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Raenstorm
Member
07-16-2004
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 12:59 pm
Auntiemike: The one thing I can think of that is close to what you are talking about was that Dustin/Kandice called Tyler/James "pretty boys" in regards to them stopping to change instead of getting right in their taxis and to the train station. The implication was that Tyler/James were so worried about their appearance that they lost some time. (Although, I honestly felt the guys just changed because of being wet, etc. Plus, they were in the mud much more than Dustin/Kandice so I'm guessing they were much wetter and muddier... I'd have changed too.)
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 1:42 pm
Ladytex: quote:so what you're saying, Costa, is that the minorities were not allowed to cut, were told that THEY had to go to the end of the line, but the caucasians were ... okay ...
No, what I said was APPARENTLY, Dustin and Kandice and James and Tayler got a cab, Rob and Kim ASKED to cut in front and were told OK, and Lyn/Karlyn and Edwin/Godwin were told to go to the back of the line. I never said anything about minorities. I was quoting what was spoiled in this thread.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 2:22 pm
<77> Some people like the blondes, BQs, whatever. Some people like the 'Bama girls, single moms, etc. Some people like the models and surprisingly enough people have come to like Rob and Kim. Everybody likes the Chos but think they are pretty dumb because they have chosen to play more or less naively. Is that about the consensus? I like the show...I liked seeing the BQ fall on her rear in the mud. I liked seeing the Bama girls well up at the sight of their kids (I cried right along with them), and I liked seeing them be appreciative when extra effort was made to get them on the flight. I also liked seeing Rob push his bike past whichever of them on the ramp up from the mine. I like the good stuff, not the negative, so I guess that makes me a Cho!
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 2:34 pm
I wasn't pointing you out, Costa, I was putting it together. I only mentioned your name because your post explained what happened.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 3:07 pm
We're cool, Lady! 
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Jhonise
Member
07-10-2003
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 5:16 pm
One highlight of this episode had to be Phil, waist high in mud....
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 5:38 pm
Yeah Phil is really getting into the various locations.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 5:42 pm
Some really difficult challenges for all of them.. the mud ones and the mine and ACK! about rapelling face down!! I wonder if they will start with us seeing the Chos, Lyns and Rob/Kim doing that task. At least one Cho is terrified of heights, we know that. And I can't imagine anyone being thrilled about that particular challenge. As for the cabs, definitely the first two teams caught what they said were the "only" cabs. The others were told to go across and queue up. So, probably the first two teams didn't follow protocol but they didn't realize it.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 5:59 pm
However, the clue didn't say "stand in the queue at the taxi stand to catch a taxi," it said "travel by taxi." Obviously, if they weren't told about the queue in the instructions, they wouldn't have known about the queue. The same thing kind of happened to me a couple of weeks ago. I flew to NYC and when I was coming out of LaGuardia looking for a cab. I see a taxi stand and there are probably about 20-30 people standing in line for a taxi. (We don't have taxi stands in New Orleans, its every tourist for himself to catch a taxi from the airport.) I saw a gentlemen in a suit right outside the baggage claim by the taxi stand and asked him how long would it be for a cab, and he told me he drove for private car service and could take me right away into the city so I wouldn't have to wait in line at the cab stand. So its kind of the same difference except I don't think Dustin/Kandice even saw the queue stand. I didn't stand in line (but I didn't cut in front of anyone either and I also paid more money for the car service) Everyone standing in the taxi line at the airport had the same opportunity to have this private car service drive them into NYC.
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Pdxmom
Member
08-08-2006
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 6:08 pm
Tyler seemed to enjoy the rappelling a lot. He laughed the whole way down. It was very nervous laughter, but I noticed how he laughed the whole way down the tower.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 8:31 pm
I am not a fan of the moms but I gotta give them props for doing these challenges this season. Every time I see the challenge I think the moms will have a hard time with this one and they usually just whip right thru it. I dont know if it was editing or what but it did look like they pushed that man. I get the feeling the editors dont like them and the editors like the BQ due to the editing each is getting. For all we know the BQ could be doing all kinds of nasty shit and we dont see it...rememember Maggie??? tv viewers liked her! LOL
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Trueheart
Member
09-12-2006
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 8:36 pm
I'm so proud of my models! It was so enjoyable to see their competitive spirit back! LOL...previous episodes, T/J look like they were leisurely tourists, not racers, but T/J were kicking butt this time! I too thought that the Lyns were very RUDE to that man waiting for the cab. When they went in front of him and the cab came the man stepped forward and protested. I believe he was trying to get in the cab before them and THEY PUSHED THEIR WAY THROUGH! I was just stunned that they would treat a civilian that way. Maybe a racer but NOT a civilian! I liked the BQ's. I always enjoy watching them race because they are so happy and energetic, even when they are behind! I appreciate the fact they work efficiently and "get the job done" with minimal distractions. How many days does this race last? LOL I was thinking to myself..."Why would Tyler bring nailclippers with him?". I also thought that most men DO NOT use conditioner. LOL I guess thats a model for you!
