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Suzsmarmie
Member
07-26-2005
| Friday, November 10, 2006 - 7:45 pm
Ditto what Chili said..lol
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Rubberducky
Member
09-02-2005
| Friday, November 10, 2006 - 7:57 pm
So who would we all rather have for friends ~ the BQ's or the Lyns? The Cho Brothers
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Friday, November 10, 2006 - 8:13 pm
I don't get the Cho Bro love. The squirt guns at the airport started it for me -- that was just downright stoopid, and they've been going downhill for me ever since. Giving the fast forward to another team? Sticking around waiting for other teams to finish their challenge so they could all go to their next destination together in a big happy sunshine and rainbows family?? I thought I was watching The Amazing Race, not The Amazing Tea Party. They're strong and they're smart, and could easily win this, if they'd just spend more time thinking about winning this thing for themselves and less time thinking about not offending other people in the process.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Friday, November 10, 2006 - 11:33 pm
I did not like the Cho Bros after the squirt gun incident and a couple of speaches they made about how educated and smart they both were but they have grown on me. I too wish they would dump the baggage and race like it was their job. I know they'd win if they did because they are smart, they race well together, they don't fight or bicker and they can read a damn map. But Dave/Mary and the Sistahs have them bamboozled enough that they think they have loyalty where they don't. Now that Dave/Mary are gone the only loyalty in that alliance is on the part of the Cho Bros. That's why I have to go with the BQ's and not the Cho Bros. I still love Tyler/James too tho.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 9:41 am
I'd much rather have the BQ's as friends. I like the Cho brothers as well and Tyler and James. I even like Rob and Kimberly.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 11:54 am
One of the places where the Chos waited and the Lyns waited, I went back and checked and it was a matter of 4-5 minutes.. NOT a long wait. To be honest, I'd be more intrigued to meet the Lyns and get to know them off camera. LOL.. we'd have that Lyn(n) bond anyway. I'd be willing to meet most of the teams in person. If I had to choose one, definitely the Chos. Of course the squirt guns were lame, but I don't believe in letting one thing negate all the positive I've observed with them. I get frustrated when they wait or help but I can't hate them for THAT. I got frustrated when Chip would help a weaker team, but luckily Kim finally stepped in and told him to start racing 
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 12:11 pm
you know, when certain people refer to the Single Mom's as the Sistahs, I get really offended.
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Whrlwnd
Member
10-13-2006
| Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 12:25 pm
Well, I'd rather be friends with Tyler/James (eyelash bat) if I had the chance. My only real issue w/ the BQ's is that they are performing so well at this race I'm seriously worried they're going to beat T/J!!
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 12:54 pm
LT, don't the Single Mom's refer to themselves as the "Sistahs?" I have an African American acquaintance who always signs her emails "Sistah Pat." I would never use that term unless I knew someone well and knew it was okay with them. Is that a derogatory term?
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 1:01 pm
Kim (as in Chip and Kim) referred to them as the Sista's when talking about them on the CBS website.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 1:11 pm
because Kim is african american and she is considered a 'sister' to them.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 1:15 pm
Baby, I will let someone with more intelligence answer your question. I didnt like the tone that the BQ said 'sistahs', to me she did mean it derogatory. My friends and sometimes say a phrase like 'you said it, sistah' but we know each other and I know they are not offended when I say it to them and they know I mean it with love.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 1:18 pm
So you should only call them the Sista's if you are African American? Or is it the tone of voice that matters (which can change pretty much anything you say into a different meaning).
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 1:29 pm
IMO if you dont know the person you shouldnt say it, no matter what tone. I am no expert on this I am just answering from my personal experience
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Nerovh
Member
06-11-2005
| Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 1:49 pm
So it's wrong to call Lyn/Karlyn "sistahs", but it's ok for everyone to call Dustin/Kandace the "beauty queens" or "Barbies"? I'm sure those two terms are not always applied with a positive meaning by all the people that use them on the boards or on TAR.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 2:34 pm
No it's not necessarily wrong to call them that. It is the toned used and the tone I was referring to was condescending and derogatory. And Dustin and teammate are called the beauty queens by themselves and CBS
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 2:50 pm
But they aren't calling themselves the "Barbies". Anyway, two wrongs don't make a right. Both teams are wrong if they are doing it in a derogatory way. Or maybe it's all part of the game and we are taking it too seriously?
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 3:23 pm
I would love to be called a Barbie! 
