Posted on 01/09/2006 11:41:11 AM PST by cuz_it_aint_their_money
They have to boot him next week. The guy is poison.
If you can roll, you can smoke it.
In think so too, see my post 267.
But...but...he's the cool dude that girl picked first!
Seriously, I never thought there would be a contestant that actually made Johnny Rotten/Fairplay look good. Well, Shane proved me wrong.
Thanks! It just may come in handy. You put them over your mouth, right?
Fairplay at least wanted to win. This guy's like the one guy (Osten?) who quit. At least Osten wasn't wishy washy about it.
SD
Those 2 that lost the sling were idiots, they were in water much too deep to try using it for the first time, plus she should have used something to tie it to her wrist to prevent what happened. A COSTLY error. Rupert was probably yelling at the TV when that happened. If he was on the raft with her he wouldn't have said - Aw that's all right, don't worry about it.
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Do you know this kata?
Cuz, will you be doing a re-cap or will someone? "Someone" didn't set the vcr correctly last night so I've missed it. Who got booted? Was anyone attacked by leaves? Did anyone get sent to detox for nicotine withdrawal? Who was the starring idiot last night?
Oh yeah, I would have stomped the gal for losing the Hawaiian sling. Enough to actually throw the immunity challenge and switch her out for Brian.. Then again, don't know if that was shown in order or not - that might have been after the immunity challenge too.
Not meaning to sound snarky or anything but, as I indicated in post #93 ...
"On the morning of each show, (usually Thursdays) I post any spoilers of the week along with my picks. As with all spoilers, each should be taken with a certain degree of skepticism. Sometimes they are factual, but most times they are based on wishful thinking and nothing else.
Usually, on Monday mornings, I will post a recap of the previous episode. Many of you on this ping list have come to expect my recaps to be filled with “witty” insights. Try as I might, sometimes I’m just not in the mood for witty and succumb to just being downright sarcastic. And sometimes, I just don’t feel like commenting on the show. When that happens, I’ll just cut and paste whatever the official SeeBS website has listed as a recap. The reason I do this on Monday, is that some pingees TiVo or tape the show and don’t have a chance to watch it before the weekend.
Since this season occurs during the NCAA playoffs (more commonly referred to as March Madness) and since SeeBS usually schedules a broadcast on Thursday nights, they sometimes move Survivor to Wednesday night. When this happens (if it happens) I’ll post my picks on Wednesday morning.
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The Casaya Tribe (Purple buffs) – Aras, Bobby, Bruce, Cirie, Courtney, Danielle and Shane
The La Mina Tribe (Orange buffs) – Austin, Dan, Misty, Nick, Ruth Marie, Sally and Terry
The Losers: Tina, Melinda
The show opens to a torrential thunderstorm hitting the islands. Team Viagra struggles with trying to keep from being washed away while at the same time dodging lightning strikes. Team Clueless huddles in their pitiful shelter while Aras whines “We’re dying here fellas!”
Dawn breaks as the mood lifts slightly. The Spice Girls manage to find a papaya tree which means only one thing. FOOD! Of course, leave it to someone with the name of “Misty” to compare this measly feast to an orgasmic experience.
Meanwhile the Golden Girls are unsuccessful at starting a fire. Well of course not you silly ninnies! Did you forget that the gal you booted less than 12 short hours ago is the only one on your pitiful tribe that knew how to make fire! Can you say DO’H!
And over at Team Viagra’s camp, Shane is making a bigger @$$ of himself then even I thought was possible. Whining about how (not even 4 days in) he is missing his son, missing his lazyboy recliner, missing his gameboy, missing his smokes and missing his life style. How he doesn’t need the money, so why is he doing this? We I’ll let ya in on a little secrete Shane! IT’S CUZ YOU’RE A BIGTIME, CLASS “A” SHMUCK! That’s why! OK cuz, calm down, find your happy place, Ohmmmmmmmmmmm! Ah, much better. Sorry about that folks.
