to go. Plus they saw so much and really appreciated it. Priceless.

And they learned that they could relate to people who are much different then they are.. and as Mary said about the Chos/Asians and the gay couple ... " I LIKE them!" Totally priceless. They are changed, they will influence their children and possibly others. And I'd bet that several teams changed their opinions about Kentucky coal miners and families during this time.

Well Wikipedia doesn't seem to know about Bama girls, if you google, people seem to use it about themselves in various places such as myspace.. so.. dunno..

Chiliwilli
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09-04-2006

Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 2:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chiliwilli a private message Print Post    
I lived in Georgia for 3 years and was in Alabama a lot. I have never heard the term 'bama girls' before. I guess it's all about where you're from.

The comment BQ's made when they took the car was pretty much 'that's what they get for coming in last.' The impression I got when that happened was they knew it was Lyn/Karlyn's car and took it on purpose to annoy them and it worked. I get the feeling the BQ's are just tired of Lyn/Karlyn and their pissy attitudes so they are starting to strike back.

Someone mentioned earlier that they will not lose well or something to that effect. I don't know if they meant the BQ's or Lyn/Karlyn. If it was the BQ's they will lose graciously. They are Miss NY and Miss CA. You don't get those titles by not knowing how to win and lose with grace and style. They are trained professional competitors and it is my opinion they are doing an excellent job of running the race.

If it is Lyn/Karlyn you meant then they definitely will not lose well. I will bet that they will have excuses or blame someone for whatever happens but who knows. They are running the race hard but they are worrying too much about what the other teams are or are not doing instead of running their own race and it has hurt them. Lyn may be more gracious about winning/losing than Karlyn but we probably won't know as Karlyn usually does all the snarking . . . er, talking.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 6:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
also I dont think it referred to ppl from ALabama, like I said it was just slang back in the 80s out here.

Kep421
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08-11-2001

Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 6:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kep421 a private message Print Post    
I agree that choosing which car to take wasn't important because the choice is not a determining factor in who will arrive first or last at the pit stop. I don't think it matters which car you have, as long as it gets you to where you are going. Which is my whole point. There was NO reason for making an issue out of which car to take.

But the BQs obviously felt differently. They acted like driving a smashed up car is a "bad" thing, and would be a negative reflection on whomever got "stuck" with the damaged car. The BQs attitude indicated they were somehow superior by forcing someone else to take the car they wrecked.

The BQs are the ones who made an issue out of NOT taking the wrecked car, and the fact that someone else will be stuck with a car THEY wrecked.

eh...I calls 'em like I see's 'em...to me the BQs are all positive happy sunshine masking overinflated feelings of self worth and superiority....icky.

Angelbleu
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06-22-2005

Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 7:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Angelbleu a private message Print Post    
did you all read this?
11/7/06

David and Mary, the Kentuckians who were eliminated from The Amazing Race 10 during Sunday’s episode, won’t have to return home to their trailer with only $6,000 to show for their appearance on the series.

That’s because, on The View this morning, Rosie “O’Donnell praised the couple for being so friendly and polite to the other teams on Amazing Race and to strangers they encountered along the way” and “then rewarded them with a limited edition Ford Explorer,” canada.com reports.

Rosie also “told them their trailer home in Stone, Kentucky will be replaced by a new single-family house” and “urged them to donate their trailer to a family that needs it.”
They also received, according to TVgasm, “a MacBook computer; a Canon Rebel digital camera; trips to San Diego, Disneyland and the Grand Canyon; [and] a cruise with Rosie O’Donnell’s travel company.”

reality blurred

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 8:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
She also got David some special gear that coal miners use. Hope there is help with the tax that will have to be paid.

Pamy, I was just surprised that someone hadn't put something about 'bama in wikipedia since often there will be info like that.

Auntiemike
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09-17-2001

Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 9:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Auntiemike a private message Print Post    
Good point about the taxes, Seamonkey. I thought the same thing. Also, what about car insurance for a brand new, nice vehicle like that. Sometimes we think that we are "helping" people by giving them things (material things!) when we really put them in a more awkward position of not being able to "afford" the ongoing costs involved. It's similar to teaching a man to fish so he can always feed himself rather than giving him fish for one meal. Charitable giving is a good thing, don't get me wrong. But, I would feel uncomfortable if people started to bestow things on me because I am just being who I am (and they like it or value that for some reason).

I'm usually not cynical but I DO WONDER who gets the most from this act of giving.....Rosie or the recipients.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 9:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
It may sound cynical on my part as well but I wonder sometimes why Rosie does it in such a public manner. She certainly could do it quietly and behind the scenes (and maybe she does that as well at times?).

I guess the answer to that is that she enjoys generating publicity for herself (nothing wrong with that), entertaining her viewers and the fun of publicly giving away stuff.

Mamabatsy
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08-05-2005

Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 9:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamabatsy a private message Print Post    
"eh...I calls 'em like I see's 'em...to me the BQs are all positive happy sunshine masking overinflated feelings of self worth and superiority....icky."

Thank you Kep, now I don't feel so alone. LOL

As to using "Bama" as a perjoritive: Since my earliest recollection (I'm old), "Bama" has been used for people from Alabama. If Pamy lived in an area where they were in competition with an Alabama football team or other type of competition, they might have been using it to say that all girls from "Bama" are easy.