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Seamonkey
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09-07-2000
| Monday, March 14, 2005 - 3:33 pm
hakuna matata.. (getting tuned up for Lion King The promos are making us think it could be the mother and son, who get lost, the two guys who have a bike break down, or Romber who may be "done" at a major food eating task. And there was some talk in the other spoiler thread about someone reporting that Amber never ate..
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Forum_moderator
Moderator
01-01-2004
| Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 11:57 am
From Texannie Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 7:16 am -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Houstonians look like Amazing Race favorites By MIKE MCDANIEL Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle Say what you want about Uchenna Agu — the man can throw down with anyone when it comes to meat. With his wife, Joyce, rooting him on, Uchenna wolfed down 4 pounds of meat and other cow parts (including intestine, udder and saliva gland) to finish second in last week's episode of The Amazing Race. Showing more guts than Bahston Rahb and a bunch of other Amazing <>, the Agus are making a case that they deserve to win the round-the-world race and pocket $1 million. The two 40-somethings have already said they plan to use the money to pay for in vitro fertilization procedures. If the Agus win, they'll become the first Houstonians to become overnight millionaires thanks to a reality TV show — and possibly become parents of, ahem, a million-dollar baby. Alas, other people are thinking that way — too many, according to Internet bookies. Last week, offshore bookmaker Sportsbook.com suspended betting on the winner of The Amazing Race, citing a disproportionate amount of wagering on what at least one wag is calling Team Enron. (Uchenna was laid off his job at Enron when the company collapsed in 2001. Joyce lost her job when WorldCom fell.) Sportsbook cited unusual betting patterns on the Agus from accounts originating in California and Massachusetts. It's not the first time online wagering has been shut off after heavy betting on a reality TV show. Betting was suspended for two editions of Survivor (Amazon and Pearl Island), the second edition of The Bachelor and last fall's edition of The Apprentice following high-volume — and accurate — betting on the winners. The Amazing Race (like The Bachelor and other reality shows) is pre-taped; the winners are already known, but players are expected to abide by very strict secrecy rules or face extreme financial penalty ($5 million for Survivor contestants). Producers and crew members must sign similar contracts. Obviously, someone has figured a way around the legalities. CBS would not confirm or deny the report, as has been the network's policy on all rumors and reports about its reality series since Survivor first began. And when we last talked with Bert van Munster, the mastermind behind The Amazing Race (8 p.m. Tuesdays, Channel 11) it was before the gambling story broke. But it wouldn't be a stretch of the imagination to see how one of Race's minions might try to cash in on what he knows. In hammering out the logistics — never mind the shooting and editing — of this truly amazing series, Van Munster says he has a payroll of more than 2,000 people. While that's a lot of checks to write, Van Munster believes the size of the show is what prevents its being copied. Other knockoffs have been developed, he said, but none has come close to succeeding. Incidentally, he says the Agus were easy picks, because each "has a very dramatic story, and they're really terrific people." He admitted that "some people don't like" Boston Rob Mariano and his fiancee, Amber Brkich, both of whom participated on Survivor (Amber won the $1 million). "I personally have never been a very big fan of (choosing celebrities or pseudoceleb- rities)," he said. "I don't think it's really necessary. But that is a personal thing, and I am not the only one who makes the final decision when it comes to putting the cast together." http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/entertainment/3095861 Texannie.. this was moved here from the Uchenna and Joyce thread because it is a probably major spoiler for final team and so many people do not want to know.. yet.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 12:34 pm
Oh, that was considered a spoiler??? Ooops! Sorry! Thanks for moving it.
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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 1:16 pm
Lol,I was gonna post that article too.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 1:30 pm
I am a very bad poster! 
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Halfunit
Moderator
09-02-2001
| Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 1:33 pm
Not bad, Texannie, just a little lost. 
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 2:15 pm
actually it shows you what happens when you skim! LOL
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Aussiedeb
Member
07-05-2004
| Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 8:19 pm
(MG) I have it from a source that it is definitely Uchenna and Joyce. So all the people here are correct. I was up for anyone to win except Romber.. I definitely wanted them to lose.
