Hey, I took my driver’s test on stick! No waiting!
Really? Awesome! We’re in, then. Team Straight Dope. Draelin will be our official source for directions and stuff, and she’ll know it’s us calling, because I’ll be screaming “Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiian!” into the phone to get her attention.
Oh, and you have to do any Roadblocks that involve bugs, unless it’s killing them. In that case, I can do it.
Can I be on your shortlist rockle, if everyone else bails? I can drive a stick, and I can read a map.
We live close enough to actually take our picture together.
Wow, all this attention! OK, you’re on the shortlist too. How do you feel about bug challenges? And also, what kind of cute matching outfits can we wear in our quest for Total Race Domination? I was thinking something with sequins …
Sequins? Three words: No. Freaking. Way.
We could do cute shirts like the Bowlings Moms, something like “Internet” for you and “Buddies” for me. 
Or “Ian” for you and “Fans” for me. Mix up the reality shows, that’ll confuse 'em.
The promo for the finale shows some folks on a trapeze. That makes me wonder if they go to Cirque du Soleil headquarters which is in Canada. Could be curling there, too. Wow! A truly international Family Edition if this is the case.
Oh! Oh! Oh! We can have these T-shirts, and we’ll each have a few that say “Call Me” on them, and then we’ll each have a few with different Reality TV Boyfriends’ names on them. Like, “Call Me” + “Ian” or “Call Me” + “Burton” or “Call Me” + “Phil” or summat like that. I’ll just put the sparkly stuff on MY T-shirts.
So, you’ll ‘Be-Dazzle’ yours, right? Just like Joy on My Name Is Earl?
Y’all should Be-Dazzle some baseball caps, too. <Sniff> It’s just beautiful!
And rockle, don’t forget a “Call Me” + “Jeff” t-shirt. You might want to add a line.
“Leave your hat on the Island.”
I just got emailed this snippet: next week is a THREE-HOUR FINALE starting at 9 p.m.
How?
Next season should be The Amazing Race: The SDMB Edition.
Hell yeah!
Double hell yeah! (If such a thing exists.)
I would add a triple hell yeah! here, except I don’t know if anybody would want to watch a bunch of Internet junkies racing around the world on their rocket-propelled couches bitching about how they can’t find a signal for their wireless cards.
Guh. Just … guh.
Okay, I’m late today, 'cause it snowed. I seem to have lost my place as “the other cute blonde one”, which is actually okay by me, as I’m actually a redhead. I know the mechanics of driving stick, but have not practiced–although you bet I would, if I were entering the race.
Maybe me and BiblioCat will have the Bedazzle-Free team. But I wouldn’t mind matching t-shirts.
!!! I’m stunned. I don’t know why, but I always took you for a blonde. Sorry 'bout that!
And we can see today how well that’s going.
S’okay, you assumed I was exactly like you, and you weren’t far wrong. 
I was discussing the Effin’ Weavers with DeHusband and he asked what their first names were. When I said I thought the mom’s first name was Linda, he said, “Doesn’t Linda mean pretty in Spanish? Boy, was she named wrong!!”
So, good little net fiend that I am, I go to Babelfish. Ya wanna know what the Spanish to English translation of the word Linda was?
It is contiguous. Personally, I think she looks more contagious, but that’s just me.
And on such a nice day, too.
lorene, care to join us over here?