Now where was I? Ah yes, Jeff calls them to the Reward Challenge. But first, there’s a little matter to take care of called, “Let’s really screw with their heads, shall we?” Yep, we decided that the 4 tribes thing wasn’t that good of an idea, so we’re gonna restructure you folks into 2 tribes. In front of the players are light and dark colored disks. Jeff tells the men to stand on a light colored disk and the women to stand on a dark colored disk. Then he tells them to look under the disk. All are empty except Terry’s and Danielle’s, which have buffs under them. Terry and Danielle will start the school yard pick-em to divide up the tribes, with each player picked, picking the next. Danielle picks Shane and Terry picks Sally. The new tribes end up as follows (in the order that they are picked and by whom):
The Casaya Tribe (Purple buffs): Danielle – Shane – Courtney – Aras – Cirie – Bobby – Melinda
The La Mina Tribe (Orange buffs): Terry – Sally – Austin – Misty – Nick – Ruth Marie – Dan
Leaving Bruce all alone. Jeff then informs Bruce that of all the players, he alone has immunity at the next Tribal Council. In fact, he will spend the next three days on Exile Island, and he will sit in at the next Tribal Council and after that tribe boots one of it’s players, he will replace that player in the tribe. Jeff then sends Bruce off to Exile Island (and informs him that he will be getting flint to make fire). Guess the producers took pity on the banished after Misty’s pitiful example.
Anyway, after Bruce leaves, Jeff Probst explains the rules of the Reward Challenge. “The two new tribes must race through an obstacle course, collecting six wooden snakes along the way. The tribes will collect two snakes at each of three stations. Each tribe must delegate one player to carry all six snakes throughout the entire course. The first tribe to cross the finish line with all their snakes wins the Reward.” And the reward is exactly as I predicted, fishing supplies.
Nick is designated snake wrangler for La Mina and (for some weird, totally screwed up reason) Courtney is the designated snake wrangler for Casaya. (I would have picked Bobby.) Anyway, Jeff says go and both tribes seem equally matched through the first station. La Mina takes a slight lead the second station and I have to admit, Courtney seems to be doing an impressive job managing the weight of the snakes. The last station has the players submerging themselves in a muddy water pit and then hunting through a bin of dried leaves for the last two snakes. (Yes, Cirie, it’s the dreaded “Dried Leaves Challenge!” How will you survive?) Although after looking at the show on TiVo again, I never actually saw Cirie in the bin of leaves! Maybe she just stood around off camera, and directed traffic.
Well after much grunting and groaning, La Mina wins and Jeff tells Casaya “I got nuthin for you. Your new camp is the old Casaya island.” Jeff then tells La Mina “their new camp is the old La Mina island, and a raft will be waiting there for you. Take your Reward and head back to camp.”
When the new Casaya arrives back at camp, they quickly begin to get to know each other. Shane is happy that he is with a younger crowd commenting "I'm in a much better mood than I was this morning, I've always related better with younger people." But Melinda and Cirie are not too sure about their new tribemates. A concern which becomes valid when Shane engineers an alliance with Courtney, Danielle and Aras, sealing the pact with a heartfelt "I swear to you on my son's life, it's us four." Of course, we’ve heard that line before and it didn’t last very long then.
Meanwhile, over at La Mina, Nick and Austin find themselves “stuck in the middle”. Terry wants Nick and Austin to align with Dan and himself, while Sally and Misty want the two to align with them. (Playing the Devil’s Advocate here, lets see, align with two “old farts” or two “hot babes”? Hmmm, what’s a red blooded, raging hormone induced male to do?) Before we can find out, the cameras switch to Bruce on Exile Island.
Bruce it seems forgot the fact that he once was an Eagle Scout, because before he can get a fire going, he breaks the flint by using it the wrong way! As night falls and another storm arrives, Bruce has to settle for a cold wet night huddled under a too small piece of bark for protection. Yep, that fifth degree black belt in Karate is really helpful in situations like this! Isn’t it?
