We're now have the "Revenge of the Nerds" this week as the Brains are in charge with Ronnie as HoH! Dan has been promised to be in the cage tonight for the Have/Have Not competition, and then the rest of the week flows from there: Nominations, POV Competition, POV Ceremony, and then finally Evictino and the new HoH Competition.........

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The Save Braden Alliance (Casey, Michelle, Jeff, Jordan, and Laura) were whamboozled when Ronnie, who they though was on their side as well, voted to evict Braden. That caused a tie, which then gave Jessie the tiebreaking vote as the current HoH, and he voted out Braden.

Then Ronnie won the HoH, which gave Jessie fist pumps of joy in the DR, and Ronnie proclaiming himself "Darth Ronnie", also in the DR.

Ronnie shoved Michele under the bus to the Save Braden Alliance, but Michele also told Chima to her face that she voted to evict her, which set off the Chima Bomb!

Ronnie continues to play both alliances, but he's appearing to be loyal to the Brains/Brawn/Oddball Alliance (currently Kevin, Lydia, Jessie, Natalie, Russell.....)

I don't know if I've ever wanted to kick anyone in the balls as much as I want to kick Ronnie. Except he's probably built like a Ken doll, so I'll have to settle for punching him in the face instead.

FTR, I'm not normally an angry person. That tells you how much I hate Ronnie. Fer cripes sake, I hate him more than Jessie at this point!

Ronnie calls for the ol' HoH reveal and shows off his wife and cat, among other things, (including Legally Blonde, the musical)

After some more Ronnie playing with the SBA, Ronnie calls the crew to the living room for a Luxury Competition, hosted by Dan!!!!!! They will be competing for a chance to win a viewing of The Ugly Truth

Guys answer questions based on individual girls answers. The answer is revealed by the member of the opposite sex coming out in a costume. After 6 rounds, Casey wins the Boy's rounds!...... Now it's time for the girls! There was a 3-way tie at the end, and the tiebreaker went to Chima.

As a bonus they get to decide the Have Nots! Casey wanted to hit the Athletes, but Chima used her position as part of the Brains in-crowd's/HoH's status to bully her way to getting her way of nailing the Populars of Jordan/Laura!

Have/Have Not Bonus Food item for the following week, via texts: Sauerkraut and Seaweed, Cabbage and Cocktail Wienies, or Pickled Eggs and Pickled Herring! (*blech* to all 3 pairs! Cabbage and Cocktail Wienies seems the most appetizing.....)

Ronnie's wife looked like a blonde Michelle. Could Michelle be Ronnie's sister in law?

I'm voting for sauerkraut and seaweed, because the other 2 options at least have something almost appetizing. Cocktail weanies would not be bad at all, and eggs and fish (even when pickled) might not be that bad. But sauerkraut and seaweed? Yuck!

Since I hate the majority of the house, I'm voting for the worst.

Nominations are gonna happen, dnd all parties want to avoid going up themselves, and make sure that Russell goes up.......

Jessie's trying to calm Russell down so that he doesn't get put up on the block because of his overagressive nature........

Brains automatically get their keys for being "in the in-crowd" of Ronnie's clique.

Nominations are Jeff and Laura. I will post the key positions in a little while.

Ronnie reveals in the DR as they head out that Laura was nominated because she can put the pieces together that he was the rat (meanwhile, the rest of that alliance has figured it out....) He calls Jeff an "absolute pawn" becuase he trusts him...... He's hoping that if the planets aling he hopes that Russell will be the one heading to the Chenbot Lair on Thursday..........

Chima is one mean person. She never says anything nice. I could not stand to be in the house with her.

>Chima is one mean person.
>She never says anything nice.
> I could not stand
>to be in the house
>with her.

Ditto. Everyone word out of her mouth is disbelief.

She's a $hit stirrer. Get rid of her, before she's HOH.

She is #1 on my list of "get them out of the house NOW!!!!". Natalie is #2.

After Ronnie's attempts to smooth over the nominee's both fall on deaf ears, Russell goes outside to just talk with the opposing alliance, then returns to ask the kitchen crew if they're still talking game. When Lydia also answers him, Russell explodes on her, which sends her to the DR to cry about it and state that his antics will get him evicted if he's not careful.......

The wave starts up to get rid of Russell, but Jesse is trying to defuse it and wants to use him as a human shield, he hopes......

Ronnie pissing everyone off with the head games.
Russ pissing everyone off with the roid rage.

Russ needs to at least have enough of a lovable side to keep his half the house on his side. Blowing up at people can work, but not when you make everyone scared of you.

popcorn, candy, sodas, and drinks.

and math do not get along.

