…tossing fish around like a really stupid office morale program…
Yes. But to me, she will be known as** Lydia (Lynda) the Fishmonger!**
Spoilsport. 
I’m with Draelin on this one (not that I am not usually anyway): (anything)-monger is cool. I’m going to start calling myself a contractmonger and see if I can negotiate myself a raise. Or at least a new adding machine. middleman’s nickname “Lydia (Lynda) the Fishmonger” makes her sound like a character in either a Monty Python sketch or a Terry Gilliam movie. Either way, cool.
So true.
We should change that:
Attorney- Lawmonger
Internal Medicine- Gutmonger
Waste Water Systems- Shitmonger
Porn Director- Dongmonger
You’re on to something there.
Router salesman: Pingmonger.
Video game salesman: Pongmonger.
Guy who does both: Pingpongmonger.
Dongmonger = coffee spit onto my monitor, thank you.
If only I had made it the “fluffer” instead of the director… :smack:
Does Burnett have any clue how he’s screwed up “Survivor” office pools by including Steph and Bobby Jon in the mix??
When Probst announced they’d be getting help, I confess I thought I’d see two natives walking down. You know, to prevent the clueless wonders from killing themselves by walking around the jungle without shoes on, wade around in croc infested water, blah blah. And I thought, “Ooh, how interesting.”
Imagine how disappointed I was to see Stephenie and Bobby Jon from last season show up. I don’t like the idea for the same reason that I didn’t like All Stars. They already had their shot at a million… and the producers are playing favorites. If Tom had lost last year, I have no doubt he’d have been back. Let’s not turn this into a popularity contest any more than it already is.
I had to pick four Survivors for my office pool, who I thought were going to go the farthest. The only man I picked was the Farmer. He looked strong and I thought he might have an “Aw, gosh” part to his personality that would help him win the political game. I think I was wrong.
I also picked Dani, but can’t remember the other two.
Which tribe ate the fruit before the left? I was wondering if that was what was making them all sick. Montezuma’s revenge kinda thing. Which, of course, would mean they’d be shitting, too. Gosh, I hope Survivor doesn’t resort to showing them squirting. :eek: Of course, the women would have been cramping up, too…
Now I’m trying to figure out how to describe my job in the “-monger” format. Labmonger? DNAmonger? Cancermonger? PCRmonger?
Dammit, it just doesn’t work. I WANNA MONG!!!
You too, eh? I’m a sucker for any reality competition show where they do utterly stupid and pointless obstacle-course type challenges. So yes, I watch Survivor, the Real World/Road Rules challenges, and even that insufferably stupid Battle of the Network Reality Stars. I mention the last only because I wanted to rave at how fine Ryan Star’s ass looks in her little bikini. Oh My!
The puking last night was tame compared to one time on the Real World / Road Rules challenge. Picture this: A table with a giant bowl full of a few gallons of ice cream. (Two of them, one for each team.) Everyone on the team must pitch in to eat all the ice cream; first team finished wins. Can’t use your hands.
So, about two gallons in, people start involuntarily vomiting the ice cream directly into the ice cream bowl they’re eating from. Pretty much everyone is doing this, but they all soldier on and keep eating. Post-challenge interviews are unanimous: “That was by far the most disgusting thing I’ve ever done.” The camera showed the puking in all its technicolor glory. Truly vile.
I’m definitely a datamonger. I’m gonna have new business cards made.
I’m thinking about opening a drug paraphenalia store now just so I can be a bongmonger.
They’ve always been one hour that I recall.
My sister-in-law (who now has a Ph.D in Genetic Epidemiology, whatever that actually means) spent a couple years working with lab rats in some sort of cancer research. Many of the rats died. I called her The Merchant of Death. I think that’s more fun than being a -monger, any day. Can you use that? 
Everybody looked pretty spry for the challenge. I think they got fixed up somewhere along the line.
I’ve puked from overexertion, but after I topped a big hill on my bike or something like that - not like the guys on the show who seemed to puking at random. I’ve also been pretty dehydrated, and while I was disoriented and felt like shit, puking wasn’t on the menu. So while dehydration was a result of the puking, it may not have been the cause. I agree with others that maybe something else was afoot.
I guess I’d be a Kidmonger, since I teach preschool.
Woot! The Rich Rankings are back!
Thanks for the link. I think I’ll be reading that avidly through the season. It was interesting to see what the former players thought. It was funny to see that these people who were actually in it have the same sorts of questions and opinions that we have.
Scout made a really interesting observation–that when you’re in the game, you tend to want to keep people who make you feel secure. She says that’s one thing that kept Tom in the game in Palau, and one reason that she thinks Margaret has a good chance this season. Of all the various criteria for keeping/booting that we’ve discussed, I don’t think we’ve really touched on feelings of personal security, both physical and emotional. Sure, we’ve talked about who was a good provider, but that’s a little different.
Anyway, analyzing some of the previous seasons in light of that criterion might be enlightening.
My personal favorite is RUMOR-monger.
I’ve gotten dehydrated before, and I definitely felt nauseous. When Bobby Jon fell over and described himself as feeling very cold, I knew what he was going through. It is one of the worst feelings you can experience.
I liked that they had a challenge right away.
There’s one girl–I think she’s on Stephanie’s team–that I don’t think I’m going to like very much. Her behavior reminded me of Holly from last year’s Big Brother.
And that would make you the Spitmonger. 
And thanks, EllisDee, I had blanked that ice cream episode of RR/RR Challenge out of my mind til I read your post. Almost as bad as that was the episode of the Amazing Race in which the teams had to eat those gigantic bowls of spicy soup and it was pretty much: Gulp soup, puke into bucket, gulp soup, try not to listen to the other teams puking, puke in bucket, gulp soup, cry, gulp soup, puke…
Blaarrgh. Why is that I insist on opening this thread each time I’m eating lunch?
I just have to once again state how disappointed I am that we never got to see too much of Rob C. in All-Stars–for the following reason:
We’ll try to leave the Katie-hate out of this season, but I just couldn’t pass that one up.