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Alaginger
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07-11-2002
| Saturday, September 24, 2011 - 12:26 pm
Opening the thread with the CBS Misdirection clues for the week: **************************** HOPING TO AVOID EXPULSION TO REDEMPTION ISLAND, ONE CASTAWAY MAKES A LAST-DITCH EFFORT TO KEEP ALIVE IN THE GAME, ON "SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC," WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 28 A castaway lies about finding the idol to try and avoid Redemption Island. Will it work? "Reap What You Sow" — One castaway reveals a shocking secret to their tribe while another castaway, in a last-ditch effort to keep alive in the game, devises a plan and pretends to find the hidden Immunity Idol. Meanwhile, on Redemption Island, the first castaway is sent home, on SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC, Wednesday, Sept. 28 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Ginger Note: Now that I'm back from the retreat, I see that Rick was not sent packing (Christine was), so that tells me that the spoiler from Sucks will not have the validity I was looking for in order to post a boot list in the general Spoiler Thread for the season. Obviously it will be Christine battling Semhar in Episode 3 in order to stay on the island, and not Rick.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, September 24, 2011 - 1:02 pm
She's BBAACKCKKK!!! \Waves frantically at Alaginger.
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Alaginger
Member
07-11-2002
| Saturday, September 24, 2011 - 1:31 pm
(LOL) Goddess ************************ Thanks to Survivor Fever for new pics and transcript: Transcript: Jiffy: At Savaii the pressure is on Ozzy...
Jeff: "Ozzy's lost his board", (and we see his board fly up and in front and he has to swim to it)
Ozzy in confessional: I'm not gonna tell anyone I have the idol Here a girl say, (presumably Whitney) "he's up to something"....
Jim: "what if he does have the idol? Why not protect against that"
Jiffy: And Brandon Wrestles with the truth...
See Mikayla crying.... Brandon: I lie blatantly... Coach: He let's things get to him....
Sophie: I think Brandon is a devious jerk...
Brandon: It's always the same battle for me...good - evil, good - evil, and Brandon is seen crying...
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Alaginger
Member
07-11-2002
| Saturday, September 24, 2011 - 1:50 pm
And here are more pics and transcript from a different preview, thanks to Survivor Fever: ************************* Transcript: ----------------------- Jeff Probst (start of challenge): Go! Announcer: The wildest season of Survivor has just begun. Jeff: Ozzy's in the water! Announcer: With superstar team captains Ozzy and Coach locked in an epic battle. Announcer: Plus... Brandon (camera confessional): This is like a constant battle for me. Announcer: Russell's nephew Brandon continues to hide his identify... Mikayla (camera confessional) : I don't trust him. I think he's a sneak. Announcer: ...and tries to manipulate his way...
Brandon (talking to Mikayla): It sounds to me like you don't have much of an alliance. Announcer: ...to the top. Sophie (camera confessional): He's a loose cannon. Brandon (camera confessional): You do not push me up against the wall. Here are challenge Pics:

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Mamabatsy
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08-05-2005
| Saturday, September 24, 2011 - 3:38 pm
welcome home. I really missed you.
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Alaginger
Member
07-11-2002
| Saturday, September 24, 2011 - 5:45 pm
TY Mama! Speaking of Mama. I felt like a mama duck for the past 4 days. We had 4 cars, and the other 3 followed me and stayed glued everywhere we went (and we went a lot of places), but it was all in my old stomping grounds in Baldwin County in Alabama.
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Alaginger
Member
07-11-2002
| Saturday, September 24, 2011 - 5:53 pm
Survivor Insider confessional with Coach: *********************** Coach admits to both looking forward to and dreading Tribal Council "Not only am I a glutton for punishment - at the end of the challenge today, I was smiling. Not because we lost - I hate losing; as soon as we left, I was gutted inside. I know it sounds crazy, but I love going to Tribal Council, because that's where the magic happens. I don't want to go over and over again, but I love getting to Tribal, it's another segment of time where my mind is stimulated. Jeff likes to fence with me verbally. The last two times, Jeff's called on me because he knows I'm gonna tell him the truth. I'm excited because I like the verbal fencing, which is what I call it. But then reality set on me that we lost a challenge, and I was pissed off. But you gotta look on every defeat as something positive in it, and you've gotta look at every victory as there's something to improve." "This camp is full of amateurs. They'll be scrambling this way, talking this way, come over and make a private deal with me. It's just crazy. There's no need for that. Everybody needs to settle down. My alliance of six, as soon as I get back to camp, in front of everybody, I'm gonna get all the remaining five of my alliance, get 'em together, sit 'em down, and say, 'You're voting for this person,' 'You're voting for this person,' split the vote, and then revote and take somebody out in the counter-alliance. It's either gonna be Mikayla, Stacey, or Christine. One of those three." Ginger Note: Looks like the alliance now has Edna Mae in it. 4 guys, Sophie and Edna Mae.