LAST EDITED ON 07-21-09 AT 11:00 PM (EST)

And I thought Lisi was dumb with numbers!!! Incredible. If someone tells her that a quarter of the house is voting on Laura's side, will Jordan panic, thinking Laura has 25 votes to keep her?

That conversation cracked me up. Well, added cracks.

After we have Jordan's misadventures in attempting to tell time......

The Ugly Truth watched by both Chima and Casey.........

Chima wants Gerard Butler to call her, insisting that they put her number at the bottom of the screen, which BB doesn't do.....

Casey's glad for the break from the game.

Afterwards, they try to take as much candy out of the HoH movie room!

PoV Competition: Ronnie picks Russell, Laura picks Natalie, and Jeff picks Casey. Lydia will host.

Russell, Laura, and Jeff all want to win the POV to avoid sitting with Julie on Thursday.......

LAST EDITED ON 07-21-09 AT 09:42 PM (EST)

POV competition!

BB Mint: Using the coins piled up, they have to get closest to a certain dollar amount, counted up a Coinstar machine.

The furthest away gets eliminated. However, the winner of the round can claim a BB money bag: $5,000, slop pass, or empty..... but you then eliminate yourself.....

Round 1: $100 in quarters. Natalie misses by a ton and a half, but then Ronnie misses by two tons! Ronnie is eliminated. Ronnie's embarrased! Jeff elects to not take a bag....

Round 2: $75 in dimes. Casey complains that the coin "rain" is the first rain that he's seen in the cage! Laura misses by 4 tons! Laura is eliminated! Jeff elects to not take a bag again......

Round 3: $40 in nickels. Casey is the furthest out, and eliminated! Natalie won the round, and picks the bag that has.... Slop Pass!

Round 4: Russell vs. Jeff, $10 in pennies. Russel got $8.59, Jeff got $10.97 to win the POV! Russell's devastated, and DR's that Ronnie would be stupid to put him up........ even though it might give him house peace........

Thank goodness Jordan wasn't playing. They'd never get her rebooted after trying to figure out the change.

LOL! I felt like someone needed to take an orange, cut it in half and then into 4 pieces to help her with the quarters thing.

She reminds me of some of the kids who have to make change at a fast food place.

Ronnie really wants to put Russell up as a replacement nomination........ However, Jesse shoots the plan down. They're afraid that this might be their only chance to get rid of him........ but Jesse appeals to Ronnie that he can actually relate to Russell (currently) while he can't to Laura.......

Ronnie hopes that he doesn't regret not planting the knife in Russell's back before Russell does it to him........

>Ronnie really wants to put Russell
>up as a replacement nomination........
> However, Jesse shoots the
>plan down. They're afraid
>that this might be their
>only chance to get rid
>of him........ but Jesse appeals
>to Ronnie that he can
>actually relate to Russell (currently)
>while he can't to Laura.......
>
>
>Ronnie hopes that he doesn't regret
>not planting the knife in
>Russell's back before Russell does
>it to him........

IS Ronnie fooling you too? He never wanted to put Russell up. His thing is to lie to the tv audience also.

I am reporting what is shown by CBS. Whether or not he's telling the truth to the TV? That's up to them.

Jeff doesn't even give Laura the illusion that she has a chance to be saved, so he quickly uses it on himself.

Ronnie puts Jordan up in his place.

Both Populars are up on the block. Laura is promising scorched earth for Ronnie on her way out, though........

Ronnie reveals that 5 quarters were lodged up his butt!

That was a weird edit at the end. Wasn't there a report that Jordin stirred the pot with Ronnie before the pov meeting so he had "justification" to put her up? BB made it seem like Jordin never went off on Ronnie. And then to show the "butt cheeks" thing about the quarters...way to totally dorkify Ronnie. He didn't need any help, he was already doing that on his own. Was that so "America" would be glad to see him go?

I am surprised that he had more than enough votes to evict Russell and wouldn't pull the trigger. Maybe he just didn't want to withstand Russell's going off on him for a few days.

That's what the HOH room is for!

If Russell and Laura were up for eviction:

Chima, Lydia, Kevin, Jesse would all vote Russell

Nat? Michelle?

Jeff?

Jordin would vote Russell over Laura

Casey would vote Russell over Laura

6-3 worst case; 9-0 best case. Easy peasy.

Thursday's show: there's not enough time to develop much more of a story line. They have to recap the week so far, do the HOH interview, nominees speeches, the voting, the eviction, goodbye, and the Julie interview and the new HOH comp. Not much time to do the scorched earth thing about Ronnie. Huh.

I think it's a good bet that whatever scorched earth doesn't start on Thursday's show, will be on Sunday's show....... BB is infamous for delaying clips for the sake of a story...... and putting them in later at the goofiest times.

