Ok so let’s get these nicknames straight. So far we have:
Brian- Pornstar
Erin- Boobiegirl
Jake- The Mayor of Munchkinland
Jan- Grandma Clampett
Robb- Tommy Lee (best nickname ever!)
Shii Ann- She devil
That leaves Stephanie, John, Jed, Penny, Tanya, Ted, Ken, Clay, Ghandia, and Helen. Let’s get busy people!
I was thinking the same thing, for some reason. Y’know, she lists Maxim as one of her favorite magazines.
Of course, Erin lists Maxim and Playboy. But she’s probably just doing research for her future career.
Tanya could be Barfbabe.
Yeah, I wanted to like her, but I think she’s going to be too controlling in this type of situation. Others are going to resent it.
Here we go again, indeed.
And Robb. What kind of moron brings a skateboard to a SANDY island?
Yeah, you’re gonna be riding that thing alot, dude.
:rolleyes:
And why is it always so hard to get organized in the beginning? A couple work on the shelter, a couple work on the fire, and a couple find food and water. What’s so hard about that?
But no, it’s always 8 people running around like crazy with nothing getting accomplished.
All right, my parents called about 15 minutes in, and I started watching again right as they all arrived at Tribal Council. I’ve pieced most of the show together, but what was the water hole joke?
Beadalin:
When Chuang Gang went to find their water supply, John climbed the rocks and went off overland with Tanya, I think, and the rest went by water. John and Tanya found a pool of stagnant, brackish water first, then they found the actual fresh water tank. When the rest of them arrived at the beach that led inland to the water supply, not only did John sit on the canoe and let them swim in instead of going out to pick them up, he led them to the brackish water first and pretended it was their actual water supply. Some of his tribemembers were obviously not amused by either stunt.
He and I think two others were ahead of the rest of the team, and they stumbled across a really nasty little pool of filthy water. They then quickly discovered the CBS planted water tank a few feet away.
John thought it’d be funny if they pretended that the filthy water was indeed their only water source. It wasn’t that funny, but the others were already in a huffy mood and didn’t seem to take it to well, especially Ghandia.
Beadalin, it went like this: Chewing Gum tribe had to go by water around a couple of outcropping to get to their water hole. Due to some deficient map-reading skills, they started looking in the wrong spot, and wasted a lot of time and effort climbing some jungly cliffs.
They did some backtracking, and someone (I think it was John) noticed they had read the map wrong, and they had to go into the water again and around another outcropping. The canoe only held three, and John and two others (don’t remember who) went ahead, with the rest of the tribe swimming.
The canoers got to the right beach and followed a trail into the jungle. They soon came to a nasty, scummy little pool that they thought was the water hole. They tasted it and found it was salty, so that couldn’t be it…A little looking around and they found their nice little covered water hole.
Now the rest of the tribe, who had had to swim about a mile and were pretty tired and irritable, start to show up on the beach, and John thought it would be a hoot to tell them that the first water hole was their water supply.
[paraphrasing]
John:“Yeah, this is it. We’ll have to take it back and filter it, boil it, blah blah…”
Others: “Um, yeah, guess we can do that…”
John: “Or we can get water from that hole over there, hyuck hycuck”
Others: “…okay” (not laughing)
Apart from the fact that it was kind of cruel and not at all funny, it was just a really stupid thing to do strategically. These people, who he barely knows, are already tired and irritable from their long trip, and now he thinks it’s a good idea to play a little trick on them, and a trick about something as vital as their fricking water supply? Very, very stupid.
Well Jayjay, it wasn’t there when I previewed! :smack:
And Ferrous, you have no excuse! 
Newton meter nailed it, I think. The young ‘uns don’t strike me as being the most likely to succeed at this game. Most of the early challenges require cooperation, and those doofuses couldn’t cooperate their way out of a paper bag. I wouldn’t underestimate the old folks’ physical strength, either–they kicked ass at the boat rowing last night, plus Brian and (especially) Ted both look pretty strong. Good call kicking out John, whose obliviousness was simply astonishing. Ghandia is probably on thin ice, however. If she blows another one, I think they’ll be happy to toss her out.
Knobb will be the first one kicked out of his tribe. No question. What a dumbass.
Damn, you guys are good. Thank you for the explanation.
Knobb. Heh heh heh. I think we have found our suitably snarky nickname.
As for the “token queer” - I’m putting my money on Stephanie.
Shii Ann would never come out on National Television. Her Asian parents would kill her.
(Ask me how I know this.)
I know Ted isn’t big but I still like the name Fat Albert for him because of his voice.
Tibs.
I think the promotional staff must be running out of ideas: “And the BIG SURPRISE in the opening scenes is … we do everything the way we did in the past.” Okay, I know picking teams was new, but five minutes later, we’re looking at two eight player teams that are indistinguishable from previous years.
I thought of an interesting variation. Why not just have one camp shared by both teams? All sixteen people would live together, then divide up into tribes for the competitions. It’d make for some interesting new group dynamics.
One more thing. On the nickname assignments, I nominate “Girl Gone Wild” for Stephanie. “Hi, nice meeting everyone. Can someone hold on to my bikini while I go skinny dipping?”
Tibs, Stephanie would be my guess as well. The gaydar just rang during the post-skinnydip “diary room” (what is the term for the interview segments on this show, anyway?).
They’re called confessionals.
Thank you much, dragongirl. I’m a Survivor virgin, so I may have a fair number of questions… 
Alright, Ferrous, fess up. Are you the same person on the TWoP boards who started calling them the “Chewing Gum” tribe? I post there, too.
TWoP rules Loving “Chewing Gum” and “Suck Job” nicknames, as well as “Large Man” for Ted!
As for last night, I thought it was a great start. Beautiful location – I need to go to Thailand someday.
Jan (and Ghandia): There’s NO CRYING on Survivor.
TM Tom Hanks
Yeah, TWoP rules!
And you’re right, there’s no crying on Survivor, but apparently crying works when you totally screw up the first immunity challenge for your team, and it saves you from getting booted.
I still say Ghandia should have been the first one kicked off.
What exactly did John do other than make a stupid joke about the water hole? Okay, it was a dumb joke at a bad time, but Ghandia cost them the immunity.
You don’t vote someone out just because you don’t like them (well, maybe except for Robbbbbbb); you vote people put because they’re liabilities! Haven’t these people watched the other Survivors?!?
Sheesh.