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Trueheart
Member
09-12-2006
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 8:43 pm
Jimmer you make me laugh! Pretty much every post of yours is defending the BQ's! If any NEW poster came in here, they would know right away who your allegiance was to...LOL Not that I mind. I always agree with your posts!
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Trueheart
Member
09-12-2006
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 8:48 pm
remember Maggie??? tv viewers liked her! LOL Are you kidding me?? I only watched season 6 on TV (no live feeds) and I severely DISLIKED her. (Don't know if I'll get moded for saying HATED ) I do not think that the editors of BB did her any favors with the clips they showed of her. JMO.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 8:59 pm
but did ya read the boards about her? they coulda edited her a lot worse. I am just going by my friends at work that only watched tv and didnt read boards
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 9:06 pm
LOL. It seems that the hot topic this season is the BQs vs. L/K. The other contestants left in the game seem to be reasonably well liked by most viewers. Even R/K don't seem to be bothering people much anymore. As far as the producers unfairly editing the BQs and L/K, we have no way to know other than there seems to be a clear rift, not just between the BQs and L/K but between the Six Pack and the other teams. It's not just the BQs. As far as comparing the teams, the BQs usually seem happy and L/K usually aren't happy. I've never found it a lot of fun watching unhappy people.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 9:14 pm
I liked Maggie out of what there was on the show to like/dislike. I really, really did not like Janelle at all on BB6. But I only saw the tv show not the live feeds. I still don't care for Janelle much. I love the BQ's. They have a great attitude and I think if they were doing nasty things the show would air it. I've watched all the extra clips and still have not seen them say/do anything bad. Karlyn, on the other hand . . . said somewhere something about how bad it was to be handicapped by your looks. Huh? Karlyn would be much prettier if she'd smile and act like she was enjoying herself instead of being angry and bitter about whatever is bugging her. I've seen pics of her actually smiling (they are hard to find) and she is very pretty when she does. Someone go tell her "pretty is as pretty does" but I don't think she'll get it.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 9:20 pm
Another point is that it's hard to see where the AR producers have ever gone out of their way to edit any team favorably including some of the more unpopular past season winners. Unless of course, some of the more unpopular winners actually received positive editing and were much worse than the viewers even realized. 
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 9:30 pm
Oh Jimmer...that could be quite a scary thought ...thinking back onm some of them
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-29-2004
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 9:30 pm
hilarious...from ew.com Double and Nothing In the first half of a two-part episode of ''The Amazing Race,'' the models struggle and the beauty queens coast to an anticlimactic ending by Josh Wolk FINNISH LINE Tyler and James thought they had Lapped the other teams Because not everyone who reads this column has seen last night's Amazing Race episode, I'll reveal something that I wish the producers had at the top of the show: No one was eliminated. Had I known this in advance (and didn't have to write this column, of course), I doubt I would have watched. Last night wasn't an official non-elimination round; it was just the first of a two-parter, which is the difference between firing and downsizing: You can name it what you want, but somebody is still going to walk away feeling empty inside. Just because the producers ended it with ''to be continued'' didn't make it special: The series is a serial, so every episode is to be continued until the winner gets the check, right? The only difference here with the cliff-hanger is we don't get a dramatically satisfying mini-coda. What really bugs me about these two-parters was evidenced last night: When the models got the clue, expecting a pit stop, and instead were told to keep racing, we as an audience were meant to gasp with shock at the inhumanity of forcing these competitors to keep going. But this wasn't a death march. I couldn't see visible signs of exhaustion on these people. I heard they had to keep going, and I shrugged and thought, ''Fine, keep going, then.'' They may well have been exhausted and hungry, but the only way to have proved that to me as a viewer was to show, say, Rob hallucinating from fatigue or the beauty queens so famished that they started eating their own lip balm. I'm not saying this week's challenges didn't look grueling. Trudging through that Helsinki mud — as Finnish winter athletes do to train during the summer — looked only barely less appealing than eating it. Perhaps the AR producers had a swimming challenge planned but all local swimming pools were being used by Finnish bowling teams, who practice underwater in their off season. What was maddening about this was how easily the beauty queens sailed through this challenge, just as they've sailed through every challenge. Everyone else was grimacing as they tried to extricate their sinking partners from the muck, and the queens just giggled and tittered as they barely got their clothes dirty: When Dustin did stumble once, she laughed, ''Oh, it's gonna look like I pooped my pants!'' which she could smile at because everyone knows beauty queens don't poop, they just occasionally squat down to let rainbows out of their asses. How did they stay so clean? Do pageant queens have natural powers to repel filth? Is their skin made of Calphalon? I guess they keep the stains on the inside, on the part of their brain that decides it's cute to call the 'Bama moms ''the sistas.'' At the beginning of the episode, Dustin said that although some people look at them and think everything comes easy to