# Amazing Race - Two Fer Tuesday **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 26, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543 "2005-09-26T19:25:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543/21 "2005-09-28T01:45:42Z")
The Screaming Pink Ladies must die! ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543/22 "2005-09-28T01:55:43Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Gotta say, it’s a lot of fun watching them run around in areas I know… Lost in Fort Lee. Dear Og. I’ve been screaming at the television for half an hour. I must say, I like more people than I thought. I hope the Linz family doesn’t get eliminated tonight. They may be annoying later, but right now, I like them. Who nicknamed the sisters the Desperate Housewives? That’s making me giggle every time I think of it. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543/23 "2005-09-28T02:14:15Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Gotta say, it’s a lot of fun watching them run around in areas I know… Absolutely. It’s a trip to see them in the part of the world I know best. I could find my way from Brooklyn to that EMS to 91st to the George with my eyes closed. I used to WORK for EMS for Og’s sake! I’ve paddled the Delaware countless times. Philly I don’t know so well, but I’ve been all over PA many many times. It’s fun to be able to assess exactly how and where they went wrong. It’s also amusing to see their little cultural gaffes. An example–nobody calls the George Washington Bridge the “Washington Bridge.” If somebody asked me the way to the Washington Bridge, my first impulse would be to tell them that there was no such place. I don’t mean this all as a criticism, but just as an observation. Overall, I think most of them did really well in Manhattan. There are some remarkably annoying people on this time around. “I think Pennsylvania might be a state.” Ya think? :smack: “Do you know the Lord?” Uh, that kind of thing isn’t really culturally appropriate in this neck of the woods. It would have been hilarious if that black guy at the rest stop started _davening_. ;j ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543/24 "2005-09-28T02:22:02Z")
> [@Green Bean](#): > > “Do you know the Lord?” Uh, that kind of thing isn’t really culturally appropriate in this neck of the woods. But the vision of imagining how anybody _I_ know would react to that will keep me amused all day tomorrow. 😃 And for all we know, the Lord _did_ protect her from getting seriously hurt. That looked _painful_. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543/25 "2005-09-28T02:22:48Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Gotta say, it’s a lot of fun watching them run around in areas I know… Hee hee. I wonder if they warned them about the periodic murders in Fairmount Park? Hee hee hee hee hee. Philly skyline at night? _Sublime._ Also, let me just tell you how much I _lurve_ the Aiello Family and their chants of “Yankees Suck!” My favorites! _ **Lurrrrrrrrve** _ them. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543/26 "2005-09-28T02:23:50Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > But the vision of imagining how anybody _I_ know would react to that will keep me amused all day tomorrow. 😃 I wonder what would have happened if they had said that to Kevin and Drew when they asked for a “frank”? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543/27 "2005-09-28T02:24:06Z")
“In Jesus’ name, find it.” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543/28 "2005-09-28T02:26:54Z")
Sweet marshmallow Jeebus, make the screaming _stop!_ Super Dad managed to stop himself from swearing nicely. My father wouldn’t have made the effort, under similar circumstances. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543/29 "2005-09-28T02:37:03Z")
Wow! That Paolo family is so annoying! ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543/30 "2005-09-28T02:53:13Z")
I curse GSN and my lust for Reichen for getting me sucked into this damn show. I only wanted to see Reichen and Chip win on GSN and now I’ve watched three seasons’ worth and tuned in to the second hour of tonight’s show despite the annoying children. But one of the annoying children families is gone; only one more to go. Does anyone on these shows ever curse Jesus for making them lose? ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543/31 "2005-09-28T02:55:24Z")
Ahhh, poo. The losing team was nice… and calm… and non screaming. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543/32 "2005-09-28T02:56:00Z")
I _died_! Not only were they less than 10 miles from MY HOUSE, but the Paolo family is making me think they cloned my family and set them up in the race. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543/33 "2005-09-28T02:59:43Z")
And I feel bad for the Black family, but at least that saves us the awkwardness of explaining that, “no, really, that’s their name, not the description”, whenever we try to tell our non-Race-watching friends what happened every Wednesday morning. And I’m still slightly shaking my head at the similarities between my family and the Paolos. She could be my mother, for Og’s sake! And yes, I _was_ exactly that snide and supercilious as a teenager. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543/34 "2005-09-28T03:05:50Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > And yes, I _was_ exactly that snide and supercilious as a teenager. Aw sweetie, don’t worry, you’re still that snide and supercillious. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543/35 "2005-09-28T03:08:04Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > Aw sweetie, don’t worry, you’re still that snide and supercillious. Oh, goodie! People DO notice! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543/36 "2005-09-28T03:27:15Z")
Ok, Team Buttinsky dropped their clue, the director makes sure we all see that they dropped it, and there’s no penalty? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543/37 "2005-09-28T03:32:14Z")
> [@Slacker](#): > > Ok, Team Buttinsky dropped their clue, the director makes sure we all see that they dropped it, and there’s no penalty? Yeah, I’m unclear on the rule there. Didn’t they make a team go back to pick up the clue when they accidentally dropped it one season? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543/38 "2005-09-28T03:39:38Z")
A team got penalized because after dropping the clue they went back and took another one from the clue box. The penalty was for taking the second clue, not losing the first one. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2005, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543/39 "2005-09-28T04:00:07Z")
A good show, and I like the two-team-members-have-to-push-the-other-two thing; a nice way to even things out for the families with small kids. But building the waterwheel was definitely the way to go. I wonder if the wet ground made the buggy task harder than the producers planned. Team Vinny was really getting on my nerves. (Has there been a Team Vinny before?) Feels like there’s something missing from this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543/40 "2005-09-28T04:03:56Z")
No penalty for losing a clue, just for getting another one. Am I the only person out there who thought it was hilarious that the Schroeder dad wished they could have a handicapped child to push out into the intersection to stop traffic for them in New York? The Paolos seriously, seriously bug. Fortunately, they cannot be long for the race – she’s just too out of shape to hang in there for more than another leg or two. Which is good, because I’m afraid she’d strangle her sons if they went much farther than that. > [@](#): > > Plus, I am still bothered by the finale last year. Not that I minded seeing Joyce and Uchenna take the million, but Rob and Amber got hosed. NO pilot returns to the terminal unless the producers twist some arms. **middleman** , just two days ago Phil did a book signing in Boston (which a friend of mine attended) and was asked about that and assured everyone that there is _no way_ the producers would interfere in something like that. Rob & Amber can bitch and moan all they want, but the fact is that it’s totally the pilot’s choice to return to the terminal. In fact, I know a number of people who have had that happen to them and without a million dollars on the line. There really wasn’t a conspiracy, so no need for residual bitterness over that one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-two-fer-tuesday/323543.md?page=3)