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The episode started off with a conflict. One of the divorcees accused Starr of pushing her sports bra out the window of their hotel. Starr denied it but let's be honest she probably did it. Starr and her effeminate brother Nick are ruthless. They'll cheat, lie and push undergarments off buildings. Since the divorcees are already angry and bitter at the world this just intensifies their anger. Now the target of their hatred is Nick and Starr instead of their ex-husbands.

All the teams have to go to La Paz, Bolivia which is 12,000 feet above sea level. This means all the old people are going to be out of breath. They get to La Paz and they have to spend the night on blankets by a statue while they wait for the morning paper. The paper arrives and they scour the ads looking for their next clue. The clue tells them to go buy these little Bolivian bowler hats. The teams race to get them.

Upon leaving the hat store, two teams do not read the clue properly it says that they must travel by foot to the detour but they took taxis. Only Terrence and Sarah realize their mistake and turn around to correct it. That means my favorite team the San Diego Nerds will incur a time penalty.

The detour gives the teams the choice of riding really unsafe bikes made of wood down a long cobblestone street or leading a very slow moving marching band down a street until they get their next clue.

Everybody but the two Southern blondes and the Frat Guys take the bikes. It is apparent from the beginning that the bikes are very dangerous and the teams have no idea how to use the breaks. One of the divorcees wipes out really hard as she jumps a curb and hits a wall. I'm surprised she is able to walk away from it.

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While riding their bikes down the hill Nick and Starr ask another team to U-Turn the Divorcees. A U-Turn can only be used once in the whole race and all the teams decide not to use it.

All the Teams then take Taxis to a wrestling ring where they must train and fight women by using a combination of moves. One of the Nerds, named Mark needed an oxygen tank and had to do the wrestling three times because he kept messing up his moves.

At the end Quarterback and the wife that he cheated on came in first. She really needs to grow some real eyebrows, she's grossing me out.

The last two teams are the Divorcees and the Nerds. The nerds have to wait 30 minutes as a penalty for taking a taxi when they were supposed to walk. The Divorcees took 8th place and the Nerds were eliminated.

I'm a little bummed that my San Diego Nerds were eliminated, but I have to move on and choose the mother and son combo Toni and Dallas as my new favorites. I'm actually liking the Southern Blondes a little bit now too. They are so ditzy that they make the episode fun.

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Extreme Downhill Skateboard (via diagonaluk)

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Bowling Movie is very depressing

by jbox on Oct 9, 2008 1:57 AM EDT

A League of Ordinary Gentlemen (2004)

Jonny Dub found this movie in the dollar bin and decided to give it a shot. He loved it. When I was over at his place he told me how great it was and compared it to the great documentary The King of Kong: A Fist Full of Quarters a movie about video gamers.

I waited about a week but I finally got around to watching this bowling movie and it was so depressing right from the start. The movie starts with people (some of them famous) talking about how great bowling used to be and how people have lost so much respect for the sport.

Apparently the PBA was televised on ABC for approx. 30 years and was more popular than football for a time. The bowlers were stars and earned money and respect for winning tournaments on television. In 1997 ABC stopped televising the PBA and everything went down hill. The PBA was in financial ruin and the bowlers themselves were left with nothing.

From what I saw in the movie, professional bowlers dedicated their life to bowling and it cost them their families, their money, their sobriety and their futures. Their lives appeared so depressing and it was so sad to seem them time and again have to win a game just to break even on their trip to the tournament. It's not an easy life.

The PBA was bought by three Microsoft Executives for $5 million a few years back and they hired a former Nike executive to be the CEO of the league. He's a straight shooting, foul mouthed, meat head, gym rat who is going to make the PBA successful and nobody is going to stand in his way. Love him or hate him, he's repairing the damage that was done to the PBA and taking the first steps to make it successful again.

The movie follows several bowlers all of which you feel sorry for except for Walter. Walter is the best bowler in the world, successful financially and has a happy family life. Walter is the one person who you don't dread seeing on screen. Everybody else has a world of problems.

I called Jon after about 20 minutes and I said, "I'm too depressed, I can't watch this anymore, is it going to get better?"

"Oh it's going to be so awesome! Just finish it, it's great!"

It wasn't, it was depressing from beginning to end. The final match between Walter and Pete (the bad boy of bowling) is the finale of the movie but it couldn't turn around the hours of sadness and hopelessness that the movie brought.

If you want to be bummed out then definitely see this movie. I can't believe it has such a high rating on IMDB.

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World's greatest Judo Instructor

So you want to learn Judo?

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More reasons to hate Amazing Race Terence

In high school, Terence fell in love with performing. He acted in all of the school plays and helped behind the scenes building sets and writing. After high school he started to pursue an acting career which was cut short by his Father. "Nice Jewish boys should focus on school," he said. So Terence focused on his studies at NYU’s prestigious stern school of business, bringing him back to "the greatest city in the world" - Manhattan. After graduation, he worked on the floor of the American Stock Exchange, and quickly moved up the ranks. While working on the floor, his gambling problem got the best of him. He was betting for work, after work, on the weekends, anytime and all the time.

