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Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 8:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
They were the last team last week and it was a non-elimination round. Therefore, whenever they arrived at the mat, they had to wait 30 minutes. If that meant that all the other teams passed them, then they would have been eliminated. However, not one team came in, so they just finished their leg 30 minutes later than if they had not been last last week.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 8:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
They came in last but weren't eliminated last week, Dee. Newish (I think the last season or two) is when they have the non elim legs, last place team must finish first on the next leg or they have the 30 minute time penalty.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 8:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL or what Teach said.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 8:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
Because they finished last in the previous leg but it was a non-elimination round. Those are the new rules since a couple of seasons ago.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 8:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
Dang you are fast!!!

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 9:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
kinda boring tonite

Rosie
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11-12-2003

Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 9:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
I don't remember the persons up for elimination being given any money before. Did I miss something?

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 9:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
They changed that "no money" rule so that they wouldn't have to beg in poor countries (from what I understand). They also don't have to give up everything except what they're wearing either, and they did this the last time when they gave the last, non-eliminated team no money.

Happygal
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11-15-2004

Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 9:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happygal a private message Print Post    
I had to laugh when Charla was on the boat and the music sounded like the soundtrack from "Lawrence of Arabia" and then screeches to a halt with the sound of Charla retching over the side of the boat. The producers must have so much fun putting this show together each week!

Rosie
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11-12-2003

Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 9:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
Thanks Teach. I missed that part.

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 10:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
I have to admit I was thinking had it been Rob and Amber on that non-elim round and then the way the planes were so full and so spaced out, we would have been hearing CONSPIRACY. LOL

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 10:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I agree, Watching./

Charla certainly has a loud retching sound.. Mirna seemed completely indifferent to her pain, unlike Danny and Oswald. I really really l<heart> Danny and Oswald!

Hypermom
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08-13-2001

Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 11:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hypermom a private message Print Post    
Bastable, Mirna and Charla speak quite a few foreign languages....Armenian, Turkish, French and Spanish.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Monday, March 26, 2007 - 7:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
And once again, Mirna, the hero, went on about how hard she was working and how happy she was to have somebody else take care of Charla while she ignored her throwing up...LOL! I don't know how Charla survives without Mirna in her regular life.

Danielle is really kind of a prima donna, isn't she? (Did I even get close to spelling that right?) She really gets whiny when she doesn't get her way. I'm beginning to think she and Eric are perfect for each other.

Amazing how much better I like Bill and what's his name this time around.

Nice of them to show us the side of Teri that we all disliked the last time this time around. I think she was ready to go home.

And the BQs need to quit trying to show how tough they are and learn to take some of the less physical tasks. They don't have to PROVE anything to anybody.

And I just love Team Cha Cha. These guys should have their own reality show. They are priceless!

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Monday, March 26, 2007 - 7:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
The BQ's just can't win! If they do something non-physical, they are girly girls. If they do something physical, they are trying to "prove" something! I liked the fact that they were the only ones last night who took on the physical task - but then, I like the BQ's and wish them well!

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Monday, March 26, 2007 - 8:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
Go Team Cha Cha!!

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Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Monday, March 26, 2007 - 8:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
I like the BQs much better this time around. I wonder if they learned something from reading about how many people found them rather arrogant in the last race.

I love Danny and Oswald. Was definitely ready to see Teri and Ian go. Charla and Mirna are a lot nicer to watch when they are running first. They don't get so nasty with each other.

I still love this show, altho I don't have a strong fav, but Danny and Oswald are the definite frontrunners for my cheerleading.

Lateeda
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12-01-2006

Monday, March 26, 2007 - 9:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lateeda a private message Print Post    
Go BQ's!
I thought they made a wise choice, they thought the task through, saying, "they're only 50lbs"...knowing some of those puzzle tasks can be time-consuming and tricky. And if you are one to get frustrated w/puzzles, then I say go physical.
Cha-Cha keeps me smiling...

