I agree with that. Very much like chess: the winner is the player who made the next-to-last mistake. That said, I’m very much pulling for Rob and Amber. I really like them both, especially Rob — the quintessential game player.
Actually, IMO whoever comes in last for the NEL this time is better off because they won’t have stuff to cart around for the last little bit of the race. That’s got to make things easier.
Yeah, but there’s usually a cab ride or two near the end, and those folks do like to get paid for their efforts.
Well, my guess is tonight will be an extended double leg, like India or Budapest last year, instead of a traditional NEL. It seems like too big a disadvantage to strip someone naked so close to the finish line, especially with only three teams left. On the other hand, when they came up with this new “mugging” rule, they probably had no idea that taking away all your belongings actually makes you go faster! 
Phil has said specifically, “The X of three nonelimination legs.” And the last one when Ron & Kelly got stripped was “the second of three nonelimination legs.” So I’m willing to bet we’ll see the third one at the end of the first hour.
Besides:
There are photos online of Uchenna & bald Joyce running into an airport, I believe in Puerto Rico or possibly Jamaica, with no possessions except small bags. And the person who saw them said the entered the airport with just what’s shown in the photos.
ARRGGGGHH!
Must not read spoilers! Must not read spoilers! Must not read spoilers!
I don’t want to know, unless it’s something good like Rob and Amber getting eaten by llamas or falling off ziplines.
Just the though makes me happy. Dare we hope they land on Katie and end all our suffering? 
Heck, if they landed on Katie, they’d bounce. :eek:
Oh, that was mean, wasn’t it?
Just after my last post, I thought to myself “Wow, I’m really harping on Katie, and maybe I should stop, or at least save it for the Survivor thread.”
Now I feel better. 
Thank you.
Oh, heavens yes! Wonderfully so!
Heck, if they landed on Katie, the’d just sink in, I’m afraid!
I’m thinking maybe we should amend our name to the Reality TV Boyfriend Cult of Catty Bitches.
But I guess that’s redundant.
Okay, I didn’t start watch TAR until number 4, and I’ve even missed a few episodes this season.
Who’s Katie?
Or as I was about to post, Who in the hell is Katie??
rockle will undoubtedly come along with a better list of reasons to hate Katie than I could possibly devise, but I’ll give it a shot.
Remember that girl you knew in high school who somehow managed to be involved in everything and make it to all the parties even though nobody you knew liked her?
Katie is Survivor’s version of that. The only Survivor in history to ever gain weight over the course of the show.
And I managed not to mention Ian at all. But I love him.
I make one little typo and it gets quoted. You must have lost all respect for me.
All I know is if Rob and Amber get it, I have a bottle of wine to console myself with!
Sorry, guys. We are polluting a thread about the awesome “Amazing Race” with talk of possibly – probably – the most heinous and eeeeeeeeeevil “Survivor” in the history of islands with rats on them. All we can say in our own defense is, this is Boston Rob’s fault! This conversation, right here, is the reason why reality progams should not be cross-casted.
Anycrap … Katie. Draelin’s description is pretty durned accurate. Katie is one of those people who … who … le sigh. We just hate her, OK? Because she got to spend more than a month on a tropical island with only the sweetest and sexiest man who ever lived (except for those men to whom we are already married, of course).
Obviously, we hate her. HATE! She will be first against the wall when the revolution comes. In this week’s “Survivor” thread I will try to ennumerate all the reasons why she is the anti-Christ. But in the meantime suffice it to say: A bunch of us in these parts – BiblioCat, Draelin, and me, for starters – are going to find her and kick her fat ass from hell to breakfast.
Back on topic: Go Uchenna & Joyce!
Nah. More like great minds thinking alike and all that.
All I know is that I’m going to be pacing around the living room for most of the evening. I just cannot sit still when the teams approach the mat.
GO UCHENNA AND JOYCE! RAAAAACE!