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Hippyt | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 11:34 am     Alaginger,you've done a great job with this thread! Very helpful for the MW game. Thanks! |
Alaginger | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 11:53 am     Thanks for the kind words Pamy, Hippy, and Spy. Remember guys.........anybody can spoil or speculate in this thread. It's just a way of keeping this type of information away from those that DO NOT want to read it. |
Moderator | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 12:21 pm     As the show progresses, one thing to keep in mind about spoiling, as a courtesy to those who DO NOT wish to see spoilers, please be sure to format your messages in a way that leaves the first line free of any spoiler information. Otherwise, when people use the 'New Message' function, they might inadvertantly view spoiler information they do not want to see. You could start your message with a line that says "May contain spoiler information!!" then press Enter a couple of times to begin your post. That way, all the 'New Message' search will show is the first line. Thanks for your help. <No, this hasn't been a problem yet, however, let's try to keep it from being one.> (22) |
Spygirl | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 01:04 pm     Any extra people in the cars should be camera crew, yes, but why would the racers be getting out of the back of the cars? The crew certainly wouldn't drive for them. The only other times the racers were in the backseat together was when they were in a taxi or when they had drivers designated to them. Or am I crazy? |
Squaredsc | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 01:23 pm     oh here we go again. |
Grannyg | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 01:25 pm     Ok, Alaginger, post the pics so we can see. I've never watched and this is driving me crazy!! |
Grooch | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 01:54 pm     Spygirl, did you see my 8:53 am post? |
Alaginger | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 02:24 pm     Here's the pictures of the people in the cars I was talking about. The first two are drivers --- Josh of Josh/Steve, and Steve of Steve/Dave.
The next 3 pictures are people in the back seat (Millie/Chuck, Cindy/Russel, and Jon/Al - I think). I'm not as sure of the names of these 3 couples because I can't place them all yet.
The last picture is the Miami models getting out of the back of a SUV (van).
I couldn't find the picture of Monica and Sheree getting out of a van, so forget that one because I might have dreamed it up. Also there is another picture of 2 guys in the backseat, but another poster put that one up and her pictures are huge. I'm going to go try to capture that one and shrink it before posting and see if it is a different set of guys than in the 3rd couple picture in this post. |
Alaginger | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 02:29 pm     This is the other picture. I have no idea who these two guys are because the picture is dark, and the glasses are throwing me off. But it is probably one of the couples or they wouldn't be featured in the promo and they are in the backseat!
Edited: Now, seeing the two pictures close like this, I think it is the same pair as in the picture in the above post. |
Hippyt | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 02:41 pm     looks like a couple of clowns to me...... |
Grannyg | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 03:49 pm     Thanks, Alaginger, once again what would I do without you to help me along? Now, as Gooch pointed out............why would they spend money on drivers? Unless they thougth it was better than getting lost. And somewhere I read that a couple of the teams get lost in Los Angeles. Seems like I remember something about 4 teams getting the first flights out of LA and the other teams being mad and having to wait for the next flights. So maybe they did use drivers for that reason. Am I close or totally ditzy? |
Spygirl | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 04:18 pm     My point is this.... Where would they have the chance to hire a driver leaving Dodger Stadium? The only time people have hired drivers in the past was when they were in foreign countries and/or got into a taxi/bus/etc. My point is....where and why would they hire drivers leaving the stadium? I think some of those pics must be from different segments?? |
Alaginger | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 05:07 pm     I've never been out of the United States, except to Tijuana one time with friends I was visiting in the San Diego area. So, I don't know which countries have you drive on the right side. In both the pictures with Josh and Steve driving, they are driving on the same side we drive on here at home. Does that give us any clue .... or are there many, many, many countries that drive on the left side like we do in the U.S.??? |
