Agreed. TAR got rid of two of the few interesting teams right then and there. I was hoping Vipul & Arti could have at least lost their money and see them again.

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Yeah, I'd have like to see more of Vipul and Arti, too.

But I'm kind of hoping that one of the twists is that there's a new penalty for coming in last on a non-elimination leg. I just never liked the begging for money thing.

Agree, the begging thing was never all that interesting.

Worst twist, though, was bringing back gross numnums. But I suppose I should be happy they didn't have to eat a gutbusting pile of fish eyes.

ARRRRRRR!!!!

You call that gross? The eyeballs are small and will go down fast, it is not like you have to chew/taste them. Plus my mom was lamenting that she was not there, she LOVES sucking on fishheads - eyes, brains, flesh - she LOVES it all!

Oh, gosh, let me think... eyeballs getting plucked from disembodied heads and eaten... yeah, if that doesn't qualify as a gross numnum I'd be hard-pressed to think of what would.

Growing up with my parents and seeing some of the things they enjoy, fish eyes were the least gross things i seen them see.

Try Manish Water, Chicken feet (not the leg the foot), Chicken heads, Stinking Toe, Stewed (not fried) tripe. And that is just my Jamacian roots, since I was born in England, add Blood Sauage and Blood Pudding. Great GrandDad was Scottish so add Haggis to list. And even further back I have Irish blood, leading to the worse of the worse ---- Green Beer!!!

LOL! Earl, I'm pretty certain every culture in the world has in its heritage what I would refer to as gross numnums. That doesn't bother me, enjoy your heritage and all the gross numnums that go with it.

My dad grew up way out in the middle of nowhere, they raised and slaughtered their own livestock and hunted critters to fill the larder and so on, never let anything go to waste, that's how they survived year by year. Ever had tripe? Head cheese? Chitterlings? Possum pie? (Possums are quite probably the mangiest critters on the planet.) Or (((shudder))) soy bean soup?

The point is that they had a gross numnums challenge, someone was bound to find it repulsive, that's precisely and only why they did it. I don't find that sort of thing entertaining at all.

Gross, does not bug me. But the size of some of the meals does.

Eyeballs only was barely a mouthful. Unless you are alergies to fish, no big deal. But the Russian meal of two pounds of caviar, that is a lot of salt to take in. The South America meal of about 5 pounds of meat, I don't eat that much meat even it it was all prime ribs or T-Bones - that is a lot of aminal protein to digest.

Some of the meals are just not gross, they are a major bio-chemical stress to the body of the one eating.

Yeah, that's true, I bet they were all hungry again an hour later.

I was hoping for something like an extra task that they had to complete to catch up with the other teams for the first non-pitstop elimination, and I never expected the second one to be an elimination also! That was definatly a "hand me all you got" point in the race.

I understand the Muslims had thier problem keeping up with the others because of prayer breaks, but Vipul and Arti looked like they just needed a little shock to make it clear they were in a race, taking away thier belongings may have been a shock needed to get them going. I am very sorry to see them gone.

TAR didn't get rid of anyone, they just came in last.

>Issued by "Q" and RollDdice

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You know what would be a cool new twist? If they bring one of the eliminated teams back.

I think it would have been neat if the last team on that mat would have been shot to first place in the next leg. Now THAT woulda been cool!

>I think it would have been
>neat if the last team
>on that mat would have
>been shot to first place
>in the next leg.
>Now THAT woulda been cool!
>

I was on the edge of my chair expecting that to happen too! Was anxious to see the reactions of the other racers. I was NOT expecting them to get Philim'd right off the bat like that. That was not a good twist.

That's what I thought was going to happen too.