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Jmm
Member
08-16-2002
| Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 9:24 pm
I'm trying not to read anything here, don't like spoilers. Just wanted to say hi to Aussiedeb!!!!!!! HI
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 10:43 pm
i certainly hope it's the agus over romber. they didn't mention a name in earlier reports that i read (guess i should have read all of them, so i wouldn't dislike this show thinking rob and amber won it!!)... just reading of the 'massachusetts and california' ties...with rob still living in mass and amber in california, i was sure it meant they won TAR. now, i think it probably just means rob and amber were placing large bets to make more money... lol. i would take anyone over rob and amber. i love joyce and ucchena so far, so i do hope they win.
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Sherbabe
Member
07-28-2002
| Friday, March 25, 2005 - 5:00 pm
Does anybody have a spoiler of when Romber will be the last team to arrive. I want to watch that episode w/ popcorn, of course. I hope it is a fatal error on Rob's part that looses it for his team
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Friday, March 25, 2005 - 11:08 pm
eat popcorn every week and hope for the best!
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Monday, April 04, 2005 - 10:07 pm
So Who do you think is the "he" who chooses a task involving a standard transmission when he's only driven one once? I think they want us to think it is the brothers, but I'm not sure.. yes they are shown with one of them climbing up a big tank or tower but it could be another male teammate with problems.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 9:48 am
do Amazing Race 7 cast photos reveal the order of elimination and the final three? The Amazing Race 7 may have another spoiler on its hands. This one sounds more like the early Survivor-style spoilers, and less like the more recent style of insiders using info for financial gain. According to The AP's pop culture, um, "blog" (try not to laugh that a news syndicate calls a column a blog), message board posters at Reality TV World have noticed a pattern with the cast photos on CBS' official Amazing Race web site. For the potentially spoiling details, highlight the following: They've noticed that the "Teams" page on CBS's official "Amazing Race" Web site features the 11 teams' mugs PhotoShopped onto three different backgrounds: a seaside, mountain range and an oceanic sunset. Thus far, all five of the teams with the seaside background have been eliminated, leaving three remaining teams in front of the mountain range and the other remaining three on top of the sunset. ... After combining this theory with a previous potential spoiler that revealed an unusual online betting pattern placed on married couple Uchenna and Joyce Agu, many of the Reality TV World gurus have declared that the three teams with the sunset background -- the Agus, former "Survivor: All-Stars" castaways Rob Maraino and Amber Brkich and boyfriends Lynn Warren and Alex Ali -- are the final three teams. http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/the_amazing_race_7/2005_Apr_05_photo_spoiler
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Kep421
Member
08-11-2001
| Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 9:52 am
OH NO...say it aint so...*drops head to desk in dismay*
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 9:56 am
LOL!
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Fruitbat
Member
08-07-2000
| Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 11:16 am
Aussiedeb, can you say more about your source?
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 11:36 am
Please, I don't care who wins as long as Rob and Amber beat Lynn and Alex. The world is not a big enough place for the opposite.
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 11:56 am
I find it really irritating that these shows don't do a better job of hiding the results. I'm not blaming the spoilers, but I think that the shows are pretty sloppy about letting the results out. Takes all the fun out of the show and it takes the fun out of spoiling when it's so easy. 
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 3:19 pm
Wow, Texannie!! I have no idea if that is true but my three Mediiiawhore teams since they went down to three have been: Joyce and Uchenna, Rob and Amber and Lynn and Alex! Not that MW is even taking picks this week..
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 3:24 pm
Here's the LINK to the pictures that Texannie's article discusses..
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 3:29 pm
looks like the three that are said to be the finalists are all lined up in a vertical row as well..would that be the reverse order of finish maybe?? (ie romber in second place??)
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Alaginger
Member
07-11-2002
| Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 3:31 pm
Wow ... I just watched a 30-second video at the CBS website where Amber is talking with Rob and says she thinks the last 3 teams will be them, Joyce and Uchenna, and Lynn and Alex. What a coincidence, huh? Rob disagreed because he says as soon as he gets a chance he is going to "Yield" Frick and Frack because he thinks besides them (Rob and Amber) that they are the strongest team and seem to have it all together....hence their strongest competitor. I don't know if this link is going to work or not, so if it doesn't just go to CBS under TAR and look through the videos for "Amber's Final Three". http://www.cbs.com/primetime/amazing_race7/insider/index.php?chap=8032
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Csnog
Member
07-18-2002
| Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 5:43 pm
One of the things that AR does, is the last 7 teams still race even when it's down to the final 4 teams for the final episode. The 3 eliminated teams 6,5, and 4th place race as decoys.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 6:21 pm
. . . . .That final 3 doesn't match the winner spoiler
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