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 3:57 pm
I think perhaps the difference, Jimmer, is that "Barbies" would not probably be considered an ethnic term? Though not necessarily flattering (I agree with you, Pamy, I'd love to be called a Barbie), it doesn't have racial undertones. I would never use a term that could be taken as demeaning someone, especially if I didn't know them well. But then, I'm sitting in the comfort of my living room and I'm not travel fatigued, hungry, dirty and cranky! (Not much, anyway!)
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Sallycat22
Member
08-31-2005
| Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 5:24 pm
I just read this in this week's TVGuide. page 40 "AMAZING RACE'S PHIL KEOGHAN JUST MIGHT BE AN ADRENALINE JUNKIE. Reasons why he's the host with the most: The former camera-man's MySpace Site reads like a daredevil's chronicle. Keoghan has broken the world bungee-jumping record, eaten a meal on top of an erupting valcano and renewed his vows underwater. Top that, Jeff Probst."
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Kep421
Member
08-11-2001
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 6:41 am
I don't get all the excuses that are being made for the BQs. If the "sistahs" remark had been made by Dave/Mary with the same overtones, (on top of the earlier asian remark) I think they would have been loudly denounced as back woods bigots in a heartbeat. What is it about the BQ's that affords them such understanding??? Why are their bad behaviors either viewed in a good light or totally overlooked? I believe it is just another example of the "beautiful people" double standard our society seems to embrace all too often.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 8:09 am
As a Christian woman I refer to my friends at church many times as Sisters...although some of you northerners would probably hear it as "Sistahs." We Texans have been told we have a bit of an accent although I dispute those facts. Ma'am.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 12:56 pm
I'm wondering if there's any generational thing with the "sistahs" term? My sister uses it and she's quite a few years younger. It's used as a term of familiarity or endearment, not as a slam that I am aware of.
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Auntiemike
Member
09-17-2001
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 1:54 pm
Ironic that the BQs used the term "pretty boys" to describe the models. If that's their opinion that's fine, it's just the tone of their voice (with disdain) that they make it a negative comment. I rewatched the show and one of them said "pretty boys" and the other one agreed, that "yes, they are pretty boys." Doesn't sit well with me.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 2:05 pm
And yet we hear nothing about the Lyns calling the BQs the "Barbecues."
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 2:19 pm
Just to throw this out there... I loved, during last night's episode, the look on Phil's face while he was in the mud in his weighers(?)and the task demonstrators were slogging past him. It was priceless.
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Kep421
Member
08-11-2001
| Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 5:53 am
OMG yes Kookliebird....I was laughing my butt off!! (good thing i've got plenty of butt to spare!! )
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 9:33 am
Kooklie, they're called "waders" for obvious reasons. Yes, I caught that wince, too. Hysterical! I think that if you're of the camp that dislikes the BQ's, anything that comes out of their mouths is going to be offensive. I thought it was funny when they called the models "pretty boys," cause they were talking about how they took the time to clean up and change clothes after that mud challenge. The BQ's just hopped in the car and took off. I think there's a love/hate relationship with the BQ's and the models, and by "hate" I mean competition, not any real animosity.
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Chalupa
Member
09-21-2005
| Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 10:18 am
I think its interesting to compare the way the BQ's and J/T treat each other and the way the backpack treats everyone else around them. The BQ's and J/T have basically admitted they believe the other to be the strongest competition. They would each love for the other to be eliminated as it would help achieve their own goal of winning this race. However, this whole episode they were neck and neck with each other, and all I saw was fun, good-spirited competition. I thought that was great. On the other hand, if you watch the insider videos, you will see that the backpack won't even speak to non back packers at pit stops. There was a time when either J or T sat down at a table to eat with some of the backpackers at a pit stop and either Lyn or Karlyn immediately got up and moved. Also, when the BQ's were congratulating Dave and Mary for being saved in a non elim, the Bama girls started chanting F-A-K-E, F-A-K-E. That's just not right. It's one thing to be competitive during the race, but a pit stop is just that. A pit stop, time to rest, relax, and as Phil used to say "Eat sleep mingle". It appears the backpackers don't want to mingle with anyone.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 10:41 am
Actually, Chalupa, after watching everything I've seen, I believe that attitude comes strictly from Lyn/Karlyn and they insinuated their feelings on Dave/Mary and Erwin/Godwin. I do not believe, nor have I seen anything to indicate otherwise, that D/M or E/G would act that way without the L/K influence. BTW, it was Tyler who made a point of going over with his food to have dinner with L/K and it was Karlyn who got up with her food and moved to another table without saying a word. This happened early on in the race.
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Trueheart
Member
09-12-2006
| Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 6:08 pm
My only real issue w/ the BQ's is that they are performing so well at this race I'm seriously worried they're going to beat T/J!! LOL Me too!!
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