LAST EDITED ON 03-31-19 AT 03:34 AM (EST)

Interesting take on things Mr Barry even if talking about past events cannot be called spoilers.
I have a quizz for you:

1- You say that your drink as a fruity taste but who did a dance that became known as the "Rooty-Tooty Fresh 'N Fruity"?

2- There were two other castaways who fell in love with the chickens but were so unfamiliar with the game that casting them was even crueller than casting Wendy. Can you name them?

3- You are right in what you say about Keith but he's not the first to have a big inferiority complex. His erratic behavior reminded me of someone else. Can you guess who?

4- Other castaways have worn ties at TC. Name one.

5- Reem's dragon stare from the jury bench pales in comparison to this former All-Star. Who was it?

6- War Dog. Smart player. THAT is all.

LAST EDITED ON 03-31-19 AT 08:00 AM (EST)

1 - The "fruity" dance was appropriately named for...HATCH
Don't recall the "dance" moves; but Rudy's facial expression (resembling someone sticking its nose in a septic tank) when watching Hatch perform is how I remembered.

2 - I'm thinking more than two...but here are two for sure:
TAI - most obvious
JAN (Thailand) - She insisted a "prayer" be said before the chicken was killed for consumption. Jake performed the prayer service. Jan took the noneditable remains and buried them in what she called her "Pet Cemetery." If that's not "love," I don't know what is!

3 - You're right about Keith not being the first. With the host of casting debacles from Production, we've had no shortage of castaways with an inferiority complex. But complexes didn't come more inferior than RYAN from (H vs. H vs. H)

4 - BOB CROWLEY Survivor Champion in Gabon who wore a bowtie to TCs.

5 - In S8 (the season they had the audacity to call "All-Stars") LEX'S stares, aimed at Rob, were far more deadly than Reem's.

6 - At least kingfish is watching the same season I am.

My job is done...very busy day ahead. Will try to respond to the Ranking thread later today.

1 If you don't remember the dance then you must click on this link:

http://funny115.com/v1/15.htm

2- Well, your answers aren't bad but not the ones I had in mind because Tai was a good casting choice and Jan did make it to F3 so she at least knew how to be trustworthy, an important aspect of the game. I was thinking Shambo and Kimmi both of whom clearly didn't understand the game.

3- But Ryan behavior couldn't be called erratic. I was thinking of Gabon's GC who left the camp in a canoe for so long he almost missed a challenge and Kelly thought he had been eaten by monkeys.

4- Good one, I could add Philip.

5- Another point for Aruba.

6- He was the alliance's ringleader yet his name was never mentioned for elimination. That's smart game play. Also, being a former military, I'd think you two Americans would give him a bit of respect. Maybe he's having problems in challenges because of injuries suffered on the field. At one point he had to pass the army's tests, didn't he?

First of all, thanks for the quiz! It was fun to reminisce.

1 - LMAO...that was a hysterical trip down memory lane. It would have been even more funny if one of the images on that link was a pic of Rudy’s facial expression I remember.

2 - Like I said, there’s been quite a few. I thought for sure you were referring to Tai because you did a fair share of bashing on these Boards of Tai as a game player in Kaoh Rong. Jan was clueless...she made the F3 because she was pathetically inept (as countless other inept jokes have advanced for the same reasons) and Brian (who owned that season) had her so manipulated/brainwashed. I am drawing a complete blank on Shambo falling in love with a chicken. I’m sure it happened if you’re mentioning it and Kingfish references it in his post, but for the life of me I cannot remember. BTW, if you’re going to sing Jan’s praises for being a F3 in a cast of 16; Shambo as a F6 in a cast of 20 should be commendable as well. *snort* I thought Kimmi’s fight with Alicia in the Outback over eating the chicken was more about Kimmi being a vegetarian than her sheer love for the feathered animal.

3 - Much like the prior question, several former castaways could fit this bill as well. Ryan became more grounded as the game progressed, but in the earlier stages of his season, I personally viewed Ryan’s behavior as being all over the place. I do vaguely remember Kelly in Gabon fearing one of her tribemates might have been eaten by a jungle animal, but do not recall Danny’s long personal canoe trip and would have never related it to an “inferiority complex.”

4 - Don’t know of a “Philip.” Could have been in an “unreal” season I didn’t watch.

5 - I would not have guessed Lex if you didn’t say “All-Star.” If it was mentioned purposely as a clue...Thanks!

