Have CBS and Burn-it have taken reality TV a step too close to Africa authenticity than intended?

Browsing the medical files, I come across this symptomatic description of sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis): "Infection of the central nervous system causes personality changes, irritability, loss of concentration, confusion, slurred speech, seizures, and difficulty in walking and talking."

Was Massa Tom bit by a tsetse fly? Or do Virginny goat farmers actually look and act like that?

Just askin'.

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Loogaro

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Loogaro, I admire you trying to come up with a "medical" explanation for ole Tom the Goat Herder's personality and actions.

But probably the truth is this guy has always been a folksy, crude but not cruel, Virginny yahoo who doesn't have much use for the "silly young'ens" but flirts like a Elks Lodge good-time buddy with older women like Mama Kim and Teresa.

IMO (based on Texas goat herders and sheep herders) OLE TOM is all talk and no action!! BUT at least, among all these loozers, ole Tom does provide some comic relief to the show!!

Dalton

As comic relief, he's better than anything the writers for most sitcoms can come up with!

It's a paradox - he's SO offensive that he's not offensive (for example, in the recap ep when he's talking to Brandon...or his comments about Theresa....). I wonder if he's really like that or if he's just hamming it up for the camera, though. Can anyone really say these things with a straight face knowing tons of people, including family and loved ones, are watching? Although you could say the same thing about most of the people on the show, I guess. Lex's descent into madness was pretty bizarre and almost feels like he's just playing it up. I would say the same about Frank, but I have a suspicion that he really is that strange (Who the h*ll brings antlers as a luxury item?).

<IMO (based on Texas goat herders and sheep herders) OLE TOM is all talk and no action!!>

That's why he brought that dried raccoon prick along with him...grind that sucker up, drop it in some hot swamp water and he's got him some homemade Viagra right there! Look out, Momma Teresa!

>That's why he brought that dried raccoon prick along with him..
Holy crap! I'd forgotten that little tidbit!

It must look an awful lot like a BANANA, for you to have filed it away so neatly, Sky. . . (we all know about your fixation with these things!)

Geez. . . suddenly ole Tom's "gettin' ta know yah" conversation with Brandi seems a lot more interesting, doesn't it? "Ah ain't never tawked wif no qwee-er afore---but ah keeps this here sex toy on han', jest in case. . ."

I thought the Elks Lodge tie-in was the clincher to understanding Tom, but now I see what a complex character he really is! Anyone else figure him to go far in the game? LOL

GT

>"Ah ain't never tawked wif no
>qwee-er afore---but ah keeps this
>here sex toy on han',
>jest in case. . ."

LMAO. What wasn't shown was Brandi terminating the conversation by quoting Judy Tenuta - "I like my men like I like my subways - hot, packed and unloading every three minutes."

>Anyone else figure
>him to go far in
>the game? LOL

GT, has it occurred to you that Ole Tom has been planted on S3 as the counterpoint to S1's eventual winner, Richard. In fact he may be the Anti-Dicque. Same body, but the opposite approach. I think he will go far - and, if it comes to pass, Stacey Stillman can use it as proof of Burn-it's guilt.

That is if Massa Tom doesn't just pass out into a fire, Skupin-like, as a result of the disease.

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Loogaro

Tom: "Look Teresa, I'm a 747 coming in for a landing!"
Teresa: "Looks more like a paper airplane to me."

Did I miss the time we discussed the goat farmer's team losing the goat corralling challenge? (Shades of Kelly losing to a guy who can't swim!)

This thread of Ole Horney-Goat Tom flirting with Mama Kim and Teresa made me go back and look up some original background on the contestants.

When they were all sitting around eating the first really good fresh food in weeks and drinking a bottle(s) of wine playing some silly game --- "What I have never done"???

Brandon (who doesn't "get enough" because he isn't attractive to either sex, imo) says: "I have never had sex on an airplane."

Then, Teresa pops up and says: "I have had sex on an airplane."
And, of course, Ole Tom takes this to mean she is some kind of wild, loose woman!! LOL.

Go back and read Teresa's bio. material. She was an airline stewardess for a major outfit out of Atlanta for almost 20 years!!! Geeze, of course she has "done it" on a plane!!! How many unmarried Airline Personnel in whatever job description can you think of who HAVEN'T had sex aboard a plane??? Isn't that one of the job benefits??

Dalton

Why does it never occur to me to go back and remind myself of these people's bios?

The whole Mile-High Club discussion is now even more funny than I thought (how about ole Tom making like a plane when she said that? like she'd be inspired to jump right on board?!) But. . . isn't EVERYONE who's flown a member?

GT

*smiles enigmatically*

>>>>>Go back and read Teresa's bio material. She was an airline stewardess for a major outfit out of Atlanta for almost 20 years!!! Geeze, of course she has "done it" on a plane!!!
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LOL -- I know! When everyone was shrieking over that tidbit on the show I was thinking to myself: but...........wasn't she a stewardess? Of course she's probably done it on a plane!

oookkaay.......duh. Big revelation there, Teresa!

shanana banana