The next day, Sally decides she wants to try her hand at fishing with the Hawaiian sling. Terry gives her a few brief pointers (one being, whatever you do, do NOT let the sling get away from you!) And then Sally paddles out on the raft with Nick to “try her luck.” Well, her luck is all bad, cuz her first attempt is her undoing. She neglects to hold onto the handle, losing the sling into the dark waters. After several attempts, she cannot recover the spear and has to paddle back to shore and break the bad news to the tribe. Terry, to his credit, manages to hold his anger in check and simply comments to the camera "I have no question in my mind that we would be eating tons of fish right now if we had that spear."
The tribes (less Bruce, who is still shivering all alone on Exile Island) are then called to the Immunity Challenge. Jeff explains “The two tribes must work together to transport a giant zombie head from the ocean to the beach. Each tribe has a boat anchored to the ocean floor with a large wooden box. In addition, each boat has six holes filled with rubber plugs. Five tribe members have to pull out the plugs and begin bailing water out of the boat while the other two tribe members jump into the water and start moving the boat by pulling the anchor towards shore. Once the boat is clipped onto the hitching post, it's a race up the beach to put the anchor on the finish mat. The first tribe to put the zombie head on the zombie body wins Immunity.”
Jeff says go and both tribes struggle with the heavy anchor. Terry however manages to outfox the anchor and uses the rope to drag himself and the anchor towards shore. This gives La Mina a huge lead and leaves Casaya floundering. La Mina never loses the lead and with Nick hoisting Ruth Marie onto his shoulders, she places the zombie head on the body. Giving the win and Immunity to La Mina and sending Casaya to Tribal Council.
Back at camp, Shane has another nicotine fit which sends him into yet another “Oh Woe Is Me” self pity party. Moaning about how he’s missing his son, his lazyboy, his gameboy, his cigarettes, yada, yada, yada. He pleads with his tribemates to “put him out of his misery and vote him off!” (Little does he know that he won’t get to go home, but will have to live at loser lodge until the end of the game.) Anyway this sits very well with Melinda and Cirie, with Cirie commenting to the camera “Hey, if the man wants to quite, I’m certainly not gonna stand in his way!” Aras, however, seeing his alliance falling apart, manages to convince Shane that things will look a lot better in the morning and he needs to tuff it out one more night. Shane agrees, and then Aras, pulls one of the most asinine stunts ever seen on this show. He brazenly walks up to Cirie and Melinda and says flat out, “Shane is staying and one of you two will be going tonight.” A sentiment echoed by Shane with a snippy "There's been an arrangement obviously made. I don't care which one of you goes. Whoever doesn't go now is going next."
Tribal Council, was rather subdued as Melinda seemed resigned to her fate. The Casaya alliance had its way as Melinda was the second player voted out of the game with a 5 to 2 decision. After Jeff snuffed her torch and sent her on her way, Bruce was given his purple buff and joined Casaya as they filed out.
Now, for those who either cannot or will not view the videos on the official SeeBS website, here are the transcripts of the players comments while casting their votes as well as Melinda’s final comments.
Cirie (votes Shane): I could never vote for Melinda, sorry.
Shane (votes Melinda): I cannot wait to get to know you, you seem like a wonderful woman.
Melinda (votes Shane): Shane, you made me promise you twice today that I would vote for you, and I don't go back on a promise.
Bobby (votes Melinda): Wish we could have won everything and kept everybody, kept it tight, you know where this is coming from, somebody's gotta go, you know how Survivor works, hope to catch you on the outside.
Danielle (votes Melinda): Good luck, I was outnumbered, you know how I feel about this.
Aras (votes Melinda): Melinda, we're just gambling on athleticism right now, not because you are a bad person.
Courtney (votes Melinda): I'm sorry Melinda, you're a beautiful spirit, I wish the best for you tonight..then she trails off into a whisper.
