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Awareinva | Thursday, December 20, 2001 - 09:52 pm   Ok, my new favorite Big Tom moment-- "He's (Ethan) a Jew! He can't eat the ham! Whoo whoo! He can't eat the ham!! More for me!" LOL I'm glad to see that Ethan didn't take it wrong and can dish it right back to Big Tom in the same spirit. I do hope that Ethan got an extra pancake out of the deal though, or all the eggs! I do think that the specualtion by the remaining tribe members was right- old Tommy boy is playing up that good ole boy attitude. I guarantee that he decided before he went to be the stumbling bumpkin and throw everyone off track. Seems like the others are catching onto his act- I guess after 30+ days it would get hard to keep up. Now we just have to hope old Kim stays with her boys and our Big Tom is on his way!!!
GO BIG TOM!ALL THE WAY |
Urgrace | Thursday, December 27, 2001 - 05:33 pm   Tom is so funny! |
Nyquilbeer | Thursday, December 27, 2001 - 05:35 pm   yeah his hilarious. i love him, GO BIG TOM |
Judy | Thursday, December 27, 2001 - 06:56 pm   As someone twenty years his junior...I just have to give a hat's off to Big Tom. Even at the height of my mis-spent youth , I could never have downed several beers and a whole bottle of Bourbon then gotten up at the crack of dawn and taken a balloon ride and won a throwing contest. NEVER! LOL. What a wild 3 days he had |
Car54 | Friday, December 28, 2001 - 04:11 am   Here is an article from about Tom: Friday, December 28, 2001 'Survivor's' Tom Buchanan has turned Smyth County into a tourist spot Small town makes the big time Tourists from as far as Florida have traveled to Kountry Korner with the hopes of meeting Smyth County's "Survivor" star. By JENN BURLESON THE ROANOKE TIMES RICH VALLEY - Tourists invaded a community that's too small to house its own post office. Students were inspired to read. And a farmer with a slow southern drawl has become a folk hero. Life in Smyth County has been thoroughly interrupted since October when cattle and goat farmer "Big" Tom Buchanan made his television debut on CBS's "Survivor Africa." Each Thursday night for two months, the show has depicted strangers competing in sometimes outrageous adventures in the hopes of eventually winning $1 million. Every week, one of 16 original contestants is voted off the show. Last night, one more member was tossed, leaving Buchanan and four others vying for the jackpot. CBS has set the season finale for Jan. 10. The 46-year-old farmer finished taping the show months ago, but even his son swears that he doesn't know whether his father will win the show's top prize. Buchanan is forbidden by the network from talking about the show until he is eliminated, but that hasn't stopped him from gaining a following. He came home in early September and tried to get back to everyday life, making morning visits to KJ's Kountry Korner for one of Phyllis Taylor's fried bologna sandwiches and a bottle of Mountain Dew. Then, with a cellphone constantly ringing by his side, he works the farm. Yet his life is anything but normal. Tourists from as far as Florida have traveled to Kountry Korner with the hopes of meeting Buchanan and getting one of his autographed T-shirts. Every day, store owner Duane Prater answers dozens of phone calls from Buchanan's fans. "No, he's not in here," he says. "He's supposed to be in here some time this evening." Then he jots down their names and phone numbers and promises to call them when Buchanan makes his next store visit. "He's a hoot," Chilhowie resident Cathy Waters said Thursday as she sorted through T-shirts showing Buchanan on the cover of TV Guide. "Everybody likes him." Although Prater sells hundreds of the $10 shirts each week - and has sold out of tote bags and hats - he doesn't make money from any of it. The proceeds pay for high school athletes to eat when they travel to ball games. A little of the money has also helped a couple of families with handicapped children. About two weeks ago, the store sold about 600 T-shirts when another Survivor contestant, Ethan Zohn, came to visit him. They signed shirts together and spoke to residents as fans patiently waited in a line that wound around the outside of the store. Nearly every week, Prater changes the Kountry Korner marquee sign to reflect Buchanan's behavior on the show. Last week the sign read, "Big Tom really hams it up on Survivor." During the day, store employees huddle in a chilly office filled with Buchanan T-shirts smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee, trying to guess how far Buchanan will make it on the show. Buchanan also was the grand marshal of the Bristol parade - an honor that won him a scolding e-mail from CBS, which told him he needed to tone down his celebrity status. That hasn't stopped Buchanan from visiting the local schools for his "Read to Survive" program. When students read enough books to reach a goal set by their teacher, Buchanan visits their classes to shake hands and sign autographs. He said he wanted to do something to encourage them to learn the things in school that he never learned. "I have a problem spelling," Buchanan said. "I can't spell anything but dirty words." Letters, poems and drawings from teachers and students from as far as Madisonville, Ky., have spilled into Buchanan's home. One letter from a Lebanon Middle School teacher said that a faculty member tapes the show each week so that the students who don't have televisions can still watch Buchanan. Buchanan has done everything on the show from running around on a beach wearing nothing but a feather sticking out of his rear to generously