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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 6:13 pm
Rslover...I agree, the women should play it strategically now but we are always accused of thinking with our hearts, instead of our heads (unlike men, who are the opposite and sometimes think with their 'other' heads), so it'll be interesting so see what their next move will be.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 6:37 pm
So, assuming that Mogo Mogo ends up at TC next week (or whenever, if next week's rerun city), which is highly likely since they don't have the physical prowess necessary to win an IC... Suppose that Lex wants Jeri to go. But suppose Shi Ann and Kathy finally get brave and decide to vote Lex out. Wouldn't that just fry his, um... apples!! Then again, it's likely that MB et al will use a brain challenge for a change, and those on Mogo Mogo can manage to outwit Chapera for once. <sigh> I, too, am not sure whether I really care who wins this SAS. There's really no one there who I'd love to win. Rupert, maybe, but I think he's "off his game" this time. Maybe he just didn't have long enuf of a break between the two, and so is at a disadvantage. It's got to be mental enough (as well as physical) as to require some fairly decent chunk of time to return back to "normal", yes?
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Catfat
Member
02-27-2002
| Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 7:24 pm
I don't see that pirate mentality in Rupert this time, which was what was so much fun last time. Yo ho ho.
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 7:25 pm
Oh most definitely Costacat. The mental and physical rigors involved in playing the game are tremendous. Everyone has commented on how this series has been particularly severe. So, for Rupert to play two games almost back to back with a brief intermission...he has to be feeling it. I give the man kudos because he went in at a distinct disadvantage, not being as rested up mentally or physically as the rest of the players.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 8:21 pm
I still think ASS is about a bunch of players, many of whom are simply not HUNGRY enough to play.. I mean, two people have quit, Ethan stated that it really is different because you know that it will be uncomfortable this time and said he kind of knew they wouldn't let a former winner win.. Sue and Rich said the food situation was way better than on their season so it wasn't being hungry. Last night I knew again WHY I hated Rob M so much in his season.. he is unneccessarily mean and disrespectful. Rupert has said things to a camera, but Rob had to include TOM (and someone point out to me just how useful TOM is??) And Rob with HIS accent has to make fun of how Rupert talks? I hope Jeff saying "drop your buffs" means not a merge but a reshuffle and I hope Rupert gets to shuffle off to a different team than Rob. Amber's reaction makes it sound like she will be separated from her protector. Tish.. yes Rupert did treat the thing as his but saying he modified it for himself? I think he sharpened it so that anyone would be able to catch fish more easily. He didn't customize it so no one else could use it or anything. I agree about Rupert stepping up to the plate so soon.. that was one reason Sandra didn't play because she was weak from her season. I would laugh if the girls turned on Lex next. He could join fellow puppetmaster Colby at loser lodge. But if Rob could leave, I'd be more pleased. I really missed being in spoiling last night but I was off at physical therapy.. maybe I should try to reschedule my Wednesday appt to Thurs next week.
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Ark
Member
07-10-2001
| Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 9:13 pm
I saw Rupert sharpen the spear/gig and that has to be done frequently, but I missed him customizing it. What exactly did he do?
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 9:14 pm
Oh Sea, let me just dislike Rupert in peace! You're not going to say anything to mame me come around (any more than I am going to suddenly start liking Jon whasshisname on AI). I grab at all the ammo possible, so to me, sharpening it was a kind of territorialism. I know it's irrational, but it's MY irrationality, just as others have Rob's purported arrogance as thir irrationality. 
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 9:14 pm
Ark, he got cooties on it!
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Lancecrossfire
Moderator
07-13-2000
| Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 9:16 pm
As discussed in the Adven game thread, it is Rob who has crabs. 
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Cr8ofdata
Member
01-13-2004
| Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 9:20 pm
Julieboo - Thanks for letting me know... I knew someone had been voted off from there but couldn't remember who - I even wrote down everyone's name who had gone... I guess Rob C. didn't make that big of an impression on me this time. Thanks!
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Caycaye
Member
09-14-2001
| Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 10:35 pm
Well...I am in TOTAL aggreement with you Kep421!! Rob is VERY mean-spirited, and talks smack about people WAY more than he should. He ridiculed Rupert for absolutely no reason. Atleast Tom didn't feel the need to chime in. Rupert has pride in his abilities, yes...but BRAG like Rob...no way... And the way I saw and heard it....Rupert honestly said to Tom..."I am GLAD Rob atleast caught a fish"...not saying it condescendingly at all. If you remember last season (contrary to what Rob says)...just having a Hawaiin sling did NOT make it a "done deal" to catch fish...and YES Rupert was unpleasantly surprised at how well Rob did with it. After all...that WAS Rupert's "thing" to be important to his tribe. And he had a RIGHT to be proud, when no one else could do it. And I, and most others (whether they like Rob or not)can see quite plainly AND RATIONALLY that Rob is totally arrogant. It's a fact.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 10:55 pm
Ok Tish.. you can have at least some but I hardly think Rob's arrogance is "purported" or alleged.. it is evident, clearly.. I think he'd be the first to admit to that. I'd never try to actually convince you Would be no fun if we all agreed anyway.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 11:49 pm
i can't stand rob and his arrogance...but remembering the old adage, 'pride comes before a fall', or 'time wounds all heels' makes me hopeful he'll get his one day!