Melinda’s final comments:
(Cuz’s personal observation: We all know that Melinda is a singer, but had I been on the same tribe with her, I would have booted her just cuz SHE DON’T KNOW WHEN TO SHUT UP! Man! Can this gal prattle on and on and on. )
Yeah, we talked earlier today about the fact that it's not over until the fat lady sings. I'm the singer on the island. Well, yeah I think I just sang, apparently.
First of all - Cirie, you're my girl. We will definitely be lifelong friends. As far as everything that happened tonight, I just found myself on the tribe that's like, 'Hey man, yo, dude, whatsup, this is rockin!' and that's just not me. It won't ever be me, nor do I think I want it to be me. So that's what happened. Now I'm gonna go eat something and drink water.
I learned I'm a lot tougher than I actually thought I was. I mean it's awful out here. When I said it was Panamian hell, I was not kidding. This is the worst thing I've ever been through in my entire life. But I made it. 6 days, but I made it!
I'm taking away from the experience a lot of bug bites, a bruised foot, about 10 blisters on my feet, my mouth is falling apart because I haven't had water, and I guess a little bit more knowing who I am. I mean, I got along with those people who were my new tribemates, but they are not somebody - not all of them - most of them are not somebody I would choose to hang out with in my normal life. And I think that's fine, and I'm not sorry for it at all.
I'm very proud of myself. I think just making it here is huge, honestly. And I've done things - I ate a fish! A raw fish! Me. I licked leaves this morning. Who would've ever thought? So yes, I'm very proud of myself. I wish I could've made it longer, but it was out of my control.
I think Casaya is going to go down like a ship filled with lead, very quickly. They want to say they're one big 'happy family', and they're not. I mean they're all already plotting against each other already, and some of them know it. So whatever.
I wasn't ready to leave. I will admit it's been hard, and the first couple of days I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, what have I gotten myself into?' But the longer I stayed the longer I wanted to stay. No, I wasn't ready to leave, and I think I made that quite clear to them.
I'm not disappointed in myself that I didn't learn how to make fire before we got out here. The first couple of days the women, the “older women” who people seem to underestimate, we had fire in ten minutes. (NO! You didn’t have fire! Tina had fire! The very same Tina, you booted at the last Tribal Council! Ok, I’ll shut up now and get back to the recap!) Once we got back with the new tribe, I never touched the fire again, because they wouldn't let me. They are like - they're the ones that hacked it to death; the flint was fine when they got there. They got themselves into that situation, and I'll tell you another thing too - they won't make fire tonight. There's no way in the dark they'll be able to find all that stuff and get it together. And if they do make fire, they won't keep it.
I didn't really mind being on the older women tribe, because I actually think age is a very - this is all about life lessons and reasoning and all of that kind of stuff so I actually think it's a benefit. However, let's remind ourselves that Bob was on the younger men tribe - we're the same age. Just wanted to point that out.
I would just like to say good luck to Cirie, because oh my God, I honestly can't imagine going back to that camp at all. I didn't want to be voted out, of course, but Lord have mercy, how many times - I swear to God if that one girl says, 'like', one more time I could strangle her. She did it like 100 times here tonight. It begins to get comical, when you use, 'Yeah like this like man uh-huh like...' Hello! Stop it! Just stop saying that word. And the whole, , 'Hey dude babe what's up.' Whatever. Can we get some normal people out here? So I just want to wish Cirie good luck, because I know...
(Thankfully the cameraman cuts her off here or we will still be here listening to her yak on and on and on………)
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It was nahachi shodan -- or a variation of it.
No argument there. But at least I like what she's saying:
I didn't want to be voted out, of course, but Lord have mercy, how many times - I swear to God if that one girl says, 'like', one more time I could strangle her. She did it like 100 times here tonight. It begins to get comical, when you use, 'Yeah like this like man uh-huh like...' Hello! Stop it! Just stop saying that word. And the whole, , 'Hey dude babe what's up.' Whatever. Can we get some normal people out here?
LOL! It may have taken her a while to say it, but she spoke the truth.
I'll miss Melinda :(
Love your new tag line! LOLOL
I'm having visions of Shane on a coconut phone crying over his grandmother dying.
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