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Seattlemom
Member
05-10-2005
| Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 7:09 pm
I agree with Costa His attitude would get on my last nerve
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Emercat
Member
07-14-2006
| Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 7:16 pm
I thought it was another great episode. I started out not liking Peter and Sara, but now she may be okay. He is awful and I'm glad she sees what a jerk he can be. Unless they make a major mistake, I think Godwin and Erwin, and those two model guys have a clear shot to the end. Both teams have brains and brawn; they treat eachother with respect; and they treat the people they meet with respect. JMHO
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-29-2004
| Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 7:53 pm
Peter has got to go. I never really had a problem with Sarah, but he has what people call a Hero complex. I know it's been mentioned before, but I get the feeling he's only there, in the relationship, because he thinks that she needs him. By the end of this season...he will know differently. How funny was it...we don't have a Quotes thread...but at the beginning Tom and Terry said "We have to get some Vietnamese Dong." I know...shame on me...but I thought that was hilarious.
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Ark
Member
07-10-2001
| Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 8:58 pm
The problem with the boats was that one person needed to stand up to do it. I couldn't believe that none of them tried that, or maybe they did and just couldn't do it. I started out not liking Peter or Sarah also. Sarah has grown on me but I like Peter less and less each week. I don't mind a team crying or arguing but I can't handle his condescending attitude.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 9:07 pm
Nick I LOL at that also! I think the models said 'I will honk for dong' hee!!!! I despise Peter, he acts like an arogant ass. Sarah needs to drop him and get someone her supports and loves her...what a wuss he was..why didnt he do the climb????
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Jennywa
Member
07-17-2003
| Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 9:13 pm
This is what I don't understand: Why in the world would Sarah take the roadblock??? Strength in arms and legs? She must have suspected...and what's wrong with Peter taking it?
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 9:22 pm
I cried over the ending both for the Beauty queens but more so for Tom and Terry. Damn, Tom in that water trying to haul that boat around when everything else failed. I can't believe they didn't give them lessons in rowing those boats. Or that they didn't see anybody else moving those boats. That is the most common type of boat in Vietnam. They are everywhere. Usually the woman stands in the back and rows while the man throws a fishing net from the front or lies down resting while the woman rows him home. To me the rowing action seemed similar to rowing a gondola, very rhythmic, very graceful, use the entire body, and I think they pushed forward rather than pulled back. Here is a typical picture of that type of boat from the Mekong Delta. (we were in Vietnam a year ago, only in the south, though. Now I want to go to Halong Bay; it was gorgeous.)

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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 10:11 pm
That makes more sense, you could tell there was something seriously wrong with the oars - if used in a normal way - because no one could sort them out. I don't understand Peter. I wonder if he considers the race as part of Sarah's "training" and is making her do everything because he thinks it will strengthen her. I don't think she needs strengthening. She can do things as well as she could with both legs, but why does she have to keep on proving it? Give the girl a break, Peter, and pull your weight! I didn't like Rob right from the start, but I'm beginning not to like the girl (forgotten her name) either. She's beginning to shout at Rob when he doesn't deserve it (or the editing makes it look that way). It's hard to blame her though, I can't say he'd bring out the best in me either.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 10:25 pm
LOL at Rob's remark "no more trying to talk to foreigners." Duh Rob, YOU are the foreigner!
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Curlyq
Member
07-10-2002
| Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 11:31 pm
I can't believe I forgot this was on tonight. Raenstorm, I'm so grateful that you summarize these shows. Peter has done all the roadblocks up until now, so he has been pulling his weight and then some. He can be faulted for a lot of things, but not for slacking on the roadblocks. Remember that they also went into this race with the mindset that they wanted to prove something, so I'm not surprised that Peter would want Sarah to take the challenge that involved strength. They wouldn't have made their point by having her sell flowers, eat fish eyes, or even shoot arrows. I'm also not surprised that he's starting to grate on her nerves. When faced with a challenge she needs to talk herself through it and he needs silence.
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Amy
Member
07-10-2002
| Monday, October 09, 2006 - 12:37 am
Okay, I just finished watching tonights episode and I am a bit confused. The beauty queens lost their clue while out on the water, they showed them going through all their envelopes and papers and never showed that they found the clue. Isn't it part of the rules that they have to have all the clues to successfully finish a leg of the race? I remember in a previous year that a team lost a clue and they had to go back and find it before they could finish the race. What's up with this?
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Monday, October 09, 2006 - 12:43 am
They didn't lose their clue; it got wet and torn so they couldn't read it.
