[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

From left to right:
Back Row: Jonathan, James, Coby, Ian, Jolanda, Janu, Ibrehem
Middle Row: Angie, Gregg, Tom, Kim, Stephenie, Bobby Jon, Ashlee
Front Row: Wanda, Willard, Katie, Caryn, Jeff, Jennifer

So without further ado here are this seasons Media Whores! (In alphabetical order)

Name: Angie
Age: 24
Occupation: Bartender
Hails from: New Orleans, LA
Cuz’s impression: Angie is a geeky, tattooed, Goth wannabe, and a Bartender?!? Pre-Jury Boot.

Name: Ashlee
Age: 22
Occupation: Student
Hails from: Easley, SC
Cuz’s impression: Fitness fanatic, driven, goal orientated. Makes the Jury.

Name: Bobby Jon
Age: 27
Occupation: Waiter
Hails from: Troy, AL
Cuz’s impression: Southern FratRat, Wannabe Model, Cosmo’s “Most Eligible Bachelor.” Makes the Jury.

Name: Caryn
Age: 46
Occupation: Civil Rights Attorney
Hails from: Solon, OH
Cuz’s impression: Liberal Feminist Lawyer! (Need I say more?) Pre-Jury Boot.

Name: Coby
Age: 32
Occupation: Hairstylist
Hails from: Athens, TX
Cuz’s impression: Mama’s boy poofter! “Queer Eye” reject! Pre-Jury boot.

Name: Gregg
Age: 28
Occupation: Business Consultant
Hails from: Chicago, IL
Cuz’s impression: Athletic, good natured, dependable alliance mate. Makes Final 4!

Name: Ian
Age: 23
Occupation: Dolphin Trainer
Hails from: Key Largo, FL
Cuz’s impression: Penn State Grad (strike one), outdoors type, loud and obnoxious (strike two), Undecided! Claims he lives in PA and works in FL! (strike three!) Pre-Jury Boot.

Name: Ibrehem
Age: 27
Occupation: Waiter
Hails from: Birmingham, AL
Cuz’s impression: Has degrees in both Mechanical Engineering and Business yet works as a waiter? Yep, that college education really pays off! Pre-Jury Boot.

Name: James
Age: 33
Occupation: Steelworker
Hails from: Mobile, AL
Cuz’s impression: Served 2 years in the Navy as an E2? Some college, switching majors from computer info systems to biological sciences. Currently working as a crane operator. Yet another college education paying off! Pre-Jury Boot.

Name: Janu
Age: 39
Occupation: Vegas Showgirl
Hails from: Las Vegas, NV
Cuz’s impression: Athletic, at 39 years old still performs in 2 Vegas shows per night – 6 days a week. Fluent in Spanish, Italian, French & English. Makes Final Four.

Name: Jeff
Age: 21
Occupation: Personal Trainer
Hails from: Ventura, CA
Cuz’s impression: One of Southern California’s “beautiful people.” I.E. Vain, stuck-up, & snooty. Pre-Jury boot.

Name: Jennifer
Age: 32
Occupation: Nanny
Hails from: Encino, CA
Cuz’s impression: Cute. A “professional student.” Still single and a nanny at 32. Pre-Jury Boot.

Name: Jolanda
Age: 39
Occupation: Lawyer
Hails from: Houston, TX
Cuz’s impression: Has overcome hardships, tragedies, and abusive relationships to graduate “Magna cum laude” from both High School and the University of Houston. Yes, she is a lawyer and that might work against her if she gets mouthy. Still I predict she makes the Final 4.

Name: Jonathan
Age: 23
Occupation: Sales & Marketing
Hails from: Dallas, TX
Cuz’s impression: Athletic, teaches women’s self-defense courses, competes in “full contact fighting” (what’s that? Dallas’ version of “Fight Club”?) Has beaten and survived testicular cancer. Makes Jury.

Name: Katie
Age: 29
Occupation: Advertising Executive
Hails from: Merced, CA
Cuz’s impression: Has set her goals low and accomplished them! “She is most proud of traveling across country with nothing but a gas card!” BIG WHOOP! Pre-Jury boot.

Name: Kim
Age: 25
Occupation: Graduate Student
Hails from: Huber Heights, OH
Cuz’s impression: Feminist, Liberal, a “Passionate supporter” of Human Rights issues worldwide. Pre-Jury boot.

Name: Stephenie
Age: 25
Occupation: Pharmaceutical Sales Rep.
Hails from: Philadelphia, PA
Cuz’s impression: Athletic, Business savvy. Purchased her own home at the age of 23. Makes Jury. (Note-If Jolanda’s mouth gets her in trouble, then Steph might make the Final four in Jolanda’s place.)

Name: Tom
Age: 41
Occupation: New York City Fireman
Hails from: Sayville, NY
Cuz’s impression: Lt. Of Ladder Co. 108 in Brooklyn. His hero is his daughter, who lost her hearing at 18 months, had cochlear implants at 2 years old & is currently mainstreamed and thriving in third grade. He supports “disabled sports” and instructs recently disabled veterans in “adaptive skiing.” Makes Final four.

Name: Wanda
Age: 55
Occupation: English Teacher
Hails from: Ulysses, PA
Cuz’s impression: A teacher who divorced her husband of 26 years and has recently married her second husband. Pre-Jury boot.

Name: Willard
Age: 57
Occupation: Lawyer
Hails from: Bellevue, WA
Cuz’s impression: Spent 5 years in the Marine Corps, serving 2 years in Vietnam. Served 6 years in the Army as a “race relations specialist.” Served 11 years in the Army National Guard & in 1992 was transferred to the Retired Reserve as a Sargent First Class. Currently a lawyer and a member of the Washington State Bar. Makes Jury.