- Via T&Z's site, Run2Three Ent, where they dream of Hollywood success

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Dancing With The Stars must be a sport if athletes are so good at it

by Dex on Oct 7, 2008 12:41 PM EDT

Right? Doesn't that seem logical? The more athletic competitors are the ones who kill it at ballroom dance. Therefore it must be a sport.

[Note by Dex, 10/07/08 12:44 PM EDT ] I admit it. I added this post because I wanted to see what the widget would do. It doesn't do a whole lot except link back to the DWTS page. Oh well. I thought maybe somebody would show up and dance on my desktop.

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Amazing Race Season 13 Episode 2

by jbox on Oct 6, 2008 12:38 PM EDT

Amazing Race Season 13 Episode 2

This episode started off with more drama between Terrence and Sarah. Terrence is the one that we've identified as the "little b*tch" in an early post. It just got worse during this episode. Terrence is so precious and needs Sarah to mother him every moment.

A tearful Sarah insisted, "I do want to be with you. I just don’t want to not speak to another single person which I feel is the only thing that’s going to make you feel like I want to be with you." At this remark, Terence walked away while Sarah begged for a resolution to their disagreement. Sarah later added, "I feel like every time I talk to another Team, he feels like I’m betraying him."

I think the best part of the episode was when Terrence is putting their bags in the back of a cab and the cab driver slams the trunk door on his head. Terrence flips out. "Look what happened to me! Look at the blood!" Sarah responds "There is no blood". While in the cab he makes her clean the small abrasion with a kleenex and then he asks her to blow on it. I'm surprised he didn't ask for a glass of choclate milk too. What is wrong with this man-child?

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When the teams get to the airport. Ken and Tina (football player cheater and blonde wife) beg and plead for a seat on an earlier flight. The airline makes a decision to switch to a larger plane and are able to accomodate all the teams. Although you will definitely hear differently from Tina, she had NOTHING to do with an airline switching to a bigger plane. That didn't stop her from congratulating herself and making sure that every other team was aware of what she did (or didn't do).

When they are getting on the flight. Tina cuts to the front of the line and says "What's fair is fair" thinking that she deserves to be in front since she got the bigger plane. Terrence finally acting like a man calls her out and then whimpers and hides when Ken confronts him and then kisses him. This whole thing was weird. Terrence was heard saying while blushing "I smile all the time, people just don't know it".

I got to say the teams are so dumb fighting over seats that will give them a 3 foot lead over their competitors. Why stress over something so stupid?

They get to the beach and ride these dune buggies to a detour. They can either move a sail boat by rolling it on logs across the sand or search a database and open a shipping container in a freight yard.

Every team except my team, my nerds Mark and Bill, do the sail boat thing. The teams all get pretty tired pushing the boats and Mark and Bill find their cargo relatively easily.

The best part of this was that the divorcees, Kelly and Christy were confused and thought they had to move a sail boat and find a container. So after they moved the sail boat they start digging in the sand by this little flag with the hands trying to find a container. They had absolutely no idea what was going on.

Terrence and Sarah meanwhile finish first but decide to run for a few miles away from the taxi area to try and find taxis. They are also confused when teams start driving past them. The mother son team is nice enough to help them find a taxi.

The next challenge is Wall of Words where they have to find a location on a wall written in Portuguese. It's a dumb challenge. The divorcees screw up again. They think they let their cab leave but it was waiting for them the whole time.

Ken and Tina out ran Mark and Bill to the finish. I'm really not liking Ken and Tina. Nobody beats my San Diego sweaty nerds and gets away with it.

The team that was eliminated was the couple that needed the million dollars to get married.

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The guy Anthony was totally serious and thankful after his elimination.

Anthony added, "I have a lot of things in my life to be thankful for. I have my health. I have my parents. I have my looks and I have Stephanie."

Your looks?

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ESPN doesn't care
about what is all the rage in P.E. classes, except maybe for a brief
one-time story. Cup stacking is on TV because it is fun to watch.
Those kids look like someone crossed Harry Potter with a ninja with a
street 3-card monty player.

Cup stacking vs. Ultimate - rec.sport.disc | Google Groups

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Korean warmups would probably psyche up exactly nobody

by Dex on Oct 1, 2008 3:41 PM EDT

Ah Korean warmups. Soft piano music blasting away. A militaristic man barking orders at you while you stretch. Foreign countries are so foreign.

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Mangold Hurling

by Dex on Oct 1, 2008 1:38 PM EDT

Mangold Hurling is where you take mangold roots and throw them as far as you can. And like any sport worth its salt, there's an association and a web page devoted to it.

"Away, mangold! Fly away as far as ye can!"

It's a common sport in various cultures, as evidenced by the black pudding throwing we learned about recently, to take something and throw it as far as you can and be judged by the distance and form you achieve.

Why is that? What prompts people to pick things up and see how far the thing can be thrown? It's like man is in a constant war against gravity.

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