SURVIVOR 7: PEARL ISLAND

AVAST YA MATEYS!
This here be yer Survivor PING from Capt. Cuz!
Har! Har! Har!

Well we have calmly waited (Yeah! Like rabid dogs fighting over the last bone!), and our patience has finally paid off! The latest bunch of ~~Media Whores~~ er – I mean Survivor contestants has been reveled!
So without further ado, here they are by tribe:

THE DRAKE TRIBE:

Name: Burton Roberts
Age: 31
Occupation: Marketing Executive
Hometown: San Fransisco, CA
Marital Status: Single
Cuz’s First Impression: Burton may be the “Brian” of the group. A manipulator who may make the final four if he can pull the tribe’s strings and not draw attention to himself at the same time.

Name: Christa Hastie
Age: 24
Occupation: Computer Programmer
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Marital Status: Engaged
Cuz’s First Impression: Crista is the Drake tribe’s token “Techno Geek” and impresses me as the most “out of her element” in this game. I don’t expect her to get very far.

Name: Jon Dalton
Age: 29
Occupation: Art Consultant
Hometown: Danville, VA
Marital Status: Single
Cuz’s First Impression: I get the impression that this guy refuses to grow up and will always try to be the “hip, cool, surfer dude type”. He may make it to the final four if he doesn’t tick his tribemates off first.

Name: Michelle Tesauro
Age: 22
Occupation: Student
Hometown: Pittstown, NJ
Marital Status: Single
Cuz’s First Impression: I think her tribemates will boot this one right off the bat because she reminds me of a combination of Heidi and Jenna.

Name: Rubert Boneham
Age: 39
Occupation: Troubled Teens Mentor
Hometown: Indianapolis, IN
Marital Status: Married w/1 child
Cuz’s First Impression: Don’t let his looks fool you, this guy is smart and should go far in the game.

Name: Sandra Diaz-Twine
Age: 29
Occupation: Office Assistant
Hometown: Ft. Lewis, WA
Marital Status: Married w/2 children
Cuz’s First Impression: Don’t know why, but my gut instinct tells me this gal will make it to the final four.

Name: Shawn Cohen
Age: 29
Occupation: Advertising Sales
Hometown: New York, NY but currently living in Hollywood, CA
Marital Status: Single
Cuz’s First Impression: Lets see, 29, single, born in New York & moved to Hollywood, favorite drinks are White Wine and Soy Vanilla Lattes. I think we have found our token Gay player.

Name: Trish Dunn
Age: 42
Occupation: Sales Executive
Hometown: Annapolis, MD
Marital Status: Married w/2 children (twins)
Cuz’s First Impression: Keep your eye on Trish. Having completed 24 marathons (10 of them the Boston Marathon) she is no slouch even for a 42 year old. She could very well be the Kathy O’Brien of the Pearl Islands.

THE MORGAN TRIBE:

Name: Andrew Savage
Age: 40
Occupation: Attorney
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Marital Status: Married w/2 children
Cuz’s First Impression: He’s a lawyer, need I say more?

Name: Darrah Johnson
Age: 22
Occupation: Mortician
Hometown:Liberty, MS
Marital Status: Single
Cuz’s First Impression: If all Morticians looked like this, more men wouldn’t be afraid to go!

Name: Lillian Morris
Age: 51
Occupation:Scout Troop Leader
Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio
Marital Status: Married w/2 grown children
Cuz’s First Impression: I hope she last a while, but I’m afraid that she will be among the first to get booted.

Name: Nicole Delma
Age: 26
Occupation:Massage Therapist
Hometown: Hermosa Beach, CA
Marital Status: Single
Cuz’s First Impression: Agrh! Nicole, Capt. Cuz has a knot in his muscles that could use some of your Massage Therapy! Har! Har! Har!

Name: Osten Taylor
Age: 27
Occupation: Equity Trade Manager
Hometown: Boston, MA
Marital Status: Single
Cuz’s First Impression: This comment is to the producers – If your gonna cast the token black guy, couldn’t you find someone who doesn’t try to make himself look like a badass by shaving his head?

Name: Ryan Opray
Age: 31
Occupation: Electrician
Hometown: Los Gatos, CA
Marital Status: Single
Cuz’s First Impression: This guy looks like he could be a real jerk and smart mouth.

Name: Ryan Shoulders
Age: 23
Occupation: Produce Clerk
Hometown: Clarksville, TN
Marital Status: Single
Cuz’s First Impression: Ryan S. is the Morgan Tribe’s token “Techno Geek” and will probably get booted early on.

Name: Tijuana Bradley
Age: 27
Occupation: Pharmaceutical Sales
Hometown: St. Louis, MO
Marital Status: Single
Cuz’s First Impression: Not too much to say about this one. Although I have to question her parent’s motives for naming her Tijuana?