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Alaginger
Member
07-11-2002
| Saturday, September 24, 2011 - 6:10 pm
What I've picked up so far: ************************* A spoiler, MaxxFischer, states he is getting the info weekly. Anything overall for the whole season is not confirmed, but is suppose to be quite a roller coaster ride. He got week 1 and week 2 right, so for that reason, I'm going to go ahead and give you what he says for Episode 3. He says at Redemption Island Christine will beat out Semhar. He says that the Savaii tribe (red - Ozzy tribe) will lose again, and that Papa Bear is going away to Redemption Island. Evidently he gets caught about lying that he has the HII, and since Ozzy has it, Papa Bear is lying. Over at Survivor Fever I have checked their Boot List again. Last week they showed Rick as very vulnerable. Well, since he didn't get the boot, I guess they no longer put any credence to the spoiler at Sucks who put at the boot list with Rick being 2nd and then beating Semhar. Survivor Fever has Rick, this week, as safe, and actually on Coach's team, only shows Stacey as vulnerable. However; over at Savaii it shows all the gals are safe and 3 of the guys are not ... Jim, John (Cochran), and Papa Bear. Ginger: Aha, that's another point towards Papa Bear - Uh Oh.....
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, September 24, 2011 - 8:37 pm
Welcome home Ginger!!!! We missed ya! xoxoxo
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Alaginger
Member
07-11-2002
| Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 3:49 am
Okay ... for those of you playing any games where you have to know names, etc., about the challenge. ******************** Outfrontgirl at Survivor Blows has spelled it all out for us. Nobody sits out because the 2 tribes are even at 8 to 8. Those that are pulled to shore on boards, with puzzle pieces: Savaii (Red) - Ozzy, Dawn, Keith Upolu (Blue) - Albert, Brandon, Mikayla The pullers are Savaii (Red) - Keith, John, Mark, Jim Upolu (Blue) Albert, Stacey, Sophie, Rick Albert (blue) and Keith (red) are both seen retrieving and pulling, so possibly others take turns doing both, but this is all the pics show at this time. The grapplers on the platform the ladder leads to who seem to be assigned to putting the puzzle together: Coach and Edna (Blue - Upolu) Elyse and Whitney (Red - Savaii) And, as stated in the above threads, it appears that Blue wins. Might be because Ozzy loses the board and is penalize or has to restart or whatever, or might be because Elyse and Whitney get beaten at the puzzle-solving.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 10:51 am
Glad you had a great trip but we sure missed you!
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Monday, September 26, 2011 - 5:04 am
Welcome home Ginger!!
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Alaginger
Member
07-11-2002
| Monday, September 26, 2011 - 6:07 am
Maybe I should go away more often. This warm, fuzzy feeling of greeting on returning is very good for my well-being, and I was only gone 4 days. (LOL) ************************** Nothing new this morning. Usually after football Sunday, we get new previews and transcript and good analytical doings overnight, plus time-stamps on pictures by the CBS photographer, etc., etc., etc. .... but nothing new. If this MaxxFischer spoiler thing is right on, since he has got 2 for 2, then we know the outcome (read my 9/24, 6:10 pm post). However; over at Survivor Blows, the analytical ones are mixed, thinking we don't have enough to go on and that so far it might all be CBS Misdirection. Ozzy chasing the board in the challenge might be recouped and Coach might do his usual bungling of puzzle-solving at the end ... and if so, Stacey is all set up to get sent to Redemption Island. So, they are thinking Stacey if Upolu loses, and three choices if Savaii loses, with John being the one previously set up. Some of them even think it is John who tries to fake it that he has found the HII in order to save himself. If Papa Bear does not go to Redemption Island on Wednesday night, we will know that MaxxFischer's source is feeding him a line of Bull.
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Mameblanche
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08-24-2002
| Monday, September 26, 2011 - 7:27 am
((Ginger))
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Alaginger
Member
07-11-2002
| Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 4:40 am
Love the Pic, MameBee!!! .... too cute, and too close to reality!!! (LOL) **************************** The name of the challenge is "Hitching a Ride". Overnight we got a video of the challenge being practiced by the dreamteamers, so the pics and transcript of that video tells us how the challenge is done. Thanks to Survivor Blows, I just picked up their description and pics. **************************** It appears that one person from each team will carry a boogie board tethered by a rope to a large crank on the shore line. They must race across floating parts to a dock out in the water, where they must retrieve puzzle pieces (there are five altogether). Once the Puzzle piece is retrieved, they dive into the water on the boogie board and their tribe mates will crank and tow them into shore. Once all five puzzle piece sacks are brought to shore, they are placed in little baskets in the sand adjacent to a large wall. At the top of the wall are two or three tribe members from each side. They must throw grappling hooks down on the sand to retrieve each puzzle basket. Once each basket is hooked and lifted up to the top of the wall, the teams can assemble their "puzzle." Each puzzle sack contains a piece of a long banner that extends from the top of the wall to the bottom. First team that releases all of the five banners in the proper order wins the challenge. ***********************************
The wall without any of the pieces
The grapplers
The baskets on the ground with puzzle pieces
A Puzzle in Progress
A Finished Practice Puzzle ********************************** Assumption at this point from the other pics we have is that 1)Ozzy and his team will lose time because Ozzy loses and has to chase his bogie board and 2) Coach just might be a whole lot better with the grappling hooks than Whitney and Elyse from the other tribe.
