Archive through October 24, 2002
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Archive through October 24, 2002
Babyruth | Friday, October 04, 2002 - 08:56 am     LOL Car- I was just having a little fun with your words. You go right ahead and enjoy your mini-me1 and mini-me2 boys. They ARE quite cute. They seem to be good-natured, too, which is always a plus. |
Car54 | Friday, October 04, 2002 - 09:04 am     I seem to pick the least popular people to root for! I loved Marcellas, and I ended up loving the Guidos. I love that my twins know they are dumb! That makes all the difference! |
Calamity | Friday, October 04, 2002 - 10:04 am     Well, I didn't LOVE the Guidos but I did come around to liking them again by the end. (They were among my favorites after the first leg but then the airport debacle happened and that got them on my bad side.) And you gotta give 'em credit for competing against other teams that were quite a bit younger than them. Besides, my all-time favorite Survivor was the much-hated Lex so I may not be the best judge of who's likeable or not . |
Car54 | Friday, October 04, 2002 - 10:34 am     I actually hated the Guidos for much of the race, but I had a huge appreciation for how much entertainment value they added to the show. If they had been eliminated the show would have been a lot more dull! By the end, I was so glad they made it to final 3! |
Spear | Friday, October 04, 2002 - 01:16 pm     Realtvfan, Team Guido had an interview where they gave their version of what happened in Thailand: -- 12. When you won the fast-forward and checked into a hotel instead of going to the pit stop, what were you thinking? Bill: We talked to two ladies, one who lived in a town near Krabi, and the other the ticket seller! We believed them, who were also very sweet and charming. We usually had a rule of checking information at least 2 or three times before making a decision. This time we just blindly accepted it as fact. Our mistake! Joe: We believed what these two women told us and accepted the fact that taking a 600 mile long taxi ride was out of the question. It is true for local Thais but not for contestants on The Amazing Race. We now call it our "Million Dollar Bus Ride". -- Anyway, this doesn't completely contradict what you've said and I agree with you that they did seem to be short on money in India and made some bad decisions to try and save money, so I'm not going to fault anyone for trying to raise some extra money. Rob and Brennan were able to pay a woman in Alaska to borrow her cellphone so the money could be very important in the final stages. |
Realtvfan | Friday, October 04, 2002 - 04:07 pm     Spear, Under cross examination with team Guido I could tear that team Guido interview answer apart 10 different ways, based strickly on team Guido's repeatedly documented own previous bad boy behavior with cabs and other transportation in the race; that's just the lawyer in me. But I won't do that here. I would need a whole thread. I will just politely, respectively, just about almost completely disagree with Bill and Joe's answer right there. I believe the Thai ladies, that is it. Whether I'm right or wrong, (I'm wrong plenty of times.) can you tell this is my absolute favorite TV show of all time and good luck to team Peroxide with both their obvious good preparation for this game and their money! |
Kappy | Saturday, October 05, 2002 - 05:54 pm     Hmmm . . Taking other people's money when you don't really have a need for it . . Driving like a maniac on purpose and laughing when you could have seriously caused a major accident. They're lawyers. They don't care who gets hurt. Okay, okay ~ Waaaaay TOO harsh on my part. They really haven't done anything that horrible but I don't think I'll be rooting for them as I get to know the duos better. I did really feel for the one who was deathly afraid to jump. And while at first, I felt sorry for the one gal who fell flat on the ground in the donkey and cart incident . . . It also occurred to me that she might have said some not-so-nice words just seconds before and maybe the donkey might have heard her? :0) I couldn't stand the Guido's in the beginning last year ~ way too cocky (no pun intended). But then when they got knocked down to reality, I really started to enjoy their humor and how they dealt with it. "The million dollar bus ride" ~ that's the humor I grew to really enjoy watching. So who knows, I may grow to really like these two. Don't dislike them right now ~ Just not exactly rooting for them either. |
Bastable | Saturday, October 05, 2002 - 05:57 pm     These girls are tedious, tedious, tedious. Any intelligent woman who pretends to be stupid just to manipulate a man is only encouraging those old sexist views of womankind. These girls went to an Ivy League school, and that's really something--why do they feel the need to get through life by sexually teasing men? Some people might say that they should use every angle they can to win the game. But I think their behaviour is disingenuous. If they're smart enough to outthink everyone, then that's what they should do. Acting like sex kittens is degrading, insulting to the men they meet, and ultimately secretly self-hating. I expect a lot more savvy from women who attended Harvard/Radcliffe. IMO, FWIW. |
Ginger | Monday, October 07, 2002 - 04:35 pm     I have no problem with contestants begging BUT ONLY if they are on US soil. The idea of spoiled American reality TV contestants asking the hard working people of poverty-stricken Third World nations for money is among the most disgusting things I've ever seen on TV. So...the lawyers were asking for money here. Fine by me. You want to know what REALLY got to me about them though? (And I haven't seen it mentioned here yet.) It was when they said that people have "always underestimated" them. HELLO? Good looking, able-bodied, white women with advanced degrees from Harvard Law School HAVE NOT BEEN UNDERESTIMATED! In fact, the contrary is true. In fact, they are among the most privileged, over-estimated people on the face of the earth. What that comment told me was how utterly small-minded these "worldly" women are. |
