# The Amazing Race 11/16 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 16, 2004, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-11-16/275058 "2004-11-16T14:37:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-11-16/275058/81 "2004-11-19T14:15:19Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I’ve been watching this show too long. I actually heard the above paragraph _in Phil’s voice_… You mean it wasn’t? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Lockseer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@Lockseer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockseer)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-11-16/275058/82 "2004-11-19T14:24:37Z")
Hey…has anybody here started a Private league over at [www.realiiity.com](http://www.realiiity.com) in the Amazing Race 6 Mediiia Whore pool? I have a league going for some of my friends, but only about 5 ot 6 people are in it. If anybody is interested, let me know! You have to love a pool where one of the questions is “Do we see any midgets this episode?” ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-11-16/275058/83 "2004-11-19T16:40:55Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > I would have to say that your beloved Iceland was not shown to its best advantage. Lots of rolling barren fog-shrouded moors; a waterfall; a glacier. There was a glimpse of mountains (a long shot of the glacier) in the distance. I don’t know, I like those kinds of places so I’d really like to go. Seems like a nice place to drive around and just enjoy. As for the show I haven’t made up my mind which of the teams I like or don’t like. I think I might pull for team roids though just for laughs. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-11-16/275058/84 "2004-11-20T13:18:33Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I’ve been watching this show too long. I actually heard the above paragraph _in Phil’s voice_… Me, too. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-11-16/275058/85 "2004-11-20T14:03:49Z")
Finally got around to seeing the show last night (note to self- don’t watch TAR before going to bed. the soundtrack leaves me way too pumped to drift off). To clarify something from last page, the producers apparently set up the occasional fake checkpoint in cities where the competition will never arrive (which is apparently what happened in Vancouver for season 5) in order to throw off spoilers/bettors. I think the teams can be split into three (not necessarily mutually exclusive) groups. Incompetents. (CIA Fatass, M&M, GrampsnGrannie, The Tick and his sidekick) Those with freakish eyebrows. (Wrestlers, “entrepreneurs”) Pablum. (model-anything) I think what really set Brooklyn boys back was their refusal to take the highway and attempt the ‘direct’ route along the seaside-- they probably spent as much time going north and south over switchbacks as they did going west. So much for the El-train alliance! But I see that we will have yields and fast-forwards on this race. Let’s hope they’re interesting… At this point, I have no clue which team will finish first, let alone be in the final 4. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-11-16/275058.md?page=4)