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Alaginger
Member
07-11-2002
| Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 4:56 am
Okay ... the SOTS (State of the Spoiling) at Survivor Blows is up, and is done this week by KObrien_fan *************************** Her final summary of the lengthy SOTS is: Drama: Brandon reveals the Hantz moniker RI Duel loser: Semhar burns her buff RC/IC Challenge winner: Upolu Booted to RI: Mark Anthony Caruso AKA Papa Bear My summary of everything she had to say is: The CBS Misdirection Clues this week of a big secret has to be Brandon and his tattoo because it's been touted from the beginning and we see in the pics he is without his shirt. She didn't say why she speculates Semhar to lose, but that MaxxFischer clue says Christine wins, and Christine is definitely stronger than Semhar, so I would have to agree. Her speculation of Upolu winning the combination reward/immunity challenge is based on bunches of pics that I don't have the time or energy to bring over here, but they all show that Upolu is way ahead of Savaii, and it's probably because Ozzy has to redo that one leg of the challenge where he lost the bogie board. And, Papa Bear getting sent to Redemption Island, is speculated because it looks from all the confessionals that Cochran is pegged to stay around as a main character for a lot longer in the season, so by process of elimination that leaves Papa Bear as the next logical choice for the boot.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 8:07 am
Allison Grodner and the BB crew could learn a lesson when it comes to creating challenges. I'm constantly bewildered at the physical challenges on Survivor compared to standing on a wall on BB.
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Alaginger
Member
07-11-2002
| Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 12:50 pm
Yes ... I thought this particular challenge with the banner puzzles was rather unique.
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Whiplash
Member
03-29-2011
| Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 5:07 pm
I love Big Brother, but I don't think most of the house guests would do Survivor type stunts. They'd quit really fast - so many of them just don't do "tough stuff".
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Alaginger
Member
07-11-2002
| Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 6:32 pm
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Alaginger
Member
07-11-2002
| Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 6:35 pm
Aha ... we have a picture of Semhar and Christine doing their challenge at Redemption Island. ***************************
This looks to me to be very similar to a previous challenge, one where Russell won immunity if I'm not mistaken. He was balancing a plate, but these girls seem to be balancing something else on the end of sticks, and you can see the spare sticks to the side which, I guess, they add on at intervals until somebody drops what they are balancing, tosses their buff in the fire, and leave the show. Christine is favored to win this challenge.
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Roro66
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08-19-2009
| Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 8:29 pm
SO GLAD YOUR BACK GINGER!
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Alaginger
Member
07-11-2002
| Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 6:05 am
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Alaginger
Member
07-11-2002
| Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 6:09 am
Thanks Roro - The Press Releases with Time Stamps came out late yesterday, and that's where I got the picture above of the Redemption Island challenge. This morning I wanted to see what discussion was going on over at Survivor Blows about the Press Release and also wanted to check their voting thread. ********************************
This picture shows that Coach and Stacy from Upolu plus Ozzy and Elyse from Savaii got to see the RI challenge.
This picture shows you how the puzzle bags were set up for the swimmers to retrieve. Here you see Dawn retrieving bag #4 for the Savaii tribe. There was another picture of Mikayla retrieving bag #2 for Upolu. Survivor Blows discussion: basically, the only thing new they said was that it looked like Ozzy did all the laps except the one Dawn did, but it's not sure. It's not sure if when he lost the bogie board it was #3 or #5, but up til that time it appeared that he was ahead. They still think that losing the bogie board sets him behind, and that Coach does a good job of grappling the bags and Edna Mae whips the banners together into the right place for the win. In checking the voting thread, there are 17 hits so far over at Survivor Blows, and except for one voter, the rest all seem to agree with the SOTS that Semhar goes home and Mark (Papa Bear) goes to RI.
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Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004
| Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 6:29 am
Oh when the Saints go marching in... Ginger, it looks like they are balancing a tiki idol on those poles.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 6:40 am
Just great Lexie...now I'll be singing that all day 
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Alaginger
Member
07-11-2002
| Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 6:56 am
Oh, Yeah!!! The Saints were really marching in on Sunday, even if they did start out dragging behind at the beginning. (LOL)
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 8:37 am
Hey Scoot - that's not a bad thing - especially iffin you belong to the Who Dat Nation !!!
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 8:45 am
LOL Lexie!!!
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Alaginger
Member
07-11-2002
| Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 12:25 pm
And I do!!! And I do!!! And I do!!! I just have to share this here. I'm Ball Captain in February, and at the Maid's Meeting this coming Monday night I'm showing up in my huge Saint's shirt. For the 2 hour meeting they are going to wonder why, but when we hand out the "showtime" gifts I have Fleur de lis soaps with "Geaux Saints" on the back, in little gift bags with cards that have the outline of the state of LA with a star where New Orleans would be, and a football peeking around from the back of the state. The card says "Dreaming of Victory" and the reason is because my Ball is "I Dreamed A Dream". I thought October would be a good time to link the Dream theme with football season.
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