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Nerovh
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06-12-2005

Monday, May 11, 2009 - 10:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nerovh a private message Print Post    
I live in the South where we cook a LOT of pigs. They ARE heavy, but I'm surprised that neither Tammy nor the cheerleaders could manage to get that pole on their shoulders while Margie could. It would have been a LOT easier to move if they had just taken the time and effort to get their shoulders under it.

Spear
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08-06-2001

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Thanks for the link Hypermom. From that interview:

Cara: I know that we both feel the highlight was finishing every leg of the race and being the strongest female team to ever compete.

I think the strongest female team is still Dustin and Kandice (4th on season 10 and 2nd on All-Stars).

Panda
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07-15-2005

Monday, May 11, 2009 - 12:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Panda a private message Print Post    
yay for Tammy and Victor!!

Nerovh
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06-12-2005

Monday, May 11, 2009 - 1:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nerovh a private message Print Post    
I agree with Spear, I think Dustin/Kandice were the strongest female team. Not taking anything away from Jaime/Cara, I just think D/K were a stronger team.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

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Dustin & Kandicce rocked (and they were both very likeable)!!!

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

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Did Dustin and Kandice start out as being called "the blondes?"

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

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Dustin and Kandice were the best. They were consistently competitive in every leg and they were very nice and almost never fought or complained about anything. I think they were sometimes called the Beauty Queens because they were in pageants. They were probably the most pleasantly surprising team in AR history.

Necie
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09-07-2006

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This was a good final, I was happy with the final three. My husband even watched with me, I was shocked, then I got to thinking is was all the women in the swimming suits that settled him in for the whole hour. LOL!

Lurknomore
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07-07-2001

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Just needed to comment that The AMAZING Race lived up to it's name for me for a change. It was amazing a team I really like won!! At least my odds were good with this finale as I also would have been almost as happy if Luke and Margie won, although they started to annoy be a bit the last few shows. But I was so impressed with Margie, and her never complaining that I still kept rooting for them

The only ending that really would have ticked me off was if Jaimie/Cara won. I'm sorry, but their weekly cab drive rudeness really got to me. At least the really super rude one (sorry forget which one it was) was self-aware of it, but not decent enough to actually be nicer EVER. I liked them early on so it really bugged me that she was so over the top mean and sometimes cruel to folks just doing their job. I also didn't think it would be a good motivating tool to ANY cab driver int he Universe lolol.

All in all I thought it was a pretty good TAR season contestant-wise. The only ones I truly couldn't stand anything about were Lakisha and Jen. LOL I just had to go look them up cause to me they were ALWAYS called "the witches." (cept first letter was never a W lolol).Single only good thing I can say about them is they seem to love each other. Oh wait they can run fast too lol.

I did feel the tasks were pretty straight forward in the Finale with no real suspense possible at the end from how it was set up. Thought they could have done that a lil bit better, and I would have liked to see more time and more of Hawaii. But still enjoyed it a lot. I'm gonna miss my weekly TAR dose! Too many finales all at once not helping the situation either.

Lurknomore
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07-07-2001

Monday, May 11, 2009 - 6:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lurknomore a private message Print Post    
OH BTW meant to agree with Maris about them being in China too long, esp with the advantage it gave one team (would have really bothered me if I wasn't a fan of theirs, esp Tammy).

The only task I found super unfair was when they had to take orders in Chinese. They made it seem like the other team didn't have a really hard time w/it but that easily could have been editing. That was just handing it to Victor and Tammy. I could see that I would have been truly furious if it was a team I disliked. I'm a bit surprised TAR production didn't change that challenge in some way once they knew a team fluent in the language would be there.

I think they should have gone to Hawaii earlier and done more there. As I said above I really would have liked to seen more of Hawaii and so much they could have done there too.

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Monday, May 11, 2009 - 6:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
Yes! Beauty Queens, not blonds! I LOVED them!

Lurknomore
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07-07-2001

Monday, May 11, 2009 - 6:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lurknomore a private message Print Post    
Boy I'm chatty here...sorry one last follow up.

I just checked out the links that Hypermom (waving hi) posted and HAD to say Thanks!!! I would have missed both and found them really interesting, esp the one about Margie and Luke. Made some of my guesses/assumptions about them wrong and gave me a much better understanding of both of them. And who knew how long Luke had been trying to get on.

Wonder why Luke has cochlear implants, but doesn't turn them on? I wondered if that was for the race or in all of his life? Made me think it was part of why he could speak far better than it appeared in the early legs. Always hard to know how much of what we see is coming from the person or the show's editor.