6 - I have tremendous respect for anyone who puts their life on the line in service of our society, i.e. military, police officer, firefighter, etc. That being said, even though as a player he owned the Cagayan season and emerged as Sole Survivor, by saying as a person I regard Tony V. as a piece of sh!t in no way, shape, or form is to disrespect our men and women in blue. As much as I have immense respect for our military personnel, LoserDog is an dumbass and as a 30+ year-old man who still feels the need to publicly go by a nickname he is...well...a LOSER.
If we have indisputable proof that his ineptness is directly related to some military injury, then I’ll let up on him. Otherwise, he continues to be appropriate bashing material and deserves the criticism I give him without some silly guilt trip on Kingfish and I to feel in the wrong by some twisted unproven theory that he may have suffered some perceived injury in the line of duty. LOL

LAST EDITED ON 03-31-19 AT 10:59 PM (EST)

Thank you, I always aim to entertain.

#2- Too bad you don't remember Shambo talking chicken, it was even funnier than Tony talking Llama. Although it's more about Shambo and Dave Ball, Mario still wrote something about Shambo and the chickens so this may bring back memories:

http://funny115.com/v2/91.htm

As for Shambo finishing 6th, it was mostly due to production deciding to cancel the double boot when Russell Swan had to be medically evacuated. Galu was going to eliminate Shambo right there and then before the merger but they never got another chance.

3- GC left camp because everyone was calling him weak. His pride was hurt and he felt inadequate.

5- It was indeed a clue.

6- War Dog had to be fit to pass the army physical so something happened to him since then. You can bash him if you want but he is playing a good game. And I wasn't putting your patriotism in question but appealing to it.

GEEZ Louise...I STILL don't remember even with the link. On rare occasion I do miss an episode and if I do not have time to watch before the next episode, I don't even bother...especially if it's a clunker of a season. I'm thinking that must be it.

I also have no recollection of the GC incident. Appears I didn't miss much.

Passing an Army physical does NOT make one an Olympian GOLD MEDALIST. Crystal Cox was...and her performance on Survivor was nothing short of an utter DISGRACE. Translation: My assessments and appropriate bashing is based on how they are performing in the season, not on presumed past history.

Personally, I believe if LoserDog did indeed suffer a serious injury in the line of duty, he would have made us known of that fact within the first five minutes of the season. Or at the very least, by episode seven Production would have for sure.

LAST EDITED ON 03-31-19 AT 04:56 PM (EST)

My Spoilers are not limited by time or space. Or lucidity.

1. None. No others had that specially soporific after taste. Don't know who might have done that dance, but some think of Survivor as a stage for future jobs.

2. I'm sure you are referring to Shambo as one of them. But no others had what some term a mental disability. Many have been on the show (such as Shambo) who were mostly incoherent and mentally challenged, but none that I know of with diagnosed physiologically based problems.

3. Indeed, I think every season there are examples of passive personalities, but IMO none so far with that to the extent that Keith exhibited. But no, I don't know who you're thinking of.

4. So far, he's the only one I know of who wore a tie and vest to a TC, especially this far into the season. I remember a couple of survivors, one a lawyer, who jumped off tha boat in a suit and tie. They might have worn ties to TC.

5. I think I know who you're talking about, the name eludes me.

As I've stated several times, you and Aruba have far better memories than I have.

It will would be fun indeed when we had will have a non-linear concept of time. So we could say your spoilers were will be happening.

I answered Aruba who jumped in and interveed so the answers I had in mind are up top. I'll just say that for some like Shambo not having a problem diagnosed doesn't mean it doesn't exist!

LAST EDITED ON 03-31-19 AT 07:58 PM (EST)

Yeah, I wonder about that too, but there is a difference between the casting a of person with a diagnosed mental problem, and a odd character who doesn't have that. My basic contention in this regard is that intentionally accepting someone like Wendy, who presumably has a doctor's diagnosis, shouldn't be acceptable.

Shambo was an odd character, and she did seem to have some problems with her perception of the world, but Wendy has a real organic problem.

So you would deny her the chance to participate? I don't think that's right. She passed the physicals and wasn't in any medical danger. Tourette's isn't epilepsy where a sudden crisis could occur at any time. It's a personality disorder and while many suffering from it are ostracized, it was clear that Wendy was going to be accepted even befriend. Anyway, I don't think she was ever going to last up to day 39. She got on the show to "release the chickens" and production obliged. Her mission accomplished, she happily left.

Tens of thousands (probably) of applications are rejected for one reason or another. And yes, I would consider a diagnosed mental medical condition like Tourette's a good reason to add her to that list.

Life for her is tough enough without being held up for ridicule. Even if in the minds of the others she is arguably accepted (actually, she wasn't), to add nation wide exposure of her problem could very well affect her well being. She has a tough enough problem socializing as it is.

