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Angelicfairies2
Member
07-19-2004
| Thursday, November 08, 2007 - 11:58 am
I'd feed him
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Roxibalboa
Member
08-15-2004
| Monday, November 12, 2007 - 7:33 am
Finally, Rachel is gone. Is it just me or did they tip the "smart scale" in casting towards the men? So far the women are not looking good. Go Pickle
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Monday, November 12, 2007 - 8:38 am
I think Andre is in it for "comic" relief - I know he makes me laugh - he has taken their "name plates" and each model has them somewhere in their stuff - last night they showed Andre "guessing" who was going to be gone... (was it Daniel?) so he went snooping thru his stuff to find his name tag to add it to (Andre's) his wall of off'd models... Yes, Blonde Rachel was a tribute to the "dumb" blonde and I really thought she played up that "part" - I dont know why that judge got sick of her at that particular time and said, "look, just go, you're bringing down the smartest guy in the house".... I wondered if something hadnt been happening "behind the scenes" that just became the "last straw" it seemed "blunt" on camera... esp since her outfit was the most "wearable" - I mean the one that one was hysterical, skirt not shorts to box in? LOL
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, November 12, 2007 - 10:45 am
While I think Blonde Rachel's outfit may have been most wearable, it's quite obvious that the judges are watching the tapes or, at the very least, getting briefed. Blonde Rachel couldn't cut out a single geometric shape? I mean, I didn't think she was the smartest cookie, but good gawd. Even having Angela give exact directions on how to do it to her teammate, Rachel couldn't? I think the reason she went is because she is not the smartest one there. It was obvious her teaming up with Daniel was a ploy to bring her up to a higher level, but instead she brought Daniel down. I don't blame Mary Alice for finally saying enough is enough... It was way past her time to go. I also don't think she's real model material (not high fashion, and not catalog, so dunno what's left).
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Rehtse
Member
08-17-2005
| Monday, November 12, 2007 - 11:31 am
What is Mary Alice's last name??
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Biginjapan
Member
07-23-2005
| Monday, November 12, 2007 - 11:37 am
Alice 
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Monday, November 12, 2007 - 12:15 pm
Blonde Rachel was, without a doubt, the funniest of the models. She definitely did the best interviews/recaps. But, the fact that she couldn't cut a single geometric shape in 30 minutes probably sent Mary Alice over the edge.
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Cindy
Member
09-20-2005
| Monday, November 12, 2007 - 3:07 pm
I don't give my 4 year old 30 mins to figure out how to draw and cut out shapes.
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Monday, November 12, 2007 - 3:27 pm
Is Alice is really her last name? Well, I have never heard of her, so I would not know her last name? Don't think it makes me not the smartest, heh, I might have guessed Alice for lack of anything else. I think besides cutting the shapes, you had to measure them exactly which gave Andre some issues? I don't understand why it matters if you are doing meters or yards if you are given a mesuring tool with the same measurement code? I can understand taking time to do the math if they gave him directions in only inches and then gave him a yard stick in feet and inches, but I don't think that they did and there is always adding up the inches that are show. I think Rachel's shape cutting issue was insecurity, she did not want to try and be wrong for some reason. Daniel did not help her as he could by shouting instructions, some some else shouted instructions to their partner. So he might have needed a clarification in the rules (apparently before the rules were defined, since they did not have to wear what they cut), but he could observe what otehrs were doing, rather than get frustrated. Since I am such an Amazing race fan, I have seen some fantastic direction when the wrong partner gets the task (and last night, some not so fantastic direction). I have no idea why Mary Alice broke the pattern of elimination the way she did, I can't decide if it was kinder to do it quickly. Rachel showed some street smarts, if not book smarts, to pick Daniel and work with him, even if it did not help. She also had the only really street wearable outfit, which was the task at hand, even if it had raw edges and a strange color. Perhaps it was not "fashin" enough. Still a very strange end to the a very very inconsistantly judged show. The judging on this show makes me long for the wisdom of Flava Flav in picking his "woman" or the Monique's Charm School Girl elimination.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, November 12, 2007 - 4:02 pm
Mary Alice's last name is Stephenson.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Monday, November 12, 2007 - 5:16 pm
They gave the measurements in inches and André was struggling because he used the metric system. Mary Alice was obviously frustrated with Rachel and since Rachel had lived in the bottom two for the last four-five weeks, her days were numbered. I'm still going to miss her interviews/confessionals.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, November 12, 2007 - 5:48 pm
Actually, I'm not so sure it was Rachel's interviews that were so funny, or the production edits and sound effects added on. Like the crickets that always chirped! 
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Rehtse
Member
08-17-2005
| Monday, November 12, 2007 - 6:08 pm
Thanks! I never would have guessed her last name either, but I guess they are given a binder with all kinds of trivia about the show before production starts.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, November 12, 2007 - 6:56 pm
Lexie, now that I think about it... a measurement is a measurement. So I'm not so sure I buy Andre's struggle with metrics. If they said "draw a circle with a 10" diameter" then all he needed to do was look for the number "10" on the ruler. A 10 is a 10, no matter how you measure it! 
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Monday, November 12, 2007 - 9:57 pm
Exactly my point, Costcat. I worked with both the measurement systems but raised with one.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 5:53 am
I guess you could be right Costa. I've never worked with both measurement systems so I don't know. I'm not in any way defending André, but I don't know that if the shoe was on the other foot if I could measure something using the metric system. Granted a 10 is a 10, but don't ask me to start converting inches into millimeters and centimeters, or vice versa.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 6:32 am
how about his diatribe about 'women crowding men even in the womb'! LOL
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 7:55 am
I couldn't either Lexie. But 10" is a 10 on the ruler, as 10 mm is a 10 on a ruler.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, November 18, 2007 - 8:23 pm
I really REALLY wish Andre would go home! Tonight's episode (which aired earlier today) was actually pretty funny. I did feel bad for Daniel, having the Edge challenge sprung on him on his birthday (but it's his own fault for getting drunk).
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Meggieprice
Member
07-09-2001
| Sunday, November 18, 2007 - 8:56 pm
Who left tonight?
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, November 19, 2007 - 6:20 am
Daniel..and Andre makes me want to resort to violence!
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, November 19, 2007 - 7:10 am
LOL! Me, too, Annie! His ego is just such a total turnoff. Although, admittedly, Daniel was acting like a spoiled brat and really did need to go. I just, personally, wish it had been Andre.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, November 19, 2007 - 7:21 am
I just love how Andre can dish it out, but sure can't take it! rme
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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Monday, November 19, 2007 - 8:04 pm
So Andre doesn't speak Russian? That's what I took away from the last eppi. Is his name even Andre or maybe it's really Buddy. I'm always surprised at how entertaining this show is.
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Kiersten_love
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 12:42 am
Lilfair, I came here to post the same thing you did, is Andre really Russian, and how come if he hasn't been in Russia since he was a little boy, does he have that thick accent? Does he really have an accent or is it made up? How can he not even respond back in Russian when she asked him in Russian do you speak Russian or whatever it was she said to him. It seems so odd and off that he didn't respond back to her.
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