them, ''We sweat, we cry, we fight to win.'' Except for that incident at the beginning of the season when one of them lost a hat, I haven't seen very much sweating, crying, or fighting, just winning. This is not to say they're cheating. It's just frustrating to watch two people so consistently dominate without looking like they're trying at all. I'll bet that after the mud challenge, while everyone else stank, they just happened to walk through a very localized rainstorm that rinsed away the small amount of dirt that actually stuck to them. These girls are the yin to the cartoon character Ziggy's yang. The only thing they can't do is pronounce foreign city names (''Helinski,'' hah!), but if that's what I have to do to win a million bucks, then somebody get me a ticket to Mocsow, Kong Hong, or Saraheyho. The 'Bama moms complained about the queens' natural advantages. ''They come out of the airport with their boobs hanging out,'' groused Lyn. (Sure enough, at one point, the queens wrangled directions by directing their boobs toward a middle-aged guy in a convertible, a person-car combination that is genetically predisposed to eagerly help blond women in tight pants.) Even without cleavage showing, though, Lyn and Karlyn managed to talk their way onto a closed flight to catch up with everyone else at the beginning of the show, just by promising not to eat a meal. This made me feel good about karma, and pretty bad about airport security. Granted, it was Air Madagascar, which I don't fly that much. (I'm a Singapore Airlines man myself, lured by their rock-bottom duty-free prices. Some say flying to Cleveland via Changi is inefficient, but tell that to my 75-cent Toblerone bar.) But the idea that all you need is a camera crew, and ticket agents will bend the boarding laws makes me uncomfortable. I would just hope that if any security workers at my local airport see a bunch of people dashing to a plane with a couple of cameramen, claiming to be stars of The Death to America Variety Hour, the fine federal employees will curb their starstruck tendencies and give them an extra pat-down. Luckily, there isn't a direct correlation between pulchritude and team placement. Rob and Kimberly's haplessness has proven to be of some comfort to the less attractive among us. They're a photogenic couple who can't seem to figure anything out, least of all why they love each other. My favorite interplay was the one that went: Rob (to a cab driver): Very fast, please, please. Kimberly: Stop repeating it. Rob: I will if I want to. Kimberly: For the sake of our team... Rob: For the sake of our team, stop telling us what to do. Boy, that one had it all! Immaturity, petulance, impatience...the list goes on. It was like the opening scene of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in that it immediately told you everything you need to know about these two, which is that you didn't want them as friends at all. And whither the Chos? Their obsessive dedication to the Six Pack continued as they wore David and Mary's ''Friends in Low Places'' novelty T-shirts in a show of solidarity and stood by the 'Bama moms even as those ladies cut in line to grab a taxi before them. ''Being polite sucks sometimes,'' grumbled Godwin, still under the misconception that The Amazing Race offers a bonus prize for who says the most thank yous. I hope the producers do at least give him a gold star at the end of the race and stick it right to his chest so his family and friends can have a target when they repeatedly jab him, yelling, ''You saps blew it with your stupid Six Pack!'' The episode had two other challenges: one in a mine (ride a bike, crack a rock), and frontward rappelling (which, to someone like me who is terrified of heights, would be appealing only in that I could see the pretty designs that my tears of fear would make as they splashed on the ground below me). And we also got a little attempted emotional manipulation, as, after a blatant AOL plug, the teams received a little video message from home, which moved nobody except the 'Bama single moms. But ultimately, we had an hour that led nowhere. If you made it this far in the article, you can't say I didn't warn you. What do you think? Should there be a ''no one is eliminated'' warning at the top of an episode like this? Can the beauty queens be stopped? Will the Chos ever wise up?
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 10:21 pm
should have shown more of turku - CBS could of cross promoted their shows with a viewing of this on the streets 
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 2:26 am
If they could only run both episodes of the to-be-continued leg on the same night, I would be happy. I love that the BQ's have such good attitudes and are having fun even with grueling tasks. It doesn't bother me one bit that they seem to get less dirty than anyone else. Remember Cha Cha Cha and how the other teams would get so jealous because they never seemed to break a sweat and they had fun wherever they went? I loved that. It also does not bother me one bit when the BQ's call Lyn/Karlyn the sistahs because for every time they've done that Lyn/Karlyn have had three bad things to say about the BQ's. The difference is the BQ's let it slide right off their pristine feathers while the sistahs get another cob up you-know-where. JMO
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Kep421
Member
08-11-2001
| Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 6:01 am
Yes...I like how the Cho's don't let the BQ's insert cobs up their you-know-wheres either. When one of the BQ's (can't tell them apart) made a comment about the Cho's being Asian and therefore should be able to do the paper task with no problem, one of the brothers responded with "Whatever...." Funny how the nasty stuff just slides by with a bright enough smile.....
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 10:12 am
Kep, I don't think the BQ's paper comment was nasty. It was just ignorant.
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Vsmart
Member
02-10-2003
| Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 10:52 am
Maybe the BQs bought better travelwear that repels dirt & liquids.
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