Chy
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07-19-2003

Monday, March 26, 2007 - 10:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chy a private message Print Post    
I am not a Ch/Mirna fan, but have something to say about that seemingly forced accent.

I am a Chinese who did not settle here till 19 y.o.. Normally, you'd expect me to speak Eng. w/ a heavy Chinese accent. But as a musician, I was able to overcome that. But the Chinese accent do slip out when I am very tired, stressed out or even spending a period of time with my family who all speak w/accents. Most of the time, people I come in contact with every day do not even question my birth place.
I didn't pay attention to this 'thing" either until one day, when my DDs were upset w/me for "putting on" accent in the middle of a long Chinese New Year's banquet!
I can see Ch/Mirna growing up with parents/G. parents/aunts & uncles/cousins... who might not have English as their first language. TAR is definitely a tiresome and stressful task. And their ears just might take over whenever they hang with people with accents!

I did spend my first college year in Texas, U of H. I'd transferred to NYC after 10 months. My then roommate's friends used to think she was rooming with a Southern girl after talking on the phone with me. I'd been mistaken as Long Island-like in the first few years here also. Now they probably think I was born and bred in Central New York! :-)

Sorry about all these I, me and my.... But I just didn't want you to fault them for the wrong reasons. Goodness knows they are enough legit ones!

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Monday, March 26, 2007 - 11:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
I like the BQs much better this time around. I wonder if they learned something from reading about how many people found them rather arrogant in the last race."

I doubt that as they went from the last race right to this one. Plus I do not see any difference in them at all. They seem the same in this race as the last.

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Monday, March 26, 2007 - 11:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
I agree, Chy. Charla & Mirna have bugged me at times but not because of their accents.

Only saw a little bits here & there of the show last night. Looked like some good tasks. I'm interested in seeing the difference in the teams' arrival times.

Mamabatsy
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08-05-2005

Monday, March 26, 2007 - 11:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamabatsy a private message Print Post    
I can see Ch/Mirna growing up with parents/G. parents/aunts & uncles/cousins... who might not have English as their first language. TAR is definitely a tiresome and stressful task. And their ears just might take over whenever they hang with people with accents!
*****

I agree. English is not their first language. I think they were both born in Syria. Armenian is most likely spoken at home. I worked with many Armenians and almost all of them have three or four languages. They would speak perfect English when everything was calm and going well. As soon as things got hectic, out came the accent. When an international student came into our office, out came the accent. Mirna gets a lot of flack on many boards for her "fake" accent. I don't think it's fake at all, it's unconscious and just happens. Of all the reasons to dislike her, that is not one.

Spear
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08-06-2001

Monday, March 26, 2007 - 11:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spear a private message Print Post    
I think Charla and Mirna do it intentionally. I think take it too far (by using poor grammar) but I can sympathize a little bit. When I speak English to people from my native country, I try to drop the "American" accent so I'm more understandable. I don't think it's condescending -- I grew up speaking English but it was definitely harder to understand the "American" accent when I first got here. Also, people would be more likely to think I was being fake if I didn't speak English with a "native" accent.

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Monday, March 26, 2007 - 12:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Julie Honestly, I'm just not seeing it so much this time. Maybe it's just me, but they don't spend nearly as much time (in the last two epis) trashing others as they did before.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, March 26, 2007 - 2:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
In an interview the BQs said one change they made was to bring some tops that had sleeves or at least covered shoulders because they found on the last race that the skimpier tops offended people in some countries. Danielle seems not to have figured that out.

Accent aside, Mirna and Charla do sound disrespectful of cab drivers and others (unless they get a big favor from them, as they did at the airport with the hand holding guy) and that seems to translate in any language. I noticed last night twice that the cab driver rolled eyes/made faces after diatribes by Mirna.

The contrast between Danny and Oswald, stopping to get fruit and telling us how you needed to be relaxed in life and on the race and then they went to Mirna berating a cab driver.. of course Mirna and Charla got boats, so I guess it is worth it to them.