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, March 19, 2004 - 1:00 am
Caycaye, I'd never tell you that you can't find Rob arrogant! But some people would say that having strong emotions about a television character who has been highly edited is a priori irrational. 
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Caycaye
Member
09-14-2001
| Friday, March 19, 2004 - 1:05 am
Point taken.
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Azriel
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, March 19, 2004 - 1:43 am
Tishala, I like Rupert, but your Rupert posts make me laugh all the time. It would be a boring board if we all had the same favorites. Besides, we are allies on the AI board. Go Fantasia!
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Friday, March 19, 2004 - 2:07 am
There is a fine line between extremely self confident and being perceived as arrogant. I see Rupert not as self confident but he does have an arrogant side. Rob is both...but plays to the camera so much I am wondering if this season is the "ROB SHOW". Last season was the "RUPERT SHOW" LOL. Methinks the producers choose whom they want to portray as the villans and heros.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Friday, March 19, 2004 - 4:49 am
I just want to say that I think it is great to come in here and read all the different views and not leave feeling like it turned ugly. It seemed like the last few Survivors had enough undercurrents of hostility in opposing camps to make me avoid the General Discussions area more and more. It just felt to me like the polarity of opinions was leading to passive-aggressive personal attacks and bad feelings. I was pleasantly surprised to come in here and read these posts and see all the different opinions with people not only honestly agreeing to disagree, but doing so with humor and respect. I just want to thank everyone for that. You guys rock!
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Kep421
Member
08-11-2001
| Friday, March 19, 2004 - 6:15 am
There's also a fine line between extreme self confidence and extreme conceit. To me, Rob doesn't appear to have self confidence. If he did, he wouldn't feel the need to put others down the way he does. And trying to get others to join him in his ridiculing seems like an attempt to get confirmation from others that he is better than anyone else. And these actions don't seem to be edited. I mean, do the producers tell Rob to act like this? I think not. A truly self confident person knows who they are, and doesn't need to "put people in their place" as it were, when anyone else shows initiative or talent. Rob is the only person on this Survivor who seems to have the need to make people feel small. For me, that makes him the least self confident of any of them. Someone once said that conceited people didn't think they were better than everyone else, they "KNEW" they were better than anyone else. I think this addage fits Rob perfectly.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Friday, March 19, 2004 - 9:34 am
this does seem to the the 'rob show', as last season's was the rupert show. (however, last time, no one seemed to do much except for rupert, so what else could they have shown, LOL). at least rob is working hard this time. he sat out (literally) half the game last time, letting the others do all the work, even for the first few days of the merge. he really does make me laugh. i do not find him attractive at all for some reason--perhaps the cockiness keeps him from seeming goodlooking to me--but he acts as if he is auditioning for a B movie 'wiseguys' or 'casablanca'. all of his playing to the camera and classic lines, such as 'get the million and the girl', etc. how come he forgot to add, and 'ride off into the sunset'?! he is entertainment, as were richard hatch, ghandia, johnny fairplay and several others; i hope he doesn't win, though! it would set a bad example for my children, to whom i have taught humility, manners, kindness and not being bullies LOLOL if he wins, i might feel 'robbed' eheheheheheee!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Friday, March 19, 2004 - 9:53 am
I love Rupert and felt sorry for him this week. I also love Rob! He makes me laugh and he just gets hotter each week!!
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Guinevere
Member
03-15-2001
| Friday, March 19, 2004 - 12:31 pm
I think Rob and Rupert are both arrogant; I think Rob is a lot meaner, but I also find him a lot funnier, a lot more self-aware about his arrogance and a lot more attractive. I veer between disliking Rob and finding him hot. I have never found Rupert remotely hot, funny or self-aware. So all in all, I prefer Rob.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Friday, March 19, 2004 - 3:12 pm
ah yes, we usually like the "bad boys"...it's a GIRL thing LOL I am just killing myself laughing here. Rupert and HOT, hmmmm those are two words I never thought I'd see in the same sentence. :-))))
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Rslover
Member
11-19-2002
| Friday, March 19, 2004 - 5:40 pm
