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Cousin_jake
Member
07-04-2002
| Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 7:53 am
With our luck, they'll be last on an episode that isn't an elimination leg! He just gets more and more charming each week doesn't he? At this point, I'm left hoping for Jon and Kris and a distant second, Bolo's team.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 8:19 am
Riviere...you are shameless...LOL!
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 9:34 am
It wasn't goulash; it was a spicy soup. To be honest with you, it'd be easier to eat three cups of soup (with a TEASPOON!) than to eat a scrambled ostrich egg (the approximate equivalent of 24 regular eggs!). Has anyone heard anything regarding Freddy and Kendra being kicked off? My local TV station (an ABC affiliate) this a.m. had a news crawl saying "Amazing Race team axed after gate crash". Sounds to ME like F/K got kicked off. I'm thinking maybe because Freddy threatened people? I'm sure that's against the rules (as it is in many other reality shows). I really feel for Victoria. Yeah, OK, she's still married to that man, and I'll give him some credit for being under pressure with the race. But I am pretty darned sick of Jonathan's constant "go go fast fast fast". I also thought it was pretty rude of him to yell at the musicians to stop (especially since Aaron seemed to enjoy the music). Honestly, if I were Victoria, I'd have walked off the race then and there, and immediately filed for a divorce. Now THAT would make good TV! <wink>
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Karuuna
Member
08-31-2000
| Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 9:42 am
Hera also got hit by the gate, and they did get eliminated. Could your news line be referring to them?
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Hereiam
Member
03-29-2002
| Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 9:52 am
I was curious about the roadblock stuff and so I looked up who had done what. Here it is: They are even except for Jon has done more than Kris 4 to 2 and Lori has done more than Bolo(3 to 2) but they have only done 5 roadblocks due to the fast forward. ETA: I would have put the chart in the text but did not know how. Sorry
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 10:06 am
I thought of that Kar. But the crawl said "... axed after gate crash". And it was this a.m. (not yesterday, which I would expect if it were Gus/Hera they were talking about). I've tried googling around and can't find anything. Can't even find anything on the local news site (10news.com). To be honest, I'm kinda hoping they did get kicked off. That was a very ugly scene. Hera got hit, too, and she didn't go freakin' nonlinear on folks. (The phrase "grace under pressue" comes to mind. Or, in the case of most of these contestants, a lack there!)
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 10:27 am
After all of the stuff that Jonathan has done I would really think that Freddy and Kendra are not likely to get kicked off the show due to his temper tantrum...true he was out of line but he didn't actually push or shove anyone...if he gets kicked off for verbal abuse then Jonathan certainly has done a lot more of that...or is it only acceptable to verbally abuse your spouse?
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Gina8642
Member
06-01-2001
| Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 10:42 am
Re Freddie and Kendra getting kicked off. Before this episode aired I read some rumors that Freddie suffered a concussion and their team dropped out of the race. To me, that sounds like a rumor generated from the previews alone. I'd guess that the TV station might have been feeding off the same rumors. Although Freddie obviously got whacked pretty hard, but it didn't even seem to slow him up. Remember the bungee episode - they made it look like one of the women suffered major injury from that rocket jump - when in truth she just got a little dizzy and laid on the ground for an extra few seconds. It didn't effect the team in the least - but the promos made it look major.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 11:51 am
Roxip, it was NOT verbal abuse. He was actually threatening to harm the other racers. Jonathan heaps verbal abuse on his spouse, but he never has threatened to harm her. Big diff... The whack across his nose (he did say he got hit across the nose, not in the head) didn't seem to slow him down much at all.
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Spear
Member
08-06-2001
| Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 12:09 pm
Costacat, your station probably just picked up this story: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/10572321.htm?1c
quote: 'Amazing Race' Team Axed After Gate Crash DERRIK J. LANG Associated Press NEW YORK - Father-and-daughter duo Gus and Hera McLeod couldn't row, row, row a boat on CBS' "The Amazing Race" fast enough, making them the fifth team eliminated in the sixth edition of the race around the world. Gus, 50, and Hera, 24, told The Associated Press Wednesday their downfall on the sixth leg of the race began when Hera was knocked in the head by an opening gate at the Heritage Rail Museum in Budapest, Hungry. All seven teams were gathered at the barrier in a melee to reach the next clue. "I think I was in a state of shock," Hera told the AP. "I was dizzy and disoriented. And then we pulled the last number. All I could think was that we're in trouble." Fellow competitor and model Freddy Holliday, who was also hit by the falling gate, accused the other remaining teams of pulling the metal gate down on him and threatened "one of you I will break in half." "I was really upset," said Gus. "Here my daughter might have a concussion and Freddy is screaming about getting his face cut. I guess that's an incident for a model." [...]