Well, there you have it. With only a brief glimpse of their profiles, I, your humble Cuz, has condensed this season down to the following:
Pre-Jury Booties: Angie, Caryn, Coby, Ian, Ibrehem, James, Jeff, Jennifer, Katie, Kim and Wanda.
The Jury: Ashlee, Bobby Jon, Jonathan, Stephenie, Willard (and two of the final four)
The Final Four: Gregg, Janu, Jolanda, Tom.

But hey, don’t take my word for it! After all, we all know how well I did with last Season’s “Pre-Season” predictions! Yuk, Yuk, Yuk!

Take care,

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside,
thoroughly used up,
totally worn out,
and loudly proclaiming....
Wow, what a ride!"

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[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

Survivor Ping!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Only one tribe?

Good, looks like that they are shaking things up a bit.

[tob2]

Don't you just love it that Survivor is always in nice warm places? It's 18 degrees here and thoughts of warm places are dancing in my head.

[Ben Ficklin]

During the last Survivor my machine was infected such that I was essentially unable to communicate. Over Christmas, I downloaded AVG Grissoft which locked all those nasty little bugs in the vault.

Keep on keeping on, Cuz!

[MattinNJ]

Thanks for your hard work. I was worried Survivor jumped the shark with the All Star show. I personally wasn't interested in last season for some reason but I have regained interest for this season.

[girlscout]

Looking forward to the new season. I'm hoping this group of folks have more outgoing personalities. Tattoo girl hurts my eyes; hoping she exits early. Initially I don't like Wanda and I'm hoping she exits early as well. Willard, Willard, Willard ... trunks good ... speedo bad. One big tribe should make things interesting. Can't wait to see how it works out. Did anyone see the preview show this past Thursday? I didn't know it was going to be on and so I missed it. Wondering if anything interesting and worth sharing was on it. I see we have our token gay person on again this season. I liked your "Queer Eye" reject comment Cuz.

[ken5050]

G'day, Cuz...FYI..there was a blurb in the NY POST a few days ago that three contestants leave on the first episode..two of them quit..they couldn't take it...have you seen/heard anything to this effect?

[Notforprophet]

New season eh? Well I'll give it a chance. But if it's as lame as last season this may be the last time I give this show a series-slot on my TiVO. :-)

NFP

[So Cal Rocket]

Richard Hatch Hit With Tax Evasion Rap (Did not report $1mm Survivor prize to IRS)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1323207/posts

[So Cal Rocket]

'Boston' Rob Mariano and Amber Brkich of Survivor fame will be on the next season of the Amazing Race.


http://tv.insidepulse.com/article.php?contentid=29394

[Central Scrutiniser]

Tried to go to Palau once when I worked for the airlines, the easy way is to go to Honolulu, then to Guam and then to Palau.

The hard way was the way I wanted to go, on an ageing Continental Micronesia 727 (long since retired and turned into beer cans), you leave Honolulu around 8 am, fly for about 3 and a half hours to Johnston Atoll (a small speck of an island where they destruct nerve gas bombs), then a few hours to Kwajelein (military base full of semi secret stuff), then about 90 more minutes to Majuro where you then lose a day, then a few hours to Kosrae, another few hours to Phonpei, then to Chuuk (diver's heaven, Japanese carriers sunk with Zeros on deck, skeletons, etc), and lastly to Guam, where you catch a flight to Palau. Its about 16 hours or so of flying and all that.

The flights were usually empty enough to try flying standby, but coming home from Guam was nearly impossible, every flight out of Guam (Honolulu, Tokyo, Singapore, Taipei, Sendai, Seoul, etc) was always very overbooked, and being stuck 22 timezones away from home is not fun....

[Lee'sGhost]

I would use the Shakespeare's strategy -- First, kill all the lawyers.

[HighWheeler]

I would like to see a 90 minute first show where they take TWO separate tribe groups of 16 each to live separately for the first afternoon without seeing or even knowing of the other tribe's existence. Each tribe is told, before they even get to their camp [surprise!] they will have to boot one person off that night.

At the end of the day each tribe (still not knowing about the other tribe's existence) has to vote off one person. Each tribe meets at separate times for tribal council, and the one person is booted off from each tribe.

As the remaining players are feeling smug and confident that they survived the first vote, Jeff then says to each tribe "now you will all vote again right now,to vote off another tribemate". He does this 5 more times, one at a time until each tribe is down to 9 members. (I know this would be hard to do for television)

That night each shocked tribe tries hard to scramble to understand the fact that they are already down to only 9 players and wonder what the frikken hell is going on. The situation will make them both feel a bond with each other and be suspicious of each other the entire night. None of them will sleep well, if at all, and the fireworks will be great entertainment.

They next morning with little sleep the two tribes meet and find out about each other and the game is on. They immediately get a physically demanding reward challenge, which is for a nice final meal, some blankets and tools.

Now that's the kind of high stress that would make the start of Survivor fun to watch!

[Chani]

Wow, FR just keeps getting better and better for me. I found the Amazing race thread today.........and now Survivor! Woohoo!!

Add me to the pingaling list! :)

Thanx for the list of contestants, also, coz I don't like to go to cbs or official website.

[codercpc]

Please add me to the ping list.

[tob2]

I'm ready for this new game to begin.

[rarenmrepublican]

Please add me to your ping list. Thanks