While talking about him I will say I could understand why he was so upset because he had SUCH a big lead and his blowing the last board literally cost him and his Mom the win. I'm sure that will bother him for awhile. Luckily they won a lot of nice trips and toys along the way to ease the loss lolol. Trying to recall how many but it's a blur. Just know that they, as well as Tammy and Victor, seemed to win a LOT of really nice trips that I'd love to go on!!! Ok I'm shutting up now finally, but thanks again Hyper!

Keldogg
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08-12-2005

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I remember watching a documentary on a couple who received cochlear implants. It can be very difficult for some deaf people, because it's not like all of a sudden they can "hear" as we do. For those who have been deaf all of their life, it can be extremely difficult to adapt to them and there are many downsides to having them. It is not rare for those who have gotten them to either have them removed or to turn them off.

Wilsonatmd
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01-23-2001

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from what I've read, T/V were about 20 minutes behind L/M when they got to the surfboards- Victor said it took about 30 minutes to do the task (the surfboards were heavy). The final margin of victory was about 45 minutes or so.

Hypermom
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08-13-2001

Monday, May 11, 2009 - 8:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hypermom a private message Print Post    
Margie and Luke interviews:

http://www.realitywanted.com/newsitem/1930-exclusive-interview-with-margie-and-luke-adams-of-the-amazing-race

http://www.afterelton.com/TV/2009/5/amazing-race-margie-luke

Tammy and Victor interviews:

http://www.realitywanted.com/newsitem/1928-exclusive-interview-with-tammy-and-victor-jih-of-the-amazing-race

http://www.buddytv.com/articles/the-amazing-race/exclusive-interview-tammy-and-28540.aspx

ETA: Hi Lurk!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 12:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Ah, so I was correct.. I thought that scorpion just didn't resonate with Luke, sinc e he didn't do that challenge. Victor had to eat the scorpions and Jaime was closer to Cara while she ate. Plus I imagine that it was cumulative and that he studied a list of the tasks as they went through and the last task wasn't on the list as long, plus he was pretty homed in on wanting Jen and Kisha gone and then they were gone, so proabably that was a bit distracting. But he had 9 of the 11 really quickly so he cannot be, or shouldn't be, too down on himself.

And I was also correct that the stylised images probably made it harder for all of them to identify the right ones.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 12:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Lurk, we all thought the waiter task would be too hard for anyone who didn't speak Chinese, but Kisha and Jen said it took them only 15 minutes, so apparently if you listened carefully, it wasn't a problem.

Margie and Luke won three legs and I think all three prizes were trips. Margie says she travels with her job and likes to stay home, so perhaps Luke will get to take the trips with others.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

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If Keisha and Jen (who are sisters by the way, not lovers) were so disliked why did the people at elimination station want them to win in the end? I never heard anyone call them names other than Marjie and Luke.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 7:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
Exactly, Roxip ... exactly ...

Schoolmarm
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02-18-2001

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 10:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Schoolmarm a private message Print Post    
Thank you SO much for posting this thread. This is my favorite show, but I've been without power for 5 days and missed it (obviously).

LOVE TAR!

Babyjaxmom
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10-20-2002

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 11:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyjaxmom a private message Print Post    
Yay!!! Tammy & Victor!!!

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 11:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
Exactlyyyyyyyyy Rox. I would have loved to have seen K/J in the final three. As much as I liked T/V, I would have had no problem with K/J winning. The whole meltdown on the mat was the last nail in the coffin for me with M/L.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 12:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
OH YAY, Marm! We've been worrying about you.. checked your U and saw that power was widely out. But here you are :-)

Well it seems that Margie, Luke, Kisha and Jen have been able to talk and make up with each other, so that is good.

I do realize she is a protective mom, but didn't like seeing her pull the race card the way she did.. like.. you being black, should understand why no one is allowed to criticize Luke because it must be because he is deaf. Uh, no. For one, he isn't immune from criticism, same as K/J and it doesn't mean it is about being deaf, black or even gay (as Kisha and Luke are and they were out about it, but as Luke said in interviews, apparently the producers wanted to stress deaf and mother/son in his case and athletes and sisters in K/L case. They had their gay label taken up with Mel and Mike. By the way Luke says he is single and Margie says he's looking.

Babyjaxmom
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10-20-2002

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 1:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyjaxmom a private message Print Post    
Well, I wasn't a big M/L fan after the mat meltdown a couple of weeks ago, but I did feel really bad for them in this leg. They ran an awesome leg up until the point of the surfboard challenge. Luke was very much in the lead until he had the brain freeze and couldn't remember what they'd done in the last leg. I think I would have been just as frustrated. And when he was crying in the car, he felt like he'd just lost a million dollars for himself and his mom. I would cry, too. I think most men with a heart would, too.

And just so you know, Holly, in the South (where both my parents came from) it's common practice for grown men and women to refer to their mother as "Mama" and their father as "Daddy." I see nothing wrong with it.

Holly
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07-22-2001

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 3:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
Is he even from the South?