# Where's the 5/9/02 Survivor thread?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 9, 2002, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-5-9-02-survivor-thread/108101 "2002-05-09T15:46:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2002, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-5-9-02-survivor-thread/108101/21 "2002-05-10T15:47:46Z")

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Hell, they were total strangers compared to the Colby & Mom lovefest from a couple of seasons back.

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**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2002, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-5-9-02-survivor-thread/108101/22 "2002-05-10T15:54:44Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Why A Duck \*  
> \*\*Memo to Mark Burnett: You can stop trying to make us think Neleh is on the chopping block. It didn’t work last week and it sure as hell didn’t work this week.  
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Actually, they were _so_ over the top with it, I actually began to think that _maybe_ this time it was true. Maybe they realized that everyone knows they never vote off the one who is portrayed as the target, so maybe this time…but no.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2002, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-5-9-02-survivor-thread/108101/23 "2002-05-10T16:36:47Z")

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> What was up with Neleh’s nose-- the end of it looked huge last night.

I noticed that too. I thought maybe she’d been stung or something.

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**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-5-9-02-survivor-thread/108101/24 "2002-05-12T03:43:30Z")

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Pretty unexciting episode, which is unfortunately typical for Survivor. The great irony about this reality show is that it’s, well, all too real; just when it’s reaching what should be its most exciting moments, the contestants are just too tired and hungry and smelly to provide much excitement. Even the immunity challenge’s “tight” battle between Neleh and Vecepia was pretty much meaningless.

Not being privy to what’s actually going on in the heads of the remaining five, I can’t tell what’s going to happen. Indeed, the upcoming vote may be the most unpredictable ever. It’s a pretty safe bet, however, that Neleh isn’t going anywhere. Kathy is in _pretty_ good shape for the next vote, but I wouldn’t be sleeping easy if I were her.

Never forget that it’s a matter of luck as much as it is of skill (if anything, probably a lot more), so we’d best not be getting too fancy with the prognostications.

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