LAST EDITED ON 07-21-09 AT 11:08 PM (EST)

I agree that was a complete lack of continuity. It made Ronnie look completely dumb or scared or both. Not that I mind because Ronnie is playing a terrible game in my opinion but it's a weird choice.

And, about the 5 quarters, can you imagine how Jordan's head would have exploded if she had tried to figure out how much money was up Ronnie's butt?!!

Is that why Jordan kept saying a quarter (of an hour) was 25 minutes because she was relating minutes to cents? Is she faking stupid or is this the real Jordan? I can see her brain starting to smoke from all that thinking, no wonder Jeff wants to keep her around, the perfect partner to go to the end with.

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Yep, Jordan seems to only relate the word "quarter" to money. She does not appear to relate quarter to 1/4 of something.

She'd have to be a really good actress to be pulling off the dumb bit. Considering she calls having sex "booger", unlikely she's a good actress.

Everyone has compared notes and they have caught Ronnie in his web. He holes up in the HoH to sulk.

LAST EDITED ON 07-23-09 AT 08:20 PM (EST)

The Janelle/Erica fatal error was not made this year: people sat down and talked. And then they screamed. And then they whined -- well, one of them did...

Getting really irritated by the editors and their careful word/image Laura links.

LAST EDITED ON 07-23-09 AT 08:23 PM (EST)

yep the hate has to be so strong no one will compare notes or won't believe the truth when it comes up and slaps them in the face.

Julie's really trying to space out the drama here -- but the light moments have to be semi-forced. The shot of Ronnie laughing with the others on the couch might have been operated by remote control.

I don't think he's at the quitting point any more, but I also don't think it would take much to get him back there.

What's the cheat code for forced laughter?

It is pretty easy to convince yourself it'll be OK when you can lock yourself away.

Can he spend the whole week in the Diary Room?

After an HoHterview that Ronnie claims he still have 5 people who have sympathy for, and he's still alligned with the Athletes clique, we get the Populars to plead their cases to not get evicted.........

Jeff: Laura
Jesse: (high-five with Jeff) Laura
Natalie: (low-five) Jordan
Casey: Laura
Russell: Laura
Kevin: Laura
Lydia: (pattycake!) Laura
Chima: Laura
Michele: Laura

By a vote of 8-1, Laura will be evicted.....

Wonder what Natalie's motivation was there -- trying to get the house into a mass fight over who the dissenting vote was and stir up an America's Player paranoia fit?

Kevin could irritate me more right now, but he'd have to be about six inches away, and there's no way he'd risk getting that close...

Why's he irritating you now? The pattycake?

I imagine if he's that close you'd clean his clock.......

The ultra-swarmy attitude which also came out during his departure message to Laura. Ugly when holding the whip hand, cowering whenever anyone else gets near the whip. Charming fellow. Pass the lash.

Looks like what they got to practice with, only a LOT more buckets to aim at........... Maybe closest to the center wins? Or will it be a point system?

BB tweeted

BigBrotherScoop: 40min before the Live Show, trying to escape a rouge butterfly, Natalie leapt fully clothed into the pool!!

A rouge butterfly. Dame those makeup insects.

It is closest to the center, basically.

Each ring is worth so many points. Each HG only has one shot, most points wins. Center is worth 10.

Jesse leads going into the break with 6 points, Casey is the last in the lineup, though......... Russell was about to shoot when they went to break......

LAST EDITED ON 07-23-09 AT 08:53 PM (EST)

Jeff ties Jesse at 6 points, Casey left to shoot. Casey's shot rims out of the 7's, and he's eliminated.........

Tiebreaker: Jesse with a 6, Jeff almost had a 6 or 7 and it rimmed out to a 3!

Jesse is again HoH!

Jesse is again HoH!

$^&*())(%$*@&%%*&)&^&$%*$#@%)_+_)_*(%$^%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is really sickening...

You took the words right out of my mouth.

Well, that's a first -- commercials in the middle of an HoH competition.

This really is a crapshoot: the hamsters didn't practice on anything this extensive, and making it a one-shot contest means no learning curve.

Yep. Practice set up close enough they at least would be able to make a shot, but not enough to really get the aim down.

Even with practice, those lippers make it certain to be uncertain.

Casey's lipper took him from a high score to a 1.

Julie was an idiot last night. While talking to Ronnie in the HOH room, she finished with some comment about (paraphrasing here) him not liking what she was about to say to the group. It left me thinking she had some kind of twist to announce but then it was business as usual. Ugh.

I thought the words that Ronnie wouldn't like was: "You now have to go downstairs and rejoin the other Houseguests"........