The Amazing Race: Family Edition--Live Thread

[mystery-ak]

Taht's all for me...see ya Thursday night...I'm off to lay down..

[silent_jonny]

This was a good episode overall--makes up for last week :)

[silent_jonny]

Okay, Buddy. Take it easy :)

[Dane]

Wow next week we get to watch the Weaver's get stuck. Woo-Hoo:^).

G'Night everyone.

[silent_jonny]

Crossing my fingers that it's the last night for the Weavers--a little of them goes a long way :)

[Prolifeconservative]

I've never seen a team yet deterred by beginning a leg with no funds. Those teams always seem to find a way. We'll see soon enough if next week is any different.

[hattend]

An airplane ride and a bungy jump...I guess this was a better week, only slightly.

Find a guy in a hammock? WTF? That's toooooo hard! Make some of these bozos do some hiking for crying out loud!

I would have made them play a tune with those instruments in front of a crowd.

Playing a championship Little League team? a soft comebacker to the mound goes between the legs? Oh, C'Mon!

I love the Gaghan's attitude, wish they would get a little higher, they are always second to last. Still want the Paolos to get cut and the Weavers too.

Wish I could watch this with the rest of you but unfortunately, I can only interact with the California crowd...LOL!!

[hattend]

What's up with the 12 hour plane ride? The American flight left at 9:45AM and they get to Panama at 9PM at night? That's one heck of a layover.

[Veto!]

I have now become an Official Fan of the Paolos. If they get knocked off there will be nothing left of interest

Yes, the Paolo family is colorful and energetic and in spite of or maybe because of the shouting, they do do hang together. I like the Gaghans too because they're so cute and smart......the rest of the families are interchangeable. Do they have names?.

This is the first Race that I've watched only intermittently along with the ball game, freeping, talking on the phone, taking the garbage out....The garbage may be more interesting than the Race.

[Veto!]

free trip to ... Panama!
LOL! What is up with that

They couldn't have sent the Paolo's to Italy? Noooooooooo, the Holiday Inn down at the corner is all they get. This show has become excruciatingly chintzy...no exotic foreign locations, no elaborate roadblocks, and el cheapo prizes. Truly disgusting!

[hattend]

When are hey going to do something physical? When are they going to eat bugs, squid and chicken feet? Or 6 pounds of meat? Or hot spicy Hungarian soup! - That episode almost made me hurl...literally)

When are they going to have to check 1000 locks for the one their key fits? Ziplines...More bungies! Hanggliding!

C'Mon...make the teams actually have to DO something to advance.

[Veto!]

Yeah, bring back the good old days...disgusting barbies in the Andes....rule bending, major rivalries, skullduggery, danger....This thing looks like a scout jamboree. Pity they didn't run into some drug runners in Panama. They could have had a money laundering roadblock with teams pounding dinero on rocks to get it clean.

Even the World Series is slow and dull tonight! I'm going back to reading books! (Hey, you must be watching the game, hattend. Who'll win the Series? The Xox?)

[hattend]

Well, it's been since '59 since the Sox made the series and it's the first time for the 'Stros.

Neither one of them is my baseball team...I'm an NFL Denver fan but if I have to pick a team in baseball it would be the Dodgers.

(My dad pitched for them in the 40's)

If I have to pick a team, I would go for the Astros because they are in the NL.

[Veto!]

Hello Joe! I remember that your dad pitched in the majors but hadn't seen his photo, for which thanks. The 'Strohs could use his help. Do you play?

I'm for the Xox. (!) My first novio's gram lived near Comiskey Field and she loved baseball. He and I drove downtown to take her out to the ballgame time and time again.... sat in the cheap seats, ate hot dogs, got sunburns, had a whale of a time. She knew everything about the game and the players, a true fan. I lost track of the game until a couple of years ago when the Mariners had their amazing season, my son had season tickets (not the cheap seats) and we ate sushi, watched Ichiro hit a homer. And so it goes.

My strangest (non-)connection to the game: My second cousin Frank's wife Marie's brother is the father of some fellow named Bagwell on the 'Strohs. Impressed? LOL. Marie tried to fix me up with him--her brother, not her illustrious nephew. But I was moving across country and regrettably, the timing xucked. Had I not been in such a hurry to get on the road, I might be sitting in Houston tonight watching my stepson strike out. That is ruhhly all I know about baseball.

Can we still be friends?

[EmilyGeiger]

Hi mystery! I hope everything is going well. You are in my thoughts and prayers. :)

[EmilyGeiger]

I missed the first half of TAR last night, so I didn't see that. Bet it was funny. What did he say back to her? " I am nice to my mom" ;)

[mystery-ak]

Thanks Em,....I'm on the mend and we missed you last night..

[EmilyGeiger]

WOW!! Great throwing arm, he's got there. :)

[EmilyGeiger]

I'm on the mend and we missed you last night..

Missed yall too but it's jonny's fault.:) He got me hooked on 24 the previous seasons. Just started season 3. Jack is hooked on heroine. :( So far not liking how this one is going. I really don't like Jack's daughter too much.

[silent_jonny]

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