Grannyg | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 05:31 pm     Hubby says the first pic with Josh/Steve is a Mercedes because of the thingie on the steering wheel and in the fourth pic, in the very top of the right hand corner is someone's nose and you can see the back of someone in the seat in front of Cindy/Russell. So Cindy/Russell are definitely in the car with TWO other people. I have only been to Rome and Israel and in both of those countries they drive on the same side of the road as we do. But it's been a while since so I may be confused!! Imagine that. |
Grooch | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 06:25 pm     GrannyG, great point about the side the steering wheel is on! Spy, I hope I didn't upset you, I just thought I was overlooked by mistake. You could be very right, it could be scenes at a different leg of the race. The point of it being a mercedes they are driving, makes me think they must be outside of the US and in Europe. |
Alaginger | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 06:36 pm     See.........our spies are working for us. I read somewhere that they leave Dodger Stadium in SUV's, and the car being a Mercedes means it is somewhere else, at a different time. We make a good team when we put all of our skills and knowledge together. Actually, I don't know one car from another....well, I know a Volkswagon Bug from a station wagon!!! (DUH!) |
Grannyg | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 06:47 pm     Ok, you all know that since we think being in a mercedes is big stuff, they all will pull out of Dodger stadium in mercedes!! And we will all be in the suck thread before the end of episode 1. |
Alaginger | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 07:19 pm     Where is the Suck Thread, Granny?? Just in case I need to go in there and drag up my lawn chair.. |
Draheid | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 07:23 pm     FYI: Mercedes does now make an SUV class vehicle like this:
FWIW |
Alaginger | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 07:28 pm     Oh My Goodness.........so they could be leaving Dodger Stadium in SUV's that are made by Mercedes??? Man, if this show is based on knowing all about vehicles, I'm lost right at the opening bell!!! |
Spygirl | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 08:27 pm     Oh no Grooch! You didn't upset me at all! Sorry my text came across that way. Takes a lot more than a great discussion on TAR spoilers to ruffle my feathers  |
Egbok | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 09:40 pm     I live about 20 miles from Dodger Stadium and in the picture of Dave of Steve/Dave driving, notice the MetroLink Station in the background (Green Line I think). This tells me that he's probably driving West on Interstate 105 toward LAX just after coming off Interstate 110 from Dodger Stadium. Edit: I came back to say that the more I look at the pictures, the more I'm sure these guys are driving on I-105 West. It's a rather new freeway and is built high above ground level, so I'm pretty sure it's the I-105W. Also, because of the shadows, I'd say the time they are driving is between 1-3pmish. |
Wendo | Thursday, May 29, 2003 - 04:16 am     Maybe the pictures are of the teams going to the stadium before the race starts? They all look a bit too relaxed to be racing, ya know. Just a guess... |
Grannyg | Thursday, May 29, 2003 - 05:30 am     Memphis Commercial Appeal Have I been asleep for the past three years? I seem to remember the first Amazing Race, but how did we get to Amazing Race 4 (7 p.m., WREG-TV Channel 3)? For the uninitiated, Race pits 12 teams of two in a globetrotting game of capture-the-flag. In the premiere episode, the teams have to drive through L.A. traffic in SUVs; find the airport; catch a flight to Milan, Italy; scrounge for hidden bus tickets in a public square; travel to a ski-resort village; climb to the top of a mountain; hang from wires strung hundreds of feet above the Alps; and slog through the snow. The last couple to reach their pit stop are eliminated. The 90-minute season debut opens with a frantic pace that hardly allows any of the contestants' quirky personalities to emerge. The nonstop scrambling and loud, incessantly pounding soundtrack may give some viewers an amazing headache. |
Alaginger | Thursday, May 29, 2003 - 06:08 am     Well.......there you go. L.A. --- SUVs......so they are headed to the airport. That answers the two guys driving. What about the guys in the backseat? They are letting the camera crew drive? - somebody stated above that this is not allowed. Or it's from a different episode? - doubt it. Or for the first time they are allowed to double-up with other contestants? - also doubtful. That's why I said these pictures were throwing me for a loop. If they are doubled up, we know that the 3 couples in the backseat and the models getting out of the back of a van didn't form a quickie alliance to help each other, because they weren't in the same vehicle. The 2 guy teams on the floor together at LAX seem a liklihood for forming a helping-hand alliance in this episode to eliminate other teams. I'm really getting into this stuff.....it's going to be fun!!! But I'm not looking foward to the pounding soundtrack and amazing headache. |
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