Oh, lord yes! I’ve been called everything from Dumb Injun to Tonto, but nothing had every prepared me for the audacity of a God who appreciates worship and honors earnest requests over peckish ridicule. What’s next, a universe with physical laws?
Anyway, I don’t think it was editing because of Nicole’s reaction: “Thank God… literally!”
No, I think it was Blue Lagoon’s hand. He has stubby fingers with bitten nails and knotty knuckles. Plus, he’s white.
:: snerk ::
It’s funny 'cause it’s true! 
Yeah–she’s the map-reader for the team–and that’s possibly the single most important skill (followed by “Ability to comprehend and cope with airports”) in the entire race. It’s all well and good to be able to do challenges quickly and well, but it’s more important to be able to get to the challenges without losing a half-hour or more from getting lost. As far as I can tell, C&C haven’t gotten lost once!.
Lib, I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic here, but to me, it’s waaaay blaphemous to treat God as a cosmic slot-machine who dispenses prizes if you say the magic words juuuuuust right. Brandon treats God in exactly that way. He never asks God to help him understanding God’s will, he never asks God for God’s help for courage, or patience, he treats God like a spoiled 8 year old treats an over-indulgent parent. The kind who, when dad walks in the door, doesn’t say “Hi Daddy! I missed you”, but says “What’d ya bring me?” and I find that offensive as hell. The idea that God is a genie who grants wishes and is willing to reorder the universe to cheat for someone in a game is grotesque to me.
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Wasn’t the hand black???
You’re right, Fenris. Point taken.
Regarding your spoiler:Yes, the hand was black, but that could be a tease. It might actually be the Moms Yielding the Blue Lagoons or C&C. Or not.
And the way I was brought up, Brandon should be asking for patience and strength, not, “Help me find this Clue.”
EhhMon – how on earth did you know all that?
twicks, for whom being a pageant fan means watching the occasional national pageant on TV
EhhMon, you Scottish?
HELLO, You Guys!. . . I KNOW!!! I was just trying to be, how you say, adorable!
Fenris, Bibliocat:
I’ve looked at the footage again, frozen the frames, and still…
…it looks like a caucasian hand and forearm to me. It is tan, but not all that dark. The arm has a bit of sparse white hair. The thumbnail is wide and short. And the knuckless are knotty. It still looks like Blue Lagoon’s hand to me. Nevertheless, you’re right, it could be a production assistant for that matter.
It’s probably just an Exposition Hand. 
Bwah ha! Liberal, I loves ya. Spot on, old chap, spot on.
Fenris, you have no idea what Brandon asks God for outside of the three or four one sentence prayers we’ve heard on the show, uttered in moments of travail. It’s particularly galling to think that you have nearly enough insight into his spiritual practices from the caricature of him shown on reality television to call him blasphemous. Besides ask, seek, knock. That’s exactly what we’ve seen of Brandon’s prayers thus far.
How did I miss this earlier? This is brilliant!
I have a question about something from a few episodes ago. The bowling moms told the dad and daughter team (John and Marsha?) that they could only exchange their money at the airport, because the taxi drivers couldn’t do that for them. Was that a misunderstanding on the moms’ part or a deliberate lie?
I can’t calibrate my degree of delight in a team’s bad luck if I don’t have a bead on how evil they are, after all.
According to Jim and Marsha on their Early Show interview, they overhead the Bowling Moms talking about changing their money. They never outright told the other team to go to the moneychanger.
Well heck Terminus, I’m going to have to chortle with a little less glee then. Still hate the matching outfits.
Then you should know that here at the Dope, we admire brilliance. And correct spelling.
And people who know how to find obscure characters in ASCII code.