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 1:05 pm
Costacat...I guess we'll just disagree on this one, although I do agree that my use of the term "verbal abuse" was incorrect. I still find Jonathan's actions a lot more appalling and I still was glad that Freddy acknowledged his poor behavior (whether he did it to the other teams or not remains to be seen). I'm not a fan of F/K but I don't think those actions should require them to be kicked out of the race. Perhaps verbal tirade would be better. I think for a few minutes he just totally lost it and spewed...bad timing, bad form, too bad it was on television (does this person want a long-time career in performance arts?), and it made him look pretty stupid, but all in all I still find nothing he has said any worse than Jonathan's overall behavior on the race. But that's just my opinion. Jonathan wants me want to little rabbit foo foo him.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 2:10 pm
Little rabbit foo foo him! LOL!
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Mygetaway
Member
08-23-2000
| Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 3:00 pm
If you look at the "Leaderboard" at the AR site, next week, the teams drop from 6 to 4. So either someone quits, or maybe someone is disqualified??
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Mygetaway
Member
08-23-2000
| Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 3:06 pm
Here's a shot of it.. I had to resize

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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 3:27 pm
Well dang, Spear. Looks like you are probably right. And they picked it up a day late (the headline is identical to the crawl today). Bummer. I still hope Mygetaway is right, though!!! 
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 3:40 pm
they did the same thing with the last TAR, and it meant nothing. it's just a lazy website programmer. do not take stock in all that. we learned in the last season and there were pages and pages of speculation, and it meant nothing.
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 3:43 pm
The chart is just wrong and will probably be corrected when they update next week. Whether 1 or 2 teams are eliminated, there will still be 6 teams displayed under the Episode 8 column, because 6 teams are starting the leg. The chart is messed up for 2 reasons: 1. The non-elimination week. 2. The "To Be Continued" week. Episode 8 had 4 boxes since week 1 and episode 7 had 5 boxes until this last update with the 7 teams. The chart always makes it look like all the non-elimination weeks occur at the end, but makes adjustments when they actually occur.
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 3:45 pm
...or what landi said!
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Mygetaway
Member
08-23-2000
| Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 4:07 pm
Well...pfffttt.. on you guys... (HAHAHA) See, I even came out of retirement because I thought I had it ALL figured out..(hehehe) Oh well. I was hoping they'd have the video of the gate crash on the insider page.. but there wasn't any.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Friday, January 07, 2005 - 1:58 am
I have the video of the gate bouncing back down and Freddy running headfirst into it....Hera got it right on the TOP of the head. Freddy had a huge bump on his forehead and was unsteady, staggering immediately. No doubt he was concussed. He also said that ONCE HE FOUND out WHOM had pulled the gate down that he would break them in half. SIGH!! we shall see what happens in next week's episode
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Mizbitt
Member
10-03-2004
| Friday, January 07, 2005 - 8:59 am
I didn't realize that Hera was hit by the gate. What a shame I'm sure that did have something to do with the fact that they were eliminated. I was so hoping that it would be a non elimination, but maybe it is a good thing that she be checked out to be sure she was OK> Next week should be very interesting. I wonder what Jonathan will find to yell at next week.
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Friday, January 07, 2005 - 10:06 am
There are couples who actually like to use emotional S/M on each other because of the "honeymoon" period afterwards. That's how they keep the excitement in the relationship. I think J/V are one of these couples and it's not hard to determine who plays which role. Has anyone noticed what a "sweet guy" (that was hard to type) Jonathan is when they're not in conflict. It's obvious they have a very unhealthy relationship and if they truly love each other, badly need some sort of therapy, preferrably before they have kids.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Friday, January 07, 2005 - 11:36 am
When Gus and Hera checked in at the pitstop and Phil told them they'd been eliminated, Hera said something like "it's just been a really long day". That made me wonder if her head had been causing her trouble that we hadn't seen, it sounded like more than just the stunts had taken a long time, but that something else had been going on.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Friday, January 07, 2005 - 12:38 pm
Right after that, Gus finished her thought with "It's just been one thing after another" so I'd think that the gate was just the beginning of a long string of events that we didn't get to see. I'd guess that one of the 'things after another' was getting into the Danube and realizing that the current is stronger than they thought, and perhaps the river is a bit wider than expected. I'm sure gonna miss them. Go Kris and Jon!!
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Marej
Member
09-20-2002
| Friday, January 07, 2005 - 2:40 pm
I wish they would get another trick clue. Like when the clue was they had to walk and the harvard lawyer gals took a taxi.
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