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by this batch. The producers have stuck true to form with a bunch of twenty somethings & two “old farts” on each tribe.
Just once, I would like to see what would happen if they cast a bunch of forty-somethings and 2 “young whipper-snappers” on each tribe.

Oh Well! There they are! 16 wanna-be Millionaires.
Who will outwit, outplay, and outlast who!
Who will align with whom!

Only time, Mark Burnett and CBS will tell!
So stay tuned, enjoy and remember!

Don’t take any wooden doubloons!
Har Har Har!

P.S. Remember to Freepmail me if you want on or off the Survivor Ping List.

Arggggh! Mateys!
This here be Capt. Cuz with the latest news on Survivor; Pearl Islands!
Har! Har! Har!

The following is an excerpt from the up-coming TV Guide dated 9-6-2003.
(Hey, I don’t agree with the touchy/feely animal rights whacko stuff, I just posts em as I finds em.)

“Normally, Christa Haste wouldn’t hurt a fly. But today, she will become a killer.

Her victim is a beautiful brown pelican that’s landed on the crescent shaped beach near her newly constructed camp. A hungry Hastie sneaks up and smashes the bird on the head with a rock. Rushing over to finish the job, Rupert Boneham reaches for the pelican’s long neck, and with a snap and a twist, it’s over.

But really, it’s only begun. CBS’ Survivor is back for its seventh edition with another animal attack. “People are going to hate them for that,” says Susan Hawk, one of the original Survivors. (At press time, CBS hadn’t decided whether to air the footage.) Another disturbing development; For the first time since original winner Richard Hatch went full Monty, there will be more male nudity. Lots more.

The setting is Panama’s luscious Pearl Islands, and the two tribes, Drake and Morgan – Named for the pirates who once pillaged these waters – set up their camps on separate shores. Morgan’s camp sits on a spit of sand at the edge of the Pacific, with little protection from the searing tropical heat. A few miles away, Drake builds its camp nearer the jungle and suffers the consequences; mosquitoes. Still the Pearl Islands are pretty tame compared with previous Survivor locales.

Unlike last season, which pitted men against women, these 16 castaways – who are younger and hotter than ever, and include a massage therapist, a couple of weight lifters, and two ex-cheerleaders – are split evenly, with four men and four women on each side. And in the first few days, Morgan tempers are already raging in an argument about loyalty. Executive producer Mark Burnett promises more physical challenges this time, too, as well as what he calls an “earth-shattering, mind-numbing” twist halfway through.

Pearl Islands begins like no other Survivor – with a big fat lie. Burnett instructs the contestants to dress up for a party aboard a three-masted schooner. Some of the guys arrive in Armani suits, and the women wear cocktail dresses and heels. But just as they begin to relax, host Jeff Probst orders the competitors to walk the plank, taking nothing but the clothes on their backs.

After a 15-foot jump into the ocean, home to gray-tip and hammerhead sharks, the marooned castaways swim a half mile to an island village, where each tribe is allowed to spend 100 balboa (about $100) on supplies. “It really is like if a ship went down,” Burnett says. Members of the Drake tribe buy chickens, beans and rice – and four jugs of wine. But they forget bug spray, which is why their bodies are covered in mosquito bites the next morning.

They also forget to buy beach clothes. On one day, Hastie rips the bottom off her dress and offers it to Boneham, a 200-pound mountain man, who wraps it around his waist. “There’s nothing on under his skirt.” Says one producer. “It’s kind of sickening.”

Later, during a grueling challenge where the contestants push heavy cannons 300 yards up hills, down muddy trails and across a beach in stifling heat, most of the guys have stripped to boxers. Then, slipping in the muck, three pairs come off completely. Even though the women don’t give it up so easily this time – most say they won’t doff their buffs – never have so many Survivors worn so little. “No matter how you look at it, guys look stupid naked.” Probst says.

As for that pelican, there’s more bad news. While the Drake tribe discusses whether to boil, fry or roast their kill, the producers warn that waterfowl are prone to parasites and shouldn’t be eaten. If Hastie had known that before she threw the rock, the pelican might have been a survivor, too."

So there ya have it! Not only does it explaine why no “Luxuary items” were listed but they are also, providing a little eye-candy for the FReeperetts out there!

So stay tuned, enjoy and remember!

Don’t take any wooden doubloons!
Har Har Har!

P.S. Remember to Freepmail me if you want on or off the Survivor Ping List.

The comment on eating the pelican is interesting, so I did a little digging.

"While the Drake tribe discusses whether to boil, fry or roast their kill, the producers warn that waterfowl are prone to parasites and shouldn’t be eaten."