Tabbyking | Monday, October 07, 2002 - 08:37 pm     actually, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and those gals 'be holden' the mirror...okay, they aren't bevis and butthead, but they aren't gorgeous, either! seemed rather snobby to me, but we did only see one episode, and i didn't dislike the guidos until they pushed the mom around at the airport, and that has to have been at least the 2nd episode ;>) for entertainment purposes, the guidos were okay, and these ladies might turn out to be the same kind of entertaining. the regal legals could be fun to watch! hell, next week i may be rooting for 'le gals'! so, i will only say i didn't care for them much last week. i'm going to give everyone another episode or two to give them the benefit of the doubt. well, maybe not ian!! lol |
Bastable | Tuesday, October 08, 2002 - 11:48 am     OMG, Ginger, can I be your new best friend? SO eloquent! |
Ginger | Tuesday, October 08, 2002 - 05:12 pm     Yes Bastable you may! I'm so glad you understand what I'm talking about. |
Squaredsc | Wednesday, October 09, 2002 - 04:37 pm     did they say why they were begging for money? did they lose theirs? or just adding to it? personally i have no real opinion of them one way or the other, but reserve the right to change my mind later. |
Spygirl | Wednesday, October 09, 2002 - 07:29 pm     They were planning ahead after watching the previous TARs and knowing that money can become a factor. I like their ingenuity |
Twinkie | Wednesday, October 09, 2002 - 09:28 pm     I really don't think they were asking "poverty-stricken" people for money. JMHO |
Twinkie | Wednesday, October 09, 2002 - 09:29 pm     I missed tonight's show. We had company. Can anyone give me a "blow by blow"? |
Ginger | Thursday, October 10, 2002 - 05:32 am     Twinkie, if you'll reread my post you'll see that I didn't say they were asking poverty-striken people for money. I said I was fine as long as they were NOT asking poverty striken people for money. I am fine with Heather and Eve and others begging for money in America and a few other wealthy countries. What I am NOT fine with, and what we have seen on this show in the past, is contestants begging for money in Third World countries. I think that is just shameless, given the wealth in our country compared to that of many others and also given the fact that none of them are having an "emergency" as they often claim--they are simply reality show contestants gunning for a big cash prize. And I think you'll find a blow by blow in the spoiler thread (I hope!). You poor thing, missing the show! I would have feigned illness, not answered the door....ANYTHING so I could watch TAR, much to my husband's chagrin. |
Fanny | Thursday, October 10, 2002 - 11:09 am     Bastable and Ginger, thanks for your thoughts. I could not agree more. I despise the image of The Ugly American, and begging for money in third world countries does nothing but promote the stereotype. I wonder if Harvard's law school is back pedaling like crazy to distance itself from these two. I would hope they aren't representative of the typical graduate. Can you tell I'm not a fan of the Harvard Chicks? |
Ariasmum | Wednesday, October 16, 2002 - 10:13 am     Is it just me, or does anyone else see a resemblence to Marsha Brady? I don't know which is which. Is it Eve? It's not the crying hysterical chick but the one who got dumped off the donkey cart. |
Ariasmum | Wednesday, October 16, 2002 - 10:15 am     According to the photo, I guess I mean Heather. |
Bastable | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 08:30 pm     Posters on this site can guess that I am VERY happy about what happened to Heather and Eve. From the very beginning of the show, they have said that they planned to betray their Ivy League intelligence and act like poor widdle female victims. They intended to manipulate (especially men) and act stupid and vulnerable in order to win. They started it by begging for money with their sex appeal. Well, that disgusting tactic backfired. Although they knew very well what the clue said (WALK, don't ride) they tried to get away with pretending they didn't understand it. They batted their eyelashes at the producers and said, "Gee, we were sure you meant 'walk into the Pit Stop!" Sorry, sweeties--you both tried to lie and to pretend to be victims, and it killed you. I'm very glad to see them gone. I'm even happier to see the race is now filled with teams who really want to play the game the straightforward way. Bye-bye, ladies! You should have signed up for "The Bachelor" instead. Time to go back home and learn to use a stick shift--and not other people's goodwill. |
Fruitbat | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 09:26 pm     <<snort!>> |
Whoami | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 09:36 pm     You could see it in their eyes, and in thier body language...the very moment they decided to lie and play dumb, while they were still in the cab. They knew very well what they were doing. And you could tell they still knew, by the forced excitement when they were told they were the first team to arrive. THEY KNEW! On another note. Phil usually says, "your're team number 1, your're team number 2, etc." Tonight, each team was told, "you're the first team to arrive, etc." Obviously, it meant the rankings were different from when the teams arrived. |
Spear | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 11:29 pm     I thought getting Damon to unload the wine crates was pretty sleazy, too. There's probably some rule that makes it illegal to impede the progress of other teams and that was cutting it close -- almost like the move Team Guido did at the airport. |
Essence | Thursday, October 24, 2002 - 04:33 am     I can't say I'm sorry to see them go, but I just wish it didn't happen when A&A could have been eliminated. These girls bothered me this episode. Did the other girl know how to drive a stick shift? If so, why didn't she drive the car during the wine thing? It wouldn't have helped them in the long run, but they wouldn't have hosed up Andre/Damon. I think the one girl was glad the race was over for them. She just wasn't cut out for this game. She wined every chance she got. (Sorry I don't know which girl is which, that's why I'm not using their names.) |
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