dumping buckets of water onto female cast members to help them shower. He's even named some of his cattle after his co-stars. Yellow tags bearing their names stick out of their ears. "See there's old Lex and Frank," Buchanan said as he rode in a car down his driveway. "That one with the big horns is Ethan." This adventure started months ago as Buchanan cruised through his fields on his black golf-cart with a herd of babbling goats trotting behind his bumper. As the power light on a borrowed camcorder glowed, he spoke to his goats. "Come on, y'all. Let's go to Survivor." His wife mailed in the videotape the last day before the Survivor entry deadline. He received a letter weeks later telling him that he had not been admitted to the show. Later that summer he suddenly received a phone call telling him to pack his bags. Days later he was on his way to Africa. Survivor promotions refer to Buchanan as a goat farmer, but in all truthfulness, the farmer has about 250 goats along with about 900 cattle, according to his 20-year-old son. Buckey "Bo" Buchanan said everything else about the show's portrayal of his father is perfectly accurate. He watches the show at college every week surrounded by friends. "They ask if that's how he really is," the grinning Cumberland College student said with his father's familiar southern drawl. "I say yes, and they say, 'Good God, what an idiot.' And I say, 'Yep.’ ” |
Awareinva | Wednesday, January 02, 2002 - 08:36 pm   Car, you are so on the ball. I was at my mom's house over the holiday which is near Tom's abode. I read this article in her paper, and brought it home to post on the site, but you beat me to it. (Thanks ... I really wasn't looking forward to retyping the whole thing! ) The pictures that were with the story were pretty good, but nothing too exciting. I think it is so nice of Tom to donate his time to help the youth in the area. We live in a rural area like he does and there are a lot of kids who come from very low income homes and the parents just don't have time to keep the kids motivated to read. This sure would help get me motivated-A VISIT FROM A REAL LIVE SURVIVOR... HEY, I like to read!! Visit me TOM, visit me!!!!!! GO BIG TOM!!! |
Car54 | Friday, January 04, 2002 - 02:58 pm   Big Tom" Buchanan makes it to the Big Four By JOE TENNIS Bristol Herald Courier RICH VALLEY -- "Big Tom" Buchanan made it to the Big Four. Now, the goat and cattle farmer from Smyth County is headed to Los Angeles for the final showdown -- and the race to win $1 million -- as a final contestant on "Survivor III: Africa." The final episode of the CBS-TV reality series airs next week. In Rich Valley Thursday, about 75 people cheered and shouted "YEA, TOM!" at a TV party hosted by Buchanan's longtime friend, farmer Charlie Clark. On Thursday's episode, Buchanan, 46, survived a round of votes among the final five contestants. He also became the focus of a growing round of conspiracies among cast members -- with player Teresa Cooper saying Tom had tried lining up votes against one player so somebody else could do "the dirty work." Yet, in the end, it was Cooper, a 42-year-old flight attendant from Jackson, Ga., who was voted off the tribe. Still, such so-called "dirty work" was not all that was dirty about Thursday's show. Contestant Ethan Zohn, a 27-year-old professional soccer player from Lexington, Mass., made jokes about the stench of Buchanan's feet as cameras showed contestants lying around the African bush -- a place where they lived for more than a month with no phone, no light and no motor car. But, on Thursday, one player, Lex van den Berghe, a 38-year-old marketing manager from Santa Cruz, Calif., nabbed a new pickup truck after winning a word game and deciphering a word puzzle. Buchanan's father, Raymond, eyed that big truck on the screen and told his son: "Tom, if you could spell, look at what you could have got." Big Tom laughed. Last summer, the easygoing Buchanan spent several weeks filming the series at Kenya's Shaba National Reserve. Until the series concludes, however, he is not allowed to talk to the media or divulge to anyone who emerged the winner. |
Urgrace | Friday, January 04, 2002 - 09:18 pm   Car! You are amazing! The research and effort you put towards getting it all posted is truly admired by me and a lot of the other tvch members. You also have interesting comments that make a lot of sense in figuring out what is happening. Awesome! Thank you again! |
Car54 | Friday, January 04, 2002 - 11:44 pm   Thanks Grace, I have had a lot of fun this season. |
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Awareinva | Monday, January 07, 2002 - 11:37 am   Big Tom- he has been quite a hoot, And he's not bad at beating the boot, Now its down to the wire, Please fulfill my desire, And let Tommy Boy take home the loot! |
Lancecrossfire | Monday, January 07, 2002 - 02:00 pm   Aware, are you an ex Lex Head or Dread Head? You certainly have the passion for Tom that they do for Lex and Ethan. Way to root for your Survivor!! |
Urgrace | Monday, January 07, 2002 - 02:08 pm   Aware, go back to the finale deadpool poll - I had already changed my vote to Tom! There are others out there just being quiet!! LOL! You have been a Tom fan a long time and it won't surprise me if you can say 'I told you so' to others when Tom wins! He's a good guy and a good player! |
