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Sorry to see the track stars eliminated. I was hoping they would go far. But they deserved it. Not only were they not reading their clues, but they went places and started tasks without have clues telling them to do so.
This episode had a lot of wait-your-turn tasks. The zip line, crocodile feeding, and lion encounter didn't give teams opportunities to pass others, unless the others made mistakes. ChacAttack and the paparazzi did that by driving off to find the zip line even though it was right down the hill, and the track stars did it by skipping the lion encounter at first and then missing the clue on the skull.
The green team got a lead on the Texans in the rowing challenge, and Alabama passed the green team while carrying the fruit bowls on their heads.
The teams basically fell into two groups in this leg based on the detour for the last leg. The four teams that did the croquet detour were leading the whole leg over the teams that did the giraffe staining challenge.
One of the cheerleaders had giraffe stain spots on her face the whole episode. That probably won't wash off and has to wear off. I wonder if she'll still have the spots next week.
At first I liked the paparazzi, even though I find their jobs of stalking celebrities in grocery stores despicable. But then the bickering, especially by Logan, turned me off. But the $20 donation to the orphanage did it for me.
I do not like the Texans at all. I'm rooting for the green team.
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Hey, folks, I'd like your opinion on my friend and I as a potential team to run the race.
We have overtones of Oscar Madison and Felix Unger. I'm slightly shorter than average, and look like Gimli the Dwarf after a growth spurt; balding, heavy-bearded, heavyset, crew-cut, and green-eyed. He is six feet tall with long blond hair, tall willowy grace, handsome.
We met in college and have been close for thirty-three years. He's openly gay and single, I'm openly straight and married seventeen years. (He came out about ten years out of college. I was the second person he came out to; the first was a known homophobe which my tactically minded friend figured would represent the worst possibility, and was pleasantly surprised.) He's an antique dealer and estate appraiser. I'm an editor who sells some collectibles through him on consignment.
He has the business degree (and is brilliant in business matters, especially marketing), but my rock-ribbed money management makes me his main investing advisor. He speaks German as a second language; I speak Spanish, French, some Hebrew, some Russian, some Irish, some Swedish, and bits and pieces of twenty more. He is a socially adept sort liked by nearly everyone; I'm not socially adept, and am loved by some, hated by some, and misunderstood by most. We share a general cynicism about Murrica, and neither of us hews to any conventional political orthodoxy.
Our dynamic is a wisecracking kind with some schadenfreude and fundamental good humor. For example, during the gay marriage thing, my wife kept up a hilarious Facebook diary of how gay marriage was eroding her straight marriage. My friend was visiting and we were in the hot tub, and we posed in it with arms over each other's shoulders for a hilarious pic. When she finished, and I sidled away, he said: "You may now retreat to an acceptable heterosexual distance." It's a good thing I always take a leak before getting in the tub or I'd have ruined the water laughing. We were watching a football game, and I called one of the announcers a 'pole smoker.' Then turned to him with a smile and said: "No offense." He and my wife cracked up. A typical comment from him, when I asked him about the gay marriage thing: "It kind of sucks. It used to be this kind of avant-garde thing that made me cool, and now it's just 'big deal, so what.'"
We have very thoughtful discussions, the kind many men never have with other men, and always support each other. We both have dysfunctional families and both survived the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church. We've traveled together, and had a great time, because both of us have a pretty good attitude toward new people and places. He can run but has back trouble. I have knee trouble that slows me, but a high pain tolerance and a strong back. We're both detail people; we would have a procedure that whoever gets the clue has to read it aloud, slowly, making sure we don't blow past the transportation mode or some other key aspect.
We aren't whiny. Our DRs would be full of comedy, banter, and self-deprecation. "Fortunately for us, the Blue Team couldn't find its butts with both hands and a map." "Well, Phil, to be honest, we hoped to get our spar treatment from winning the leg, rather than from Albanian guys with granite fists." "By then, we were so hungry that the leopard was in danger from us." "It's a good thing he can dance, because obviously I dance like a cow on ice." "He actually did a pretty tasteful job on that for a straight guy." "If this bungi snaps, yes, you can keep the coins. But no fair weakening it!" "It says there are bears here. Obviously you should do this one, because they'll show you professional courtesy." We'd probably try to wear purple, since it is our alma mater's primary color (though you wouldn't know it from the football uniforms some weeks).
What do you think?
Go for it! Watch past seasons and watch the final episodes where they have challenges to recall things like the name of the money for each country; the order of the countries they visited, stuff like that. Practice running with 80 lb packs on your back, learn to read for understanding so you don't miss something on the clues and make a killer submission tape!!
I'm actually worried they'd design challenges against us if we told them too much. For example, a challenge about naming all the money for each country is daunting...to a team that isn't two longtime coin collectors. He and I were talking and I told him that we'd kill dead time drilling on the countries visited, elimination order and where, until it became like Bible verses.
I'm actually worried they'd design challenges against us if we told them too much. For example, a challenge about naming all the money for each country is daunting...to a team that isn't two longtime coin collectors. He and I were talking and I told him that we'd kill dead time drilling on the countries visited, elimination order and where, until it became like Bible verses.
You should definitely go for it! From your posts, you and your friend would be exactly the type of partnership I'd like to see race! What does your wife think?
Yes, go for it! We'd love to follow a team we know (sort of!)
In addition to the ability to read maps, drive standard, read thoroughly, and remember details, here's what I wonder if I could do:
- function well on sometimes little or no sleep
- sleep on the ground or in busses or other weird places when waiting in line
- do without bathing every day without looking gross (very important when you're on tv!)
- physically tolerate lots of plane travel without air sickness, jet lag or puffing up
- run fast carrying a backpack
- climb or run down hills without falling down and knocking yourself out (I always fall UP things.)
Oh, also you need to know how to paddle a canoe/boat with someone else (just paddle simultaneously please, and let the person in the back steer and do the turning. It's amazing how many contestants can't do this!)
And, don't tell the casting people everything that you can do or you won't get cast - they need to have people screw up in order to have drama along the way - otherwise it's just a travelogue.
I hear that about dance lessons. Don't expect me ever to show up on a dancing reality show unless it's Dancing With The Complete Clods.
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