I am sympathetic to her and I believe she did a credible job while on the island, if you take away her inability to socialize and her inexplicable decision to raise the white flag. I think her post Survivor interview reveals starkly confused thinking.

But back when casting decisions were being made, they had no idea whether or not the problems she lives with and that go way beyond what the others might have had, might be aggravated.

I think they took a chance with the well-being and mental health of this young lady.

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Well we'll have to disagree on this. I personaly think that she should have been given the chance to play since that's what she wanted to do.

When I wrote she was accepted I meant that she wasn't ostracized because of her condition. Many players liked her. It was her bad game play that put her in the minority but that's what happened to hundreds of other players before her.

>She (Wendy) got on the show
>to "release the chickens" and
>production obliged. Her mission accomplished,
>she happily left.

OH OK, Production mandated and made Kama forego its chance at an undefeated challenge record by forcing them to throw the RC so Manu could win its only challenge and Wendy could release the chickens because that's why she was casted. LMAO!! Let me tell you Michel, you never have to worry about not entertaining me. That's always a given!

They didn't have to force Kama to throw the challenge, just make it harder for them. ANY challenge can be rigged.

#1 - In her Bio Wendy is listed as a “business owner;” hardly an occupation for someone socially inept or with an inability to deal with adults. Is Production ignorant and stupid? Without question, but not necessarily “cruel” for casting a player with a disability. What’s cruel is casting other players who are mean-spirited or bullying toward someone with a disability. Fortunately, that did NOT occur this season. Quite the contrary, everyone in this cast was very understanding toward her disability. One would suspect her effervescent and bubbly personality is what won the casting crew over.

#2 - Casting Keith was a pristine example of the Casting Department’s ignorance and stupidity. Agreed, the sissy-boy raising the mast is on Keith and not to be directly blamed on Production, but having to watch the pathetic ineptness of Keith leading up to his quitting is clearly on the pitiful job with casting.

#3 - Pretty sure the bold print also clearly states the winner of the season is the Sole Survivor who garnishes the most votes at FTC. If a castaway wishes to “hold and hug” (metaphorically, of course) another player whom enough others wish to vote out, that certainly gives the “hugger” or “holder” the inside track for getting his/her vote.

#4 - Bob Crowley at Gabon wore his tie right up through FTC and was awarded the million dollars on the Reunion Show.

#5 - Whereas, Reem’s non-verbal communication, aka “dragon stare” is duly noted, her verbal expression “lame” calling out the scaredy-cat chicksh!ts implementing the Anti-Darwin Syndrome was noted as well.

#6 - It’s nice to know the Commission can always count on you to be a voice of reason when dumbass behavior rears its loser head even at the risk of having our patriotism come under fire.

I certainly won't defend Keith but I will defend the casting department. Their job isn't about finding the 16 to 20 best Survivalists, their job is to cast characters for a simple TV show obsessed, like any other, with its ratings. They cast personalities that will create drama and, for their needs, Keith delivered. The fact that he looked athletic but was actually weak in challenges and wound up on the tribe opposite Joe's was also just what they needed. To prove my point, in his latest interview, Jeff calls Reem a star!?!? She's simply terrible at this game and you'd call her a casting debacle but, for production, she's star material.

Out of the thousands...probably TENS of thousands...who apply for Survivor, you can't tell me Casting is unable find less than 20 every season who are Survivalists AND good characters with fan appeal. They just do a pitiful job or simply do not try that hard at all.

Keith looks athletic?? I had him pegged as a sissy-boy even before he embarrassed himself on primetime TV. Keith delivered??? The only thing Keith needs to deliver...is an apology for being a pathetic QUITTER to EVERY hopeful who ever applied for the show and was passed up.

If Jeff is calling Reem a "star" in his latest interview, you may have (unintentionally of course) revealed a spoiler to some fireworks that will occur at FTC. As someone who probably binge-watched Jeery Springer in his youth, Jeff would consider that behavior "star" quality.

Like I wrote, their mandate isn't to find 20 Survivalists. It would make for a boring show if everyone was perfectly set and no one had a single worry about the conditions, the shelter or the food. I can name you many players that got many fans but were horrible Survivalists. The first that comes to mind is Palau's Stephenie. She never stopped complaining, never looked for food, never built the fire (she said so when she was faced with the task of making fire against BJ), etc...

Keith is young, tall and slim so he looked capable.

Jeff was actually defending the Island of Redemption gimmick saying that without it we would never had gotten to know Reem and that now she's a star. So, no, I don't regard that as a spoiler for something happening down the road. For Jeff, Reem is a star already.