# Amazing Race 11/15 - "We're Not Meant for the Swamp" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 16, 2009, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-11-15-were-not-meant-for-the-swamp/517724 "2009-11-16T02:11:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Theodore\_Striker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Theodore\_Striker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theodore_Striker)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-11-15-were-not-meant-for-the-swamp/517724/41 "2009-11-17T14:18:58Z")
**jayjay** I think you are right about it being peat as opposed to mud- it appeared that way to me as well. Also, they referred to the area as “bogs”, which I generally associate with peat as well. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-11-15-were-not-meant-for-the-swamp/517724/42 "2009-11-17T14:26:01Z")
> [@Theodore\_Striker](#): > > … there is the douchey way that Schoeayne’s name is spelled. I know, he can’t help it, but it still makes me want to punch him on principle. Interestingly (or not), this makes me want to punch his _parents_. Also on principle. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-11-15-were-not-meant-for-the-swamp/517724/43 "2009-11-17T16:43:02Z")
[Here’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=540277) the link about Estonia’s craters. But thanks, **twicks** , for the link to poor **chique** ’s condition! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-11-15-were-not-meant-for-the-swamp/517724/44 "2009-11-17T18:38:24Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > [Here’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=540277) the link about Estonia’s craters. Thanks, **Rebo** – guess it turns out there _are_ limits to my ability to multitask! :smack: I’ve fixed the link in my post … moderatorship hath its priveleges… ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-11-15-were-not-meant-for-the-swamp/517724/45 "2009-11-17T18:58:42Z")
When Matt was asking the guy if he was a candle-a-bra, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the P.D. Eastman beginner book _Are You My Mother?_, where the little bird hatches from the egg when his mother is away, and goes off, asking cows and boats and a steam shovel if they are his mother. ---
**Author:** ![SmellMyWort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SmellMyWort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmellMyWort)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-11-15-were-not-meant-for-the-swamp/517724/46 "2009-11-17T20:33:36Z")
I kept thinking of that game, Mad Gab, where when you keep saying a phrase enough times you find that it sounds like something else. I was hoping he’d keep saying it over and over and it would finally click. ---
**Author:** ![Polly\_Glot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9de053/32.png) [@Polly\_Glot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polly_Glot)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2009, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-11-15-were-not-meant-for-the-swamp/517724/47 "2009-11-18T10:06:46Z")
Matt should have watched himself some Bugs Bunny as a kid. “Take the candelabra to Mother, George.” ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-11-15-were-not-meant-for-the-swamp/517724/48 "2009-11-18T14:13:47Z")
Theory in Pinky’s defense: he had just been sitting next to a hot blond woman in a sauna clad only in a towel, so when he got into the place and saw the word “candelabra”, he probably got stuck on the “bra” and it screwed up his proper scanning of the word. Then he was probably looking for something that tied a candle together with a bra somehow, maybe a woman, but there were just a bunch of men in the room, and he was panicky because he knew they were behind… OK, maybe not. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2009, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-11-15-were-not-meant-for-the-swamp/517724/49 "2009-11-18T14:16:19Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > …he was panicky because he knew they were behind… Mistakes beget mistakes. ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2009, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-11-15-were-not-meant-for-the-swamp/517724/50 "2009-11-19T01:56:18Z")
> [@Siege](#): > > I’m with you. It looked to me like one of the Globetrotters fell into one of the gay brothers and it wasn’t the brothers’ fault. But why the big hurry about finishing second instead of third? I could see racing for the prize you get for finishing first, but aren’t second and third place (with only a few seconds between them) about the same? ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2009, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-11-15-were-not-meant-for-the-swamp/517724/51 "2009-11-19T03:16:20Z")
> [@Mangosteen](#): > > But why the big hurry about finishing second instead of third? > > I could see racing for the prize you get for finishing first, but aren’t second and third place (with only a few seconds between them) about the same? I read someplace that the bros and the HG didn;t know how Meghan and Cheyne finished. For all they knew, they could have been out racing. So in their minds, they could have been hoofing it for first. ---
**Author:** ![BMada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@BMada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMada)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-11-15-were-not-meant-for-the-swamp/517724/52 "2009-11-19T22:01:33Z")
sad to see the dad and son team go, but they totally deserved it for the terrible leg of the race they ran. I’m surprised he wasn’t looking for something with a number. I thought the clue read that the candle thing was to have a number and gave instructions to go to the room with the same number. Why not look for something with a number and try to deduce it can’t be a person because none of the people had tags with numbers on it. I guess I’ll be cheering for team blonde and the globetrotters. Don’t want team zebra to go any further either. I like the competitiveness between Gaybrothers and Globetrotters. We need more of that and less help each other out stuff. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-11-15-were-not-meant-for-the-swamp/517724.md?page=2)