Here is some interesting text:

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"Literally the text according to the Jewish Encyclopaedia was a call to Zebulun because the people were dependent upon the tribe for the ‘sephunei’ (the snail), because of the blue and purple dye derived from it. By way of further interest, the snail is considered ‘unclean’ and therefore not fit for human consumption in Leviticus 11:30 and 42.

Drawn from the food laws in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14, the following is a general list of both clean and unclean animals.

The clean animals which are considered as good for food are those which both chew the cud and part the hoof, among which are numbered the cow, ox, calf, sheep, goat, ibex, hart, gazelle, buffalo and antelope generally.

The unclean animals which do not both chew the cud and part the hoof are found among the camels, the monkey, the hare, the porcupine, the weasel, the pig, the dog, the fox, the cat family, the horse in its family and the mouse.

Clean birds are the chicken, turkey, pheasant, quail, goose, dove pigeon, guinea fowl, partridge and grouse.

Unclean birds are eagles, herons, cranes, hawks, the crow, the vulture, the owl, the swan, the pelican, peacock, cormorant, water hen, stork and ostrich.

There are, of course, others that fall within these separate categories and which are determined by establishing whether or not they accord with the principles or clean or unclean food.

The general attitude today is that as the environment of all animals has been improved, the prohibition against them has been removed and that all are now fit for human consumption.

Let it be said at once that nowhere in the Bible is there any justification for this contention. That which was unfit, because of its peculiar physical structure in the Old Testament, is exactly the same today and the reason behind the prohibition in the context of food, remains identical."

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WEIGHT LOSS SPOILERS

To read below, highlight to expose the letters.

Andrew Savage-From the 'Savage Memo'- 'As a side note, Savage's physical and mental health are excellent and he's thrilled to be back.'
Link-pub124.ezboard.com/fsurvi...6266.topic

Burton Roberts-No Reports as of 9/2/03
Link-Not Applicable

Christa Hastie-No Reports as of 9/2/03
Link-Not Applicable

Darrah Johnson-No Reports as of 9/2/03
Link-Not Applicable

Jon Dalton-No Reports as of 9/2/03
Link-Not Applicable

Lillian Morris-Sucks poster MosquitoJoe reports 'I did hear from someone who knows her that she is a Boy Scoutmaster and she came back 25 pounds lighter and covered with bugbites'
Link-pub124.ezboard.com/fsurvi...6503.topic

Michelle Tesauro-No Reports as of 9/2/03
Link-Not Applicable

Nicole Delma-No Reports as of 9/2/03
Link-Not Applicable

Osten Taylor-SurvivorFever now reports 'Osten lost a substantial amount of weight' changed from 'Osten lost in the 20# range'
Link-pub124.ezboard.com/fsurvi...6232.topic

Rupert Boneham-No Reports as of 9/2/03
Link-Not Applicable

Ryan Opray-No Reports as of 9/2/03
Link-Not Applicable

Ryan Shoulders-Sucks poster Compaq54 says he heard on the radio 'Those who have seen him say he looks like he lost a lot of weight'
Link-pub124.ezboard.com/fsurvi...=1&stop=20

Sandra Diaz-Twine-An article by the Oympian reports when Sandra came home her mother said ‘What happened to you? You look like you have been kidnapped!’ seeing her appearance
Link-www.theolympian.com/home/...ory3.shtml

Tijuana Bradley-No Reports as of 9/2/03
Link-Not Applicable

Trish Dunn-The Capitol reports 'she returned tanned, skinny and full of bug bites'
Link-www.hometownannapolis.com..._28-03/TOP

SPOILERS END

AVAST YA MATEYS!
This here be yer Survivor PING from Capt’n Cuz!
Har! Har! Har!

First off, some corrections to me post #41.
I was wrong in me questionin Tijuana’s parent’s motives for naming her after a city in Mexico. I was thinkin’ her name be pronounced “TE-A-WA-NA” when in fact the proper pronunciation be: “TA-WAN-YAH”

Also, me hook has messed up me typing yet again! Our “Big Mountain Man’s” name be Rupert, not Rubert. Me bad! Har! Har! Har!

And lastly, I Capt’n Cuz does herby declare that that scurvy lowlife scallywag Jon Dalton be the castaway I would most like to preemptively boot before the show even starts.
This questionable excuse for a human being has made the mistake of announcing that he plans on booting the “old farts” the first chance he gets because he feels that only young people can or should play and win this game.
I got news for ya Jonny me bucko, Davy Jones’ has got a special place in his deep sea locker for the likes of you! Har! Har! Har!