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Amy
Member
07-10-2002
| Monday, October 09, 2006 - 12:51 am
When they were on the boat they were going through all the papers they couldn't find it and argued about who had it last but they said they knew where they were going anyway. The way it looked was like they lost the clue.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Monday, October 09, 2006 - 12:57 am
When Peter told Sarah to pull out her handicapped placard and bump the line, I wanted them to throw him in the water. I don't care for Sarah but I hope she dumps him like last week's garbage when this is over. What I meant earlier was that they have spent enough time together on other competitions that she should have seen the worst of him by now but maybe she is one of those delusional women who think that now they are dating he will change. Does anyone know why Lyn/Karlyn (whichever one it was) was in their bra at the pit stop last episode? They need to get over the childbirth thing too. It is getting on my last nerve. She makes it sound like it is the worst thing in the world to do. If childbirth was so bad why did she do it three times. I was so excited when it looked like it was buh bye for them and then it wasn't. Dang it all. Yippee for Tom and Jerry to go though!!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, October 09, 2006 - 12:59 am
Thanks Chili, hubby and I had wondered about that too. We missed the first few minutes of the show (maybe 20 or there abouts) and were kinda confused about Sarah doing the rock climbing. We talked about how she probably wouldn't be there if she wasn't capable of doing the difficult physical challenges, so her doing those we don't look at like how dare Peter force her to do them or whatever. But, our confusion was more on rather her prosthetic leg was still leaking the fluid or if it was fixed yet? Let me add here, my mom is a nurse with specialized training in head, neck, and spinal cord injuries. While I was growing up she worked on a rehab ward at the hospital, mostly with patients who were paralyzed or had suffered strokes and accidents. Occassionally they'd have a patient who'd lost a limb and would be placed there to relearn certain things as they recovered from their injuries. We volunteered for years and learned early that while these patients were taught new ways to do things working around their injuries and illnesses, there was nothing we could do that they couldn't. So it really doesn't surprise me much to see her trying all this stuff. But, the thing we were talking about tonight was that if her prosthetic hasn't been fixed yet, wouldn't it be better for him to be doing these extremelly physical tasks to save the prosthetic as much as possible? Considering she does triatholons she's probably in better physical shape than most of the others on TAR, but with her prosthetic not working properly, it'd make more sense to maybe not chose to do all the physical tasks and save her leg for later on when it comes to something she has to do. Did they get someone to fix it for her and we just missed it?
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Monday, October 09, 2006 - 1:11 am
Wargod, I have seen nothing or heard anything about her getting her leg fixed. The one thing I've been wondering about is why does she bounce around on it so much? Does it not fit right or what? It looks to me like it is too long for her when I watch her walk/run. I've known people with prosthetic legs and they walk normally. Chad on Survivor also did not bounce around on his and if he hadn't told anyone or worn shorts, you would never have known. I'm pretty sure that each team member has to do so many roadblocks; I think half. But the only way they can enforce that is if they are the winners in the end and they haven't done their share. If they are out halfway through the race . . . I am rewinding now to figure out The Case of the Missing/Damaged Clue. Stay tuned.
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Spear
Member
08-06-2001
| Monday, October 09, 2006 - 1:19 am
Ark, I think we've seen teams lose their clue before without receiving a penalty. What does get penalized is when a team skips a clue or gets a second clue to replace a lost one.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Monday, October 09, 2006 - 1:29 am
Saga of the Missing Clue They get their clue to go to Soi Sim Island. One of them says she thinks they have to row to the pit stop and they row off. Next scene with them in it they are rowing toward land and trying to decide if it is Soi Sim Island but one of them says she does not see Phil as they are on the beach. One says "read your clue" and the other says "it's so shredded." Next scene they are rowing and Dustin says "I am so frustrated that you didn't take better care of our papers." Kandace says they don't want to play the blame game. I'm skipping some scenes as I have to fast forward through Lyn/Karlyn and Tom/Terry; once a night is enough of them for me. They are finally on the junk boat pulling out wet, falling apart papers and the clue is gone. I was wrong. Well, I was part right they did get it wet and shredded before they lost it or maybe it's still there and just too mushy to tell. I guess we'll have to wait and see if they get a penalty or something for not having it.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Monday, October 09, 2006 - 1:32 am
Spear, that's right. Will and Tara lost their clue when it was down to final 3 and they were on their way to Anchorage. Tara at least was smart enough to look through the yellow pages until she recognized a flight service name and saved their butts. I don't remember anything being said about their missing clue.
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Spear
Member
08-06-2001
| Monday, October 09, 2006 - 1:59 am
The Paolos also lost a clue in the first episode of TAR8 and they didn't get a penalty. Luckily, they remembered where they were going.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, October 09, 2006 - 2:28 am
Curly, Peter didn't climb the Great Wall in China. What roadblocks has he done?
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Monday, October 09, 2006 - 2:40 am
I've never seen all of TAR8 so I missed that one. I am watching the CBS clips right now. Dustin and Kandice have made up. Rob and Kim just keep on fighting and Rob gets mad at her for talking to Tom/Terry and giving them advice. 3 clips of Tom & Terry whining. Mary/David talking about how wonderful everyone is to them after James/Tyler row out to give them gloves so they don't cut their hands while pulling up the oyster pots. Mary says they will all be friends forever. Erwin/Godwin discuss their differences in how they wanted to run that leg and why they got behind. Then they talk about what an awesome adventure this is. Karlyn/Lyn still snarking about Peter/Sarah and the handicapped or not issue. Tyler/James joking alot about Dong. James talking about how blessed they've been since coming out of their drug addiction and how grateful they are for all they have; even if they are eliminated today they are so grateful for this opportunity. James tells how awful Peter is to everyone and says he is the biggest troublemaker of the entire race.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Monday, October 09, 2006 - 2:41 am
Texannie, everyone had to climb the wall.
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Hereiam
Member
03-29-2002
| Monday, October 09, 2006 - 7:22 am
Texannie - Peter sold flowers, ate fish eyes, and shot the arrow I think. Not necessarily the most physical challenges but they both decided on who did what.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Monday, October 09, 2006 - 7:43 am
Is this edition of the Amazing Race less than stellar, or have I simply moved past it? I have missed two episodes this year, and I have never missed an episode before. I watched last night, but was less than enthused. Maybe it's just not the best cast. I find myself missing the Southie Boys, the Geniuses, and the Air Force superbeings. I just can't seem to get back into the frantic pace of the race.
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