TV GUIDE INTERVIEW WITH ETHAN Survivor's Ethan Ejected by Angel Cohn Cute guys are dropping like flies on Survivor: All-Stars. Seems it's all thanks to one man, Lex. Mogo Mogo's tattooed tribesman schemed for Colby's ouster last week, then preyed on pal Ethan Zohn. Lex insisted his anti-Ethan vote was "only business," but Zohn sees it a bit differently. Here, the Survivor: Africa winner — who used his $1 million to start a soccer-oriented AIDS charity — tells TV Guide Online about Lex's betrayal, his lazy tribemates and Rob and Amber's reality TV romance. TVGO: Are you mad at Lex? Ethan Zohn: [Sighs] Am I mad at Lex? While I was out there, I was a little mad at Lex, but now everything's fine. We are friends and buddies. Basically, we differed in opinion. Lex wanted me to go and I wanted to stay. TVGO: He said not to take it personally — but how can you do that? Ethan: Exactly. He takes me aside, as his friend, and tells me, as his friend, that he's voting me off. Yet, he [went on] to explain to me that he's playing this game businesslike and friendship won't get in the way. Because that hurt him last time. It is a little difficult to understand. TVGO: Were you glad he told you, or would you rather have been surprised? Ethan: That's a good question. I think, in the end, I'm glad he told me. He does know me as a person and respects that I would have wanted to know before I left. But you are never happy when someone comes to you and says that. TVGO: You outlasted the other past Survivor winners. That's something. Ethan: I know. That feels great. I outlasted all of the winners. That's a pretty good feeling. It is a testament to how I played the game, and that I played the game well. TVGO: Why did Jerri upset you more than Shii Ann? They both seemed equally annoying. Ethan: I was a little upset because I had lived with Jerri over on Saboga and I saw what she did. She's kind of... what's the word? Useless. And then, she came over to Mogo Mogo and did the same thing. I just felt that, of us two new guys, she didn't deserve to be there. TVGO: It didn't look like Shii Ann did much, either. Ethan: Correct. Shii Ann didn't do that well in the challenges, but around camp, she was helpful, she cooked a little bit and she cleaned. Whereas Jerri kind of just sat on her butt. TVGO: How do you feel about winning Survivor sponsor Tylenol's "Push Through the Pain" contest twice? Ethan: I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I know I had to take a lot of Tylenol [while] watching the show. The first one, when I banged my head on the side of the [swimming] tank, I think I deserved it. But I don't know why I got the other one. TVGO: It looked like you banged your head pretty hard. Did you have a concussion? Ethan: I think we all had concussions out there. We are all crazy for being there. TVGO: Ya think? Ethan: I think we're all a little bit nuts. TVGO: Speaking of nuts, you were on Rupert's team. Is he crazy or a nice guy? Ethan: [Laughs] A little bit of both. One-on-one, he's a nice guy. In front of the camera, he's like a different person. He likes things to go his way. He's a hard worker, he got food and I definitely respect that and I liked having him on my team. Except that he made silly choices like building a bomb shelter in the middle of the beach, or building a raft that could hold about 47 people. Those two things were a little questionable. TVGO: I know you like to keep your private life private... Ethan: I do like to keep my private life private. TVGO: Well, you are dating fellow Survivor alum Jenna Morasca. What's your take on the public romance between Boston Rob and Amber? Ethan: Ahh, the romance. Luckily, they were on a different island and I didn't have to witness it firsthand. All I can think about is that you are eating fish all day, you are not brushing your teeth — and what must their tongues taste like? I wouldn't do it as a strategy. If I saw someone that had a strong bond like that, I would want to separate them as soon as possible. But if they are able to find trust and true romance in a game like this, under these circumstances, then I applaud them for it and wish them the best of luck. TVGO: So even if you'd been in the same tribe as Jenna, you wouldn't have pursued your feelings? Ethan: I wouldn't let any sort of romance take part in my strategy. It seems detrimental. That's not to say you can't be good friends, or even have trust, but I would not want anyone to see that. It is a window into a different part of my life. TVGO: A lot of female viewers are upset that you and Colby are no longer in the game... Ethan: [Laughs] Well, Rupert is still there, and Tom. TVGO: How does it feel to be a "Survivor heartthrob"? Ethan: It is a little weird. It is not a bad thing, of course, but it is definitely a little strange to have people look at me in that light when all I wanted to do was go out there and play a game. It is nice to have people say nice things about me. I don't think anyone would deny that, but sometimes, it is a little embarrassing and makes me blush. TVGO: Last night, when you wore your buff around your head like a kerchief, you looked kind of like my grandma. Ethan: Did I? Your grandma has a big beard like that? Are you sure it wasn't your grandpa? TVGO: Come on. It looked silly when you tied it under your chin. Ethan: The reason you do that is because it is like a thousand below zero at night and you are wet and you are cold. I was given a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, socks, shoes and a buff. When you are wet and it is in the middle of the night and the wind blows and it is raining and the fire goes out, you are freezing. If I could have crawled inside my own mouth, I would have. TVGO: So you weren't concerned about your appearance? Ethan: Obviously, I wasn't concerned about my appearance. Some people were. But me? No. TVGO: Would you ever consider doing another Survivor? Ethan: Yeah. I love the game of Survivor. I love the competition. I love pushing my body to the max, physically and mentally and spiritually. I would jump at a chance to do it again. TVGO: Who do you think deserves to win? Ethan: Deserves to win? That's a tough question. I think everyone that deserves to win is off the show already. [Laughs] Just kidding. I'd like to see Lex go far in the game. TVGO: Even after what he did? Ethan: Even after he stabbed me in the back and did all that stuff. I think he's playing a good game. Since he knocked me out, if he goes all the way, it makes me look a little better. But truthfully, I think all the best players have been voted out.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 12:17 am
ick, ethan just dropped about 2 zillion points in my like-meter. dating jenna m????????
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