Now without further pause, here be:

CAPT’N CUZ’s ~~WEEKLY~~ WEAKLY SURVIVOR PICKs

The general consensus on the web holds that this here be the Immunity Idol:

And since that be the Immunity Idol, this screen cap shows that the Drake tribe be the first winners o’ the Immunity Challenge!

Now, early spoiler reports say the first two booties be:

1. “A youngish athletic woman, about 5'6", with short ash or platinum blonde hair.” (Everyone thinks this can only mean Nicole. In fact, YourAdHere posts: ”I'm gonna go with the consensus online and say that Nicole, the massage therapist, will be the first one voted off.” AAARRRRRRGGGGGGG!!!!!!!! Not me buxom beauty Nicole!)

and

2. “A young, tall, skinny guy, who looked younger than the girl, but very unhealthy.” (Now, if ya looks at all the men, ya be hard pressed to find one more skinny or sickly looking than Ryan Shoulders.)

Therefore, after reviewin all the spoilers, vid caps, and whatnot, I, Capt’n Cuz’ do hereby make me first proclamation:

The Morgan Tribe be the first to go to Tribal Council.
And (never let it be said that Capt’n Cuz lets his libido overrun his logic. Har! Har! Har!) the first bootie be.....

Nicole Delma. AAARRRRRGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally, since today is Mrs. Cuz’s birthday, I will take her out to dinner tonight and tape the show. (Providing of course, Isabel doesn’t preempt the broadcast! Up here in Pennsylvania, I don’t think so, but you never know.)
If I get a chance to watch the tape over the weekend, I will try to post a recap on Monday.

So till then, enjoy the show and remember!

Keep yer powder dry, yer cutlass razor sharp and don’t take any wooden doubloons!
Har Har Har!

P.S. Remember to Freepmail me if you want on or off the Survivor Ping List.

Looks like it's going to be a good season - I hope so!

http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1%2c1002%2c271%7c83558%7c1%7c%2c00.html

'Survivor' Lie Fools Probst, Fuels New Season

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - After six turns as the host of "Survivor," Jeff Probst pretty much knows his job cold. Every now and then, though, something on the show catches him by surprise.

That happened during his stint off the coast of Panama for "Survivor: Pearl Islands," the seventh edition of the game, which premieres at 8 p.m. ET Thursday (Sept. 18) on CBS. For a time, he says he fell for "the greatest lie ever told on 'Survivor.' "

"It's brilliant. It's brutal and it's brilliant and it totally suckered me," says Probst, who, naturally, won't divulge who told the lie or what its ramifications were. "My first reaction was 'Motherf----r,' and then my second reaction was 'Wow, that's amazing.' "

The fantastic fib would seem to fit well with the overall theme of "Pearl Islands," which is piracy. The two tribes are called Drake and Morgan, after two English pirates (Sir Francis Drake and Capt. Henry Morgan) who sacked Spanish forts in the 16th and 17th centuries. Probst says working with that theme helped keep the show fresh for him and the crew this time.
"That was the creative box we worked in," he says. "[We were thinking] what would pirates do, how do we set them adrift, how do we do a mutiny, who can we make walk the plank."

The duplicity started right away. The 16 players were told to dress for a publicity photo while on the boat to their destination. Instead, though, Probst informed them that they'd be setting up camp with only the clothes they were wearing.

"It's not a huge twist in a sense, because it's just clothes," he says. "But it spins the game so differently from the beginning and puts them in a different mindset of being resourceful."

The two tribes were also given 100 Balboas -- the equivalent of $100 -- to buy supplies in a small village before being taken to their camps. They could also barter using the few items of clothing they had with them.

"What's interesting is one tribe comes out of there like they just robbed Fort Knox -- they have every thing," Probst says. "The other tribe comes out with not much more than when they went in. In fact, these idiots go back to camp with cash in hand. ... That's what makes the show still fascinating, is 'What are they thinking?' "

Because "Survivor" was essentially the starting point for the current glut of unscripted series, and because it's delivered consistently to a loyal audience, Probst thinks the show can outlive its newer, lesser spawn.

"I can see fatigue setting in with reality [shows], without question, because there's a lot of crap out there," he says. "Do I think it will affect 'Survivor'? No I don't. ... I think we're going to be around, I think 'American Idol' will be around, I think 'The Bachelor' will be around. Because they all touch on something, either fulfilling a dream or finding love or, in 'Survivor,' the adventure."

To make sure of that, though, the show's producers will keep coming up with new wrinkles. Probst promises more than just a grandiose lie by one of the players this time around.

"There's ... a very, very regrettable event that happens, and the person to whom it happens is going to regret it ... more than they have any idea right now," he says. "I couldn't believe it when it happened, and I can't wait for it to play out.

"There's also a huge twist to come that this time next year we'll be talking about, and you'll have an opinion on whether you loved or hated it."

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