Amazing Race 9 premiers 28 FEBRUARY 2006

[AznSAE]

that one girl crying about carrying a stinky fish was something else.

[ladylike]

With the time/day change I missed it. Who got Philiminated?

[MysticCat]

Originally posted by ladylike
With the time/day change I missed it. Who got Philiminated?

The nerds.

[ladylike]

Originally posted by MysticCat81
The nerds.

YES! No more saccharine sweet nerd love. Anybody recall the rankings (blah-blah & blah-blah, you're team number one...)?

It bugs that sometimes watching this show is like watching an extended commercial. Hmmmm, is travelocity.com an advertiser? Why I have absolutely no idea.

[MysticCat]

Originally posted by ladylike
YES! No more saccharine sweet nerd love. Anybody recall the rankings (blah-blah & blah-blah, you're team number one...)?

1. -- Eric and Jeremy (Team Frat Boys/Casanovas/Beach Bums)

2. -- BJ and Tyler (Team Hippies)

3. -- Joseph and Monica (Team MoJo)

4. -- Fan and Barry (Team Frankenbarry)

5. -- Lake and Michelle (Team Dadgummit, Baby!)

6. -- Ray and Yolanda (Team Why-Aren't-They-Doing-Better?)

[ladylike]

Originally posted by MysticCat81
1. -- Eric and Jeremy (Team Frat Boys/Casanovas/Beach Bums)

2. -- BJ and Tyler (Team Hippies)

3. -- Joseph and Monica (Team MoJo)

4. -- Fan and Barry (Team Frankenbarry)

5. -- Lake and Michelle (Team Dadgummit, Baby!)

6. -- Ray and Yolanda (Team Why-Aren't-They-Doing-Better?)

Thanks, MysticCat! How come everytime I see your name, I think of the rapper called "Mystikal" and then I find myself humming the words to the song "Shake It Fast (But Watch Yoursel)." That's probably more than you needed to know.

And thanks to Lake, I'm now using the word "dadgummit" on a regular basis.

Fran and Barry are still holding on? Wow. Who knew? Eric and Jeremy are annoying but they're good races. Ray and Yolanda seem to be directionally challenged and always stopping to ask for directions appears to lose them a lot of time. The only thing I noticed about MoJo is that Joseph is some hottiefied hottie hotness.

[MysticCat]

Originally posted by ladylike
Thanks, MysticCat! How come everytime I see your name, I think of the rapper called "Mystikal" and then I find myself humming the words to the song "Shake It Fast (But Watch Yoursel)."

Maybe because I really am him? (Shhh. Our secret. )

[polarpi]

Team "Dadgumit" is gone!

That just made my entire night!

[Morag]

Yippee! They are gone!! (Although Michelle seemed to know her Greek alphabet.)

[queequek]

The clean shaven Lake surprisingly looks like Phil. LOL.

[smiley21]

Originally posted by queequek
The clean shaven Lake surprisingly looks like Phil. LOL.

My sister said the same thing.

[MysticCat]

Originally posted by polarpi
Team "Dadgumit" is gone!

And there was GREAT rejoicing!

I loved it when Monica said "Greece is where thinking began." I know she meant "thinking" as in "western philosophy," but there was something about it that just sounded so, sorry, blonde.

Am I terrible for deriving some schadenfreude from the hippies fall to almost last?

And Ray and Yolanda finally moved up!

Could anyone else tell -- is that the Kappa Alpha Psi coat-of-arms that Ray has tattooed on his left shoulder? I rewound and froze the frame, and that's what it looked like, but the picture was grainy enough it was hard to be sure.

[AznSAE]

damn! it was on last night and i missed it.

[jitterbug13]

Originally posted by MysticCat81
And Ray and Yolanda finally moved up!

Could anyone else tell -- is that the Kappa Alpha Psi coat-of-arms that Ray has tattooed on his left shoulder? I rewound and froze the frame, and that's what it looked like, but the picture was grainy enough it was hard to be sure.

Ray is a Kappa. There is a thread about him in the Kappa forum.

[polarpi]

Originally posted by MysticCat81
Am I terrible for deriving some schadenfreude from the hippies fall to almost last?

Yes (ETA: Although it looks like next week could be a tough week for them, too!)

When it looked like they were going to be last, I was saying to my mom "Oh, please let it be a NEL, please, please PLEASE!" Then when they came in 5th (even with the penalty), I was then switching to the "Okay, elimination leg is all right now!" chant

Ooh, I can go listen to Dadgumit's interview on the Early Show now