Awareinva | Tuesday, January 08, 2002 - 01:04 pm   Whewwww....glad to see I'm not the only one on Car's finale pool voting for Tom! I have been rooting for him since the first show- and I would love to see him win! I know that it will probably come down differently, but Lex did swear on his son's head, so I don't think he'll stab Tom in the back. Ethan will probably take the final IC and keep Lex, but I just can't vote that way! Tom is really a good guy. Even though he has said some non-politically correct things, he really doens't mean anything by it. I liked both Rudy and MadDog too-- all of these people have represented Virginia well. I wanted Rudy to win really really bad and I see Tom as a more personable version of Rudy. GO BIG TOM!  |
Awareinva | Wednesday, January 09, 2002 - 10:43 pm   Ode to Boran and Big Tom on the morning of his big win! Now Boran started off pretty bad They dumped most of the water they had Then Clarence- the hog Ate the beans like a dog And it made all of the tribe pretty sad. Our man Tom, didn't like this at all Poor old Clarence was made to feel small But Diane had to go Cause she was way too slow And kept causing poor Ethan to fall. Next to go was poor Jessie the cop Her lips cracked and they peeled without stop The whole tribe was a mess They were under some stress And poor Ethan- his hair was a mop Lex and Tom swore a pact to the end Seems like Ethan is also their friend Then the lions came near Causing Boran to fear And their boma, they made sure to mend But the tables at this point, they turned With reward, clean fresh water they earned And with paint they were seen Red, blue yellow and green Boran's fighting spirit still burned Mark Burnett has a devious mind To his "twist" all the players were blind So the tribes had to switch And with that little hitch Cocky Silas's papers were signed Samburu thought Tom was a hick Off of Lindsay he pulled a small tick It was stuck to her rear And our Tom got quite near Ah- that's why he offered so quick Then the tribes finally merged into one Now Tom's time came to shine like the sun He was full of quaint sayings That to some were just brayings But the fun for old Tom's just begun A third eye on Tom's neck did appear It was big and it caused some to fear So old Tom kept hid And a good thing he did Or none of his tribe would come near. Lex and Tom got to go make Jeff poor, Tommy Boy ate only meat, more and more Then our Tom - he got drunk Like the proverbial skunk And he threw up all over the floor The balloon ride was really a treat To see lions kill things was so neat But the others got zip They missed out on the trip All that they got was Tom's stinky feet. Tom surely does like giving showers Making all of the girls smell like flowers He showered them all Both the big and the small But his favorite it seemed was Kim Powers So now it comes down to the end And we'll see who is foe and who's friend MamaKim's got to go She is just way to slow And she'll get enough money to spend. Our Ethan's the next one to go Next to Lex he has also been slow So third place he will be Oh I don't want to see All the tears that his loss will make flow Tom and Lex then will be final two Oh what will our old jury do? I know they'll have fun As they come down to one I think that Tom wins it, don't you? Big Tom seems quite crude, that's a fact. And a lot that he's done has lacked tact. But you'll see that he'll win And he'll give a big grin And explain it was all just an act! GO BIG TOM! ****sniff, sniff.... how will I ever pass these sleepless nights until the next Survivor?******* |
Car54 | Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 08:45 am   Big Tom is in LA! BIG TOM IN THE BIG CITY |
Twiggyish | Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 08:58 am   I think he looks good in the picture. The article made me wonder if Bryant Gumbel has been watching the show. He seemed to have an opinion of Tom. |
Lancecrossfire | Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 09:06 am   I liked that Aware! Nice job. |
Car54 | Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 09:19 am   Twiggy, last week when Teresa was on the Early Show, Bryant was very emphatic about wanting anyone BUT Tom to win. This week, he seems to have calmed down about it. |
Mindyrama | Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 12:06 pm   But did anyone notice in that one article he said that the cow with the Big Horns is Ethan..hmmmmm... |
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Tksoard | Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 04:12 pm   YOU GOT IT AWARE!!! GO MY BIG HUNKA HUNKA HILLBILLY LOVE!!!!  |
Neko | Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 05:40 pm   Bad news guys........ |
Nyquilbeer | Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 06:44 pm   yeah, i want Tom to in the final two, but bummer he didnt made it. |
Nyquilbeer | Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 06:50 pm   LET be my Fav.Ethan Win Plssssssss. oh love that Big Tom. good vote tom, love yah. |
Squaredsc | Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 06:52 pm   i just love this man, he keeps it real, and i don't care if they hear me. |
Nyquilbeer | Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 06:55 pm   LOL |
Nyquilbeer | Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 07:50 pm   Thank for bringing us big laugh TOM. your really funny. love your sense of HUMOR. |
Urgrace | Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 08:21 pm   Yes Big Tom, I voted for you to win Thought you'd make the final two with Ethan But we know what Lex did Put his hex on yer head Three votes out was the ruin of the plan! Hey big guy, you did good! |
Discoinferno | Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 09:15 pm   Tom's vote for Eathan was my favorite thing this season! SHH Woman! |
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